Compsoc Exec Minnits

28 January 2002

Present

• Jakes Staines
• Alexis Birkill
• Dave de la Motte
• Chris Smith
• Tom Cropper,
• Richard Colfer
• Tom Ward
• Jake Staines
• James Ross

1. s5

The overall impression of s5 was that it was a good LAN. The main critisism was that the Q3A tourney should have been run earlier, as people lost interest and the tourney ended up fizzling out.

We also borrowed the Anime projector. Depsite the valiant efforts of Jake and James to get the thing up and running, we never actually used the thing. Part of the problem we had was the lack of space; the projector needs a space assigned at the beginning of the LAN to avoid this problem.

We played loads of games (well, duh). Q3 probably dominated (to the chagrin of many). Three new faces appeared, however. The first was Diablo 2, which got a little multiplaying. The second was Aliens vs Predator 2 – which, according to Game Guru Jingly, “R0×0r5”. The final LAN debut was for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which saw a 14-player team game, and was great.

2. s6

Nutsy replied to the mail saying “We’d like LIB2 please”, but has received no confirmation. Nutsy to chase up. We’ll book the room from Friday at 6:00 until Sunday at 10:00, and the signup limit will be eighteen.

One idea we toyed with is that of scheduled games – for example, Starcraft at 6, RTCW at 10. The Q3A Tourney definitely to be scheduled.

3. Budget

Essentially there are three forms that must be filled. These are:

1. Capital Budget – for uber purchases
2. Expected spending
3. Expected income.

The crux of the matter is that if the expected spending does not exceed the expected income then we get no money, as we have been written of for capital budged purposes.

So then, what do we need?

1. Booklets: £45
2. Membership cards: £30
3. Posters: £25
4. CAT5: £75
5. Crimpers £20
6. RAID HD £100

That comes to £295. Alexis to look into the cost of a UPS.

4. SSDO Mail

The SSDO wants us to get in touch, so we can do something for societies week. He wants us to invite some companies down to do a jobs fayre, basically, and has told us that a form letter will be in our pigeon hole by Monday. Below is a list of companies we might like to invite.

• IBM
• HP
• id
• Alan Cox
• Lionhead
• Codemasters
• Rage
• Jeff Minto
• Apple
• Microsoft

5. Molotov

Personal Webspace

We’ve changed the rates. Again.

		10–50
		60–100
		100+

So, for example, 60MB of space would be:

1. * £2.50 + 1 * £2 = £14.50

Which is cheaper than 33m of CAT5 cable.

Terms of Service

Additional items:

• No sub-contracting/selling of personal webspace
• Space will be deemed to have been accepted after one week of use, and after this point, the refund shall be halved.
• Any refund will be proportional to the server downtime.
• Scheduled downtime will not be refunded.
• Accounts to last from September to September.
• Discounts will be discretionary, and provided at the time.

Toaster will be nominated official Terms Of Service Administrator (“TOSA”).

Laserquest

Tom to book 15 non-exclusive places at LQ.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

21 January 2002

Present

• Henry Southgate
• Alexis Birkill
• Dave de la Motte
• Chris Smith
• Tom Croppy,
• Richard Colfer
• Tom Ward
• Jake Staines
• James Ross

1. Molotov

Terms of Service

This week, Jake drew up the initial Terms of Service. James passed them around and the exec laughed at every point before deciding that they were very good, and that only a few modifications were needed. These were:

• Users are responsible for their account and all files owned by their username. In the case of a password being lost, the exec should be notified ASAP.
• If anyone is found to be using excessive bandwidth (or CPU time), we will levvy charges.
• The distributed warez policy: we’ll kill and then mail the person telling them their warez has been killed.
• The non-distributed warez policy: we’ll mail the person, warn them, and then kill the warez.

SMTP

We’ve had a mail asking if we would willingly be an SMTP relay server. We see no problems with this, apart from the obvious abuse aspect. Tom Ward to set up an ‘abuse’ alias, and check orbs for us being on a blacklist. Tom to mail Matt Bergin and sort this out.

Quota

Quotas aren’t working. Tom to sort.

Website

Minnits

James ot put the minnits page back up at some point, along with the Newsletters. H to write minnits and NLs in CPS from now on. And we’re all to thik of a new anacronym for ‘CNT’, because it sounds rude.

Signups Cutoff

Despite saying it was impossible to do, and not even Larry Wall could manage to fix his Perl script, James added the signup cuttofs in approximately ten minutes.

s5

Tom has tried to get in contact with the other student’s society about the Friday night of s5, but failed miserable, and thus we shall be starting on Saturday morning at 10:00am.

s6

Tom to book for the end of week seven. This he has done; we tried for LIB1, but couldn’t get it; we’ve got the choice of B213/214 (again), or LIB2.

Mouldy Stockings

Jake went to see John Finnis. He wasn’t in. Jake went to see John Finnis again, half an hour later. He still wasn’t in. Neither was Anne Jarvis, and so we haven’t been able to make our excuses yet. Jake to keep trying.

Laserquest

Tom hasn’t done anything becuase we’ve not got numbers. James to put up signups.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

14 January 2002

Present

• Tom Ward
• Jake Staines
• Tom Cropper
• Alexis Birkill
• James Ross
• Chris Smith
• Henry Southgate
• Richard Colfer

LANs

s5

s5 has been booked for Week 3. Because Room Bookings are lame, we can’t have Friday night. Tom will mail both Room Bookings and the society who have already booked them room, to see what time they finish. If it’s a reasonable time then we’ll maybe start as soon as they finish.

s6

Week 8, 50 hours, 8pm Friday – 10pm Sunday. With the AGM in the middle.

