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Minutes - 7th October 2013
Posted on 7th October 2013Agenda
*Present*: Veltas, murtag, hir142, ruth, Crumpet, dirtus, zed0, argha*
h1. Academic
-ruth: Little prizes could be a good idea for academic competitions.
-Good idea to do progcomps fortnightly.
-Crumpet: maybe other weeks do workshops?
-NextJump buying people drinks etc., maybe academic talk earlier in the day.
-zed0 confirmed for talk week 5.
-Company sends: "I think it might be interesting to essentially do a case study of a rece...
Minutes - 30th September 2013
Posted on 30th September 2013Agenda
*Present*: Argha, Veltas, zed0, Crumpet, hir142, murtag, nobodynat
h1. Upcoming society fair
-Fair is Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 4pm.
-We've got posters and stuff to give out at the fair.
-zed0: Should have a game or two running at fair.
-Will bring Wii U, no TV required.
-Decided upon also having Soul Calibur V, will change if poorly received.
*ACTION*: Veltas to make society fair rota (done, in #exec /topic).
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Minutes - 3rd June 2013
Posted on 3rd June 2013- *Present*: zed0, Murtag, ruth, Gaylord, Veltas, james
h1. Academic
-Ruth: Hackathon will be Sunday of Week 9, to Monday.
-Also there is an iLab event Monday.
-IPSC, the internet prog comp, is this Saturday.
-Amazon voucher quite possibly prize for this, since we don't have anything else planned.
h1. Gaming
*ACTION*: Murtag to get advertisement posters sorted for BFL tournaments.
-Murtag: Peddle ordered.
-Moltenfire ha...
Minutes - 27th May 2013
Posted on 27th May 2013Agenda
*Present*: ruth, Veltas, "LordCrumpet", Murtag, zed0
h1. Academic
-Ruth: Still waiting on the date of the iLab hackathon to avoid clashing with our own hackathon.
-Ruth has emailed them and will follow this up.
-zed0 happy to do a talk next term.
*ACTION*: zed0 *and* Ruth to do talk next term.
-Ruth: Idea to post past exam paper solutions online.
-Consensus was to do so ensuring permissions from relevant people as we go along, i.e...
Minutes - 20th May 2013
Posted on 20th May 2013No Agenda
*Present*: Murtag, zed0, Veltas, "Crumpet", hir142
h1. Gaming
*ACTION*: Murtag to buy Wii Sports for Wii and Modern Warfare 3 for 360.
-Decided tournament budget was £10 per tournament at BFL, £20 for main tournament.
*ACTION*: Murtag to email list of games companies that might sponsor BFL to Veltas.
*ACTION*: Veltas to ask games companies about sponsorship for BFL, Razer and Monster as ideas too.
-Consensus on broken drum peddle was it was worth buying the slightly more expensive drum...
Minutes - 13th May 2013
Posted on 13th May 2013Agenda
*Present*: zed0, james, argha, olibacon, hir142, dDirtus, ruth, Veltas, Murtag
h1. Academic
-Ruth has found the SIBE hackathon to be completely fair for the programmers involved.
-Code will be used for open source not-for-profit reasons.
-It seems the organisers are hoping a campaign organisation will take it over.
h1. Gaming
h2. Recent LAN
h3. Tournaments
-Murtag felt the tournaments at the recent LAN were reasonable.
-zed0: SC2 tourna...
Minutes - 6th May 2013
Posted on 6th May 2013Agenda
*Present*: ruth, Murtag, Veltas, dDirtus
h1. Academic
*ACTION*: Ruth to find out what happens with code for possible upcoming SIBE hackathon.
h1. Gaming
*ACTION*: Murtag to decide which games to buy for PS3 from ruth's source.
*ACTION*: Murtag to immediately sort out posters for LAN tournies.
-Ruth's suggestion: should get BFL sponsored.
-dDirtus suggests talking to icstatic and zx64 about this.
*ACTION*: Murtag to look into getting BFL s...
Minutes - 26th April 2013
Posted on 26th April 2013h1. Present:
ruth, Murtag, Veltas, runite, Moltenfire, zed0
h1. Minutes:
h2. Academic
-Looking at two prog comps later on in the term.
-Internet programming competition probably week 7.
-Google funded programming competition week 8 or 9.
-Veltas mentioned possibility of arranging an academic trip (for next academic year).
-Suggestions to organise sooner rather than later, with computing museum at Bletchley Park.
*ACTION*: Veltas to ask "FIRST DAY OF TERM 1 IN AND AMONGS...
Minutes 7-1-2013
Posted on 7th January 2013h2. Present:
zed0, MikeCobra, Goshawk, Moltenfire, James, Ruth.
h2. Minutes
h3. Talks and business connections
-Ruth is in communication with Google about their talk.
-Email the “backup company” to request a more technical idea suitable for a competition.
h3. Speed progcomp
-It has been decided to wait for other other events to be scheduled before organizing another progcomp, although it is planned for the future.
h3. IBM Hursley
-The trip will be subsidised by the society and we are currently awai...
Minutes 1-11-2012
Posted on 4th October 2012h2. Present:
James, zed0, ruth, goshawk, demo, olly, moltenfire.
h2. Minutes
h3. Fresher's fair
-Zed0's custom trackmania track will be used at the fair on Moltenfire's laptop. Top three times will receive a prize this Friday.
-Ruth will request use of the department's trolley to transport our equipment to the fair.
h3. Laser quest social
-Zed0 has booked laser quest in Coventry for Wednesday of week 3; with a planned meetup on campus and joint bus ride to the event.
h3. Programming competition
-W...