Meeting Minnits 2019-10-01

Notes for our meeting on the 1st of October

Meeting Minnits:

In attendance: Everyone is Here!

Absent: Rob

Sponsors:

• Semmle is no longer an independent company, may be retiring the name, and as such not sponsoring us, probably
• LSEG failing to communicate
  • Moved talk to Wednesday 6th November

Fresher LAN:

• 49 signups for lan so far, mostly freshers!
• e-sports to advertise
• advertise at Gaming
• We need a new hoover, lets buy a new hoover
  • John to buy a hoover, as the resident hoover expert
  • possibly diefy the hoover during LAN
  • cordless hoover? If budget allows
• Coach's Bizarre Adventure
  • Need to communicate w/ Coach about LAN prep
  • David B. to chase him
  • Inquire about tournaments
  • current plans:
    • rocket league (saturday),
    • league of legends (sunday),
    • csgo (possibly friday?),
    • overwatch never lul
• Events planning packs are gone! [crab]
• No Music Server for this one. :(
  • further discussion at next meeting, decision must be made
• Exec to fill out exec rota

Gaming:

• Went well!
• Decent turn-out
• Steam issues, not our problem
• Thomas Was Alone dependencies may circumvent Steam issues!

Gaming-get:

• Toby done some cleaning up of 'old junk'
• cleanup -> start dcs-get -> start gaming-get
  • this is run in alphabetical order for some reason
• to implement:
  • vive signup list
  • a sort button (alphabetical, most popular, ect.)
  • should collect statistics on what games are downloaded
    • no gdpr issues due to complete lack of identifying information
• Added:
  • Besiege

Vive Index:

• David B. has done research
  • Index probably the best option
  • more expensive by like £100
  • not wireless compatible for now
    • not much of an issue for the exec
  • grip controls are fancy
  • Big O PC will require no upgrades, but will probably be updated soon
  • ~£920 price point overall
    • Exec in unanimous agreement
    • use SU credit card?
    • required to be delivered to the SU, may mean not available in time for next Gaming
    • Toby or Sam to liase with the SU

Socials:

• Not much change in plans
• chemsoc has shared boardgames
  • acquire giant jenga for LAN?

Special Guest, Lloyd from Anime Soc:

• laserquest is happening, liasing with Scott

Minibus:

• Toby to acquire a liscence
• Amelie to also acquire one too
  • No hard and fast plans, possibly term 2

Academic events:

• Wednesday 9th October for Git Talk
• Sam and Dan to discuss
• Provisional talk for week 4
• LSEG week 6
• Alex Dixon week 8
• Week 10 TBD
• G-Research coding challenge on 28th october
• minihack 18th of November

Clothing Order:

• lets do one!
• not yet though. couple weeks from now
• Ryan, resident clothes expert, to handle

The bloody cupboard:

• Sam still liasing about that god why are warwicktech taking so long

Inventory:

• Went well
• projector found! wasn't lost to begin with. marrow soc to borrow
• Year 2000 meeting notes
  • Ryan to consider digitising old meeting notes
  • what *is* the bitchtank?

3D printer:

• Rigid Ink not accepted by new MMU
  • to be donated to Alex Dixon
• Silver filament to be tested
• Need to aquire filament (MMU can handle 5 at once!)
  • probably black, white, red, blue, green
  • acquire a number of sample filaments
  • light grey for painting on
• printing a goose
  • MASS PRODUCTION??????
  • honk
• David R. to add utilities to Apollo relating to the 3d printer
  • database of filaments
  • estimation of filament use, and cost (NOT A QUOTATION)
• Need to find a home for it other than David R.'s house

Misc:

• Sam to track down sony tv remote with IT Services

Quotes:

"Bagged ones are better suction" - John

"COMPSOC ON TOOOOUR" - David R.