open-goverance/Minutes/2024-01-11.md

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## Attendance
## Attendance
### Present
* Eoghan
* Brendan
* Kaiden
* Morris
* Samir
### Late
* Leo
* Irene
### Absent
* Nanda
* Max
* Sourabh
## Minutes
### Events
* Lightning talks
* For students returning from Coop to give their experiences of Coop. Good way to bring in 3rd years that haven't been around so far.
* Do we want to do it like and AA meeting.
* Possibly with alot of people getting alot of good out of Coop.
* Building the VM Host and new Back-up server * Sponsorship for NetApp for upgrading existing hardware. Need an event for building this. (Ties into Skynet). * With sign-up fair this will probably be week 3. * See if ITD can host it in their rack
* Ethics session
* Ethics really isn't talked to about in some courses till after coop.
* Semester 2 Sign-up fair Wednesday 7th of Feburary
* This will take over the week 2 event.
* We will be busy before and after this.
* We need to sign-up for this.
* Get in touch with old committee members re. how it differs for UCH rec fair.
### Committee Positions
* Leo may be taking on the main PRO position with Kaiden going on School Placement.
### Opennes
* DCU are having everything open, such that members can view it.
* They are using obsidian for this.
* This is one of the best ones out there for it, despite being closed source.
* Brendan thinks this will be a good thing to go for. Kaiden thinks it seems fine.
* Privacy issues?
### 30th anniversary
* Paul Lee will want us to get in contact with old members
* The same members that are contacting us re. getting their skynet accounts
* Push for it to be in the new Student Center.
* May be pushing for more of a ball kind of thing especially with trying to host it alongside Mountain Bike Club.
### Email from Paul Lee today
* Help with a research project with regards to competitive gamers.
* 2 Days recruitment re. this 29th andd 30th of January
* PRO to do an announcement to try and drum up support re. this.
* Just send people without clarification as it is better to send people to
### Makerspace
* They will take the filament
* Are aware that they it is a bribe.
* Would be a good idea to do an event for them as they actually have the expertise and hardware re this topic.
* Morris???
### Phildeb MC server
* Objection, Kaiden (spite).
* Give them a list of things to do for a minecraft server and they may get it done.
### Banking
* Full access to the bank account.
* Had to ask the old treasurer to see if a payment went through due to options for €40 membership.
* Eoghan
* Permenant access to the account, with an old phone in the server room.
* Access to the account.
* Post was checked no look on passwords but found more info on it.
* May have to get back in touch with Pamela in the bank.
* Equipment list
* Need to get this up to date for the application for funds for skynet update & insurance.
* Need to pass this to someone else with me going on Coop.
### Stickers
* Will wait to hear back from designer.
### Logo Design
* Still waiting to hear back from the designer
### Trip to UCC
* Leo is not organising this, leaving it to events officer.
* Compsoc can cover part of the cost of attending.
### AOB
#### Spending money
* Couch for the server room
* Objections
* Eoghan
* Queries
* Kaiden
* Better chairs?
* Squishmallow monopoly
* More of a games society expense rather than a comp soc one.
* Devkits
* Done before during COVID.
* Can be used for a chain of events
* Bad
* They can be a tad pricey if we go for the newest ones, but a raspbery Pi 0, pico or maybe 4
* One of those is about €50 (Brendan update here if you read this)
#### Building a community around Comp Soc.
* Better social events, they are difficult to run.