Present:

Cranman, Sinjo, Connorhd, Monk, TeamDoherty, SigmaD, Azurit

Apologies:

MrWilson, Agaeki

Minutes:

BFL:

-There needs to be an Exec rota.
Action: SigmaD to create googledoc for exec rota.
-No offical pizza order at the BFL.
Action: Fyorl needs to speak to Roger about the trolley.
-Power for setup (Check MrWilson and Agaeki remember the power arrangement Azurit told them about last LAN.)
-Natural20’s friends shouldn’t be a problem but he should sign them up as proper guest accounts.
-63 people should be fine(current number), but not more than 65.
-“The space, but also the smell.”-Connorhd
-People could be pushed into the Math Pond to remedy this problem.
-Rockband and Console games will be in LIB1.

IBM:

-IBM are visiting on the Wednesday of BFL to discuss sponsorship.
-Organize trips, such as the ones to IBM Hursely. Maybe try to re-organise the IBM Warwick event.
-Providing speakers for talks.
-May provide freebies for the fresher’s fair.
-IBM is our main sponsor; appearing on the website.

Gaming Tournament:

-TeamDoherty may run a small tournament during the BFL, for people at the LAN.
-Maybe Street Fighter 4 or Team Fortress 2.
-Agaeki needs to be poked to fix TF2.

MCM Expo:

-NTS from the anime society has suggested a joint trip to the MCM Expo.
-It is straightforward to create an event for this.

BBQ/Picnic:

-Nothing has been heard from Dirtus.
-MrWilson suggests a picnic on the Wednesday.
-Any Sunday event can’t be on campus and may also conflict with the England game.
-An event on Wednesday would be good if the weather is nice.
-The same place as last year would be good for this.

Saturday activity:

-If anything was going to happen, it should have been planned at least 6 weeks ago.

Room Booking for next year:

-Should get in contact with them before it opens, concerning LANs.
Action: SigmaD/Mogmiester to sort out transfer of room booking powers.
-Engineering tried to book LIB2 for a single hour during the BFL again.
-We should check that this was sorted out.
-If we don’t get priority, negociate with who has the room. LIB2 is the only suitable room for LANs.
-Book LIB1 for LANs.

Fresher’s Fair:

-We should get a PVC printed banner for the society. (That can also be used at LANs.)
-Mary from the Paintball society had a similar banner created for paintball, which we should talk to her about.
-Rayfount printing have good quality.
-The banner should have Hemmed edges and Eyelets.
-We still have some flyers and posters left over from last year, in Backus’ cupboard.
-The posters from last year are on Connorhd’s userspace.
-We may recieve free stuff from our sponsors to give out at the fresher’s fair.

Academic Talks next year:

-Book a room to make talks a regular event.
-Sinjo and Connorhd have volenteered to do talks.
-Bloomberg also offered people to do talks.
-Deatils should be sorted out during summer.

Present:

Zed0, Connorhd, Azurit, Agaeki, Cranman, TeamDoherty, MrWilson, Dirtus, Monk, Trip, Fyorl, SigmaD

Minutes:

Risk Assessment:

-“If you lick the power supply, you might get a shock.”
-All the former exec agreed to work on it, nothing happened.
-Should set a single person on it.
-Our job as exec is to pass the url, a google document, containing relevant information onto the next exec.
-Zed0 didn’t fill in a risk assessment for his 4th year project on lasers.
-“Don’t keep C4 in the computer.”

Gaming purchases:

-We need a new RockBand guitar.
-The more expensive one may or may not be better, the customer reviews rate it as either the best or worst thing ever.
-Buying another console for Street Fighter 4 was suggested.
-Buying another X-Box may not be needed due to game overlap.

Azurit’s Mug:

-Hot water is used to sterilise it.
-“If only you knew /any/ biology” – Dirtus.

CompSoc Trading Cards:

-“Give me 7 reasons why we should do this”-MrWilson
-It would be quite cool.
-Everyone else is doing it.
-“I had a subway today.” – Cranman

Bloomberg 2 – Return to London:

-MrWilson and SigmaD will go back to London to discuss details of how will spend the sponsorship money we won.
-CompSoc will pay for travel for now as MrWilson hasn’t been reimbursed by Bloomberg yet.

