open-goverance/Minutes/2023-2024/Committee/2024-01-11.md

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.