2024-11-05 Agenda

  • Start Date: 2024-11-05
  • Present: Vice-Chair, Events, SysAdmin, Chair, PRO, Secretary, SysAdmin, Webmaster, HelpDesk, HelpDesk, First Year Rep, Events, GDO, SysAdmin, Ordinary Member,
  • Absent:
  • Excused: Treasurer, Ordinary Member
  • Late:

Agenda:

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  • [x] Check previous minutes - Secretary

Chair:

  • Hackerclub
    • Pizza
  • CS Ball
  • Bystander Training
  • Fosdem interest form
  • Arista coding competition
  • Christmas party
  • Hoodies

Vice-Chair:

SysAdmins:

  • hanging - SysAdmin
  • iFixit toolkit arrived - SysAdmin
  • HDDs and UPS battery needs to be ordered - SysAdmin

Events:

  • Arista next week - Events
    • Arista is handling the pizza order and payment - Events
    • Arista will be bringing a variety of things- Events
      • tshirts
      • snacks
      • drinks
    • Needs as much publication as humanly possible - Events
  • Wiki speedrun this week - Events
    • does First Year Rep wanna help?
  • Pycon the week after - Events
    • What happened in the meeting Events? - Events
  • Any suggestions to replace ice skating? - Events
  • FOSDEM - Events
    • Funding request is in, thanks Treasurer - Events
    • Meeting should be set up by cns soon - Events
    • FOSDEM interest form needs to go out everywhere as soon as possible Events
    • The faster things happen the cheaper it will end up being. - Events
  • Movie night - Events
    • People need to respond to messages about doing stuff
      • even if you’re not doing it

Treasurer:

HelpDesk:

  • How was this week’s hackerclub - Chair
    • Great turnout this week, people had fun with the scraping script HelpDesk
  • Plan for next week’s hackerclub - Chair
    • Dev Spaces, or Redbrick hosting, we got options [probably 1.] HelpDesk
  • Pizza Episode: [HelpDesk]
    • There was confusion over who had decided to order pizza
      • I asked First Year Rep to “get pizza” that mean order zobo!!
    • pizza confusion -> tardiness -> anger -> hate -> suffering - yoda
  • Members’ suggestions:
    • more basics of Python (specifically the different “kinds” of while loops)
    • very basic Linux commands (things like ls, pwd, cd) “at a slower pace”

Webmaster:

  • Webgroup docs have been merged - Webmaster
  • Will compile list of issues across blockbot and atlas for webgroup to work on - Webmaster

Secretary:

  • Anything extra needed for the newsletter? - Chair

PRO:

  • to send out (in order): - PRO
    • FOSDEM interest form (draft in social media channel)
    • speedrunning wiki
    • arista coding competition
  • to upload the photos taken from the camera to both drive/instagram (via micro A usb) - PRO
  • failed to upload recap post at the weekend, I admit to my mistake :c - PRO

GDO:

  • Required graphics for next week - Chair

First Year Rep:

  • Nothing to report -First Year Rep

Ordinary Members:

Common Room Committee:

Points of Discussion:

  • Interpints - SysAdmin

AOB:

  • SU wanna do an event in sem2 - Vice-Chair
  • Happy Tuesday! - Secretary

Minutes:

Points of Info:

Started at: 17:10
Does Committee agree on last weeks minutes: yes
Ended meetings discussions at: HH:MM

Chair Update:

  • Housekeeping: Order pizzas for Events / Hackerclubs are to be ordered by the agreeed people at the agreed times - Chair
  • CS Ball. Decision to join it or not to be discussed - Chair
  • Bystander Intervention Training was attended by …
  • All group leaders for FOSDEM are recommended to have completed the training. However it is not mandatory - Chair

Vice-Chair Update:

SysAdmin Update:

Events Update:

  • Wiki Speedrun this week. Arista Competition next week - Events
  • Pycon next weekend. Not much info yet. Sign-up form to be done next week - Events
  • Homelab Hackerclub in 2-3 weeks - Events
  • Committee needs to better respond to requests for help from other committee members - Events
  • (Yay! We’re getting ahead with planning things) - Secretary

Treasurer Update:

Helpdesk Update:

  • Hackerclub went well, minus pizza. People really enjoyed the new practical aspects - HelpDesk
  • Next week’s Hackerclub will be Dev Spaces. Hosting on Redbrick will be held off until the RAM is secured - HelpDesk
  • Future themes such as exam prep, intro to Linux and more are being considered. Plan for next semester needs to be drawn up, because a large cohort of the committee will be missing due to INTRA - HelpDesk and Events

Webmaster Update:

Secretary Update:

PRO Update:

GDO Update:

First Year Rep Update:

Ordinary Member Update:

Common Room Committee Update:

Points of Discusion:

  • InterSocs
  • Redbrick Christmas Party
  • SU Event suggestions
  • Tech Week

AOB:

Hackerclub TLDR

  • Name:
  • Description
  • Date:
  • Time:
  • Room:

Event TLDR

  • Name:
  • Description
  • Date:
  • Time:
  • Room:

Action Items:

  • [ ] all - Read the minutes!
  • [ ] events - submit event plan for next week
  • [ ] helpdesk - prepare hackerclub for this week
  • [ ] GDO - make posters for hackerclub and main event

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