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