Minutes - 29th October 2014

Present: veltas, marmite, maddy, hermit, zed0, mcnutty, rayhaan, robot

Next meeting: Wed 5th November, 1pm

Marmite’s Musings (title to be finalised)

• If Robot asks a stupid question, remind him of the power of Google. Compsoc members are encouraged to send him LMGTFY links - these are usually passe, but an exception has been sanctioned by the CompSoc Memelords.
• All Exec members have been reminded not to ‘make it rain’ with Society cash, even if they promise to put it all back afterwards.

Academic

• Organise attending a Coventry BCS event

Gaming

• Sensible gaming times
• Off campus room for LAN, take this off marmite
• Possible to rent gaming equipment from Multiplay
• Not currently interested in renting out LAN equipment to other societies
• Take more photos at LAN

Tech

Social

• 1 hour secret santa not practicable

Publicity

• Insomnia volunteering, XBOne Week 7 gaming choices for games in newsletter

Misc

• IBM no longer sponsors, seek new sponsors and remove from site
• Mention on room booking applications if speakers are internal/external
• Risk assessment sheet
• Equality talk - drinking can be exclusionary; slurs, sexual harrassment and dressing in mocking costumes are to be strongly discouraged

Action overflow:

All Exec

veltas

• organise academic event - programming comps
• contact curiositea, rename programming workshop to coding in curiositea?
• seek new sponsors
• send marmite minecraft admin cheat sheet

maddy

• spooky LAN Halloween theme (Minecraft, L4D, music server)
• rewrite site frontpage description for rayhaan

rayhaan

• reduce spam emails
• steam in DCS?
• colour coding for external events on site
• update site front page description to include gaming
• ask ITS for rack space
• revivify arora
• take IBM logo off site

marmite

• include funny quotes in minutes
• clothing order
• risk assessment
• insomnia volunteering, xbone week 7 gaming choices for games in newsletter

robot

• laserquest/cosmo wednesday week 8/9
• keep varsity booking and site events up to date

mcnutty

• look into payment system for site
• be the hero LAN needs

zed0

hermit

• update society posters
• events on site news section
• facebook group
• take more LAN photos