ProgComp Type Thing:

-Cranman linked to a speed progcomp type thing on facebook.
-First place is £1000.
-“I do like money” – MrWilson
-Takes place this Sunday.

Other:

-Cranman and Agaeki learnt how to send files to each other over IRC.
-Action: Dirtus to create the Chaplaincy ball event.

Present:

Mogmiester, Zed0, MrWilson, TeamDoherty, Sinjo, Connorhd, Cranman, Zaer, Odd-bloke, SigmaD

Minutes:

Bloomberg:

-MrWilson and SigmaD thought it went well.
-Got free rubix cubes.
-“Complete non-date I’m sure.”-Zed0
-We will hear from Bloomberg in 3 days time.

IBM:

-Want to meet to discuss sponsorship.
-They will come here.

Speed ProgComp:

-~£200 to spend, so there will be smaller prizes than the netbook.
-There will be sweets for during the competition.
Action: SigmaD to finish the questions and send out an e-mail.

LAN:

-Tech rota – Faux is there, solved.
-We need an Exec rota.
-Dijkstra is still set up to say “Brad’s nice party”.
-Signs to tell people not to turn off the room’s external power would be good.
-The prize for the previous ProgComp, the netbook, is on the way for LAN
-Fyorl is doing no revision and working on the music server.

Money transfers:

-Bloomberg is sending an e-mail for reimbursement for the trip to London.
Action: MrWilson to sort Bloomberg paying for travel.
-Cranman sent e-mail to union to pay Sinjo.
Action: Connorhd to be paid

Accenture Sponsorship:

-We need to contact them.
-They are still sending emails to Connorhd and ignoring his e-mails to them, telling them he is no longer the academic president.
-We may need to fill out an application form.
-They started the phone interview for the sponsorship with “We’re going to give you £500”.

Union Referendum on Society Sponsorship:

-There were contradictory results.
-The ‘stance’ is no money from bad people, although this isn’t legally binding.
-Action: MrWilson to e-mail potential sponsors.
-“Our union is no longer has an hilariously backwards stance”-Sinjo
-“University of Gun: Nuclear society” – odd bloke
-Will sell morals for £500.

Rolls Royce make nuclear power engines:

-Pretty cool

Chaplaincy ball tickets:

-Odd-bloke is selling tickets.
-£25 – including food and drink.
-8pm start.
-Formal-ish.
Action: Mention it in a newsletter and create an event.
-People interested should sign up to event – so Odd-bloke can see
-In support of Amnesty International and Global Care, a Coventry based charity.

Other:

-“2:1, that’s 60%. I can skip 40% of my exams right?”-Zed0
-“Coding is like knitting right?”-MrWilson
-“Dirtus and Fyorl suck. Agaeki too”-Zaer
-Zed0 has an exam.
-Mogmiester gave out breakaways.
-“Breakfast was either hot chocolate from Curiositea or the throat lozenge before my exam”-Zaer

Present:

Demo, Dirtus, Mogmiester, Fyorl, TeamDoherty, Cranman, Connorhd, Sinjo, Zed0, SigmaD, MrWilson, Dangerman, Sadiq, Trip, Viruk Agaeki, Sleeping Guy.

Minutes:

Bloomberg:

-Replied to e-mail.
-MrWilson and SigmaD are going.
-We can be reimbursed for train tickets.
-The presentation will be put on GoogleDocs.

Games testing:

-TeamDoherty replied to the e-mail.
-We will be contacted, a week in advance of when they need testers.
-We should make a database of members who want to be contacted for games testing.
-Kegger knows somebody from Codemasters, who we may be able to talk to about games testing or sponsorship in the future. – ‘He was apparently drunk at the time though, see how it goes.’

