Minutes - 31st October 2013

Agenda
Present: veltas, ruth, zed0, murtag, rayhaan, mcnutty, crumpet, hir142, Argha

Academic

• Someone in software engineering class to announce talk.
• Programming competition went fine.
• zed0’s talk was good.

Gaming

• Gaming survey to finish.
• Murtag arranged to talk to ‘big screen lady’.
• zed0: Would be a good idea to have a tournament in the piazza.
• zed0: NUEL tournament group stages start this Friday.

Upcoming LAN

• Do we want prizes for slender tournament and Minecraft?
  ACTION: Murtag to book trolley for LAN.
  ACTION: Everyone to fill in rota.
  ACTION: Ruth to freeze seating plan and print off names for seats.

Tech

• rayhaan will store his server in backus cupboard, Argha to assist.

Security

• Apparantly one of our servers was used during a recent DDoS attack.
• Apparant attack came from Latin Ball Room Dancing website.
  ACTION: Argha to inform ball room dancing leader of this immediately.
  ACTION: Argha to deactivate their account to prevent more damage if this isn’t fixed.
  ACTION: Argha to communicate with ITS and make sure they don’t deactivate our servers.
• Argha: Also email from anime website still hasn’t been resolved.
• Anime email is low priority, to respond to ITS about this later.
  ACTION: Argha to eventually reply to ITS about anime email.
• zed0: If exec could use discard rather than reject on the mail system that would be great.

Social

ACTION: Crumpet to book Wing Wah for Monday at 7pm Week 10 (and get karaoke access if possible).

Miscellaneous

• Newsletters are to be sent regularly on Sunday from now on by veltas.
  ACTION: Veltas to make a system for writing what goes on a newsletter each week.