James likes Tomatoes. This has been minnited at the request of Chris ‘Jingly Jingles’ Smith.

After the elections, the old and new exec will take everyone on at Q3:TA. Just to prove how leet they’re gonna be.

i10

Signups are finally available for this finest-of-LANs-apart-from-ours. It’s on for four days at easter, and the Uber-L337en will be going.

• Quake3 Area
• “[UoW]’’ tag

Laserquest

“Oh, fuck Laserquest, it’s too much effort’’
* Chris Smith

“Yeah, running around in the dark with small children. yay!’’
* Tom Cropper

Ahem.

Wednesday, Week 5, in the afternoon. ‘Nuff said.

Website

The website is almost re-built.

What’s missing:

• signup options
• dynamic menu
• maintainance

And yes, this does mean that the signups are back on the website.

SocsFest

We missed the meeting because it was at a lousy time. H to mail John Finnis saying a whole bunch of stuff, and Compsoc to probably not take part.

Posters

We need some posters.

s5

“It’s more fun than FORTRAN’’
SS pun

Jake to find some ideas behind the fridge.

CAT5

“I should have been quoted.’’
* Tom Cropper

“I still reckon we should have a picture of someone sux0ring.’’
* Tom Cropper

“Stop being quotable!
* Jake Staines

Jake to do some posters.

Past Members

Chris, about to leave the University, is getting rather worried about his lack-to-be of access to Molotov. He wants us to make some solid arrangements for ex-members. To this end, we have decided the following.

Archive

An archive of members will be kept on the website, for people to sign up to if they wish.

James Ross to organise.

Server Accounts

Old exec members will keep their accounts for free.

Old members will be charged a standard £5 fee for an account.

We will also add a new item to our services. For £20, a person will be able to buy a life membership. This will entitle them to all the benifits that a member would recieve, for life.

Constitution

The following should be added to the constitution:

• life members
• ex-exec membership
• exec to meet formally once per fortnight at minimum
• elections policy
• no president to hold office for more than six weeks
• presidential priority in elections given to secretaries whose surnames begin with the letter ‘S’

Jake and Henry to think about it and exclude those entries which are blatantly stupid.

Affiliates

H found a new affiliate in cd-wow.com, and Jake one in Black Star. To be signed up.

Tom has received £31 from the lovely people at Amazon. He’s going to give this to Jake, who will take it as re-payment on the CAT5 loan.

Compsoc Exec Minnits

9 January 2002

Present

• Henry Southgate
• Tom Cropper
• Chris Smith
• Alexis Birkill
• James Ross
• Richard Colfer
• Tom Ward

Meeting Time

Being the start of a brand spanking term, the Timetable Genie has decided to be a little swine and shuffled everyone’s free seconds. The largest group of seconds just so happened to land on 4:30 Monday afternoon, and so this is when the exec meetings will be henceforth.

Money

We’ve got £102 left. Everyone has their cheques. Good good good.

Molotov

Over the Christmas break, our uber-server, molotov, went down. After muchos investigaionos, Tom Ward pinned this down to Java being lame.

Essentially, Java (the Tomcat/Apache combo) used up a whole load of memory, and then the Linux kernel killed itself in shame.

It’s now back up, with Tomcat and Apache unlinked. Also, the Linux kernel has been updated. This fixes the bug previously mentioned.

“I only start listening when you insult me, so I miss all the build-up’’
* Toaster

Other Society’s Accounts

Jitsu have requested an account – well, to be precise, Andy Rudnicki has. We decided that small accounts like this (i.e. simple website, e-mail forwarding) will be free, but that we will charge a whole load of money if the users will be utilising the site for commercial gain.

Societies Week

There’s an imaginatively titled “Socs Fest’’¹ in Week 7. This sounds like the Societies Showcase, only bigger and longer.

There’s a meeting on Friday in the most inconvenient time in order to discuss said showcase. Toaster may have a gap² but this cannot be a regular thing.

It may be possible that we could co-operate with the Videogaming society.

Careers Book

We’ve got a bunch of careers books. To be distributed to members at will.

s5

s5, the next Compsoc LAN will be Week 3, from 8pm Friday until 10pm Sunday. Nutsy to book. We’ll sit in the Quake 3 Area, and will be tagged ’[UoW]’. Ah, wrong series…

The AGM will be held at the Week 8 LAN, which will follow the same format.

Resources Room

All the machines in the (haven’t-got-enough-)Resources Room have been downgraded to Windows 2000. In addition to this, Anne Jarvis has appeared to mutate into a Zerg, and her creep is growing rapidly. It now covers an entire wall of the room.

“Do you actually think forwards, Henry?’’
* Chris Smith

Mozilla has been set up with a link to the mail system.

AGM

Like the moving of clouds, the passing of seasons, and the retreat of tides, all significant bodies must change. So it is that we come to Term2 and, with it, time to elect a new exec.

The AGM will be held in the Week 8 LAN. Nominations will be taken from the date of the next newsletter.

The current executive committee, without being at all biased, will throw its full support behind the following candidates, should they choose to stand.

• President: Henry Southgate
• Secretary: Phil Stoneman
• Treasurer: Alexis Birkill
• Webmaster: James Ross
• Social Secretary: Tom Cropper
• Vice President: Adam Bowen

This leaves a hole for Tech Officer and Equal Opportunites. Equiopps isn’t so important, as VP can cover this if necessary. Tech Dude, however, is. There are members of the exec who would be able to fill in for a time, but it is imperative that we appoint a Technical Officer on a full-time [unpaid] basis.
h5.

¹ Go on, imagine it. I dare you.

² In the end it turns out that he didn’t.