Sleeping guy:

- We ‘think’ sleeping guy is alive.
-‘Is he moving?’ – Mogmiester
-‘Why is someone asleep, is that part of the exec?’ – Viruk
-‘Sleeping guy is beating Viruk at exec.’ -Sadiq
-‘Don’t wake him, we checked he was breathing.’ – Sadiq

Monitor purchase:

-Needs to fit in the cupboard.
-HDMI is not that important.
-We should get the monitor before LAN ideally.
-We should invest in magic rocks and solid gold cables to improve picture quality.

Socials:

-Dirtus wants to do pub crawl .
-Go-karting has been decided for the Saturday before BFL.
-Pub crawl after Dirtus’ exams finish.

Agaeki arrives late:

-‘Who is that incredibly dashing young man.’ – MrWilson
-‘Put your hair up, see how much of a girl Agaeki looks like.’ -MrWilson

Action Followup:

-Maybe SF4 at BFL, otherwise next term.
-MrWilson hasn’t yet organised the digitisation of the logo for clothing.
Action:Connorhd to give Cranman FastHosts password
Action:Connorhd to have ProgComp marking done for the presentation at LAN.

GoogleTalk at exec meeting:

-‘Oh, we have a 3 way going’
Action: Everyone to buy better phones so we can have an Exec meeting in GoogleTalk.

SVN Problems:

-If people have a problem, contact us.
Action: Fyorl to send out e-mail about SVN.

Increasing Codd Quota:

-Most don’t use all the space
-Maybe decrease cost/increase default amount.
-Zed0 thinks the current system is fine, everyone agrees.
-We don’t want to tempt anyone to buy all of Codd.
-Not an investment that will last.

Music server:

-Fyorl is making progress.
-Needs to be an Android plugin for the Music Server.
-Needs to be connected to the internet, so Paris can troll.
-Fyorl is putting up/down votes on.
-The Anime all-nighter should have these.
-5 minutes into every episode, everyone will get bored and down vote everything.
-The music server should Tweet everything; ‘Songs, logins, user mouse locations…’ – Connorhd

Misc:

-‘Mulletron should grow a bread to the floor.’ -Viruk.
-We should buy cakes with the money for the speed ProgComp.
-Sinjo has lightsaber app on his phone.
-‘Worst use of technology ever.’

Present:

MrWilson, TeamDoherty, Connorhd, Sinjo, Cranman, Dirtus, SigmaD, Firefly

Minutes:

Bloomberg:

-One person is needed to do the presentation and another person can assist.
-Takes place on Tuesday 25th May.
-There is no provided transport, we should e-mail Bloomberg asking if the cost of transport can be covered.
-The presentation needs to be about what the society would do, how we would benefit.
-MrWilson will do the presentation.
-The presentation can be written in Google Docs, so all exec can have input.
Action: MrWilson to e-mail Bloomberg asking if they can pay for transport.

Games focus testing:

-The original e-mail was received quite a while ago.
-If we are going to do anything, needs to be ASAP.
Action: TeamDoherty to send an e-mail to sort this out. (After exec meeting)

Action Follow-up:

-Connorhd has not finished marking the ProgComp.
-Cranman received the e-mail from Azurit and the Xbox 360 hard drive has been ordered by Cranman for gaming.
-MrWilson recalls Azurit saying he was going with Agaeki to buy an Xbox 360 hard drive.
-“BRB” – MrWilson.
-The majority of the exec now attempts to get in touch with Azurit/Agaeki to prevent the hard drive being bought.
-“DOS, DOS.” – Sinjo.
-Crisis was averted.

-We now have network cables colour coded by length.
-The stuff for the servers was bought and the servers have been updated.

Game Tournaments:

-“I’ve had a think about it.” – TeamDoherty
-“Great, because that was all you were required to do.” – SigmaD
-“Fucking Sorted.” – Sinjo
-TeamDoherty is thinking about running tournaments, maybe Pokemon or another SF4 tournament.

Steam:

-Agaeki has not yet managed to get the new steam working under Wine on the DCS machines.

The Cupboard:

-We have new boxes for the cupboard.
-MrWilson’s verdict on the boxes: “Really neat.”
-Roger has been asked to look for an extra shelf, which we now have room for.

