Compsoc Exec Minnits

28 February 2001

Attended

• Chris Smith
• Tom Worley
• Jake Staines
• Tom Cropper
• James Ross
• Chris Salmon
• Henry Southgate
• Alexis Birkill

Budget

In the frantic few minutes in the opening of the meeting, the exec decided not to have any affiliations on the budget. The server was discussed; for details see section 2. Another item bought up was that of magazine subscriptions. If anyone has an idea for a magazine to which they’d like to subscribe, bring it to the exec’s attention. You should at least know the name of the magazine and the subscription cost.

Server

Tom brought along some preliminary specs for the server.
* MIDI Tower ATX case – £45
* Motherboard: Gigabyte Slot A £65
* CPU: AMD Duron 700MHz Slot A £44
* HDD: Quantum Fireball 10.2Gb ATA100 £61
* FDD: 1.44MB Floppy £15
* RAM: 128Mb PC133 £35
* Keyboard and Mouse £10
* Network Card (10/100) £15
* Heatsink and Fan £15
* TOTAL = £305
* +VAT = £358.38

CS Tournament

Things are going well, and Jake is to do a whole bunch of cool posters. For once.

CompConSoc

An email was sent to Jim the Banana, as detailed in last week’s minnits. As of yet, no reply has been received. After a particularly personal attack on our beloved Vice President, the matter of the CompConSoc has been taken up with Pete Cuff. Chris Smith has been to see him, and he in turn is to take the matter up with the Societies Federation Committee this afternoon¹.

Interval

Here, we went to Laserquest and had a jolly good laugh killing people we didn’t know, as someone forgot to book out the arena. On the way out of LQ, we were stopped by a policeman, who had barricaded a road with his car, and asked where we were headed. “To the car park’’, we replied. “OK’,’’ he said. “That’ll be the carpark next to the Post Office that’s had the bomb warning then, will it?’’ After escaping with the skin of their teeth from the Roundabout of Doom, we rejoin our intrepid adventurers in the City Arms, Earlsdon, where Jake is teaching people party tricks.

Jake’s Eye Thing

Don’t try to move your eyes, because your muscles won’t be able to cope with it. Instead, focus far and near very quickly.

Finance Cards

At the moment, it is a mystery as to how much money we’ve actually got on the finance cards. Jake to find out. Tom C’s useless -Chris Smith After rushing off from the society resource room ‘cos he had other things to do, Henry didn’t get to sign his life away on the finance card. So he must do so.

Laminator

Unfortunately, Chris and Chris again forgot to look at things. To do again.

LaserQuest

Although LaserQuest was cool, we (read: Nutsy) must book out the arena completely next time, as having people in there that you don’t know is really annoying. As are the camping cheating turtles who sit in corners and cover their packs [2]. Three games were played; a friendly fire team game, a solo game and a safe team game. According to Jake, the middle one should have been another team game, but Matt Stewart-Smith “quite liked it’’. So there.

CounterStrike

After much baying and “Please put 7.1 back on, it’s sooo much better’’-ing, the l33t cs p05533 realised just how wrong they had been, and have begged the gaming administration to restore CS1.0. The grass is always greener, guys.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will meet at 2:15 in the Bitchtank. A motion was moved to meet in the City Arms and not the Varsity because the City Arms is cool. The motion was tied at four votes each³, and so it’s to be decided next week at the Bitchtank.

Attire

Henry to look at the possibility of Compsoc jumpers (in the vein of the sports soc ones), from Lazer Lizard.

Disclaimer

It should be pointed out that here, most of the members went home. A few (Henry, Jake, Kilgore, Matt, Tom Ward, Alexis and Nutsy) went to Airport to drink some free Guinness and watch England thump Spain⁴. It was while your ever-labouring secretary was at the bar buying a worse-for-wear president [5], Tom, and a few others some free Guinness, that his Jingly Notebook of Doom fell into the Hands of Evil⁶. Said hands of evil then went through these minnits and changed, in green pen, all of the names to “Henry’’ before adding an item “Petty Cash: We need to give it all to Jake’’. Sadly the motion was defeated and so he will remain penniless. Hah. It is not known where next the notebook went; suffice to say that the next addtion was not in the hand of el President’e, and was inscribed in blue ink. Thus it must be included in the minnits.

