open-goverance/Minutes/Committee/2024-01-11.md
Brendan Golden 565f494b6c fix: moved meeting notes into own folder
Signed-off-by: Brendan Golden <git_laptop@brendan.ie>
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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.