2025-03-18 Agenda

  • Start: 2025-03-18 20:00
  • Present: Treasurer, Vice-Chair, GDO, Events, SysAdmin, Chair, PRO, Secretary, SysAdmin, Webmaster, HelpDesk, HelpDesk, First Year Rep, Events
  • Absent:
  • Excused: SysAdmin, Ordinary Member, Ordinary Member,
  • Late:

Agenda:

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  • [x] Check previous minutes - Secretary

Chair:

  • Start preparing handover info - Chair
  • Ball tickets, event still not approved - Chair
  • Pub quiz as last event, week after agm? - Chair

Vice-Chair:

SysAdmins:

  • Chairing it and by it I mean by admin exam

Events:

  • How was last week’s event - Chair
    • Mafia Night, very fun + successful. - Events
  • Plan for this week’s event - Chair
    • LAN Party, got a switch with mario party on it + more. (Really just a gaming night but whatever) - Events
  • Clubsandsocs asking for a meeting tomorrow at 10am-11am regarding CS Ball. Who’s going with? Ideally someone who helped organise. - Events
  • Interest for Arista talk still hasn’t hit 20, all committee who are going please do it so we get an event (form here) - Events

Treasurer:

HelpDesk:

  • How was last week’s hackerclub - Chair
    • Went well, very low attendance - HelpDesk
    • gr8 attention tho! HelpDesk
  • Plan for this week’s hackerclub - Chair
    • Retro programming languages and helpdesk exam - HelpDesk
    • Went well too, but also low attendance. - HelpDesk
    • Five people took the exam - HelpDesk
  • Plan for next week’s hackerclub - Chair
    • Making a discord bot - HelpDesk
  • We could randomise the times when pizza arrives to stop people from showing up to the events just for pizza. - HelpDesk
    • fire idea + agreed please stop the munchers- Events
    • they’re already randomised /s HelpDesk

Webmaster:

  • SysAdmin and Webmaster have had a very productive week - Webmaster
  • blockbot:
    • new welcome message and /register command
  • atlas:
    • new black/amoled theme
    • compression, image proxy, bugfixes - greatly improved performance
    • request for PRO to write an up-to-date ‘about Redbrick’ for this and pick some images from events for the new events section

Secretary:

  • Anything extra needed for the newsletter - ``Chair`
  • Yep, just extra info about CS Ball to promote in newsletter - Secretary

PRO:

  • to get the agm sent out and stuff - PRO

GDO:

  • Required graphics for upcoming events - Chair
  • LAN event graphics - GDO
  • AGM poster finished - GDO

First Year Rep:

  • am in foreign (to you) country -First Year Rep
  • Events has my awards ticket, hopefully he won’t be rejected at the door - First Year Rep

Ordinary Members:

Common Room Committee:

Points of Discussion:

  • No clarification on exam expiry + qualified rerunning

AOB:

  • Happy Tuesday! - Secretary

Minutes:

Points of Info:

Started at: 20:05
Does Committee agree on last weeks minutes: yes
Ended meetings discussions at: 20:45

Chair Update:

  • Start preparing handover doc - Chair
  • Agm, pub quiz and Arista event still to be tackled. Overall, things starting to wind down - Chair

Vice-Chair Update:

SysAdmin Update:

  • Exam halfway done, will be ready by Friday - SysAdmin

Events Update:

  • People needed for meeting with C&S at 10am Wednesday 19th, Tome and Hypnoant chosen - Events

Treasurer Update:

  • No updates really, all money transferred as needed - Treasurer

Helpdesk Update:

  • Last 2 hackerclubs went well, but low attendance - HelpDesk
  • Next week Discord bot using discord.py - HelpDesk

Webmaster Update:

  • Blockbot registering should be simpler for users now - Webmaster
  • Website has new theme, no issues - Webmaster
  • Image compression, file compression, bug fixes, overall performance enhancements - Webmaster

Secretary Update:

PRO Update:

  • AGM announcement to be done - PRO

GDO Update:

  • AGM poster ready, LAN event graphic, pub quiz needed further down the line - GDO

First Year Rep Update:

Ordinary Member Update:

Common Room Committee Update:

  • Disappearance of cans
  • Rules being rewritten

Points of Discusion:

  • Clarification of exam expiry and rerunning (yes, Old Webmaster can run for re-election) - Secretary

AOB:

Hackerclub TLDR

  • Name: Discord Bot
  • Description: Creating a discord bot with python
  • Date: 25/03/25
  • Time: 12:00 - 2:00
  • Room: L114

Event TLDR

  • Name: AGM
  • Description: Redbrick AGM
  • Date: 27/03/25
  • Time: 19:00 - 20:30
  • Room: LG25

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
  • [ ] events - Check with Ash for Pub Quiz
  • [ ] admins - Write Exam
  • [ ] SysAdmin, Ordinary Member - CS BALL Meeting
  • [ ] Secretary - Send out newsletter, include CS ball, Arista

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