Pre-Term 1 Meeting Minutes (12/08/2023)

Posted on 20th August 2023

Attendance

  • Alia
  • Mat
  • All the gamers (gaming)
  • Joel
  • Josh (the money one)
  • Oliver
  • Shivani
  • Gareth (very very late)

General items

  • Whole exec meeting either start of term/holidays
  • Role meetings at some point this holiday
  • Tech team one done, see minutes on #tech-team-priv
  • WASD next year
    • SU again
    • Have runner & someone who knows the game & someone who doesn’t
    • Call for volunteers
    • Separate meeting, join the wasd server
  • Moving notion
    • Should be used, but isn’t
    • Outline? But would need to set up a google calendar
    • Generic uwcs ac.uk email?
      • Update: we have one? But joey has it
    • Need calendar to know when we’re free so companies have a clearer picture of when they can run stuff
    • Use outline cuz its free (also we’ve set it up: outline.uwcs.co.uk) TODO: set up google calendar
    • TODO: Everyone on sharepoint
    • First milk monday is t1w1

Welcome week

  • TODO: @Publicity we should do flyers again
  • Plans for term 1
  • See figma for the template
  • Ask owen/brendan
  • rota for Linux labs
    • Wednesday: lee, alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis
    • Thursday: alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis, shivani
    • Friday: alia, oliver, joel, mat, samit, lewis, shivani
  • is git good presentation being updated
    • Bug edmund (we know where he lives)
  • rota for table at society fair
    • Decide rota closer to the time - watch for form
    • Towers of Hanoi
    • Inclusivity/someone in wildcards
    • Dead server on the table
    • Shill the pub meal
  • Fng:
    • wii sports?
    • Set up at 7pm, Quiz at 8pm
    • Free pizza
  • Wildcards what's happening - bbq? Meal?
  • Pub meal on wednesday
    • Phoach

Treasurer

  • do we have money again
  • TPP responsered £XXXX
  • Qube yes tentative?
  • Arctic lake but needs follow up
  • Meeting with oaks, but no money probably
  • Arm? AMD?
  • Bright network thingy
    • Mat going
  • Huzzle? (Doubtful)
  • Pizza sponsor?
  • WARNING: WARN TREASURERS OF MRF BEFORE YOU MAKE THEM OR THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
  • We need to watch the munz

Academic

  • Hackathon?
    • Good for sponsors
    • Tech problem
    • CTF?
    • Joint tech and academic job
    • TODO: Hackathon meeting during summer
    • Will be term 1
  • Do we wanna do another language course
    • Verilog?
    • Bug engineering for FPGAs?
    • Simulators: Verilator/ eda playground?
  • Term 1 events
    • XSoc
    • Lightning talk - Joel + others TODO: call for volunteers
    • Karaoke talk
  • Comp cafe
    • check when dcs is running
    • Specific ones for Year 1 & 2 coursework deadlines
    • Check guidelines for proofreading and helping

Social

  • Term 1 events
    • Monday Pub Meals - Starting with Phoach - meet at DCS first
    • Circles
      • 2 per term
      • Loud and Proud - Week ???
      • Pop! - Week ???
      • Ideally on campus (TBar), also Ivy house and Kelseys
      • Need to join discord to ask for Society Exec 2023/24 - Warwick Uni
    • Pub crawl - Week ???
    • Quiz/picnic
    • Pizza making?
    • Bowling?
    • Ice skating?
      • W1 discount? -Ask ice skating

Wildcards/Inclusivity

  • Not present

Tech

  • Felix wants to run a “systems101” course TODO: message for details
  • Raspberry Pi cluster
    • Steal from DCS
    • Could do website hosting
    • Put in server room
  • Website “mostly done”
    • new.uwcs.co.uk
  • AMD sponsor stuff
    • Put GPU in localtoast? FPGA?
    • AI may be interested in training stuff
  • WASD
    • Advertising
  • TODO: add people to uwcs github team
  • Big-O needs to be better

Publicity

  • where exec post >:( (soon™)
    • “In the next week and a half”
  • TODO: @Exec everyone do the form
  • TODO: Congrats on A level post (17th)
  • WASD earlier - September/October?

Gaming

  • FNG as norm
  • LANs
    • Once per term
    • Ideally early-mid - W3?
    • Collab with esports?
  • TODO: email esports about wasd