Minutes - 7th January 2015

Posted on 7th January 2015

Present: veltas, marmite, maddy, hermit, mcnutty, rayhaan, crumpet, murtag

Next meeting: Wed 14th January, 1pm

h1. Marmite's Musings

-'All exec' failed to have a merry Christmas. This action item failed to happen, and all exec are required to try harder next year.
-Jokes about mcnutty's rack and his handling of it are still consistently funny.
-Hermit: 'too many waifus will ruin your life-u'
-All but 2 attendees now have Nexus 5s. Soon we will learn to use them to combine and form Voltron.
-In one of history's gratest mistakes, rayhaan has provided me with a gavel. Fear me, peons, for you know not what power I now hold!

h1. Academic

h1. Gaming

-Nintendo soc got rejected by socs committee, will contact to see about running events with us
-Jim Ryan gave us a PS4, we should thank him
-Need another PS4 controller, maddy to buy it
-Talk to Xbox guy about more events
-Need another monitor for the PS4. Storage space is an issue, will use an empty server rack?
-Find out how to get rid of random crap where we want to keep our random crap
-Responses to gaming survey happening this weekend

h1. Tech

-Will formalise tech team to manage servers and website

h1. Social

-Possible inter-society laserquest competition week 9?

h1. Publicity

-Hermit needs admin powers on our 'like'able facebook page
-Organise refreshers fair attendance for tuesday, marmite to sort spreadsheet. We won't have backboards provided

h1. Misc

-Clothing order details discussed, marmite to finalise company choice and price
-Socs Fed event had little content
-AGM: marmite to book a room, inform people, encourage enquiries and applications, allow online voting; veltas to count votes, find out mechanice for splitting society; all exec to write summaries of their position

h1. Action overflow:

h2. All Exec

-find out who has admin power of our old facebook page, give it to hermit
-write summary of position for agm

h2. veltas

-seek new sponsors
-give marmite any extra fosdem details for the newsletter
-plan programming competitions
-find out mechanics for splitting society

h2. maddy

-write website frontpage description already
-chat to tim about nintendo events
-send quick email to sony contact to thank for ps4, say proper thanks incoming
-buy another PS4 controller
-talk to xbox guy about more events
-find out how to get rid of random crap
-responses to gaming survey

h2. rayhaan

-link steam and facebook groups on website
-create mailing list for websites we host
-formalise tech team to handle website and servers

h2. marmite

-finalise and send out clothing order details
-spreadsheet for refreshers fair exec times
-newsletter: lan, fosdem, gaming responses, intersociety laserquest, exec positions in agm
-book agm room

h2. robot

h2. mcnutty

-chat with tech soc
-link exec cape order form
-write jim ryan a complete thank you message
-get gaming the server rack for storage space

h2. hermit

-update society posters
-society business cards
-spam freshers facebook groups with gaming advertising