Present: Toby, Ryan, John, Amelie, Daisy, Thomas, Dan

Late:

Absent: Scott

• Formal and Informal Logo
  • Existent: Shield, Dots and Inverted dots (Probably a mistake)
  • Primary: Shield
  • Small/Readable: Dots
  • Text is most important
  • Consistency is important
  • Changes:
    • Swap WASD logo to Shield - Tankski
    • Request increase max size by 20-30% on WASD
    • Change SU and Youtube to use consistent logo
      • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YEQkkfl2lE7os5rbUodVg
      • https://www.warwicksu.com/societies-sports/societies/computing/
  • Consider making a small/low-res version of Shield logo
• Academic Events
  • Assumptions:
    • Deadlines will remain similar
    • Teaching will be different
    • Virtual events most likely needed
  • Term 1 Hackathon
    • Middle of second half of term?
    • Highly requested
    • C optimisations? - Good to get Fresher's knowing C
  • Term 1 talks
    • Git gud talk (week 1/2)
    • Optiver (week 4)
    • LSEG (aimed at week 6-ish)
    • 3D Printing (approx week 8)
    • (non-freshers Week) Extra Lightning talks (Somewhere in the middle)
      • Solving Problems in Data Science is possible
  • Other 'academic' events
    • Targeted Workshops
      • Group Orientated options
      • David (Sleepless) gave a Vue talk that went well though underattended, would be suitable for a workshop
      • Approach Michael Gale about doing a workshop as an "Introduction to Functional" in term 1
    • Be chill on Week 5/10 due to deadlines for CS
  • Advertising
    • Banner time
    • DCS emailing - Especially on academic
    • We have our video, could be reused
• Plan for Term 1
  • Welcome Week
    • Lightning Tuesday
      • First 'formal' opportunity to introduce, 15 mins total to introduce everyone
    • Gaming Friday
      • Definitely not in-person unless the pandemic just disappears somehow
      • Online fun
        • Ask Alex about Amphi and if contributions be reasonable
      • Alter list of games (For all Friday)
      • Would like to try and have more concurrent games of variety
      • Trial an idea of making Friday's a little more like very short WAN
    • Helping Department
      • Talk with Sara about things like Linux 101
  • It would be nice to get on some screens (despite lower foot-traffic)
• WASD
  • Planning for all eventualities, Online-only, Hybrid, In-person
  • We will be financing them
• Tech Update
  • New website coming along well
  • Deployment requires major updates to servers.
    • This will be delayed to Term time for caution
    • Aiming for Ubuntu 20.04.1LTS as 16.04 is coming to End of Support
    • Requires notification to server users
• AOB
  • The purge of the admin roles
    • Admin roles restricted to current exec
  • Women's Officer
    • Get in touch with department to start possible women's outreach

Quotes:

"Unless there's some CSS beyond my knowledge, which is quite frankly, impossible" - John

"Ha ha Cuts out" -Dan

"That sounds like an awful idea and I love it" - John

"If I want to be God Emperor of Mankind....that's what I was elected for" - Ryan

"Lisp is aggressive with its need for brackets" - Toby

"We have the budget" - Amelie