UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2013-05-07 Committee: [SAS] [SZM] [VAN] [RNZ] [XON] [NEO] [GOZ] Committee Absent without Reason: [ODF] Other: [SLX] [BG3] [TJB] Meeting opened at 13:09 [GOZ] arrives 13:24 President's Report ------------------ - Undercroft is booked for GigaLAN - Need EMP done and posters finalised - GigaLAN Sponsorship - Red Bull will service drink samples - Need more details first (times, etc.) - [SAM]: Whenever works, we're easy - Tactics will provide some prizes - CASSA has got Retro's sponsorship - Thank you everyone who got sponsors ([TJB]) - Club posters are up around campus now - Hopefully people aren't put off by 'Shell' - Some issues with the QR code being slow - Hopefully a white border will help speed it up Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - There is (was?) a great schism over the coffee table - I no longer care - Tech Talk 0x04 "JVB's Pretty Good TuTORial" is Tomorrow at 1pm - He's RSVP'd as "maybe" for his own event Treasurer's Report ------------------ - $5,531.25 - $1,050 in Guild account - No one needs to be reimbursed Secretary's Report ------------------ - No mail - This tech talk ([ODF]'s) is on Guild events (a bit late) - Future tech talks will be up there Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshers are happy - Porcupine's lag/crashing problem.. - Caused by disk upon waking from sleep - -> no need for rebuild? - Not sure if someone's checked power manager settings for gnomity/mate yet... - Underuse of tech@ - WAHCKON[0] was awesome - We should totally help out next year Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - Renamed sigma to curious - molux is apparently unwell - appears to just have disappeared - no one's seen or heard of it for a while - trapped in the bowels of Arts - [MRD] to be pinged on IRC to see if we can look at it Network - wi-fi still not working on Windows 7 - [SLX]: Working as designed Desktops - Mac has eldap - a bunch of stuff that was previously installed was removed - [RNZ] to reinstall all those Mac goodies - A couple of windows machines have dual-boot with linux - appears to be an antiquated process - "someone" should - porcupine has crashed a few times - not the same issue each time - multiple users are having the crash problems - [RNZ] thinks it is memory related - will run a memtest - [RNZ] has set up a wiki page discussing improving/rebuilding it - [RNZ] will email tech@ about it - [TPG] fixed Combtail - broke Friday some time - GRUB was broken, fixed MBR - appears to be working - catfish died on Monday - [GOZ]: NTFS was borked - performed CHKDSK (thanks [BG3]) - appears to be working New equipment - We will never see the Afghani relay ([NEO]: probably) - [NEO] accidentally confirmed receiving the modem - will email provider about accidentally confirming receival -the new floormat has been named flounder (thanks [DUG]) Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - Out of Foo - Only have solo, coke zero, pepsi and (maybe) lemonade - We have many many butter menthol - Need LCMs (people eat those?), Dairy Milks and bulk Boosts - Need a drinks run and assorted snack run - [RNZ] has a car, is ready and willing, with [BG3] - [SZM] to do a snack run Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - No mail - Remember for GigaLAN to give SOC two tickets for the Golden Ticket - [SAS] and [RNZ] to see Guild about getting a grant for educational tech talks - Next SOC meeting 15-05-2013 Action Items ------------------------------- -[XON] to email ucc@ regarding someone taking the old tool cupboard - [BG3] gave it to a friend, [TJB] helped -[SAS] to become events manager for GigaLAN - Done? -[TJB] to continue organising GigaLAN - ongoing -[BG3] and [VAN] to do drinks stuff - Done and done General Business ---------------- [SAS] : Coffee Table - had a poll on Facebook about moving it back into the clubroom - "Yes" had more than "no" (to move it back into the room) - small poll of committee about who wants it in - committee are either not caring or abstaining - [SAS] decides to keep it in the club room [SAS] : New Microwave - [BOB] thinks not worth replacing, as all surrounding clubs have them - [SZM]: we don't need couches, all the surrounding clubs have couches - [SAS]: people are pressuring us to spend money (as we have it) - not going to spend it on things not needed (the [BOB] : wants the coffee table back in the clubroom [BOB] : porcupine most likely has software issues. These should be investigated further before saying it needs a hardware rebuild. People should email tech@ with any issues - [RNZ]: two things going on: - 1) porcupine has an issue currently ongoing, making it crash - 2) I think porcupine needs to be upgrade - This porcupine changes/fixes to be discussed further, email to tech@ - new_porcupine has [RNZ]'s discussion page on the wiki about the possible porcupine rebuild (http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/new_porcupine) [XON]: Propose swapping location of kalashnikov and pinball - would have more project space on the project bench (kalashnikov is small) - people working on pinball (much more common than kalashnikov) wouldn't be squished - [SAS]: there will be a clean-up soon, we will move it then (pending discussion on IRC and other) [BG3] : Do we want to get some cables (HDMI and Micro USB)? - [BG3] thinks the club room needs some HDMI and Micro USB cables (to interface with the raspberry Pis and with the projector -[BG3] suggests a bulk order of HDMI and Micro USB cables - [SAS]: does anyone want to help with this? - [RNZ] points at [NEO] - [SAS]: the club would buy about 2 of each (HDMI and Micro USB) - [SAS] moves that UCC budgets $20 to purchase 2 cables from each bulk buy, [SZM] seconds - motion passes, 6:0:1 - [BG3] to organise bulk buy of HDMI and of Micro USB cables [RNZ]: Next tuesday at 1pm in CS building to discuss various CS stuff - general discussion for CS student needs - [RNZ] will be attending (apologies for next week's committee meeting) - suggests members to approach him with their issues with the CS department - he has a bit higher status in the dept.'s mind, as a post-grad student - we need to bring topics up to them, else they won't change - for example, [RNZ] has issues with the career path information for undergraduates - would also like some moral support/minions to help - [SLX]: Strictly speaking, this isn't an UCC issue - there's another club (CSSC) with should be dealing with it - [RNZ]: they're not doing a good enough job - Discussion of possible date for a round table discussion - decided upon upcoming Thursday evening (09-05-2013) - need pizza for sustenance/attendance -[SAS] moves that UCC budgets up to $100 to provide pizza for a round table discussion on Thursday night, [GOZ] seconds - motion passes, 7:0:0 Meeting closed at 13:47 Current Action Items ------------------------------ [NEO]: to email modem provider about accidentally confirming receival of modem [RNZ] and [BG3]: to do drinks run [SZM]: to do snacks run [BG3]: to organise bulk buy of Micro USB and HDMI cables Minutes uploaded by [XON] at 16:35 on 2013-05-07