Present

• Andrew Wheat (Candle)
• David Buckley (bucko)
• Arun Prassanan (Polar)
• Bruce Tinton (Bruce)

• Tim Retout (Tim)
• Chris Lamb (lamby)

1. Apologies

Apologies were received from Fred Emmott, and the WUGLUG organising committee, who had arranged for Chris to appear on their behalf.

2. Open Tickets

The open tickets were considered. Andrew noted that Fred had been pursuing insomnia that day. Andrew agreed to talk to the DCS technicians about igor. It was agreed that the ticket relating to MySQL’s reliability should be marked “WONTFIX”.

3. Programming Competition

This was discussed at some length. It was agreed to extend the deadline for entries.

4. Whiteboard fine

Bruce reported that the society had been fined £3 for unauthorised use of a whiteboard. The exec denied all knowledge, and asked Bruce to query this.

5. AGM

Bruce submitted the idea to open nominations open the next day, and proxy votes would open a week before the AGM. Bucko suggested opening nominations three weeks before the AGM, on Wednesday. It was agreed that Bruce should add a news item to the website, and send relevant emails.

6. Guest talk

Andrew asked for several hundred flyers, to be published by Wednesday. It was also agreed to produce posters, to be put on the external Union notice boards, the L3 notice boards, in DCS and the various computer rooms.

Andrew authorised the purchase of 100 A3 posters, 1000 A6 flyers, and two packs of drawing pins.

It was agreed to note that there would be a “social event afterwards”, on the publicity.

7. A.O.B.

7.1 DCS Talk

Arun noted the existence of a DCS Computer Graphics lecture on 26th February at 10am. It was agreed to advise the members of this, without spending money.

8. Next meeting

7:30pm, 2nd February 2007.

Present

• Andrew Wheat (Candle)
• David Buckley (bucko)
• Fred Emmott (fred)
• Arun Prassanan (Polar)
• Bruce Tinton (Bruce)

• Tim Retout (Tim)
• Richard Warburton (mulletron)

1. Apologies

Apologies were received from Daniel Watkins.

2. AGM Moved

WUGLUG are planning to go to FOSDEM at the same time as the AGM was planned. It was hence agreed to move it to Wednesday week 7 (21st February), and to use the Learning Grid for the meeting.

3. WUGLUG Communication

Richard brought up WUGLUG‘s XING event, notice of which was mailed to the exec in advance. The idea was that it would run at the same time as gaming. Last week’s exec meeting had a limited turnout. Communication about academic matters between the exec and WUGLUG tend to be good, but the lack of communication with respect to gaming is frustrating.

Andrew agreed that last week’s meeting was a farce. Fred pointed out that exec members could not guarantee their attendance. It was pointed out that Sean does not attend exec meetings, but other WUGLUG members can.

Richard and David discussed XING and the console gaming sessions at some length, and came to a mutual understanding.

4. Tickets

Bruce’s proposal from last week was raised – it was agreed that open tickets should be raised at exec meetings, starting from next time.

5. Warwick Nursery Project

Tim reported on a meeting that he, Laurence and Polar had had with three business school students, doing a project for the Warwick Nursery. They wanted CompSoc’s help to develop a capacity planning system. It was noted that CompSoc would be unable to offer long-term support for the project once complete. Candle offered to help with development. Richard proposed some sort of support contract between the nursery and the individual developers.

6. Custom web scripts on molotov

Fred reported on a recent exploit of a society account on molotov, via some insecure custom-written code, and he asked for ideas for preventing such exploits in future. Richard proposed a tutorial on writing secure code. Andrew asked whether setting a test for webmasters would be feasible, or security auditing; but it was agreed that a test would be a barrier to usage of CompSoc’s services. Safe mode was also briefly considered, but dismissed as too limiting.

7. IBM

Tim reported that he had met an IBM employee at an internship fair this week, and secured the email address of the person responsible for replacing Yvonne Billingsley, the previous campus relationship manager.

8. A.O.B.

8.1 Pub socials

Fred proposed moving the weekly pub socials to campus. Andrew was happy with the idea, but objections were raised. In response, Andrew suggested having the first half of each term on campus, and then move. David pointed out that the problem with attracting first-years (and others) to the pub was not the location, but the lack of participation itself; and that individual invitations to people tended to be more effective.

8.2 Programming competition

Arun asked whether a Wii was being purchased as a prize for the programming competition. Andrew replied in the negative, as he was waiting until the number of entries was known. The matter was to be discussed at the next exec meeting.

8.3 Guest talk

Arun reported that Chris Sharp was unable to make the talk at the scheduled time, but that a replacement IBM Master Inventor would be sent instead. Arun was tasked with planning the promotion of the event.

8.4 AGM

An email notice of this was to be sent out in two weeks’ time.

8.5 Loughborough University CompSoc

David was tasked with arranging the details of the joint LAN with them.

9. Next meeting

7:30pm, 26th January 2007.

Present

• Bruce Tinton (Bruce)
• Arun Prassanan (Polar)

• Tim Retout (Tim)
• Richard Warburton (mulletron)
• Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke)

1. Apologies

• Sean Connolly (Morlark)
• David Buckley (bucko)
• Fred Emmott (fred)
• Andrew Wheat (Candle)

2. WUGLUG

Richard asked how WUGLUG‘s XING event had managed to clash with console gaming sessions. No one had commented on Richard’s emails; are the exec on the WUGLUG list? It was agreed that Sean should be raising these issues. Richard appreciated that XING was announced with short notice. Richard and Daniel had turned up to this meeting in lieu of Sean, and expressed concern about the lack of communication within the Computing Society – for instance, on the status of gaming. Richard wanted to speak to the exec about gaming and [XQ]ING.

Bruce was concerned that exec members who weren’t members of WUGLUG receive little information about WUGLUG activities. Richard proposed that Andrew should join the WUGLUG mailing list.

Also noted was the trip to FOSDEM at the end of February, which clashes with a LAN weekend.

3. Programming Competition Prizes

This was deemed to be Andrew’s responsibility. Arun expressed disappointment at this having been postponed for five weeks, and Richard suggested that someone needed to speak to Andrew personally.

4. Google Ambassador

Daniel was asked to be campus ambassador to Google, and declined gracefully. Bruce proposed Richard as a temporary ambassador. Arun was actioned to contact Google.

5. Bugzilla Tickets

Bruce proposed going through open Bugzilla tickets before A.O.B. at every exec meeting.

6. A.O.B.

6.1 Refresher’s fayre

Tim noted the existence of this, and that the society had missed it.

6.2 Add tickets.uwcs.co.uk to newsletter?

It was suggested that the URL ‘tickets.uwcs.co.uk’ should be added to the weekly newsletter.

6.3 Displeasure at poor attendance by CompSoc exec members

Arun agrees with this sentiment. Daniel noted ‘disgust’.

7. Next meeting

7:30pm, Friday week 2. Daniel sends apologies in advance.