2025-01-13 Agenda

Start: 2025-01-13 18:XX
Present: SysAdmin, Chair, Secretary, SysAdmin, Webmaster, HelpDesk, HelpDesk, First Year Rep, Events, GDO, SysAdmin, Ordinary Member,
Absent: Ordinary Member
Excused: Events, Vice-Chair, PRO, Treasurer
Late:

Agenda:

Please add your Redbrick username beside agenda items.
[name=Secretary] [color=blue]

If you cannot attend the meeting, please inform Secretary with your reason.
[name=Secretary] [color=red]

[!warning]

[ ] Check previous minutes - Secretary

Chair:

Welcome back everyone!
Time slot for events
Fosdem
Hoodies
Tech week
Timeline
CS Ball
Meet the committee posts
Mail
Lecture drop ins
Retrospective

SysAdmins:

Mail half baked - SysAdmin
replace Sysadmin with bots - SysAdmin
Sysadmin is a goom bean -SysAdmin

Events:

Events doing movie night this week? - Events
Currently dealing with lots of stuff in background - Events
- FOSDEM flight stuff is sorted now
  - we can go the day before but no comp for the extra night of accom from cns
- Tech week stuff is happening in the background
- Provisional event plan currently in the works
  - dm me with ideas please

HelpDesk:

How was this week’s hackerclub - Chair
- Amazing, full attendance, all pizzas devoured - HelpDesk
Plan for next week’s hackerclub - Chair
- This week will be a Python Refresher - HelpDesk
- Next week will be Humphrys and Shell? - HelpDesk

Webmaster:

blockbot has databases now (ty admins) so starboard and user reminders can be worked on / completed - Webmaster
action items are getting improvements - Webmaster
magma provided insight on issues with atlas build process, so can work on fixing them - Webmaster

Secretary:

Anything extra needed for the newsletter - Chair

PRO:

i’m away for the week, would it be okay if people kept an eye on things? - PRO

GDO:

Required graphics for next week - Chair

First Year Rep:

if you desperately need a talk for tech week… First Year Rep
Glad everyone like the new grafiscs on the discord First Year Rep

Common Room Committee:

too early for anything to be going on yet - Events

AOB:

don’t forget to change back from your christmas names on the server - Vice-Chair
Happy Monday! - Secretary

Retrospective:

`Chair`

:green_heart: events and hackerclub have been running smoothly, with good attendence, yous have been doing great, although hackerclub could do with more interactive elements
:green_heart: budget go brrr, double the pizza and all the new server upgrades (biggest soc budget I’d say :eyes:), thanks Treasurer for sorting out all the treasurer stuff
:green_heart: common room has been active this year, people are enjoying it
:green_heart: socials have been looking real nice and announcements have been going out in advance, thanks PRO!
:green_heart: thanks to the admins, especially dom for keeping our services stable this semester
:green_heart: thanks Events for organising fosdem this year
:broken_heart: some things were being done last minute, let’s work on getting stuff done earlier
:broken_heart: communication is something we could improve on, if you arent’ available to do something, let people know, also check committee chat reguarly and respond to messages in there.

`Events`

:green_heart: people have been good about helping with events I appreciate - Events
:broken_heart: lack of self motivation, people needing to be chased to actually do what theyve been asked - Events
:broken_heart: committee meetings can feel like one side versus the other when we should be working together to solve problems - Events

Sysadmin needs to resign, he has been very lazy recently and he ditched the admins from a very good trip. and this mentally effected me that I could do no more work in redbrick and I was heartbroken for like 2 weeks. very sadge Sysadmin. :heart:

`SysAdmin`

:broken_heart: Cooked
:green_heart: CLAPPED

`Webmaster`

:green_heart: lots of help from admins & magma with stuff for atlas & blockbot

`HelpDesk`

:green_heart: Many clubs were successfully hecked - HelpDesk and HelpDesk

Ishitag

:green_heart: happy admins take care of everything I don’t understand but know its being done
:green_heart: glad people are supporting events this year when needed
:green_heart: socials look great so thanks to PRO and GDO
:broken_heart: please don’t put your name down for taking care of something if you aren’t sure you can do it or if you do put your name down and something comes up please give adequate time so a replacement can be found

`First Year Rep`

:green_heart: A lot of resources provided by redbrick were genuinely useful

`GDO`

:green_heart: Good work on keeping up with events and giving appropriate time to get posters done.
:broken_heart: My last semester with redbrick and DCU, very sadge 😭

Minutes:

Points of Info:

Started at: 18:10
Does Committee agree on last weeks minutes: yes
Ended meetings discussions at: HH:MM

Chair Update:

Time slot for events is Wednesday at 1pm-3pm in L125 and needs to be booked for entire year - Chair
Hostel for FOSDEM urgently needs to be booked, then flights - Chair
Hoodie orders have been finalised, now we just need to order them. We have enough orders for both types of hoodie - Chair
We can contact Demonware, Mastercard, 2K, etc regarding Tech Week, which will be the week before Reading Week. - Chair
C&S Ball
Sistem