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Exec Minutes - 7th November 2007

Posted on 7th November 2007

*Present:* Mullet, Si, OddBloke, Fluffeei, Bruce, Lucidion (Lucy), Brad,
JcO, Azurit, George, Lamby, Faux

h5. Purchases

Si asked if all future Society purchases can go through the Exec.
Generally purchases are supposed to be discussed by the Exec prior to
the orders being placed, this helps with accountability and budget
management.

h5. WUGLUG Budget

Exec agreed this would be 70 GBP.

h5. LAN Planning

Faux said that no one has specified a setup time.

Fluffeei noted room is booked from 20:00 so the...

h4. Exec Minutes - 31st October 2007

Posted on 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 ...

Exec Minutes - 17th October 2007

Posted on 17th October 2007

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

h4. 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 ...

h4. Exec Minutes - 4th September 2007

Posted on 4th September 2007


*Present:* Mullet, Si, OddBloke, Fluffeei, Bruce, Brad
Location: Teamspeak

h5. Elections for Exec Positions

Mullet started the meeting by asking which week we will hold an EGM to elect new members of the Exec.

Fluffeei proposed that we hold the EGM in Week 2 but close it to Freshers as they will only just have joined the Society.

Si said that the meeting would need to be open to all members assuming they are members by this point.

*Action* EGM is to be held in Week 2 of Term 1

h5. Exec EGM Q+A

Si p...

Exec Minutes - 19th June 2007

Posted on 19th June 2007

*Present:* Mullet, Sadiq, Si, OddBloke, Polar, Fluffeei, Bruce, Bucko
*Apologies:* Tim (away)

h4. Bugzilla and Action Points

Bruce asked if we could put Action Points into Bugzilla.

Mullet asked if everyone had a Bugzilla account, everyone except Fluffeei did.

Sadiq suggested using a Wiki since Bugzilla was a nightmare for recording Action Points.

Mullet asked the Secretary if we could put future Action Points onto a Wiki when they become available.

*Action* Action Points to go on Wiki when servers b...

Exec Minutes - 12th June 2007

Posted on 12th June 2007

*Present:* Mullet, Sadiq, Si, Monk, OddBloke, Polar, Fluffeei, Bruce, Lucidion
*Apologies:* Tim (away)

h4. Gaming

Mullet reported that he had spoken to Roger Packwood about re-opening the Gaming account. Roger is talking to Paul Williams.

Fluffeei asked whether tech team had delivered a working 'locked' down solution yet?

Mullet said that the launcher had been updated to authenticate against the CompSoc database. The intention is to use an alternative exec function call to control application forking.
...

Exec Minutes - 5 June 2007

Posted on 5th June 2007

*Present:* Si, Mullet, Tim, Polar, Odd_Bloke, Fluff_eei, Bucko, Bruce, Sadiq

h4. Agenda

* Clothing
* Cupboard Update
* Accenture
* BFL
* BBQ
* Paintball
* AOB

h4. Clothing

Sadiq said order was set to close on Wednesday (tomorrow), he would then calculate costs etc. and email individual signups with their personal cost.

Mullet wanted it noted that the Exec laughed at Sadiq for 10 seconds for over-complicating a calculation.

Sadiq then raised the issue of credit with suppliers. The approximate cost of...

Exec Minutes - 29th May 2007

Posted on 29th May 2007

*Present:* Tim, Mullet, Sadiq, Si, Bruce, Fluff_eei (5 minutes into meeting), Bucko
*Apologies:* Polar, Odd Bloke

h4. Novell Presentation on Campus

Benji has emailed exec saying that Novell might be able to present on campus sometime next year. Exec were very pleased with prospect particularly if it could be on Mono as was being suggested.

*Action* Benji to confirm/Exec to confirm with Benji

h4. Open Source Project

Si said we had not heard anything from the Alumni Office with regards the Open Source ...

Exec Minutes - 22nd May 2007

Posted on 22nd May 2007

*Present:* Mullet, Sadiq, Odd Bloke, Bruce, Fluff_eei, Bucko, Tim
*Apologies:* Polar

The minutes are partially complete - Si was late due to a research meeting but only general discussion had taken place before hand. For these details see Mulletron's email.

h4. Removing Karma

There was considerable discussion on the issue of Karma in the Society. Mulletron said that in general, it was often the cause of disagreements on IRC which eventually turned into full-scale arguments. These often became worse when ...

Exec Minutes - 15th May 2007

Posted on 15th May 2007

*Present:* Mullet, Sadiq, Odd Bloke, Bruce, Fluff_eei, Bucko
*Apologies:* Tim, Polar

h4. ITS/Security Incident

Odd Bloke explained that a security incident had arisen on backus due to there being an account which was hacked. The box had been in development mode and the testing user, which had a weak password, was broken into. This had led to ITS isolating the cupboard and preventing any network based access.

Si explained that the current position was ITS were in the process of writing an incident report...