UCC Committee Minutes 25-03-2011 Meeting opened at 17:02 [LOL] time. Present: [BOB] [MRD] [LOL] [TPG] [ASH] [SZM] [ROW] [EDO] [SLX] [AHC] [CJS] [DJA] Apologies: Absent: President's Report ------------------ - Ordered a new box Merlo - Offered some gear from Physics, ITS. Picked up a box to upgrade musundo, details to ucc@, more gear available as per list. - Please no more O'Day discounts for new members! It is no longer O'Day. - New forms should be stamped and put into Member DB immediately. - Memberships are due soon, see email to ucc-announce@ Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - Internet Merchant Facility with WestPac is far too expensive for us. Speak to [MRD] for the stupidly high cost if they are interested. - New job! Back at Faculty of Arts. - Purchase order for PowerPoint has been submitted. Treasurer's Report ------------------ - $50,504.78 in Term Deposit. - Balances same as last week. [CJS] arrives. Secretary's Report ------------------ - Mail was checked. Got some membership forms. Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshers are happy. - Acquired Night Pass. Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers: - Working at retiring old disk array. Network: - No changes. Desktops: - No changes. New Equipment: - None. Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - Need to find cheap coke. - Need a snack run to happen. Don't forget to grab the FAL card! Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - We had some mail. - SOC Meeting happened. Nothing exciting. - Treasurer training also happened. - O'Day grant was in, got $200. Action Items ------------ - [ASH] to investigate club steam accounts - Email sent. - [SZM] to refine ideas for robotics competition and present to committee - In progress. Have mailing list and other great things! Email to come. - [BOB] to book loft for the PLUG event on April 12 - Done. - Quiznight for PLUG next monday, see email to ucc@ for details. - [BOB] to email tech@ with details on new plan for new mermaid - Done, ordered and paid for. $565 total. Still need a HDD for. - [BOB]/[TPG] to send email to ucc@ with information on the new dispense Done. General Business ---------------- - [BOB] need to get an ssd for merlo (the new mermaid) - 60GB SSD for $139, OCZ brand. - [BOB] moves to purchase this, [LOL] seconds. Unanimous. - [BOB] modify door/coke members policies so that your membership of those groups lapses when your membership lapses - Accounts get removed from dispense after not being a member for 54 weeks, removed from door and coke at this time also. - [ROW] combtail is broken. Suggest someone (OCM) diagnose problem and cost up a solution/replacement parts. We are no longer Unigames poor, we should fix our machines when they break. - [ROW] has costed up a solution. For approximately $350 for a new motherboard, CPU and RAMs will fix the machine. - [CJS] costed up a solution and sent to tech@ with a graphics card. - Suggestion to ask for donations matched $3 to $1 by the club, to a total of $450 by the club. [BOB] motions this, [CJS] seconds. Unanimous. - Pledges to [TPG] - [CJS] to purchase once money is sorted. - [ROW] Deskspace resembles Benghazi and needs a clean-up. - Suggested a club cleanup day. - Tenancy committee has organised a cleanup for CH on the 17th of April. - Club cleanup this day as well. Door members must come. - [LOL] to update events calendar. - [SLX] would like to apply for Door - Has completed LOLDOG well. - [BOB] moves to add [SLX] to door, [DJA] seconds. Unanimous. [ROW] departs. - [BOB] has altered LOLDOG to add in what to do when something breaks. - In future, changes should not be made to club policy in a Gaddafi fashion. - This is especially the case when making changes to front facing services that break everyone's access. - No this isn't a joke. - [BOB] will email doorgroup with the changed policy. - [BOB] purchase 2 ATI sapphire HD5870 cards from [JVT] for $100 each - Cards are $260-ish new. Also has watercooling gear. - One to go in combtail and one cichlid. - [DJA] moves to alter previous motion for replacing combtail gear to reduce the club's contribution to $375 and purchase these two cards. [MRD] seconds. Unanimous. Current Action Items -------------------- - [SZM] to refine ideas for robotics competition and present to committee Meeting closed at 17:47 --- Meeting minutes are also available at http://ucc.asn.au/infobase/minutes/