Clothing:

-The current plan is still ordering clothes from the website on an individual basis.
-The main cost is the digitising of the logo (£35), which the society should do.
Action: MrWilson to organise the digitising of the logo.

LAN:

-Fyorl needs to speak to Roger about the trolley.
-As Fyorl can’t be bothered to revise, it is likely the new music server will be finished for the week 5 LAN.
-In the future, CompSoc should tell Warwick Game Design(and AnimeSoc) when the LANs are at the start of the year to avoid event clashes.

Newsletter:

-Needs to mention LAN sign-ups in week 5 and the BFL.
-Also needs to mention the beast pizza order.

Events:

-“Paint-ball seems to have sorted itself out miraculously”-Dirtus
-Currently, Dirtus plans to have the CompSoc barbecue on the Sunday before BFL and the ‘fun thing’ on the Saturday.(Possibly Go-carting)
-SigmaD and MrWilson will be having fun in the Combinatorial Optimisation Exam on the Saturday.

Academic Talks:

-Would consist of members of the society doing talks.
-We can e-mail the DCS reception to have the talks advertised in the DCS lobby.
-The society should consider doing revision lectures/revision guides like the Mathematics Society, which are popular.
Action: MrWilson to decide if we put on academic talks this term and when.

MEANWHILE, ON IRC:

13:14:29 < Fyorl> oh cocks exec meeting at 2 isn’t it?
13:14:33 <@monk> it’s at 1
13:14:37 < Fyorl> lol
13:14:40 <@monk> :P
13:14:44 < Fyorl> nevermind then
13:16:22 < Fyorl> at least I can have breakfast now

Present:

Cranman, Dangerman, Sinjo, Dirtus, Fyorl, Agaeki, Azurit, Connorhd, Artalyx, TeamDoherty, Zed0, SigmaD, Monk

Apologies:

MrWilson

Minutes:

ProgComp:

-2 entries, 1 eligible.
-£400 to spend on progcomp prizes throughout the year.
-Spend most of the money on the LAN speed progcomp (week 5).
-Accenture are just like CompSoc, but are a successful business.
Action: SigmaD to talk to MrWilson about ProgComp.
-As the website explicitly said netbook, Connor will buy the prize for the only valid entry(Artalyx).
Action: Connor to buy netbook.
-Artalyx has no preference concerning the processor type of his netbook.
-‘Make sure it has Fedora.’ – Fyorl

Bloomberg e-mail:

-Day in London for societies to pitch, best societies win £2000.
-Academic in nature, so for MrWilson to deal with.
Action: MrWilson to respond to the e-mail.

Buying Things:

-Server upgrades still need buying.(Connor’s shopping list)
-Rockband pedals/DLC and other things also need buying.
-Azurit would like Backus to be updated (because he ‘nommed’ all the free space.)
Action: Fyorl/Azurit to fix Backus
Action: Azurit to send e-mail containing other things to buy to Cranman.
Action: Cranman to buy these things once his accommodation cheque clears. Also, check money in capital account.

-Compsoc could buy a 42 inch TV to attach to a server.
-Sinjo suggests setting up a command centre in DCS.

Academic Talks:

-There should be at least a couple this term.
-We have £150 of IBM sponsorship, that could be used for food/drink/pizza at talks.
-Sinjo suggests buying 5 Beast pizzas for the talk.
-‘Will that just create a black hole?’ – Monk
-A Pokemon talk is unnecessary; all Monk’s talks are about pokemon.

Game Tournaments:

-In the SF4 tournament, there were ~10 people from outside the society.
-Gaming tournaments don’t require a lot of effort, just a week of advertising through posters beforehand.
Action: TeamDoherty to think about this.

E-mails/Minutes

-The ACTIONS from the minutes will be sent to the compsoc-discuss mailing list and link to minutes.
-The Exec are signed up to the compsoc discuss mailing list.

LAN:

-Buy the boxes for stuff before the LAN.
-Talk to Roger for the trolley before the LAN.
-Maybe somebody should draw a diagram for the power cable configuration.
Action: Somebody should measure the cupboard and buy boxes with lids, so they can be stacked.

