Minutes - 7th January 2015
Wed 07 Jan 2015 Meeting MinutesPresent: veltas, marmite, maddy, hermit, mcnutty, rayhaan, crumpet, murtag
Next meeting: Wed 14th January, 1pm
Marmite’s Musings
- ‘All exec’ failed to have a merry Christmas. This action item failed to happen, and all exec are required to try harder next year.
- Jokes about mcnutty’s rack and his handling of it are still consistently funny.
- Hermit: ‘too many waifus will ruin your life-u’
- All but 2 attendees now have Nexus 5s. Soon we will learn to use them to combine and form Voltron.
- In one of history’s gratest mistakes, rayhaan has provided me with a gavel. Fear me, peons, for you know not what power I now hold!
Academic
Gaming
- Nintendo soc got rejected by socs committee, will contact to see about running events with us
- Jim Ryan gave us a PS4, we should thank him
- Need another PS4 controller, maddy to buy it
- Talk to Xbox guy about more events
- Need another monitor for the PS4. Storage space is an issue, will use an empty server rack?
- Find out how to get rid of random crap where we want to keep our random crap
- Responses to gaming survey happening this weekend
Tech
- Will formalise tech team to manage servers and website
Social
- Possible inter-society laserquest competition week 9?
Publicity
- Hermit needs admin powers on our ’like’able facebook page
- Organise refreshers fair attendance for tuesday, marmite to sort spreadsheet. We won’t have backboards provided
Misc
- Clothing order details discussed, marmite to finalise company choice and price
- Socs Fed event had little content
- AGM: marmite to book a room, inform people, encourage enquiries and applications, allow online voting; veltas to count votes, find out mechanice for splitting society; all exec to write summaries of their position
Action overflow:
All Exec
- find out who has admin power of our old facebook page, give it to hermit
- write summary of position for agm
veltas
- seek new sponsors
- give marmite any extra fosdem details for the newsletter
- plan programming competitions
- find out mechanics for splitting society
maddy
- write website frontpage description already
- chat to tim about nintendo events
- send quick email to sony contact to thank for ps4, say proper thanks incoming
- buy another PS4 controller
- talk to xbox guy about more events
- find out how to get rid of random crap
- responses to gaming survey
rayhaan
- link steam and facebook groups on website
- create mailing list for websites we host
- formalise tech team to handle website and servers
marmite
- finalise and send out clothing order details
- spreadsheet for refreshers fair exec times
- newsletter: lan, fosdem, gaming responses, intersociety laserquest, exec positions in agm
- book agm room
robot
mcnutty
- chat with tech soc
- link exec cape order form
- write jim ryan a complete thank you message
- get gaming the server rack for storage space
hermit
- update society posters
- society business cards
- spam freshers facebook groups with gaming advertising