Marketing

Must buy an elephant for advertising.

Exec member of the Week: Jake for getting totally bladdered.

¹ That’s the afternoon of the 28th, not this afternoon.

² Will the real Andy Fenwick please stand up.

³ Hrumph.

⁴ Yahey!

⁵ Yes, Jake, that’s you. Can you remember?

⁶ Yes Jake, you again. You mischevous little pup.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

22nd February 2001

Attended

• James Ross
• Richard Colfer
• Tom Cropper
• Chris Salmon
• Jake Staines
• Henry Soutgate
• Phil Ross
• Alexis Birkill
• Mike Squire
• Barry Boden
• Chris Smith

Laserquest

HolyChris has booked LaserQuest from 3:00 – 4:00 on Wednesday 28 Feb for 16 people. With NUS card, the price would be five of our finest English pounds for three games. The attendees will meet in Rootes Reception at 2:15, to leave by 2:30.

Computer Console Society

Having been graced by courteous notice-board postings and emails from Jim the Banana¹, a descision was made to not return their kind offer of a Goldeneye match, principally on the grounds that we have no time. Henry to write a reply inviting said society to the Red Nose Day CounterStrike event (see item four), where they may pit their gamplaying skills against POKE. The exec has considered to play The Society Soon To Be Known As The Society Formally Known As The Computer Console Society at GoldenEye sometime next term.

References

The secretary should, wherever possible, not use insulting terms.

CounterStrike Red Nose Day

The CounterStrike toournament has been oganised for the Saturday of Week 9. Nutsy to both organise the tournament and play. Nutsy also to create a list of rules². The teams will size four, and be chosen at random. BPfH to spam people and make posters.

CounterStrike 1.0

CS 1.0 has now been removed from the Uni machines and burnt onto CDs. CS 7.1 will be tried on this Friday’s gaming session, and evaulated. SirHC to give Kilgore the 1.0 CDs. Ironic because Kilgore burnt them in the first place.

36-hour LAN

The 36-hour LAN has been planned for the weekend of Week 22 from 10 o’clock Saturday morning until 10 o’clock Sunday evening, although not booked yet. Chris Salmon to take Nutsy to see a woman. Chris: I Haven’t seen the woman

Server / IBM

Due to an overrunning meeting, Mike was unable to see Mike (Colshaw) about possible IBM sponsorship, but will continue to seek a method of approach. Ages ago, Kilgore mailed Tim Clark of ITS about the possibility of us having a box in a cupboard. No reply has of yet been received and Tom “Radio Networks R Us’’ Whorley to chase him up on this. Mike offered to step down from being IBM Liason Officer, but his offer was declined by virtue of the fact that Mike C knows Mike S. That and the fact that none of the rest of us could find time in our hectic gaming lifestyles (see item 2).

Laminator

(Vice President) Chris had a thorough look at laminators, and came back to the exec meeting chocker-block full of excuses as to why he didn’t know anything about them. In a similar fashion, (Not President Any More) Chris didn’t get any info about cold-seal pouches. Both to try again.

PHP

Jake “No [clean] Nickname’’ Staines has produced some posters, and will do some talking³ about PHP in weeks 8–10. Alexis to get some HTML tutorial links and put them on the website so that (non) Compsoc members can learn some HTML, as this will be pretty fundamental to the PHP tutorials.

Week Nine Binge

As susceptible to large quantities of alcohol as the Computer Society members are, it was decided that they could withstand a `’‘thoroughly good piss-up’’ in the Varsity on Friday of week 9. It was suggested that the venu be moved to the City Arms, Earlsdon as the prices are as to the Varsity prices as a lemur is to a gnu but, as Jake and SirHC pointed out, members living on campus would have an un-equal opportunity to attend, on the grounds that they won’t know the way to stagger back.

