open-goverance/Committee/2023-2024/Budget/12._Events.md

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Events

Overview

Semester 1

meet_greet.exe

  • Introductory event to the society.
  • Idea was to give a taste of future events and a social mixer.
  • Venue: We booked KBG15 from 18:00-21:00.
  • Announced via Discord and emails.

Skynet Introduction

  • Introductory event to Skynet.
  • Idea was to help members with setting up their accounts.
  • Venue: Room 3 to allow enough room for incoming members.
  • Members were required to bring their laptops to set up their Skynet accounts.

Capture The Flag

  • Interactive Event: Members were asked to bring their laptops to participate in the event.
  • Venue: Room 3 was booked to allow appropriate space for our participants
  • Email and Discord announcements were written to advertise the event.

Movie Night

  • Because it was Halloween, we decided to organise a movie night being projected.
  • Venue: Room 3 was booked to allow enough room for our participants.
  • We made a post on Discord and wrote an Email to advertise to our members.
  • We asked our members to vote for which movie they wanted to watch on Discord.
  • We acquired the movie, and we purchased food beforehand.

Pycon

  • A large event that had plenty of organisational overhead, and was a trip to Dublin.
  • We lodged in the membership money for newer members who joined after the announcement for Pycon.
  • Bought event tickets and tote bags.
  • We applied for the trip's approval through Wolves.
  • Sent emails to Pycon.
  • Event costs were subsidized for members as a result
  • Payments were tracked through wolves and processed online.

Game Engines - Presentation

  • Presentation about game engines; rehearsed beforehand.
  • Venue: Room 3 for participants.
  • Email had been written with some humor to enhance member engagement.

Advent of Code

  • Long-term running series of events, throughout December and early 2nd semester.
  • Useful to giving first years more coding experience.
  • 2 posters were made, and sent by emails.
  • Our own leaderboard was created for our members to compete, code for it was emailed separately.
  • Coding challenges released with Advent of Code were analysed and members were given chance to solve them.
  • Separate forum topic was created on Discord for this purpose, members received help with the programming challenges.

Semester 2

Lightning Talks - Co-op

  • Lightning talks from students who were returning from Co-op.
  • Each talk was set to a maximum of five minutes.
  • Goal was to have a relaxing social event to promote networking.
  • Venue: Room 3, we had plenty of members and speakers coming in.
  • We had pizza at the end to cap it off.
  • We announced it via emails and a Discord announcement.

Film Night

  • Last minute event proposed by a member.
  • The movie in question was an hour-long video about Randy Pausch's last lecture on achieving your dreams.
  • Venue: Room 3 to allow enough room and chairs for members.
  • We purchased food beforehand.
  • We advertised it via emails and Discord announcements.

Minecraft LAN

  • Firstly we had a brief presentation on how to install a mod for voice chat in Minecraft, then helped people to join the server.
  • Members were required to have a Minecraft account and a Minecraft Launcher installed.
  • Members also required a Discord account in the CompSoc server and link to Wolves.
  • This event occurred right after an EGM so plenty of members

Quiz with Games Dev

Licenses Presentation

Minecraft Server Event

Domain + Hosting

Treasure Hunt

Virtual Machines

RetroPi