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