UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2020-04-23 ======================================== ## Attendance ### Attending \[MVP\] \[HET\] \[AAA\] \[TPG\] \[BRD\] \[PQZ\] \[MPT\] #### Late \[TEC\] #### Apologies \[MLG\] *Meeting opened at 19:44* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Confirmation of minutes from 2020-04-16 - "All good." Committee Reports ================= ## President's Report - This has certainly been a week - Been working a lot and doing a lot - Tech things with wheel over the weekend - *We had a Tech Bonanza* - Inspired by the upcoming UWA network changes - We now have a confirmed method of controlling our systems even if the network link breaks for some reason concerning 4G - Finally got a response back from UWA with some hard deadlines - Deadlines seem soon - Things are going to become very restricted on the way into UCC - From next week / week after - Charity vigil planning is going well - Thing about the $50 will be discussed later on - Talked to UWA Sports about eSports - Keen to work together - Could work out confirguations for games - Waiting receive a bit more information - Will forward on the email eSports ## Vice President's Report - Will be back - *is back* - *Is doing assignments* - Has got stuff on - Thinks report for this week should be copied to report for last week - Is still eating dessert and still doing uni ## Secretary's Report - Sent minutes to Chloe from Westpac about signatories - Uploaded events to Facebook and UWA Events page - Made graphics for Tech Talk 1/2/3 - Missing going outside - Making a Star Trek Enterprise Jacket ## Treasurer's Report - Sent apologies - Sent Report: - Regarding the Charity Vigil $50 cap for prizes - Thinks UCC shouldn't be losing money to give prizes given the loss in revenue this year - Not making much money at all this year - Not sustainable to spend lots of money this year ## Fresher Rep's Report - I haven't attended the past few UCC socials - Lots of people in Voice Chat - We have a Fresher Role - About nine people have it on Discord - I've noticed that we don't have an announcement channel - Still keen to get committee into the Minecraft Server... - \[MPT\]: *Tribes is a dead game and wants to stay dead* - Good to look for free to play games for LANs - Keen to contribute to looking for games - *Everyone starts chanting TF2* *19:52 [TEC] appears* ## OCM Reports #### \[HET\] - Charity unvigil meeting was very short - Not much happening #### \[AAA\] - Didn't realise apologies were sent to wrong email address - Made a spelling mistake in the email :( - *\[MPT\]: We will add it to the alias* #### \[MVP\] - Asked to do a few things for UniGames Charity Unvigil - Haven't done a whole lot of UCC things -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine Technical Reports ========================= ## Servers - Wheel has been doing Server upgrades on pretty much everything we can get our hands on - Upgrading to the latest operating system - Upgrading to accomodate what UWA are doing with the network - We can fix things remotely now without having to send someone in to fix things physically now ## Network - UWA's network changes - Email to the tech@ mailing list - Dropped the idea of paying for our cloudflare - ssh port 22 is being blocked and proxied - \[MPT\] doing ongoing work for wheel - Appreciates everyone's efforts towards all this - Not much for committee to decide on... - New requirements ## Desktops - Probably still sitting? ## Misc. - UWA blocking ports might stop Big Blue Button and Minecraft Servers from working - UWA probably worried about the ANU data breach - It would be good to get treated as something external to the University - Potential for the future - need to work out how viable that would be - Committee will need to look into that as it is likely we will spend money -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New equipment ============= - \[MPT\] did not go in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- External Entities ================= ## Mail - Guild student centre was closed ## Guild/SOC - Guild student centre was closed - Guild is still not really do anything ## Clubroom Report - Collected all the misc things that had been asked for - Mousepad, other items returned ## Other Affairs - UWA has now made examplify opt out - Can sit exams at a later date - Might be worth posting an announcement about that - Information from Tara from UWA Sport - Mostly console games - FIFA, Rocket League, Super Smash - Did mention UWA Anime played - Looking to start some free competition (open to anyone who has the game) - They are looking to have tournaments - They are looking for feedback on: What a tournament should look like - Setting up lobbies, configuring a tournament bracket in game - Looking for people to help out with that a few hours a week - Previous competition we did with them was 2018 (set up in the loft) - Can help out by sharing details for UWA eSports around - Like emails to the UCC list asking who might be interested - Could spread it around socials too - Some positions UWA Sports have might be renumerated Events ====== ## Tech Talks - \[333\] Dive into DNS Tech Talk on May 5 - \[MTL\] TINC/VPN talk May 14 as a Chairty Unvigil event - \[BOB\] DIY Computer Building May 19 - Could be good to have a few things in the winter holidays - Something fun ## Charity Unvigil - Went with ZontaHouse Charity - For next week: UCC is putting in our EMP for this week - Ideally we set Friday (next week) as the goal to post our Facebook event - Having a draft schedule by then would be good - Would be good to work out today and tomorrow - Looked into how their portal system works - We could do something similar - Sorting out the donation platform will be done by \[MPT\] - Updated the subcommittee and said UCC was hesitant to spend more than $50 - \[MPT\] frustrated given costs are the same but no income from vending machine - May also have to pay for network stuff - Our tech is depreciating - upgrades and replacements will cost money - Could defer upgrades for six months but then next year will have to start spending money again - *If we get a room...* - Logistics of getting people their prizes - Goal to give out raffle tickets when you donate to the charity at the event - *Still need to work out logistics of prizes* - Could use things in UCC that could add to the prize pool - Eg. Third place prizes as things from the clubroom #### The Thursday - \[MTL\] 17:30 - 18:30 Tech Talk on tinc VPN - Tech talk follwed by Jank Talk - \[MPT\] I think an old game would be good for Thursday - So we're not doing Heck Taks? - *Heck talks for Saturday* - Has to be a Heck Talk *TM* #### The Saturday - Minecraft on Saturday - All day Saturday Minecraft - Need a moderator for the lightning Heck Talks - Six or so 10 minute talks in a chunk of time - Donate for x time of creative - #NoGriefSaturday - Donate for x time of Minecraft mentality - *Creative mode & TNT* - Advertise servers - Gotta keep the Team TM together - Come Play Screencheat - More stuff to come - 1:1 scale of Cameron Hall - *Committee imagines High Res version of CH built in Minecraft* ## UCC Social - Played Drawful 2, some other Jackbox - Haven't bought JB games on Steam yet - Time seems to be speeding up ## Other Events - *Committee is busy with current events and current happenings* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Action Items from 2020-04-16 ============================ [MPT]: Action items from last week either done or all ongoing. - Will update ucc.asn.au/talks - Hoping to get all Tech Talks in one place -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Business ================ - *No one really has any general buisiness* Current Action Items ==================== All committee: - Think about other things to run during Charity Unvigil - Become familiar with network changes from UWA #### \[MPT\] - Finalise schedule for Charity Unvigil by Friday #### \[TEC\] - Conquer assignments #### \[PQZ\] - Update ucc.asn.au/talks - Add events to guild website *Meeting closed at 20:47* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Minutes uploaded by [PQZ] at 20:59 on 2020-04-23*