Handover

The most important part of the meeting, where Chris solemnly handed over the Presidency to Jake, was completely missed by the entire society who were arguing about the coldness of their Curly Fries. The following points were made: Mailing List Done. The new exec members have been added and the old ones will stay on for the time being. Passwords Being circulated on a list in the Varsity, so that everyone at least knows the Mimosa password. Finance Card A new finance card has been applied for. Registration After the meeting, the exec piled over to Onion North, where a society registration form was completed and handed over to Ann Jarvis. Thus begun the Iron Reign of Jake the Implier.
Ann Jarvis… ...is the society liason officer, and can be found in the Onion computer room.
The Onion Computer Room… ...can be found by trundling up the stairs and turning right. Right?

Next Meeting

Due to random clashes in timetables [4] ,everyone will mail HC with availability details.

¹ In which he admitted to ignoring an email sent by our Exec.

² What a busy little squirrel.

³ Old habits die hard.

⁴ Credit to James Ross for deciding his lecture wasn’t important enough to miss the exec meeting.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

15th February 2001

Attended

• All but James Ross, who foolishly decided his lecture was more important.

Contents

• IBM
• Server
• Computer Console Society
• Laminator
• Recruitright
• Email List
• Pub
• Gaming
• Tutorials
• Handover
• Courses for New Exec
• LaserQuest
• 48hr LAN
• Next Meeting

1. IBM

The Antichris has obtained contact details for one Mike Cowlishaw (sp?) in DCS, who apparently has somethingorother to do with IBM. Mike (Squire, not Cowlishaw) to talk to Mike (Cowlishaw, not Squire), since he at least sort of knows him.

2. Server

Kilgore mailed Tim Clark, but Tim hasn’t repsonded. Antichris to mail him again to make sure he’s still alive. If he isn’t, then we’ll kill him. The now-infamous SQWAT team shall strike again!

3. Computer Console Society

Speaking of striking again… The Computer Console Society has sent us a barbed-ish email offering a game of ‘Prefect Lark’ or something to settle who gets the ‘Computing’ name. Several responses were considered:
* Agreeing so as to find a time and place their exec will all be in the same room, then dropping a .5kT in the general vicinity. Disregarded since it may damage relations with the Onion. Along with the Onion itself, Costcutter, Xananas, Lazer Lizard, Senate House, the Arts Centre, and in fact most of the rest of campus. Although on the plus side, not only would we have taken out the Computer Console Society, but we’d have dealt with that meddlesome Kone once and for all.
* Agreeing then turning up not with two consoles, as requested, but two Athlon 1GHz machines running UltraHLE, so as to do away with that annoying can’t-use- joypad-to-play-FPS thing. Afterwards we challenge them to a return match on our turf – we play them at Counterstrike, and just so they don’t get uncomfortable with /our/ config, they use Joypads. Disregarded because we don’t actually want to agree to the idea that they might possibly have a claim to the name.
* Agreeing, then just turning up with baseball bats with nails in, knuckledusters, steel-rulers-o-doom and other beating instruments, and just doing what comes naturally. Disregarded since we think Knuckledusters are actually illegal.
* Just Say No. Which we decided was actually the most prudent course of action. We were offered to play Goldeneye instead, which HolyChris claims to be ‘Killer’ at, but we’re not even going to play them at a friendly, because – quite frankly – they’re a bunch of fuckwit moron ratbastards, and we have better things to do. Or something.
* We still haven’t heard anything from the Onion on the matter, but hey – they’re slow at the best of times. HolyChris to draft an email response – mind-numbingly polite, for PR reasons – that we get to check over before sending. Jake’s suggestion that it should begin ‘Dear Fuckers…’ and carry on in a similar vein was disregarded, again on PR grounds.

