UCC Committee Minutes 14-02-2010 Meeting opened at 13:44 Present: [LOL] [RVS] [DJA] [CJS] [BOB] [TPG] [NTU] [MRD] [MTL] Apologies: [M12] [DAA] [VIX] Absent: [SJY] President's Report ------------------ - Have contacted people for printing Fresher Guides and membership cards - Turns out UniPrint is the cheapest. - Thanks to [MRD] for organising this. - Purchased laminations sleeves. - Went to the bank to become a signatory for our account. Treasurer's Report via email ---------------------------- - After payment of recent bills and the T-shirt expenses, the current balance is $1,712.86. Secretary's Report ------------------ - Checked mail a couple of times, nothing of note. Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Polo shirts, we have them. - Looking to run the programming competition next year, trying to get code off [LAW]. Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers: - UWA had various power fluctuations over 9th February, this took down martello 5 times. Power appears to be stable now. - mooneye went down some time shortly before the meeting began. Network: - Resnet is still slow, might be faster by the start of semester but no guarantees. Desktops: - combtail has been upgraded to an HP DC7600 something, see tech@. - cephalopod has had more RAM and a new case added. - curdane needs fixing, using USB devices causes the machine to freeze. - If samba is upgraded 3 machines will receive an installation of Windows 7. Appliances: - Tape library mentioned last meeting should be installed today. - [MRD] hints at LCD screens possibly arriving soon. New Equipment: - We have some new Suns, thanks to the persuasive efforts of [MRD] and [JCF]. See tech@ for more information. - New CPU and memory board for musundo, 2 x 1.2 GHz CPUs and 8GB RAM, thanks [TRS]. - Correction from previous minutes, the 8 P4s were procured by [MRD]. Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - [FEL] didn't end up going on snack run because he's in hospital again. - Snack run redelegated to [NTU]. Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - No notable mail. - [CJS] to attend SOC meeting this Wednesday at 6:30pm. Action Items ------------ - [RVS] to send notice of the 2010 AGM. - Not done yet, AGM is still over 3 weeks away. - [DJA] to obtain a final invoice for polo shirts. - Done. - [LOL] to chase up payments for polo shirts. - Not done. - [SJY] to contact Henry from Guild Finance to organise O-Day float. - No report. - [LOL] to ensure that Fresher Guides, membership cards, and lamination pouches are ready for O-Day. - Done, thanks [MRD]. General Business ---------------- - [RVS] : [RVS] suggests purchase of some new 320GB hard disks to upgrade some of the better machines in UCC. - Many of the machines don't have enough space for the roaming profiles of the UCC members who make frequent use of Windows machines. - It would enable us to set up multiple Windows operating systems with plenty of room spare for some distribution of Linux and/or OpenSolaris. - [LOL] moves to approve purchase of 4 320GB hard disks at a price of $70 or less, [RVS] seconds, unanimous. - [TPG] : [TPG] wishes to apply for coke. - [DJA] moves to add [TPG] to coke subject to passing the LOLCAT, [RVS] seconds, unanimous. - [TRS] : Request $140 as the club contribution of half the cost of CPU/RAM board for musundo. - [RVS] seconds, unanimous. - [TPG] : Would the club like a Punchdown Tool? Brand new, $21.80. - The Guardian of the Tool Cupboard and Senior Technical Communications Officer both approve. - [LOL] seconds, unanimous. - [BOB] : Need to nominate someone to attend the SOC meeting next wednesday at 6pm. - Done, see Mail, Guild and SOC. - [DJA] : Reimburse [DJA] $1218.25, not in coke credit, for polos. - Done. - [MRD] : Reimburse [MRD] $150.50 for O'Day printing of membership cards (done) and freshers guide (printing now @ UniPrint - need cash for pickup) - non-coke credit. - [LOL] seconds, unanimous. - [NTU] : Would the club like to purchase a power meter? Should be $25, from Home hardware. - [RVS] seconds, unanimous. - [LOL] : Reimburse [LOL] $14.48 for purchase of lamination sleeves. - [RVS] seconds, unanimous. Current Action Items -------------------- - [RVS] to send notice of the 2010 AGM. - [LOL] to chase up payments for polo shirts. - [SJY] to contact Henry from Guild Finance to organise O-Day float. - [CJS] to attend SOC meeting this Wednesday at 6:30pm. Meeting closed at 14:27 --- Meeting minutes are also available at http://ucc.asn.au/infobase/minutes/