Pre-Term 1 Meeting Minutes (12/08/2023)

Sun 20 Aug 2023 Meeting Minutes

Mostly figuring out the schedule for term 1

Attendance

Whole exec meeting either start of term/holidays
Role meetings at some point this holiday
Tech team one done, see minutes on #tech-team-priv
WASD next year
- SU again
- Have runner & someone who knows the game & someone who doesn’t
- Call for volunteers
- Separate meeting, join the wasd server
Moving notion
- Should be used, but isn’t
- Outline? But would need to set up a google calendar
- Generic uwcs ac.uk email?
  - Update: we have one? But joey has it
- Need calendar to know when we’re free so companies have a clearer picture of when they can run stuff
- Use outline cuz its free (also we’ve set it up: outline.uwcs.co.uk) TODO: set up google calendar
- TODO: Everyone on sharepoint
- First milk monday is t1w1

TODO: @Publicity we should do flyers again
Plans for term 1
See figma for the template
Ask owen/brendan
rota for Linux labs
- Wednesday: lee, alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis
- Thursday: alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis, shivani
- Friday: alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis, shivani
is git good presentation being updated
- Bug edmund (we know where he lives)
rota for table at society fair
- Decide rota closer to the time - watch for form
- Towers of Hanoi
- Inclusivity/someone in wildcards
- Dead server on the table
- Shill the pub meal
Fng:
- wii sports?
- Set up at 7pm, Quiz at 8pm
- Free pizza
Wildcards what's happening - bbq? Meal?
Pub meal on wednesday
- Phoach

do we have money again
TPP responsered £XXXX
Qube yes tentative?
Arctic lake but needs follow up
Meeting with oaks, but no money probably
Arm? AMD?
Bright network thingy
- Mat going
Huzzle? (Doubtful)
Pizza sponsor?
WARNING: WARN TREASURERS OF MRF BEFORE YOU MAKE THEM OR THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
We need to watch the munz

Hackathon?
- Good for sponsors
- Tech problem
- CTF?
- Joint tech and academic job
- TODO: Hackathon meeting during summer
- Will be term 1
Do we wanna do another language course
- Verilog?
- Bug engineering for FPGAs?
- Simulators: Verilator/ eda playground?
Term 1 events
- XSoc
- Lightning talk - Joel + others TODO: call for volunteers
- Karaoke talk
Comp cafe
- check when dcs is running
- Specific ones for Year 1 & 2 coursework deadlines
- Check guidelines for proofreading and helping

Felix wants to run a “systems101” course TODO: message for details
Raspberry Pi cluster
- Steal from DCS
- Could do website hosting
- Put in server room
Website “mostly done”
- new.uwcs.co.uk
AMD sponsor stuff
- Put GPU in localtoast? FPGA?
- AI may be interested in training stuff
WASD
- Advertising
TODO: add people to uwcs github team
Big-O needs to be better