4. Laminator

HolyChris to get Laminator specifications, so we can perform a application/time analysis and pair it with the findings from our existing durability report to determine if lamination or coldseal is the way to go next year. Lamination has the advantage that – bar taking weaponry/fire/etc. to it – the card is practically indestructible, but the disadvatnage that if it’s a low-end laminator, we’re likely to be able to coldseal faster, even /if/ HolyChris is completely incapable of sealing them. Coldseal has the speed advantage, but it isn’t nearly as swanky as Lamination and makes us look like a cheap contended to FilmSoc’s Most-Swanky-Society crown.
Meanwhile, Kilgore to look out for Smaller coldseal thingies so someone doesn’t have to spend their summer cutting the pouches down to the size we need.

5. Recruitright

/“It’s a non-point”/ – Senõr Spielbergo

6. Email List

/“I haven’t had it yet”/ /“No, it doesn’t look like you have.”/ – Kilgore and a Waitress.
/“I am immune to temperature”/ – Richard ‘Toaster’ Colfer
The new members of the exec have now been added to the dreaded Compsoc-Exec email list, meaning that they get spammed with crap every time Chris is feeling depressed.

7. Pub

Still on for 7:30, Varsity, Friday of Week 9.

8. Gaming

CS7.1 moved, seconded and passed at AGM. Fish to burn several (4) CS1.0 CDs for those members who want to game on the ‘net at gaming sessions, and Jake ‘Still too cool to have a silly nickname’ Staines to bring 7.1 CD to reinstall sometime over the weekend.

9. Tutorials

Mike wants to help Henry with the Perl tutorials. PHP tutorials for weeks 18–20, Ryan to book rooms. Henry to do Perl tuts weeks 22–25 – book next term. Look at timetables to see when we should do them. Jake to do posters for both events.

10. Handover

At next meeting, old exec to take back seat then handover after next meeting. They still have to teach the new exec everything they know, mind.

11. Courses for New Exec

Jake to look out for courses:
* Duty of Care – Nutsy
* Managing your Money – Alexis
* First Aid – Henry
* Equiopps – Colfer
for new exec.

12. LaserQuest

Chris ‘Goldeneye’ Smith to book Laserquest for wednesday of week 7. £5 for three games, with NUS. £1.30 to get return bus ticket, prefereably 4–5pm.

13. 48hr LAN

Try to book for 10am Saturday to 10pm Sunday. So, more of a 36-hour LAN, then. Oh well. Antichris to book room, since he has been maintaining such good relations with the room-booking-woman. Weekend of week 2 next term (22).

14. Next Meeting

Meet in Bitchtank, 2pm

Compsoc Exec Minnits

8th February 2001

Attended

• Jake Staines
• Chris Salmon
• Phil Ross
• Ryan Cullen
• Barry Boden
• Chris Smith

• Quote of the Week*: /“The exec reserves the right to move people around at gaming sessions”/ – Chris Salmon

Contents

• AGM
• Sponsorship
• Science Ball
• Red Nose Day
• First Aid Course
• Laserquest
• 48hr LAN
• CS Tourney
• Server
• Pub
• Poker
• Allnighter
• Bichatse
• Stationary
• Pigeonhole
• Talks
• Next Meeting

1. AGM

Chris Salmon will chair the AGM and count the votes, and do all that osrt of stuff becuase he’s easy to bribe. Um, because he’s impartial, since he’s leaving and isn’t running for a position next year.
We will hold the vote via a paper ballot, each voter given a slip of paper with the positions contested and a gap to write a number – each candidate for a position will be given a number, and they can write their vote for each position next to the position on the paper.
Each candidate, prior to voting, will be given 5 minutes or so to give some sort of speech – if they so wish – or if they are not present, may send a speech to Chris Salmon to be read out on their behalf. Jake to print voting slips.

2. Sponsorship

It was decided that we may as well do the… um… thing. The website/magazine/sponsorship-but-we-take-a-cut thing. We can take magazines to gaming or leave them in pigeonholes or tell people to ask for one or something.
In other news, Baz is to talk to Anne Warr (in DCS) to find out where exactly the IBM/Warwick representantive might be found.

