Meeting Notes 09-07-2020
Posted on 9th July 2020
Present: Toby, John, Amelie, Dan,Thomas, Ryan, Daisy, Scott
Late:
Absent:
- BFW Autopsy
- General
- Exceeded expectations
- Solid attendance throughout
- Multiple lobbies was useful, 2+ needed
- Gaming
- Good start to the event, helped that it was "normal"
- Music Server
- Generally liked - Worked well for WAN
- Bucketing disagreements
- People don't like Toby's music (they are wrong - Toby)
- Keep music server flexible
- Quiz
- Fun, Ryan had fun
- Rules communication helps
- Could run a quiz during holidays, unlikely
- Dead air vs Distracting background music debate unsolvable trivially
- Movie Night
- Films were played
- People watched them
- Indie Games Tournament
- "Smoothly enough" - John
- Transition to online was slightly difficult and unideal
- Hotseating was a little weird
- Board Games
- Questionably happened
- Geoguessr took over a little
- Tabletop taught us that boardgames are hard to transfer
- Racing Tournament
- Went fairly well as far as events
- Linux caused a minor hiccup in the middle
- Download size matters though wasn't a huge issue
- Social Games
- Sort of-ish happened
- TTT happened in the end
- Didn't last long, everyone was reasonably tired
- General
- Lib 2 and Discord integration?
- Text feed could work quite well
- IRC/Webhooks
- Text feed could work quite well
- Freshers page
- Nice for flyers etc.
- Landing page with freshers in mind
- SU page link
- Discord server link
- Dan nobly volunteered
- Future events VC lobby
- Could have a voice lobby higher up. Either permanently or during events
- Discord rearranging needs temp Welcome message
- Yes
- Friday Night Gaming
- Additional games?
- Gaming-get yes
- Console maybe, no idea
- Consoles?
- Revisit later
- Additional games?
- Holidays
- Hackathon (hopefully)
- Keep running Tuesday/Friday until not fun
- Money
- Amelie keep doing stuff
- Next Year
- Do the best we can
- Run a poll for feedback
- Talks/Workshops
- Talks are nice, Workshops could run like labs
- Schedules are good for First years, but can be hard to stick to.
- Targeted workshops better than general.
- AOB
- Gaming:
- Could be nice to have people stream things they're playing
- Positive to atmosphere ^
- Exec meetings
- Online meetings get more input from non-exec
- Easier to schedule as well
- Can be more of a pain if already on campus
- Booking rooms is more beneficial for not annoying others
- Conference mic could be possible, could buy or use existing mic
- Gaming:
Quotes:
"We're going to be the new disease vector now that POP isn't happening" - Ryan
"Every second you're not running, I'm only getting closer" - Sonic
"Not that I'd complain <Server Muted>" - David