-Cranman: Zed0 is an engineer, he can make boxes, right?
-Zed0: I can do lasers.

Game Testing:

-E-mail from Freestar games, about a games testing session.
Action: TeamDoherty to respond to the testing e-mail.

Gaming:

-Steam forced a new user interface which doesn’t work.
-Check versions of wine until steam works.
-Monk found a linux-compatible worms clone, ‘hedge wars’
-Azurit got Star Trek bridge commander working.
-Agaeki crated an event for the TF2 tournament.

Paint-ball:

-Takes place next weekend.
-The sign-up deadline should be extended.
-Should be the the title of the newsletter.
-Details about the event in the topic.
-Dirtus will try to enlist more people at gaming.
-(Paint-ball has since been delayed)

Present:

Mulletron, Agaeki, George, Cranman, Zed0, MrWilson, Demo, TeamDoherty, SigmaD

Still in bed:

Fyorl

Minutes:

Actions to be done straight after meeting:

Action: Mulletron to explain to Agaeki about aurora.
Action: TeamDoherty/Agaeki to get gaming password.

Emails:

-Coventry Uni haven’t replied to the e-mail about varsity gaming.
-CompSoc exec gets a lot of spam.
-Spam filters will filter /everything/.
Action: Exec to test individual e-mails

Company contacts:

-Waiting on Connor for company contacts

Budget:

-Agaeki should install Open Office so he can look at it.
-If there is ban 80 percent overlap between PS3 and Xbox games, it might be better to buy a Wii.
-George wants arcade controllers for street fighter 4, which cost in the region of £30–100.
-New Rock Band pedals are needed.
-‘Use more duct tape’-Mulletron
-At the same density, duct tape is stronger than wood.
-Zed0 wants monopoly.
-‘Customise with campus, DCS can be Mayfair.’ – Agaeki
Action: TeamDoherty to research consoles.

Remaining money needs to be spent, good ideas are:

-Ethernet cables.
-Stackable boxes.
-Backup hardware for the servers.

Not such a great idea:

-6 PS3s to create a supercomputer.

CompSoc library:

-People may read PC gamer or similar.
-‘I get my information from the internet.’ – MrWilson
-‘Buy the internet.’ – TeamDoherty
-People seemed lukewarm about the idea of subscriptions.

Events:

-Dirtus is not present
-Football has been booked.

Agaeki’s Salsa dancing:

-If we put Agaeki’s sister in event title, guaranteed attendance.
’-I like computers and manly things… ...but I wouldn’t mind dancing… ...I do like computers as well…’ – MrWilson

Clothing:

-Large orders are a pain to organize.
-It would be more efficient for people to buy individual products from the website.
Action Find out the costs for above system.

Gaming:

-Fyorl informs us over the phone that the Diablo2 interface is up.
-Rock Band needs more downloadable content.
-‘Still alive every 5 minutes you say?’ – Zed0
-Only Bucko is allowed to play Touhou, being one of the few people to own original copies of the games.

Admin:

-MrWilson did not go to the president’s meeting but went to see James.
-There is some Warwick advantage stuff from James – for exec members mainly.
-Exec handover form has been handed in.

LAN Discussion:

-‘Microwave for LAN?’ – Zed0
-‘No, No, No, No’ – Mulletron
-Bringing kettle to LAN is also a bad idea.
-There is a train from Plymouth to Aberdeen, a 10 hour direct line.
-Train LAN is surprisingly feasible.
-‘Aside from being insane – quite an interesting idea’ – Mulletron

Misc:

-Nobody knew when the exec meeting was, exec meetings need to be better publicised.
-There has to be a ‘close’ relationship between gaming president and officer.
-MrWilson ‘borrows’ haribo.
-MrWilson attempts to not choke on haribo.
-MahjongSoc would have weekly meetings in gaming.

Next meeting:

-After the Easter Holiday.