3. Science Ball

/“I told you so…”/ – Jimmie
/“Biggest event of the science calendar? I’d like to dispute that. The compsoc allnighter is obviously the… ”/ – Kilgore
The science ball – as people may have worked out on their own – didn’t happen. It was postponed until sometime early next year. Apparently, this happened to other events as well. This does mean, of course, that we have the opportunity to vend tickets at the fresher’s fayre next year…
It was suggested that Ryan might send a SQWAT team to Arthur Andersen’s HQ, since they promised sponsorship and then decided that they couldn’t be arsed – however, a .5 kT nuke would be much more efficient.

4. Red Nose Day

Baz promises to donate £500… [1]
It was proposed that we run a Counter-Strike tournament, with an entry of – um, a ‘voluntary contribution’ of £2. Size of contribution determines seat in room – biggest gets the seats at the back, and so on. You can buy frags for 50pence each, at any time /in the game/ – cash in bucket. Anyone coming in fancy dress (The Jingly Hat Of Doom not counting as fancy dress on it’s own) gets free frag credits that they can spend at the start of any one game.
HolyChris to email ITS to request both rooms on a one-night-only basis, and to obtain a Red Nose Day infopack from that sterling organisation, the BBC. Ryan to get Rag bucket for cash holding. Jake to post to newsgroup announcing event. Hopefully we will be able to run this on the Saturday of week 9.

5. First Aid Course

We will need to ‘volunteer’ someone from new to the exec to do this. I’m sure they’ll enjoy it.

6. Laserquest

Wednesday of week 7. HolyChris to book.

7. 48hr LAN

Advertise at the filmsoc allnighter? Holychris to investigate. Week 2 next term? Late in the term may still catch exam periods, or people may have gone home early.

8. CS Tourney

See Red Nose Day. James and Mat still haven’t got back to us on the whole Ladder thing.

9. Server

Chris forgot to ring Tim Clark, so he needs to email him soon.

10. Pub

(That’s Pub as in Public house, as opposed to any vaguely computer-related meaning)
Friday, Week 9, go to Varsity at 7:30, go to gaming afterwards. Chris Smith can put up those of us who can’t get home at that sort of time. Probably. He’ll investigate, anyway.

11. Poker

Chris to investigate possibility of doing this at his place.

12. Allnighter

Antichris to bring cables and switch and cards and stuff. Jake to take him, Chris, and Baz’s box for Richard. Baz is amazing – he has a spare box that he will lend to Richard to use for the allnighter. Proxy voting for the elections will be allowed so long as the results are in before 12 noon on saturday.

13. Bichatse

(www.bichatse.co.uk)
/“It is good”/ – Salmon

14. Stationery

We need to obtain:
* Whiteboard markers
* Biros for voting
* Jars of black and red waterproof ink

Actually, forget that last one. We can probably manage without it.
Baz, while meandering vaguely near the subject, will do a webpage for his cable sales and stick it up to the compsoc website.

15. Pigeonhole

Baz to enquire about the possibility of getting a Compsoc pigeonhole and/or locker in DCS.

16. Talks

The talks must go on! Henry Southgate has offered to do some Perl talks for us, so long as he gets long enough to cover the subject properly. We suggest week 7 until week 10, probably at the same place/time as before – although it would be useful to find somewhere that doesn’t clash with /any/ timetables. It’s possible that an evening slot may work better, since fewer people are likely to be interested in Perl anyway, and they’re more likely to accept an evening slot. Jake to talk to Henry.
In other news, Jake will do a basic HTML up to PHP set of talks next term. But only once Phil’s gone over the HTML bits and made sure that he actually has them /right/, as opposed to just /working/...

