Compsoc Exec Minnits

15 February 2003

Present

• Director Layme AKA Henry Southgate
• Assistant Director Whiney AKA Adam Bowen
• Agent Crunchy AKA Christopher “I’m an engineer” Fanning
• Agent Squirrel AKA Thomas Cropper
• Agent Stoned AKA Philip Stoneman
• Bucket the janitor AKA David Buckley

Not Present

• Agent Hippiebitch AKA David de la Motte Sherman Fuckit
• Chief TOSA Galloway AKA James Galloway Ross

A number of recruits were also in attendance

• Recruit Noisy AKA NoisyDave
• Recruit Dragon AKA Draconas
• Recruit Laden AKA Sadiq
• Recruit Silent AKA CMB

Recruitment

Since they were clearly present it was felt that something should be said about the presence of the new recruits. It was decided that “Hello” was the best thing to say. New recruits to report for brainwashing. Recruit Noisy to report for brain transplant.

Elections

To maintain the semblance that the society is in fact a democracy, rather than the dictatorship run purely for the privilege of the exec we decided some elections needed rigging. Candidates are…

• President: Agent Stoned
• Vice President/Social Sec: Agent Squirrel/Recruit Laden
• Webmaster: Bucket the janitor (current duties to be retained)
• LUG Officer: Recruit Silent
• Tech Officer: Recruit Noisy (pending volume assessment)
• Secretary: Padawan MacGregor
• Treasurer: Recruit Dragon

Laserquest Debrief

Laserquest appears to now be a hole in the ground.

Agent Squirrel would like to extend his apologies to all those who attempted to attend this event¹. In what can only be described as a colossal failure of the intelligence service Agent Squirrel was universally described as lame.

¹ This is an interpretation of the manic laughter that followed description of the event.

Bowling

A full 11 people are signed up to go bowling. Following this unprecedented stampede of signups for a non-computer-related event we are going to run it. Yes. We are.

Agent Squirrel to book 3 lanes for 2 hours at 5pm on Wednesday the 26th of February. Agent Crunchy to supervise booking. We will be getting the bus from campus at approximately 3:30pm, meeting outside Rootes Reception.

Gaming/Quota

After much discussion it was decided to cancel gaming tonight whilst ITS give us more disk space. Everyone universally praised ITS‘s generosity. Phil to put Return to Castle Wolfenstein on suahu so we have more games to play.

Publicity

We need more.

War on the Stop The War Society

The war effort is not progressing as planned, following our failure to construct an Ork Barracks outside L3 we have been unable to acquire enough Grunts to mount a concerted attack on the Society.

Agent Moodreeb appears to have defected to the Stop The War Campaign, as his absence demonstrates. Agent Moodreeb is to report for brainwashing and to be known as Agent Hippiebitch henceforth.

LAN Server

Some stuff was said about this. But nobody decided anything and nobody’s got to do anything.

3D Graphics Tutorials

Contrary to popular belief AD Whiney has done something. The graphics tutorials are booked in Union North, Meeting Room 1 at 2pm on Wednesday week 8, 9 and 10. AD Whiney to mail the members to let them know.

Molotov/Insomnia

Incredibly there was nothing to say. But we are going to give the Real Ale Soc an account and charge them for extra space. At this point the wide fluctuation is disk space prices was pointed out and a number of sales were made. Excellent.

World Domination

As you all know we successfully completed an aggressive takeover of the LUG last year, to continue our steps toward world domination we now intend to take control of the University of Portsmouth CompSoc, the first step of which is giving them a free account. We also considered doing something about compsoc.ac.uk, but decided the current exec were too lazy and the next exec could do it.

Silencing Recruit Noisy

Recruit Noisy needs a volume control. Agent Crunchy to-do.

LAN Speakers

In a spate of People Who Don’t Do Anything Doing Something Agent Crunchy has successfully purchased some speakers for the LAN. There were some numbers at this point. I don’t know what they were or what they mean because I wrote neither down.

Jedi

Agent Hippiebitch to verify that Agent Sog can take the part of a Jedi at our upcoming LAN.

Big LAN In Term 3

Despite finishing the exec meeting the new recruits wanted to talk a lot. Next term we wish to hold another large LAN, possibly a full week long – although Agent Crunchy did make the suggestion that we “try booking it for all of March”.

And that’s it.

Minnits of the Compsoc Intelligence Agency, 8th February, 2003

This is a class 1 top secret document, for viewing only by those with alpha level clearance. If you do not have this clearance, please hand this document and yourself over to the nearest authority for brainwas^HH^HH^HH^Hdebriefing.

All names have been changed to protect identities.

Present :

• Assistant Director Whiney
• Agent Squirrel
• Chief TOSA Galloway
• Agent Stoned
• Minimum Otter, Civilian Consult
• Bucket the janitor

To be brainwashed :

• Director Layme
• Agent Crunchy
• Agent Moodreeb

Newsletter

Agent Moodreeb admitted to being lame and deserting his newsletter duties. Consequently Whiney was put in charge of dispatch and, predictably got it wrong. There was a spate of internal confusion concerning timings with respect to the upcoming LAN, and signups were not opened. Chief TOSA to correct the problem; Agents Moodreeb and Assistant Director Whiney to be brainwashed.

