UCC Committee Minutes 23-10-2009
Meeting opened at 13:05

Present: [LOL] [M12] [RVS] [DJA] [SJY] [SLX] [TPG] [BOB] [MRD]
Apologies: [DAA] [VIX] [CJS]
Absent:

[DJA] moves to become the chair, [RVS] seconds, 2 for, 2 against, motion failed.


President's Report
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- Nothing to report.


Vice-President's Report
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- Fuck yeah, 11 days until I'm finished.
- Paid a bill for Resnet from last week of $82.50.


Secretary's Report
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- I've had 5 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours.
- We had some mail last week.

[SJY] arrives.

Treasurer's Report
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- Am mildly freaking out about property exam.


Fresher Rep's Report
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- Last day of classes as fresher.
- Fresher appear to be happy.


[BOB] arrives.


Machine Technical Reports
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Servers:
- Circuit 12 in the machine room is having problems, something is tripping it.
- Manduba keeps dying, keeps kernel panicking roughly every 6 hours, [JCF] is looking into it.
- Both aircons were plugged in to the same power board, this has been rectified.
- Power spike occurred on the 15th, mussel, mermaid, madako, mooneye and some desktops were down temporarily because of this.
- [DJA] accidentally dd'ed over part of /dev/sdb on meersau which took it down for some time, RAID corrected this without any issues.

Network:
- Resnet's total bandwidth has been upgraded, as a result we no complaints here.
- Network was down briefly with the servers a couple of weeks ago.
- A member reported to [RVS] that Joshua Ng (ngj04) was torrenting on one of our machines.
 - User was given a warning and no further action taken, see email to committee for details.

Desktops:
- chaenopsis is now running Haiku.
- curdane is now running Mandriva and Windows XP.

Appliances:
- Nothing to report.

Mitch's New Equipment:
- Two LCD monitors have appeared, see [FEL]'s email about them for more information.


Drinks and Snacks
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- [FEL] went on drink and snack run, thanks.


Mail, Guild and SOC
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- Received a bill, see Vice-President's report for more information.
- New SOC council elected.
- SOC meeting occurred.
 - Extremely short notice resulted in nobody being able to attend.


Action Items
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- [CJS] to go on snack run.
 - Did not happen.

- [LOL] to investigate the procedure for applying for the SOC Best Club Award.
 - Done, it is far too late to apply.

- [RVS] to organise donation to Jason for charity vigil.
 - This will occur on Wednesday.


General Business
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- [BOB] : Can we please buy an RJ45 crimping tool. Estimated cost $35. [BOB]
 - [LOL] seconds, unanimous.

- [TRS] : bob for winadmin
 - [DJA] seconds, unanimous.

- [FEL] : Can we please buy 100 RJ45 ends too for the crimping tool, Estimated Cost $30.
 - [DJA] seconds, unanimous.

- [LOL] : Next SOC meeting Wed 21st Oct.
 - It is now too late to act on this.

- [RVS] : Obtaining permission and keys to access UCC during the summer break when the Guild will be closed.
 - [M12] to contact Unisfa on the topic of accessing Cameron Hall over the summer break.

- [FEL] : reimburse FEL $190 for snacks and drinks.
 - [DJA] moves to reimburse [FEL] upon presentation of the receipts, [LOL] seconds, unanimous.

- [LOL] : We should organise a cleanup.
 - [LOL] suggests 14th November, the Saturday after exams, unanimous.

- [BOB] : Rufus for coke group
 - [LOL] seconds, 4 for, 1 abstains.

[DJA] leaves.

- [BOB] : can we drop the price of the old mugs and get rid of them
 - [BOB] suggests a price of $10 for old shirts, [LOL] seconds, unanimous.
 - [BOB] also suggests a price of $2 for old mugs, [LOL] seconds, unanimous.


Current Action Items
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- [RVS] to organise donation to Jason for charity vigil.
- [M12] to contact Unisfa on the topic of accessing Cameron Hall over the summer break.


Meeting closed at 13:54
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