UCC Committee Minutes 01-02-2012 Meeting opened at 17:54 Present: [SZM] [DJA] [TPG] [ASH] [MRD] [BOB] [CJS] [MDD] [DTK] Apologies: [LOL] Absent: President's Report ------------------ - Finally had some time to organise membership stickers, only to be told that uniprint can't get the paper [DTK] arrives 17:56 - Considering printing our own stickers - Booked the loft for night of March 10th for a collaborative Debian bug squashing party with PLUG and UCC - Should probably discuss events with committee before booking them - All seem in favour - Stupid pun about plugging the event from [TPG] - Consider putting in Fresher guide Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - Nothing to report Treasurer's Report ------------------ - Caught a cold, feeling like *^#% - Is now 21... holy cow. - Happy Birthday [TPG]! - Finally caught up on the safe ect - Still have a little to clean up, but things are looking better - Balances: - Guild Account: $1,358.83 - Westpac Account: $213.49 - Cash Reserve: $425.94 - Upcoming expenses: - Needs to pay phone bill - Need about $600 to fill snack machine Secretary's Report ------------------ - Absent due to work - Mail was checked by [TPG] Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshers are happy - Has an exam tomorrow at 9am - Needs to reorganise Fresher Guide writing night - Needs to be done by next week - [ASH] to organise Fresher Guide writing night (again) Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - [DJA] and [SZM] rackmounted sigma - Machine room key page needs updating due to new wheel members getting keys - [MRD] to update machine room key page on wiki - martello crashed (kernel panic after upgrade) - motsugo has been rude to [TPG]. The clock thinks its 2007 - Remote management on motsugo crashed - [BOB] fixed using magical powers - madako was switched off by [TPG] last week; no longer needed and overheating - backup of madako is somewhere on murasoi - Discussion of live migration of VMs; refer to hwc mailing list - Discussion of VMs continues - Committee is in favour of VMs. For implemention details, refer to the hwc mailing list - [BOB] Someone needs to co-ordinate things - tumbleweed - [SZM] to co-ordinate things Network - [DJA] noticed FREENETSIN isn't being set - Implication is [DJA] can't set up VM to only get access from FREENETS - Discussion about whether or not people should care - [DJA] to look into - [BOB] fixed network ports in corridor for coke machine - Bad pun from [DJA] about double crossing Desktops - Humpback is still broken - Possibly an issue with the power supply. Probably not fixable, since it is integrated into the motherboard. - [SZM] to investigate replacement for humpback - [ASH] reports characid as having blue screen issues - We think its overheating - [BOB] points out that four or five of our clubroom machines are currently "useless" - [TPG] to install something other than Acess on the TrimSlice - Discussion about things that won't work on Arm - [ASH] Surely Arms aren't that esoteric? - Insert horrible pun here New equipment - Did we mention sigma was rackmounted? - Discussion about whether sigma is called sigma or george - (I'm not sure how this is "New Equipment" either) Appliances - Projector is dusty - [BOB] purchased a label printer ($79) - Should have arrived today, didn't Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - We need snacks - [CJS], [TPG] and [NTU] to go on snack run before O'Day (as actioned on 24-01-2012) Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - There is a guild meeting tonight - No important mail Action Items ------------ - [BOB] to purchase membership stickers - In progress - [BOB] to investigate label maker's - Done - [CJS], [TPG] and [NTU] to go on snack run - Needs to be done before O'Day General Business ---------------- - [MRD] baked #commitee a birthday cake - Thanks [MRD]! - Someone suggested adding a checkbox to membership forms for "payed via dispense" - [MRD] volunteers to update the membership form - We still need posters for O'Day - [DJA] has posted to the ucc list, no one responded - [BOB] suggests reusing last year's poster with "slight modifications" - [TPG] to do posters by next week - We need a clubroom cleanup before O'Day - [BOB] suggests 18-02 as a date - No objections - We should have a hacking and/or discussion night for the VM stuff - [BOB] suggests that after the cleanup we have a VM hacking night - We need a tent for O'Day (3m x 3m) - [DTK] volunteers to lend the club a tent - Thanks to [DTK] - [DTK] and [BOB] to co-ordinate tent Current Action Items -------------------- - [BOB] to either purchase or otherwise obtain membership stickers - [ASH] to organise Fresher guide writing night for next week - [MRD] to update machine room key page - [SZM] to co-ordinate discussion on VMs - [DJA] and [ASH] to sort out FREENETSIN - [SZM] to look into replacement machine for humpback - [TPG] to install something other than Acess on the TrimSlice - [CJS], [TPG] and [NTU] to go on snack run before O'Day - [MRD] to update membership form with checkbox for fees payed via dispense - [TPG] to do posters for O'Day - [DTK] and [BOB] to co-ordinate tent for O'day There will be a clubroom cleanup on 18-02-2012. Details will be emailed to the door mailing list. Meeting closed at 18:32 --- Meeting minutes are also available at http://ucc.asn.au/infobase/minutes/