Meeting Notes 2020-04-28

Meeting Notes 28/04/2020

In Attendance: Dan, Ryan, Thomas, Amelie

Late: Toby, John

Absent: Rob, Scott, Daisy

• Quarantine Quiz
  • Use Twitch
  • Goose Prizes
    • Next year or postage
  • 5 Rounds
  • Sort now
• Hackathon
  • Poke contestants to ensure they've signed up
  • Mention Mentor Role
  • Poke Dmitry again
  • Judges:
    • Dmitry/Department (asked, yet to hear)
    • Non-participating mentors
  • Function, Feel, Code quality as judging guidelines
• Multiplayer games
  • Terraria
    • Make a server but reset just before update.
    • Early server just to prove it's setup
  • Minecraft
    • Modded server is a good idea
      • May result in reduced Vanilla activity
      • Decide modpack just after meeting
        • Settled on FTB Revelation
        • Putting it on Lovelace for now, may shift if it causes problems
• BFWAN
  • Online-Because-Isolation WAN
    • OBI WAN
  • Amphi is great, use it
  • Random Indie Games tournament somehow?
    • Janky, polished games aren't jank
    • RTMP solution
  • Quizes and competitions
  • Push for dedicated servers
  • Things on each day.
  • Get exec in each day.
• Bad films
  • Keep investigating
• AOB
  • Academic Talks
    • Could stream them
    • Amelie came up with the idea of lightning talks🌩️
  • Twitter
    • Link to in newsletter
  • First Years
    • Talk with the department on what their plans are
    • It would be nice to figure out a systematic way to reach them
  • Gaming
    • Is the start time too early?
    • Push to 6:30-7

Quotes:

"I do not think we should be watching pornography" - Ryan

"Is that[hausu] the obscure Japanese porn?" - Ryan

" the solution 'contact the mystical Elder of the First Years' is not a systematic way to communicate" - Sam

"Lets speak to the mute community for what they have to say" - Ryan