Minutes - 26th November 2014
Posted on 26th November 2014
Present: veltas, marmite, robot, hermit, mcnutty, rayhaan, maddy, crumpet, dixionary, rhiannon
Next meeting: Wed 3rd December, 1pm
h1. Marmite's Musings
-Rust is Veltas' perfect game: survival elements, crafting elements and loads of naked men.
-According to Rayhaan, Mcnutty 'is always willing'. Nobody dares ask what this means.
-This executive intends to force Gabe's hand by planning a Half Life 3 launch party.
h1. Academic
-Plan to contact Warwick Tech to run events with them, pending their approval by SU.
h1. Gaming
-Plan to look into planned Nintendo Soc to see what events they'd like to run, what they want to be.
-Gaming to be made more visible, through Facebook group, Steam group, advertising TS server, esports spectating (rhiannon interested in running these), events with xbox representative.
-First LAN next term moved to 3rd week from 4th to avoid FOSDEM.
h1. Tech
-We want to buy a Xeon Phi if possible for high-performance computing.
-MSL update - waiting to hear back on integrated payment software.
-Oculus Rift to be made available for academic work upon request.
h1. Social
h1. Publicity
h1. Misc
-Feedback from SU meeting re. funding, we've been approved
h1. Action overflow:
h2. All Exec
h2. veltas
-seek new sponsors
-sign up for I heart consent event, attend same
h2. maddy
-rewrite site frontpage description for rayhaan
-contact nintendo soc, see what they want to do
h2. rayhaan
-reduce spam emails
-update site front page description to include gaming
-non compsoc event type on website
-facebook and steam groups linked on website
-sign up for I heart consent event, attend same
h2. marmite
-price clothing orders, talk to mcnutty/rhiannon about how this should work
-cancel term 2 week 4 LIB2 booking
-invite sam speed to see oculus rift
-steam/facebook group added to newsletter, specific mention next time
h2. robot
h2. mcnutty
-look into payment system for site
-contact isaac re. societies overlapping with us, su website
-liaison with tech soc
h2. hermit
-update society posters
-events on site news section
-society business cards
-spam freshers facebook groups with gaming advertising