17. Next Meeting

Next meeting in the Bitchtank, 2pm on Thursday. Bring along new exec.
[1] Actually, he doesn’t. This is a big lie. A big stinking lie. A big foul lying cheating stinking lie.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

1st February 2001

Attended

• Jake Staines
• Chris Salmon
• Phil Ross
• Ryan Cullen
• Barry Boden
• Chris Smith
• Mike Squire

Contents

• Server

• Sponsorship

• AGM

• Allnighter

• PostLAN

• 48Hr LAN

• Kuru

• ITS

• Pub

• Laserquest

• Bowling

• Poker

• Next Meeting

1. Server

Tim Clark still hasn’t got back to us, Chris Salmon to follow it up. Rumours of an anti-Linux inquisition roaming ITS have yet to be confirmed.

2. Sponsorship

Someone needs to find the Warwick/IBM Liason guy, and talk to him about the possibility of getting IBM to sponsor us and/or give us stuff. Chris Salmon to investigate – remembering of course to specifically talk about sponsorship for a server, and not to mention beer or treasure hunts at all.

3. AGM

Newsletter didn’t get sent out on time, due to a combination of factors. The AGM will still be held at the allnighter – Jake to send out a ‘thing’ ASAP. 8pm start. (People can nominate themselves, nominations don’t have to be in until the day itself)

4. Allnighter

1. pm ‘til 11am. Same rules as last Allnighter – everyone wears heaphones, one DVD per LAN, facing away from computers, and absolutely /no/ human sacrifices. The room has actually been confirmed now, so we are fine to send mail out. Anyone for transport?

5. PostLAN

The exec formally thanks Chris Fanning, for his services at the last LAN – despite not actually attending the event himself. Tom Cropper has one of our network cards – remember. The switch was Great. Fantastic. Wonderful. More funky than a dead funky thing in disco gear. We also have loads of spare cards, so in the future, we have no problem with lending these out to members.

6. 48Hr LAN

The idea was mooted for a 48hr LAN – although thew scope was cut down ever-so-slightly to 10 in the morning Saturday to 9 in the evening Sunday (Finishing at 8). Chris Salmon to mail the University Room Booking person he’s getting on so well with to ask if we can have this long a time.

7. Kuru

The society has sent an anonymous formal warning – no response has been recieved. We now have to mete some kick-arse retribution. Suggestions on a postcard-shaped email to compsoc@warwick.ac.uk.

8. ITS

Jimmie has not mailed ITS – partially because he “couldn’t be arsed’ and partially because -as he says – “I can not construct a convincing enough argument.” Jake to mail Allden at ITS to request the use of a few seats in the other NT room for the puposes of tournaments.

9. Pub

Anyway, on the friday of Week 19, from 7 onwards, Compsoc will be in the Varsity. All of us. Any memebr found not turning up will be forced to commit Hare Kiri [1] for our amusement.

10. Laserquest

We will have another game of LQ on the Wednesday of Week 6 – Chris Smith to book. We will try and get 4–5pm, but of course it’s by no means certain. Game will cost – as always – £5 for 3 games, remember to bring NUS etc. If we get the 4o’clock slot, we’ll meet up at 3:30 in Rootes Reception.

11. Bowling

/“Can’t you run your social life without it being Minuted?”/
/“No! Not at all!”/
* Chris Smith and Chris Salmon, respectively.

The last bowling was apparently not well enough advertised, and thus not too many people turned up. As a result of this , future socials will have a summary at the top of the newsletter of the time and cost of each event, so people don’t have to read up the details in the body of the newsletter. This doesn’t mean to say that members shouldn’t read the newsletter – the standard punishment for not reading the Compsoc Newsletter from start to finish still stands.

12. Poker

Mike /still/ wants to play Poker. Chris will inquire at home as to the feasibility of holding it there, otherwise we can all go round Jake’s. Although there’s only four chairs. If we need to go to Chris’, Jake can drive Chris, Baz and Mike over.

13. Next Meeting

1. pm, Thursday Wk5, Bitchtank.

[1] Or seppuku, by their preference.