Today, the 27th of May 2011 the University Computer Club's committee met at
approximately 17:08. The weather was cool but sunny as the semester ended its
penultimate week.

Present at the meeting was the mighty leader, Andrew "Bob" Adamson, his
fearless second-in-command, Matthew Didcoe, the man in charge of the money,
John Hodge, the dashingly good looking and charming secretary, Conrad Pogson,
the king of the freshers, Ashley Tyndall, and the three ordinary gentlemen,
Daniel Axtens, son of Bruce, Samuel Moore, head of science and Christopher Squire, the
stable boy who loved ponies. 

Joining the usual group of eight was brave Rufus Heath Samuel Brady Garton Smith.

This rag-tag group of men may not have seemed like much from the outside, but
they had wills of steel and the power to direct one of the most important
clubs in the University's history. Together, no task was too much, no problem
too difficult. Their ability to rant and bicker scared away any who dared to
oppose them.

Andrew Adamson began the meeting in it's usual way, by sharing his triumphs
for the week. After briefly visited the tavern for a few drinks, Andrew starts
to complain about java and bedework.
"They should call it 'betterwork', because you compile it and say 'it better
work'" was the joke he stated.
Andrew's work during the week was to move services from martello to mussel, an
epic quest with many pitfalls.

Matthew Didcoe took his turn to speak. Sadly young Matthew was feeling
terrible and wanting to have a nap. 
During the week, conversations were held between our hero Matthew and the
great Information Services Networking team. The new network will be live in
late June or early July. This timeframe is thankfully long enough for us to
check the University Computer Club's connection to the Guild networking room.
Which may cost up to $5,000 for fibre however a CAT6 cable will more likely to
be used and significantly cheaper.

John, tinkered away on his keyboard, searching for the amounts in our current
accounts. His quest ended soon, finding that our Guild account has $1,313.26
after a deposit from the safe. Westpac was kind enough to give us our interest
of around $200, bringing our account with them to $492.22.
The next part of John's quest will be to do the grants for this semester,
delivering them into the guild before the last day of the semester.

Conrad, despite being great and mighty, has very little to report for this week.
The mail was checked a lot this week, there was nothing, this did not change
by checking the mail a total of five times in a day.

Ashley was proud to report that the fresher cohort are happy but not content.
A short and concise report, a pleasant change from the normal.

After the individual reports, a discussion was held on Machine Technical
Reports, starting with the current state of the servers of the University
Computer Club. The only major news to report is that services are being moved
from martello to mussel. Murasoi is progressing, Andrew plans to have the
machine working before the arrival of the new racks. Matthew reports that the
new server racks will arrive from the physics data center in the next week,
the committee would like to thank Mark Tearle for this assistance.

Matthew reiterates the message that David Adam has discovered that our IANA
Enterprise number has been deallocated, however David will chase up this
situation, aiming to return the situation to its prior state.

Andrew reports that there is currently a number of the linux machines that are
a little slow and perhaps an upgrade would be welcomed by the members. The
consensus of the committee is that our money could be spent on better things
at the moment. Andrew would like to replace the server that is currently in
Arts with a new server, one that would be more beneficial for the club which
would allow for backups to be done. The new server is to be of similar
physical size and rack mountable, however there is no guarantee that this
server can be in Arts beyond the end of the year. Matthew will be discussing
the network issues with a potential new server relatively soon.

With regards to the new server, Andrew has drafted up a possible solution, and
he will email the lists with his idea within a week. Matthew supports the idea
of off-site backups, and the rest of the committee mumbled in agreement. In
short, the general idea of backups seems great.

The University Computer Club has not acquired any additional equipment over
the past week.

Samuel has pointed out that we are running out of drinks and snacks, meaning
many hungry stomachs in the club. John has sent an email to the door members,
invoking the quest of acquiring new drinks and snacks. A perilous journey,
with many potential issues. Christopher volunteers to start this journey this
evening, taking Samuel along with him, much like the journey of Frodo in J. R.
R. Tolkien's epic tale of the Lord of the Rings.

Daniel has been living the tale of incorporation. As honourable members will
be aware, Rachel from the guild has sent us a draft memorandum of
understanding. Daniel was kind enough to respond that this memorandum of
understanding may be flawed, however stated that the committee is happy to
sign the document if the guild would like us to, however we are happy to fix
the issues with the document if they feel the committee's concerns are
relevant.

In the meeting for the week prior, Matthew was assigned the task of chasing up
where the core network upgrade is sitting, which he has completed diligently
completed and the outcomes has been reported in his earlier communications.

Adrian Chadd to purchase a D-Link DIR-825, which has also been successfully
completed. Our thanks go to Adrian.

After such specific discussions there was a need for a discussion on the more
general business conducted by the club.

Andrew Adamson raised an objection to activities, including but not limited
to, having knowledge of, discussing, watching, playing and singing, related to
My Little Pony(TM). He cited this as a plague upon the club, requesting
support from his fellow members that such activities be banished from the
club, else those involved face the punishment of dooring. The rest of
committee feels that the issue relates to members being annoying rather than
My Little Pony(TM) in general. The committee would like to remind members not
to be annoying to the rest of the members in the room.

Andrew continued his quest for the improvement of the club by requesting funds
from the club coffers for the acquisition of a good number of nuts and bolts
for holding the ever important servers in racks. Citing that currently not
enough of such items were in existence. The prices were sent to the tech email
list prior to the meeting, with a total cost of $73. Conrad seconds the motion
of purchasing these. Upon hearing the words "All for" eight hands were raised
into the air, like their controllers just don't care, the result is that the
motion is passed and John will fetch these items and return them to the
club.

Chris Squire, despite the grave omens of My Little Pony bannings, suggested
the idea of a 'My Little Marathon Night', which despite the name, would be for
the watching of My Little Pony, rather than having small people run 26 miles
and 385 yards. Matthew warns that Christopher be very careful with his
phrasing of this motion. Christopher cites that "friendship is magical".
Daniel raises the idea that people would attend, and this would therefore be
beneficial for the club. Samuel motions that Christopher emails the ucc@ list
asking for interest. Andrew seconds the motion, however this time only six
hands were raised upon hearing the words "All for", with two members being
against the motion.

Ash Tyndall aimed to expand his list of responsibilities by nominating himself
for the esteemed title of winadmin, where he would prepare to face many demons
such as steam not working properly. Ashley has emailed the lists with his
reasons for wanting to be on winadmin. Andrew asks if he understands the risks
associated with installing programs and what to look out for. Ashley responded
with the correct ideas. Andrew moves that Ashley be placed into the winadmin
group, Christopher seconds this. Six members were for this, two members were
against it. The motion was carried.

And thus concludes our thrilling tail, at the hour of 17:56, when the great
Andrew Adamson spoken the words "Meeting closed". A smile broke out across a
few faces, but many others held a grim look, for they knew the weight of
responsibility that lay on their shoulders for the week ahead.
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Meeting minutes are also available at http://ucc.asn.au/infobase/minutes/