Compsoc Exec Minnits

25 January 2003

Present

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

Servers

Insomnia should be installed on Monday 27th. The game servers should then be up by the next weekend, followed by miscellaneous otehr funky stuff.

Website

James to implement a drop-down menu on the Mootov homepage so that it is easier to sign up for events.

Gaming

The promised 16GB quota is one step closer now, as the Helpdesk are now actually supposed to be doing it. The planned ladder will likely include UT, Quake(3), Starcraft and ignition, and should be started as soon as possible, preferably next week.

Socials

Tom to book a Laserquest event for Wednesday of week 5. Meet in Rootes beforehand and take the bus, to be followed by Compsoc trip to pub. Signups for both karting and bowling to be put on the website. Likely to be the Wednesday of week 7/8, although the chances are that only the more popular one will take place.

LAN

The last LAN was generally good, with no real problems, but next time we should have a sign on the door to LIB1 to indicate that it is being used (for sleeping) and one for LIB2 to advertise what’s going on inside. Adam to do this.

Purchasing

Compsoc must ensure that it owns a copy of each game played at gaming sessions, i.e. Q3A, UT, Half-life, Bomberman, SC + BW, D2 + LOD, ignition, and perhaps Quake and Doom. These could perhaps be budgeted for next year.
The speakers which we planned to buy have been costed at either £46 or £68, exc. VAT. Chris to buy the cheaper ones next week. The planned LAN server should have a budget of around £500. Chris to look into the cheaper options, and Phil to look into more expensive, RAID-type options. The server will likely fulfil the role of music and file server, but good perhaps serve as game server if the spec is good enough. Regardless, the actual purchasing of the sever to be left to the next exec (since they will be the ones using it).

Next exec

Dave to speak to/mail these people to confirm their interest, but provisional society recommendations are:
* Phil Stoneman for President
* Tom Cropper for Vice-President
* Christian Bates for Treasurer
* Micheal Smith for Secretary
* David Buckley for Webmaster
* Sadiq for Technical Officer

Further advertising of the availablity of positions to be placed in the newsletter.

Tutorials

Chris to run Quake3 1337 skills tutorial(s), time and date yet to be established. David has agreed to run perl tutorials at the start of term 3. Also Adam will run a couple of graphics tutorials towards the end of this term. Dave to e-mail the guy who wanted to give TeX tutorials to find out if he is still interested. In the longer term, LateX tutorials would be good around the end of term 1. James to buy a year planner/wall chart thingy so that we can plan more easily.

LUG

They plan to hold an ‘installfest’ at the next LAN, so we should give them a bench for this, and try to sit the main group of LUG people together. The installfest to be advertised in the newsletter.
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Compsoc Exec Minnits

11 January 2003

Present

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

LAN

The official start will be 8pm on Friday: on-exec members not to turn up earlier unless this is unavoidable. The exec should arrive at 7pm to set-up the tables, etc. There will be no sleeping rota as there should be no need for one. Power will be nabbed from LIB1 as last time so we should be able to get up to 32 people in LIB2. Any signups which are not filled by Wednesday can be taken by guests. Matt Smith volunteered to try and organise a Warcraft III tourney. Dave to put a note in the newsletter reminding people to bring network cables and extension leads. Chris to bring speakers.

Newsletter

Dave to write at gaming tonight. Gaming sessions, LAN, CAT5 cable and the LUG meetings all to be mentioned. Also the availability of exec positions from the next LAN, and the changeover of the irc server.

Molotov/Molotov2

The current irc server is not particularly good, and will therefore be changed over to a new, better one next Sunday (19th). The new server will be on port 6668. The various passwords that need changing still need to be changed, Phil to do this. ITS should be getting back to us about Molotov2 in the near future (hopefully). The purchasing of the speakers to be put on hold until then. The possibility of spending the reamining Compsoc cash on wireless networking devices was briefly discused but eventually dimissed as being too costly and unreliable.

Exec Meetings

All exec members should e-mail their timetables/when they are free to James so that he can find out convenient times for everyone to get together for future exec meetings.

Gaming

A reminder that the last exec member to leave must make sure that all machines are logged off.
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