Meeting Notes 24/08/2020

Mon 24 Aug Meeting Minutes

Present: Toby, Ryan, John, Amelie, Daisy, Thomas, Dan

Late:

Absent: Scott

Formal and Informal Logo
- Existent: Shield, Dots and Inverted dots (Probably a mistake)
- Primary: Shield
- Small/Readable: Dots
- Text is most important
- Consistency is important
- Changes:
  - Swap WASD logo to Shield - Tankski
  - Request increase max size by 20-30% on WASD
  - Change SU and Youtube to use consistent logo
    - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YEQkkfl2lE7os5rbUodVg
    - https://www.warwicksu.com/societies-sports/societies/computing/
- Consider making a small/low-res version of Shield logo
Academic Events
- Assumptions:
  - Deadlines will remain similar
  - Teaching will be different
  - Virtual events most likely needed
- Term 1 Hackathon
  - Middle of second half of term?
  - Highly requested
  - C optimisations? - Good to get Fresher's knowing C
- Term 1 talks
  - Git gud talk (week 1/2)
  - Optiver (week 4)
  - LSEG (aimed at week 6-ish)
  - 3D Printing (approx week 8)
  - (non-freshers Week) Extra Lightning talks (Somewhere in the middle)
    - Solving Problems in Data Science is possible
- Other 'academic' events
  - Targeted Workshops
    - Group Orientated options
    - David (Sleepless) gave a Vue talk that went well though underattended, would be suitable for a workshop
    - Approach Michael Gale about doing a workshop as an "Introduction to Functional" in term 1
  - Be chill on Week 5/10 due to deadlines for CS
- Advertising
  - Banner time
  - DCS emailing - Especially on academic
  - We have our video, could be reused
Plan for Term 1
- Welcome Week
  - Lightning Tuesday
    - First 'formal' opportunity to introduce, 15 mins total to introduce everyone
  - Gaming Friday
    - Definitely not in-person unless the pandemic just disappears somehow
    - Online fun
      - Ask Alex about Amphi and if contributions be reasonable
    - Alter list of games (For all Friday)
    - Would like to try and have more concurrent games of variety
    - Trial an idea of making Friday's a little more like very short WAN
  - Helping Department
    - Talk with Sara about things like Linux 101
- It would be nice to get on some screens (despite lower foot-traffic)
WASD
- Planning for all eventualities, Online-only, Hybrid, In-person
- We will be financing them
Tech Update
- New website coming along well
- Deployment requires major updates to servers.
  - This will be delayed to Term time for caution
  - Aiming for Ubuntu 20.04.1LTS as 16.04 is coming to End of Support
  - Requires notification to server users
AOB
- The purge of the admin roles
  - Admin roles restricted to current exec
- Women's Officer
  - Get in touch with department to start possible women's outreach

Quotes:

"Unless there's some CSS beyond my knowledge, which is quite frankly, impossible" - John

"Ha ha Cuts out" -Dan

"That sounds like an awful idea and I love it" - John

"If I want to be God Emperor of Mankind....that's what I was elected for" - Ryan

"Lisp is aggressive with its need for brackets" - Toby

"We have the budget" - Amelie