UCC Meeting on 16th December 2019

UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2019-12-16

Attending: [MPT][MLG][THA][MVP] Absent: [AAA][JGM][TEC]

Meeting opened 19:14


Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting

  • [MLG] moves
  • [MPT] seconds

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • Progress is being made with the IP purchase
  • Not done much else
  • It is difficult to obtain a webcam with the specs that we want in our budget

Vice President's Report

  • Currently listening to live christmas music with family
  • Props to Charlie for Facebook posts
  • etc.

Secretary's Report

  • Has been keeping minutes up to date
  • Is going on holidays for 2 weeks. Hopeing to not inhale too much smoke
  • The character limit on dispense_add is too low.

Treasurer's Report

Account Amount Difference
Chequing $3,199.45 +563.47
Mastercard $3.17
Reserve $22,329.14 +18765.19
Guild $3,232.32 +851.67
Countersum out of date
  • We've gotten money from one of the term deposits now
  • Large differences because I haven't put in the values recently
  • I will be away from next week until O-week, when I'll arrive back too late to come to any hypothetical Monday meeting

Fresher Rep's Report

  • rip

OCM Reports

  • [MVP]: done stuff. Will come up later.

Machine Technical Reports

Servers

Network

  • The Internet of Things Network is almost complete.
  • Our mail has been redirected according to UWA's changes and it is working fine.

Desktops

Misc.

  • We still have a broken webcam, have not found a sufficient replacement yet
  • [JDN] donated some case fans. Thanks [JDN].
  • We have second hand industrial control units that we don't know how to work and don't need.

New equipment

Drinks and Snacks

  • [MPB] donated a carton of coke. Thanks [MPB]

External Entities

Mail

  • no mail
  • there has been some e-mail from grad program spam places

Guild/SOC

  • There is a new SOC
  • We wish we knew who any of them were already

Other Affairs

Events

Cameron Halloween

  • [MPT] Had the second subcommittee meeting.
  • Most of the business is done, still need to take extra alcohol back to the tav when it reopens.
  • Finalizing the money. Last things are to sort is re: tav

Charity Vigil

  • [THA] things are not great re:treasurer stuff
  • Still dealing with the fallout from no-one running the charity vigil putting the eftpos machine back within the timeframe.
  • Previously, Unigames agreed to pay 0%, unisfa agreed to pay 25%, PCS agreed to pay 25%, UCC agreed to pay 50%.
  • PCS wish to renegotion the amount that they pay
  • [MPT] reaffirms (with agreement from attending committee members) that UCC will pay 50% of the late fee for the eftpos.
  • [THA] we should rewrite the subcommittee rules such that any future liabilities that are incurred by clubs working within a subcommittee for a collaborative event rather than putting the liabilities on individuals in clubs.
  • [MPT] costs and distribution of cost should be established prior to the event.

O-day

  • [MPT] has booked a stall for o-day
  • [MVP] what did we have set up last year?
  • free wiki antenna
  • vive (didn't work in the sun)
  • laptop for registration
  • [MLG] would like to target recruitment to the objects of the club
  • [MPT] terminals?
  • [MVP] present some actual, relevant resources of computing
  • [MLG] breadboards?
  • [TPG] hack up an adder on breadboards
  • [MTL] logic gate puzzle?
  • ACTION: [MTL][TPG] to build exhibits for o-day
  • [TPG] might run a talk on how to build your own internet sem 1.

Uncharity Vigil

  • Had one meeting, things are happening
  • [MVP] is going and will notify of things

Action Items from previous meeting

  • [MPT] will talk to Tenancy about resealing the floor

  • Waiting on a new Tenancy

  • [MPT] to create a business case for purchasing IP addresses

  • Started and nearly done, will present at next meeting

  • [MPT] will communicate with the seller of IPv4 Ongoing

  • [THA] to organise replacement/warranty on failed 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD

  • passed onto [MPT]

  • [TEC] to catalogue UCC for insurance purposes

  • Ongoing

  • [MVP] to talk to other clubs about inter-club artemisLAN

  • Ongoing

  • Quote for webcams

  • [TPG] found quotes. They are expensive.


General Business

  • [THA] has all of the information for the warrenty on the SSD but may not be in Perth to complete.

  • ACTION: [MPT] will finish warrenty on SSD

  • [NTU]: Review usermod(8) process: add-to-group/remove-from-group , consider if we get an enthusiastic group of new members wanting to be sprocket/door/webmaster/committee/etc.

  • Start talking in the new year. When there are return members to add to things.

  • [TEC]: We need to (a) work out when to plan rennovations (IMO we should improve the clubroom over summer), and (b) actually do so

  • [MLG] we should elect someone to plan some renovations

  • [MVP] we need some plans, what are our goals for rennovations? are we doing benches? are we getting rid of some of the junk? Where are we putting equipment while we are painting, if we are painting?

  • We have big ambitions and we need to start planning for this.

  • [MLG] There is a wheel meeting on the 15th of Feburary

  • We should get members of that wheel meeting to have a mini-cleanup and remove some of the obsolte tech (cables and spare headphones/mice, computer components) from the club

    • only the things that are not useful etc.
  • [MPT]: Elton offered to run a "How to Build a PC" event, if we're doing a hardware replacement over summer

  • We do not have plans for hardware replacement over summer.

Meeting closed at 20:28

Current Action Items

  • [MPT] will talk to Tenancy about resealing the floor

  • [MPT] to create a business case for purchasing IP addresses

  • [MPT] will communicate with the seller of IPv4

  • [MPT] to organise replacement/warranty on failed 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD

  • [TEC] to catalogue UCC for insurance purposes

  • [MVP] to talk to other clubs about inter-club artemisLAN

  • General member O-day exhibits

  • [TPG] hack up an adder on breadboards

  • [MTL] logic gate puzzle?

  • [TPG] might run a talk on how to build your own internet sem 1.


Minutes uploaded by [MLG] at 20:32 on 2019-12-16