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Migration: reloaded

Posted on 19th January 2016

TL;DR we're moving away from codd on the 25th. If you have anything running please move it to nodd.uwcs.co.uk in the next two weeks. The domain uwcs.co.uk will be updated accordingly in just over two weeks. The new IRC server is up at irc.uwcs.co.uk

You may remember me writing at the end of last term about us migrating our hosting infrastructure. I said it would be done by the end of term, and you might have gathered by now that we didn't manage to pull that off. Sorry about that.

After dealing with one o...

13/01/2016 Minutes

Posted on 13th January 2016

-Talked about migration, Will is doing Apache and Gallera, Rayhaan is almost done with Unreal IRC, and ports are now open!
-Need to schedule AGM so it doesn't conflict with Game Design.
-Phillammon: organise a big screen gaming event at the end of term.

24/11/15

Posted on 24th November 2015

got trolley
susan miller is upset at our spelling mistakes from 2005
lanrota - sign up!
rhiba - put up minutes
marmite - get christmas tree! + lights
got tape
phillammon: sign up for lan
veltas not making talk anymore
wingwah! animesoc will book, but set up an event
secret santa signups! close a week before
all exec: turn up for goddamn meeting next week especially

Maintenance

Posted on 15th November 2015

You might have noticed we've had a bit of down time recently - sorry about that! We're in the process of a complete overhaul of our hosting infrastructure, with a planned completion date of November the 27th. Unfortunately there will have to be a little bit more downtime, but we'll do all we can to keep it to a minimum. Planned outages are as follows:

Tuesday 17th November: approx 1 hour, sometime between 1100 and 1700 UTC
(MySQL only)

Friday 27th November: approx 2 hours, sometime between 1100 and 1700 U...

03/11/2015

Posted on 3rd November 2015

-Is Veltas making a talk?
-Did Rhiba get cleaning suplies?

*mcnutty to track down where the hell our £100 of duct tape went
-Nodd migration will be next Wednesday assuming nothing catches fire and it really was just a faulty power cable
*someone to email people with hosting about recent downtime
-could make isnodddown.com
*mcnutty to email Jackie about the talk tomorrow
*rhiba to add next LAN to the newsletter
*hermit to post about next LAN to facebook
*metalgabu to make sure that someone is at gaming on F...

Minutes 27/10/15

Posted on 27th October 2015

-Codd is being migrated to Nodd soon (not determined yet). We will move over IRC and have both IRCs running simultaneously for a while and give people many reminders to switch before we finally kill Codd.
-Need to do a gaming survey at some point.
-Put a description of the tables in the LAN description.
-Email Jackie about the Simon Tatham talk, to broadcast it.
-Pizza at the talk! Just buy 4 or 5 large ones.
-Need to ask Roger for the LAN trolley.
-LAN Tournament! Something scary? Hearthstone? Phillammon d...

Minutes 27/10/15

Posted on 27th October 2015

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Minutes

Posted on 20th October 2015

-Need to email Varsity about discount.
-Nodd migration waiting on LDAP
-Want to buy Rocket League on PS4
-Will is going through rocket stuff with Warwick Rockets - no action here yet.
-Set up LAN at 5pm, start 6pm

h2. Phillammon

-Buy rocket league for ps4 (eventually)

Shell Talk

Posted on 19th October 2015

Thank you everyone for coming along to the shell talk today! You can find the slides at https://goo.gl/m17ZXP

Minutes 14/10/15

Posted on 14th October 2015

-We get 10% off at Varsity!
-We are remaking irc at some point when Nodd migration is complete.
-Need to send out an information message before irc goes down.
-We want Rocket League on PS4.
-Talk to Warwick student cinema about streaming our charity event, with League Soc, Dota Soc, Nintendo Soc (?) and Game design.
-The charity could be a Games to Hospitals charity or similar.
-Need to talk with all society exec.
-Exec meeting is now Tuesday 2-3pm.

h2. mcnutty

Talk to student cinema (friend).

h2. rhib...