• Meeting-10102005

Minutes for SGM, Autumn Term 2005

Welcome

The meeting opened at 1730 in COLT2, Computing Octagon. Tim Donovan introduced the society and what it does.

Membership

Ben Charlton explained a little bit about the finances of the society to justify charging the membership fee. 20 members (including committee) then signed up.

Motions

Report on Officer projects

Adam Sampson told us a little about the current projects that the officers are engaged in.

• Game server
  • This is proceeding well, the finishing touches have to be put to the networking side, and then its up to the officers to set up some game servers.
  • The issue of memory requirements was raised, but it was pointed out that memory requirements are low because no graphics processing is occuring server side.
• Thin client
  • Compsoc now has a thin client to compsoc1 sitting in SE105.
  • We have parts to build another two thin clients.
  • The spec required to run a thin client was also discussed.
• New compsoc1
  • The situation of the society bank accounts was briefly mentioned
    • The society has approximately £1000 across two bank accounts.
• Website overhaul / wiki
  • The website has now been forwarded to the wiki, and old content has been moved.
• Keysigning party
  • Adam Sampson will organise a GPG/PGP tutorial and keysigning party at some point in the near future.

Adam Sampson also brought up a few ideas for Officers to do in the future, with details filled in by some others.

• Electronic voting
  • The IRC option was discussed
  • It was decided to discuss this further on the officers list.
• LAN party
  • Michael Barnwell spoke briefly about plans for a Compsoc LAN party
  • A few locations and internet connection options were discussed.
• Posters
  • A plea was put out for anyone with graphic design skill to help
  • An indirect offer of help was made.
• Campaign to spread IRC
  • A few marketing ideas were raised, tying in the with the next issue.
• Better SU links
  • It was discussed that even though we are not an SU society, this does not preclude us from working with them on projects.
• blogs.compsoc.co.uk
  • This possibility was raised, although only Adam Sampson appeared to have any experience running a blogging system.
• Officer Teams
  • The concept of having officers in teams, for example the game server team or the compsoc1 team, was raised.
  • This would enable officers with high email traffic to get a lot done, and could promote cohesion.
  • However, one of the benefits of the officers list is that everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and can offer any help needed.
• Abuse Officer
  • The proposal for a dedicated Abuse Officer was made.
  • This will be discussed further at a later date.
• Other ideas
  • The recreation of a line-of-sight wireless Canterbury network was suggested.
  • A social event on the 19th.

Questions to committee members

The offer of a rackmount case was repeated by Carl Ritson.

Any other business

There was no other business.

The meeting closed at around 1820.