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.