Minutes from Oct 2007


h4. Exec Minutes - 31st October 2007

Present: Mullet, Si, OddBloke, Fluffeei, Bruce, Brad, Lucy, Monk, George

The Exec begins by confirming the resignation of Mulletron (Richard Warburton) last week. The resignation was
received by email stating that the lack of progress in certain areas of the Exec and related issues
are making Mulletron unhappy to continue.

Bruce opens the meeting by confirming that Mulletron will remain in place whilst the Exec decide on how to
proceed.

Mulletron confirms this and also confirms that gaming will run on Friday.

Mulletron proposes the co-option of Natural20 to Socials and Azurity and JcO to gaming officer.
For clarification the Exec confirms that Socials cover the Pub and LAN Socials. Gaming covers
LAN tournaments, seating plans, BFL etc.

ACTION: Brad to add members to Exec list
ACTION: Every exec member is to join CompSoc-Discuss
ACTION: Discussion is to move to compsoc-discuss for all non-private Exec communications.
ACTION: Exec are to change seating plan for the LAN.

Emergency General Meeting

Discussion rumbles on for a few minutes about how to proceed with a president resignation.

ACTION: Si to ask for Exec volunteers on a members email.

IRC

Lucy reports an incident where a person holding ops was able to kick someone who they were arguing with.
He told the Exec about the incident and how it could be viewed as personal. In future anyone holding ops
should not kick someone they are in dispute with.

AOB

  • Lucy reports that Sadiq has established clothing event.
  • LiveDVD is still unresolved and needs adjustments.

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Exec Minutes - 17th October 2007

Present: Mullet, Si, OddBloke, Fluffeei, Bruce, Brad, Lucy, Monk, Lamby, Sadiq

Technical Officer

Brad resigns as Technical Officer stating the heavy workload and issues with the position. There is too much
work for one person and this creates a long lag waiting for everything to get done.

Mulletron replies that the Exec voted for the installation of two tech deputies but that these positions
were unfilled. If they were it might lighten the load.

Brad answers that the time consuming task is often getting tasks allocated out and chasing them up as
needed. This presents a real distraction from getting the job done.

After much discussion the Exec agrees to:

  • Stop further work on LDAP
  • Stop changing user IDs (to be greater than 1000)
  • Continue to fix email problems
  • Look at obtaining Insomnia from ITS

After this Brad agrees to continue in position until a replacement can be found.

IBM

Mullet reports that IBM have changed the topics of their talks.

LiveDVD

Lamby reports that there has been no movement on the LiveDVD.

ACTION: WUGLUG is to email spec for purchasing our own LiveDVDs
ACTION: CompSoc logo to go on LiveDVD printables

Accenture

ACTION: Bruce to sign Accenture contract

Programming Competition 1

Is moved to Week 7.

ACTION: Mulletron, Si and George to form the Prog-Comp-Team

Clothing Order

ACTION: Sadiq to add clothing events

Email-Accounce

Si to email members about members-announce

Christmas Meal

Confirmed to be week 9.

ACTION: Sadiq to review places to go.
ACTION: Mullet to wear bow-tie to Christmas meal

SSLC

ACTION: George to discuss Steve Matthews proposal of having Computing Society Exec member as a non-elected,
non-voting member of the SSLC.

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