University Computer Club Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-03-22

Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting

Attendance

  • [BLU] Grace Fowler, President
  • [SEB] Bones Gazey, Vice President
  • [GPO] Gary O'Donovan, Treasurer
  • [SVN] Lyla Peng, Fresher Representative
  • [ROY] Hongkang "Roy" Xu, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [DOC] Diarmuid O'Connor, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [LHP] Lauren Pudney, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [LCY] Lo Chien-Yi

Apologies

  • [KKZ] Ariel Carter, Secretary

Absences

Start Time

  • 16:42

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • Went to the Charity Vigil subcom meeting.

Vice President's Report

  • been busy with uni so have done nada o7

Secretary's Report

  • Went to 3D printing tech talk.
  • uhmmmm i forgor
  • Can I be on UniLAN subcomm again pls
    • Also Tech clubs quiz night if it's running

Treasurer's Report

  • Westpac Main $6,763.53
  • Westpac Savings $46,224.25
  • Westpac Card $1,205.73
  • Guild Account $2,501.53
  • Ran the 3D printing workshop
    • see events section for how it went
  • Did Project Night
  • probably some other stuff

Fresher Rep's Report

  • Read through a lot UCC web pages.
  • Read some Wiki pages.
  • Read docs including 2024 Fresher Guide,the constitution and some past minutes etc.
    • Is there something wrong in section 9.4? LINK
- constitution section 9 Election
    - 3. Only financial members of the Club who are students at The University of Western Australia and
        financial members of the Student Guild of The University of Western Australia may hold positions
        on the Executive.
    - 4. Only students at The University of Western Australia who are financial members of the Student
        Guild of The University of Western Australia may hold positions on the Executive.

OCM Reports

  • [ROY]

    • Project night & tech talk
    • R710 again, thanks for [GPO], Jasper and Nick, iDRAC is now running
    • Been to Charity Vigil's subcom meeting

  • [DOC]

    • Went to (most of) the 3D printing tech talk.
    • Found some typos on the UCC website, but can't remember where they were (oops). I'll try to find them again so they can be fixed.
    • No progress on action items from last meeting yet.

  • [LHP]

    • attended project night
    • read through some web pages

Action Items from Last Meeting

  • [DOC] to send the tech talk request email that [KKZ] will write.

    • Not done.

  • [GPO] and [DOC] will email past tech talk people for requests.

    • Not done.

  • Need to decide on manufacturer for stickers.

    • Not done. Should have a 50th subcom meeting.

  • Need to update the announcements and posters for tshirt competition.

    • Not done.

  • [GPO] will make new project night poster and make recurring EMP.

    • Not done.

  • [GPO] will try to get Commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.

    • Not done.

  • Committee/Wheel: Write data retention policy.

    • Not done.

  • [GPO] make sure to add stuff to handover document about people being on subcom.

    • Done.

  • [GPO] will go to Campbells for snacks.

    • Not done.

  • [GPO] will get migoreng from Spudshed.

    • Not done.

  • [BLU] find Kelvin first thing Monday in regards to the circuit.

    • Not done.

  • Make recurring discord event and advertise in CS building for Project Night.

    • Not done.

Machine Technical Reports

  • [KKZ] joins online 16:48

Servers

  • Nothing new to report.

Network

  • Will go down in 10 mins.
  • Uplink is restored.
  • Wall switch still off. Need to talk to Kelvin.

Desktops

  • Christmas screen is dying. If you turn down the brightness the panel is weird.

Miscellaneous

  • Projector is broken.

New Equipment

  • Nothing new to report.

Drinks and Snacks

  • Reimburse [NYX] for Costco Run.
    • Have a standing budget so don't need to motion.
    • Was $60.97
  • V was restocked by [LCY].

External Entities

Mail

  • Not been checked.

Guild/SOC

  • SLT training is booked out.
  • SOC meeting is next week.
    • Next week tuesday 6.30pm. [GPO] is attending, [ROY] might go.
  • Need to check when Club Carnival is.
  • ACTION: [SEB] to go to guild finance and redo signiture on ERF.

Tenancy

  • Need to resign tenancy agreement form.
  • ACTION: Exec to sign it on Monday.

Other Entities

  • [I2N] signed up UniSFA.

Westpac

  • Need a new whenisgood to organise a meeting.

ACNC

  • Need to update ACNC personnel page.
  • ACTION: [BLU] to update the personal page with [SEB] as VP.
  • Upload financial report by June.