Present:

MrWilson, Dirtus, Dangerman, PokeForCake, Sinjo, Estel, Cranman, Connor, Agaeki, Fyorl, Mulletron, Bucko, Zed0, SigmaD, Monk and TeamDoherty

Minutes:

Agenda:

-An agenda would be useful, maybe googledocs

Gaming:

-Fyorl got Diablo 2 working.
-Steam:
– TeamDoherty wants to get steam working.
– People need to own games to play is a benefit.
– Connor reckons that with enough work, most steam games could be run.
-Fyorl has server access and has giventhe appropriate people Aurora access.
Action: Mulletron and Estel explaining how Aurora works to Agaeki.
-Gaming officer/president still need login password.
-Coventry university gaming day next friday.

Company contacts:

-‘They’re in a small database completely contained within my head.’ – Connor

E-mails/Mailing List:

-E-mails to be switched to new exec.
-Fyorl to do switchover
-Fyorl added himself and was added by Monk.
-Sinjo to put Fyorl on the root users mailing lists.
-‘Trivially filterable into somewhere you don’t need to look.’ – Sinjo

Publicity handover:

-‘Do you know the Phantom Coach’s phone number?’ – Mulletron
-‘Yeah’ – Dirtus
-‘Sorted.’

Keys:

-Have been handed over.
-Another pair might be good as Sinjo and Connor continue to do maintenence.

If Servers explode during the holidays:

-MrWilson is mostly nearby, Mulletron will also be available.
-‘So it’s me then.’ – Mulletron

Codd Downtime:

-Codd went down, at this time nobody knows why.
-There is an incident report on the techteam wiki (Possibly a hardware issue?)
-If no cause is found, it may go down again in the future.

Academic Plans:

-‘Um…’-MrWilson
-‘He stopped breathing there for a minute’ – Mulletron
-Arrange similar events.
-Contact IBM.

Connor’s Shopping List and other things to buy:

-New cases for the servers and ‘Extreme Massive airflow fans’
-The above costs about £340.
-The society has about £2000 in the account.
-‘I’ve gone for serious fans.’-Connor
-‘Not shit’ boxes for carrying stuff.
-The cupboard should be measured to find the right size of box.
-‘Make a ProgComp about it.’-Monk
-‘Boxes from Ikea have labels saying don’t put babies in boxes.’-Bucko
-‘You’ve got to put babies in the right box.’ – PokeForCake

Cables for LAN:

-Need more small cables as they disappear after LANs.
-It would be too much trouble to make cables.
-‘I can do the bitch work.’ – Dirtus
-Dirtus to make 100 short cables.

Events:

-Gaming needs to not last a week.
-Adding events 3 weeks in advance is suitable.

Budget:

-Draft budget needed very soon.
-Monk and Cranman will sort out the budget tonight.
-The budget can have a photo.
-‘Do you want to pose for a picture Bucko?’
-Buy a huge screen so you can play games standing on the other side of the room.
-‘The Union is bust’ – Monk
-‘We could pay the union’s debts.’ – Estel
-‘Having a plan is a good plan.’
-The budget is the plan for next year

Pokemon Thing:

-Judged the time wrong – actually tomorrow.
-‘So you go to Nuneaton to get a pokemon…’ – Sinjo
-‘It’s not a real animal.’ – Mulletron

Football:

-The playing fields are booked until the end of term.
-‘Football is like DotA, you pretend it’s a team game.’ – Monk
-‘Stun him!’ – Monk
-People only want to play a casual game, as opposed to entering leagues/competitions.
-‘That means we can beat them easier.’-Monk

The reason for not playing on the field next to maths:

-“What if it’s cold?”

Compsoc Paintball:

-CompSoc vs PaintballSoc is traditional.
-Mary is on the paintball exec.
Action: Dirtus to talk to Mary about paintball.
-Dirtus has gokarting planned for week9

Clothing:

-The costs for digitising the logo too big to be given to the 6 people interested.
Action: MrWilson to talk to Sadiq about clothing.

Various Admin:

Action: hand in change of exec form
-The Exec contact list in the cupboard needs updating – can be done after meeting.
Action: Exec to update bios.