Double Agent

It has come to the attention of the Internal Affairs division that our organisation may contain a mole. Audio monitoring equipment located within an as yes undisclosed agent’s office have enabled us to extract only a few details so far from small exerpts of conversation between the agent and his secretary. A device known only as “The Sausage” is believed to represent a potential threat to our efforts, though teams sent to search the office have turned up empty. The Sausage is believed to exist on a almost microscopic level, often several minutes of conversation being recorded at once with comments like “Is that it?”, “No, that’s just a hair”. We believe this is how it has avoided our detection thus far.

A Black Ops team, designation Meatgrinder has been dispatched to find the Sausage, “encouraging” the agent to give it up if necessary, and return it to base for further study.

LAN

Our regular platform for corrupting society membership and spreading our own special whorage viruses is booked in to the usual LIB 1+2, 7pm Friday to 10pm Sunday. Tournaments will be made mandatory, all those not participating shall be moved to the anime/lameass end of the room. Whiney believes Agent Crunchy ordered speakers, but if this is not the case Crunchy is to return to acquisitions, complete the order and report for brainwashing.

Marketing

Our African branch has been able to track down some specialist equipment that has been on the marketing department’s budget requests for quite some time now. Whilst they have been unable to locate the “White” version, the Technical department, under Agent Stoned, feel confident that the necessary modifications can be made with a pot of simple household paint, and the “grey” model we have acquired can be sufficiently converted for our needs.

Agent Crunchy to arrange for transport through special diplomatic channels and expenses to be reimbursed.

Tutorials

Whiney decided to hold his graphical tutorials Wednesday 2–3, weeks 7, 8 and 9 which he will book himself. Bucket to chase Layme for the slides from the last perl tutorials (taking special care to pry them from his cold, dead hands).

Silencing Noisy Dave

Minimum Otter complained that Noisy Dave was conducting himself in a loud and antisocial manner at gaming sessions. Whilst we would not normally care about the concerns of members, we believe this is a good opportunity to put to use the duct tape he persists in supplying at LANs. The exec present at the meeting, not wishing to touch him with a 10 foot pole decided that Agent Crunchy could take care of this.

Socials

LaserQuest to go ahead as planned this Wednesday, all those going to meet in the vicinity of Rootes reception at 2:30, commandeer the nearest public transport and proceed to shoot each other lots. Karting has been abandoned due to lack of interest and time, although bowling will still go ahead, all exec members being forced to go or face brainwashing.

Formal Declaration of War

It was noted that there has been a new society recently come into being, allegedly named ‘Stop the War’. We feel it is our duty as CIA members to prevent such propaganda from becoming institutional and adversely affecting our arms sales. A vote was nearly taken, and it was decided to formally declare war on this society. Black ops team designation Hippieslayer to begin undermining their efforts immediately.

Hat Purge

An anonymous tipoff was left in the minnits pad, informing us that ‘You will never be rid of the jingly hat of DOOM’. It was decided to rise to the challenge, and an immediate hat purge has come into effect. All members of staff caught either wearing a hat or making any noise that could be identified as jingling are to report to the brainwashing division for ‘bell removal’.

Understaffing

The brainwashing department has complained that it’s workload has tripled since Agent Squirrel took over the duties of Secretary. The entire staff of the brainwashing department to be brainwashed and replaced with a group of trained monkeys, or failing that, some of the membership.
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Compsoc Exec Minnits

2 February 2003

Present

• Dave de la Motte
• Adam Bowen
• Chris Fanning
• Phil Stoneman
• Henry Southgate
• David Buckley
• Tom Cropper
• James Ross

LAN server

Chris is lame for not having bought the speakers yet – Chris to buy them this week. Chris has investigated (and mailed info to the mailing list) and we can spend £4–500 on a decent spec box. Scrimping would only save about £40 so isn’t really worth it. The RAID option was examined but considered too expensive and not worth it.

Licences

Henry foolishly volunteered to compile a complete list of games on suahu and e-mail them to the list. There was considerable discussion on whether we should buy and/or budget for these licences, with no clear result (I think it was a ‘probably’).

ITS

Insomnia is installed (!) on piazza but the external IP isn’t working yet, so Phil to bitch at ITS about this. We could ask Robo to admin the Q3A servers, and Phil also needs to set up the irc shenanigans.

Socials

Laserquest to be moved to week 6, but we can’t be bothered to book it in advance. Karting/bowling for Wednesday week 7, sign-ups to go up ASAP, with the most popular actually taking place. Dave to put these socials in the newsletter.

Exec Meetings

1. :30 on Saturdays is fine (or at least there is no better alternative).

LAN

Tom to book this. The elections will be held on the Saturday at 4pm.

Tutorials

James to investigate when graphics tutorials could be held. Chrispy to plan bunny-hopping tutorial for week 6. Bucko to do the Perl tutorials at the start of next term. Dave to mail the guy about TeX tutorials.

Misc

Adam to change the word ‘skillz’ to ‘skills’ on the poster. The LUG haven’t done much that needs discussing. Dave to write the newsletter.

Elephant/Jedi

We need a white elephant. Chris to investigate the black market trade and elephant accessories. Dave to e-mail Jesus about bringing Jedi costume and saber to next LAN.

Something tells me that the person taking the minnits at that meeting wasn’t taking it entierly seriously.
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