Apple

  • Need to Authroize [ROY] for lodging fee waiver case.
  • [BLU] Motions to: Authorize [ROY] as UCC's representative to set up an Apple developer account.
    • [SEB] seconds.
    • Unanimous.
  • ACTION: Roy to set up an Apple developer account .

Events

Past Events

Uncharity Vigil

  • The subcom has approved the budget so now we need to approve it.
    • It's in the #ucc discord channel
    • [BLU] Motions to: Approve the Uncharity Vigil subcom budget.
    • [SEB] seconds.
    • Unanimous.
  • [SEB] actions [BLU] to ask clubs how they want to be reimbursed.
  • [SEB] actions [GPO] to do that(?)

3D Printer Workshop

  • Went well.
  • Mostly UCC people.
  • [GPO] is happy to do it again. It's pretty solid.
  • Need to advertise earlier.
  • [KKZ]'s Walrus might have completly melted. (RIP)

Confirmed Events

Club Carnival

  • Need to figure out when it is, next week

  • [SEB] actions [BLU] to figure out when it is

    • Tuesday 12pm.
    • [BLU], [ROY], [LHP], [DOC] can set up.
    • [BLU], [ROY], [DOC], [GPO] can attend.

  • Need to figure out power

    • Where we are we won't have access to power.
    • Need to charge laptops before.
    • 3D print UCCbucks before hand.

  • Can use portal with Unifi.

  • Use the O-Day packing list.

    • 3D printer?

  • Do we need sandbags?

  • [SEB] actions [BLU] to figure out if we need sandbags.

  • Need to print fresher guides and flyers.

    • [KKZ] can go to uniprint for that.

Charity Vigil

  • [BLU] is happy to loan their switch for people to play on for 1 or 2 hours.
  • We need committee or door to be on door throughout the night. [BLU] will send out a schedule tonight.

UniLAN

  • Venue is sorted.
  • Nothing more to do for UniLAN.

Project Night

  • [GPO] is making poster and EMP.
  • [KKZ] will make recurring discord event.

Tech Talks

  • [GPO] and [DOC] will talk to people.
  • [KKZ] talked to CFC about advertising the git tech talk.

Tentative/Future Events

  • Need to figure out the time and day for next half of the sem.

Club Collaboration

  • Talk to Esports about advertsing Charity Vigil.
    • [GPO] can't see a way for them to advertise without being involved.
    • Can put a poster on their door/pinboard outside their door.

Closed Section

Door Applications

  • Need to update who's on door on the website.
  • Need to do door training.
    • [GPO] will do it with people individually .

Lara Frej

  • [SEB] motions to: Apppoint Lara to door.
    • Motion passes.

Liz Thatcher

  • [SEB] motions to: Appoint Liz to door.
    • Motion passes.

Cormac Sharkey

  • [SEB] motions to: Appoint Cormac Sharkey.
    • Motion passes.

General Business

Important/Get Done Soon

  • Need to update committee photos.
  • Need to update the consitution on the UCC website.
  • Need to update door and wheel photos.
  • Need to update door people on discord.
  • [GPO] will update door permissions.
  • Need to go through the backlog of member db forms to add to memberdb.

Miscellaneous

Major plan/ideas to do this year

  • Will do next week when everyone is here.

New equipment we should get

Action Items

  • [DOC] to send the tech talk request email that [KKZ] will write.

  • [GPO] and [DOC] will email past tech talk people for requests.

  • Need to decide on manufacturer for stickers.

  • Need to update the announcements and posters for tshirt competition.

  • [GPO] will make new project night poster and make recurring EMP.

  • [GPO] will try to get Commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.

  • Committee/Wheel: Write data retention policy.

  • [GPO] will go to Campbells for snacks.

  • [GPO] will get migoreng from Spudshed.

  • [BLU] find Kelvin first thing Monday in regards to the circuit.

  • Make recurring discord event and advertise in CS building for Project Night.

  • [SEB] to go to guild finance and redo signiture on ERF.

  • Exec to sign Tenancy agreement.

  • [BLU] to update the ACNC personal page with [SEB] as VP.

  • [ROY] will continue with setup for Apple developer account.

  • [BLU] will ask clubs how they want to be reimbursed for Charity Vigil.

  • [KKZ] to go to UniPrint for new Fresher Guides.

End time

  • 17:53