Misc:

-Azurit is probably watching Sharpe.
-‘Calm down Bucko.’ – Mulletron
-‘Not DDRCS.’ – MrWilson
-‘We should get a brothel and charge for it.’ – Fyorl

Next Meeting:

-Wednesday 17th March

Present:

MrWilson, Mogmiester, Dirtus, Cranman, Fyorl, TeamDoherty, Agaeki, Zed0, Azurit, Trip, SigmaD

Minutes:

Emails/Mailing List and Website:

-Fyorl needs the mailman password to do things.
-Monk may or may not have added people to the mailing list already.
-Exec Bios need updating
-Admins can rewrite the entire website. (Don’t do that)

Dirtus’ Si… Football:

-Dirtus wondered if anyone was interested in a 5 a side game.
-Will be mentioned in newsletter.

Pokemon Social:

-There is an event advertising Heart Gold/Soul Silver.
-Taking place in Nuneaton.
-Sometime next month.
-TeamDoherty suggested using the union’s people carriers.
-WGD is also interested.(Forging better relations isn’t a bad idea.)

Gaming:

-Agaeki is now gaming bitch/officer.
-Steam: There are some fixes for macs, so maybe there will be improvement for linux?
-“Expect something in the next 2–4 years”-TeamDoherty
-Agaeki needs access to Aurora.(Admin for games)
-Check Steam status.
Action: Agaeki and Fyorl need to talk to Roger to get gaming passwords, ideally with Mulletron.

Keys:

-Fyorl will have the Tech. keys.
-Agaeki will have the Gaming keys, since TeamDoherty has no DCS access.
-MrWilson will have the academic keys.
Action: MrWilson needs to get the keys from Sinjo/Connor

Game Tournaments & Posters:

-There is a tournament framework on the website.
-Fyorl suggests a RUA tournament.
-People could enter in pairs in a L4D tournament.
-Trip makes awesome posters, but already makes posters for 4–6 societies.
-Having a publicity officer make posters is better than random exec making rubbish posters.

Real Ale Festival:

-We should ‘just go’ and meet outside.
-“Oh yeah, shit, it’s tomorrow” – Dirtus

Budget:

-Need to talk to Monk.
-Things that may or may not be budgeted for: Server racks, Servers, Wires, Power supplies, Aero-dynamic computer cases, Generators, Components for a nuclear reactor.
-Budget needs to be done by end of term(Unconfirmed).

Future Exec meetings:

Action: Secretary will make something on GoogleDocs to establish what times people are free.
-Dirtus should make a tea social after every meeting.

Misc:

-TeamDoherty could do with a sandwich.
-The Secretary has pens wrapped for freshness.
-Dirtus may as well schedule CuriosiTEA events every day.
-MrWilson is in favour of perpetuiTEA.
-The Secretary needs better shorthand.
-We should play Sins of a Solar Empire: “See you next week.”
-MrWilson likes pie charts.
-Girls stack with diminishing returns.

Next Meeting:

-To be Confirmed.

Present:

Estel, Mogmiester, Trip, Azurit, Connorhd, Sinjo, Monk, bakaidiot_, Dirtus

Apologies:

Pepper

Minutes

Mahdi Shariff’s e-mail

Mahdi Shariff sent an email asking for help to design a website. We ignored this for quite some time, but we need to forward the original email to interest, and email an apology to him, and tell him people interested in helping will contact him.
Action: Connor will sort this

L4D2 Tournament

Estel presented the rules he had drawn up. They look good, and the website design will be added to the XING list.

Group photo

The group photo will be hopefully done at LAN, as it is the easiest time and place to do it.

IBM Hursely Trip

Signups will be £5, which will be refunded if people turn up. It is just a measure taken to ensure people signed up actually go. People interested will need to email Connor as DCS are organising it. IBM are organising the publicity, so we can do more once we receive posters and emails.

LAN

Action: Sinjo to speak to Roger to get a trolly
Action: Azurit to organise signups

Gaming Officer

Need to have an EGM to remove the current position of gaming officer before the AGM. We are hoping to do this by email, but we need to be sure of the rules first.

Action: Mogmiester to read the rules on the SU website