Committee meeting - Friday, 15th March, 1996

Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger), David Luyer, [DGC] (David Chinnery),
[NTU] (Nick Bannon), [SD:] (Sophie Divliaev), [SAF] (Simon Fryer),
Ian McKellar, Barnes (Barnaby Brown).

Meeting opened: 3:23pm

President's ([JEB]) report: Hello, cruel world!
Treasurer's ([DGC]) report: +ve. (approx $1800)
Secretary's ([NTU]) report: Bing.

Machine report:
Starfish is usable but unreliable, and difficult to compile successfully
for. A replacement needs to be looked into.

In the meantime, we can try to make our current machines run better. We
have several different jobs for various machines ;
 o Terminal server (mackerel's doing this job adequately currently)
 o User machine (marlin's job - mail, news, web, etc. 32 megs of memory
would be _very_ useful)
 o Server machine (moray's job - WWW, FTP, visible to outside world.
Adequate for now, but have to keep it in mind)
 o Play machine (starfish, more or less. Running MUDs, roguelike games,
etc)

EE will be upgrading their machines and end up with a lot of surplus
386's sometime soon.

We should do some raising of our profile at UWA again - send out a letter
asking people to remember us when throwing out their old equipment.

General Business:
Phone calls: The ones in question did, in fact, cost money and were not
previously dispensed. One person has dispensed their calls, one has not
been talked to recently. The UCC should apologise to Iain. We should
have useful information extracted from the cokelog - [DGC] will see if
Luyer's got some time to work on it. [NTU] may have a look too.

Machine room: It would be nice if we could measure (and ideally control)
the temperature and humidity (wet/dry thermistors?). The air conditioned
machine room is undoubtably what's kept mackerel alive recently. The
thermostat needs fixing - JP, [NTU], [DGC], [JEB] to have a look.

Roof vents definitely need installation...

Machine loads: Too high on UCC machines...

NFS: Doing NFS serving on Linux machines (ie marlin) is causing some of
those high loads, due to Linux's simple-minded NFS server. Starfish
could be an alternative - decently fast, with SCSI-II.

Security meeting: There was a meeting on Wednesday with the Guild and
other Cameron Hall clubs about the UniSFA burglary. The culprits used
the UCC windows to get through, and were the cause of the torn machine
room roof. Sophie will get a copy of the security report.

Securing the University each night is a big job - it takes about 8 hours
in total, and each security guard walks 25km in the process. We can ask
to be closed up at 11pm, or any other set time, and get the security
people to come around then, though that may mean that Nasty People (tm)
have a certain "window" between the 11pm check and any subsequent ones
to do Evil Things (tm).

Limiters on the windows will be installed to prevent them being raised
far enough to climb through.

Bob Welton @ UWA Security is happy to come around at our invitation and
and give us a security check, then suggest any measures we could take to
improve security.

Events: We may like regular discussion and games nights... Perhaps the
first Friday of each month can include a discussion meeting, and the
second Friday a games night...?

24 hour GCL: The plan to allow 24 hour GCL access has been canned due to
lack of funding.

Keys: Who has keys:
Cameron Hall		[DGC], [ECF] (John West)
UCC Door (real keys,	[DGC], [ECF], [SD:], Luyer
not door group ::-) )
Coke Machine		[SD:], [NTU]
Cash Box		[DGC], [NTU]

John has some miscellaneous keys, [NTU] and [SD:] have a key to cupboard
outside. Most of wheel, and a few others have machine room/tool box/
fridge keys. [DGC] suggests that Luyer may want to give his key to
someone else at some stage - [SAF], perhaps?

James will see if he can get a Shenton Park key from a David Russell...

Bank: ID checking of new signatories - need Luyer.
Signatories should meet on Monday at 1pm at UniCredit.
Due to Luyer doing full time work, Sophie will be the fifth signatory.

Delegates: We need a Societies Council delegate - Sophie refuses ::-)
Barnes and [DGC] volunteer for Public Affairs Council.

UCC Executive: The executives need to sign a card for the benefit of the
Guild.

Phil Veltman: Phil has been making noises about wanting to join the UCC
recently. The consensus of the Committee and Wheel groups is that he
would present an unacceptable security risk. [DGC] proposes the motion
that;

"Philip Veltman will have his membership application rejected until the
Committee decides otherwise."

[SD:] seconds the motion.

Motion passed unanimously.

[JEB] suggests that [SAF] become a "hardware officer". [COM] (Peter
Cooper) and [DGC] have suggested creating a "hardware" or "systems"
group.

Soc.s Council Meeting: The revised UCC Constitution has been approved.
Soc.s Council requires that the Guild Spot logo be present on all public
club material.

8 bit subnet: Random suggestions of getting one... We should approach the
Guild and UCS. [JEB], [DGC] and Luyer to do this.

DIALiX: They have made us what is apparently their standard work exp.
offer - we are to come up with a project that would be of value to them,
and in return they will provide us with root access on a machine so that
a group can implement the project. This should be discussed at a General
 or Discussion meeting. Ian McKellar agrees to be in charge of it.

suid root programs: UCC machines have some suid root programs for the
convenience of wheel members, which could pose a security problem. Should
they be deleted?

Wheel/Door/Coke groups review: Dead wood should be removed from these
groups, as they are already quite large, which is a minor worry. UCC
policy is that, in general, all Committee members should be in Door and
Coke, apart from the Fresher Rep.

Barnes to check out which door group members are making use of their
position.

The current door system (software/hardware) was originally meant to just
be a stopgap. We should investigate a more reliable system - perhaps an
independent, dedicated 68HC11 or Toad (Commodore 64) ?

[DGC] suggests that "dispense door" should only work from real
terminals. We might want to make it work from UniSFA and the GCL, too,
if possible. We should keep in perspective that failures are not _too_
significant - there is always key access.

Science Union: Would like a UCC account. We will charge them as an
external member ($25), and make it clear that only one person should use
it - Antony Lord. [DGC] will talk to him.

They would also like a 286. $100 is fair, perhaps? Depends on the specs.
Negotiable.

Purchases: We should get a digital multimeter and a bench vice at some
stage. If we see a decent vice for about $50, buying is approved by the
Committee. We may want a second soldering iron, or at least try to find
a new tip for our current soldering station.

Meeting times: Friday 1pm seems to be inconvenient for much of the
Committee. Mondays at 1pm seems better - starting on March 25th.

O-Pack: UniSFA have reimbursed us for their half of the photocopying
costs for the O-Pack flyers.

Minutes: A dead tree copy may be useful to keep. [NTU] will email a copy
to the UCC list as they are produced. A copy will be sent directly to
[DGC], who will send a summary of them to UCC-Announce.

Meeting closed: 4:57pm