UCC Committee Minutes 26-02-2010
Meeting opened at 13:23

Present: [LOL] [SJY] [RVS] [DJA] [CJS] [MRD] [TPG] [*OX] [EDO], Rowan Ashwin, Jonathan Van Buren, Nathan Shaw, Russell Willis, [LAW].
Apologies: [DAA] [VIX]
Absent: [M12]


President's Report
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- Welcome to 2010 I guess.
- Thankyou to [BOB] and [MRD] for organising O-Day, I hear it went pretty well.
- Reminder to everyone, the Fresher Welcome is next Friday and the AGM is Tuesday week.


Treasurer's Report
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- $965 was banked from O-Day.


Secretary's Report
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- Checked mail, there's a catalog for Cash & Carry.


Fresher Rep's Report
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- Many people signed up on O-Day, some of them actually came back, hooray.
- Expect 2010 to be a good year.


Machine Technical Reports
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Servers:
- A lot of machines went down multiple times this week:
 - mussel went into an OOM state on the 22nd and was rebooted, mermaid also went down while [MRD] was trying to resolve the issue.
 - mooneye went down on the 23rd probably due to overheating.
 - martello went down on the 24th because /dev was accidentally deleted.
 - mooneye went down again on the 24th, also probably due to overheating.
 - troppo went down on the 24th, cause unknown.
 - martello's disk array suffered corruption on the 25th, and became unstable as a result, probably due to overheating.
 - musdea, camwhore, mylah and meersau were powered down on the 25th in an attempt to reduce the temperature of the machine room.


[LAW] arrives.
Rowan Ashwin leaves.
Jonathan Van Buren leaves.
Nathan Shaw leaves.


Network:
- Resnet doesn't actually seem any faster despite the changes to the connection.

Desktops:
- sidderrog is a bit broken, spawns endless instances of nautilus, console log in or killing nautilus is a work-around.
- curdane's Mandriva installation does not seem to be working.

Appliances:
- Kettle has reappeared.

New Equipment:
- Nothing to report.


Drinks and Snacks
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- Running low on coke thanks to the heat wave.
- Coke is on special at Woolworths:
 - [CJS] and [BOB] to go on Coke run after the meeting.
- Plenty of snacks right now.


Mail, Guild and SOC
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- SOC president is missing.
- SOC meeting did not cover any material relevant to us.


Action Items
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- [RVS] to send notice of the 2010 AGM.
 - Have not sent this yet in case there were any other notices that could go out with it to ucc-announce@.

- [LOL] to chase up payments for polo shirts.
 - The individuals who have not paid have been notified, need to chase up payments next week.

- [SJY] to contact Henry from Guild Finance to organise O-Day float.
 - Done.

- [CJS] to attend SOC meeting this Wednesday at 6:30pm.
 - Done.


General Business
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- [*OX] : [*OX] would liked to apply for door.
 - Must send an email to doorgroup@ prior to applying to the committee.


[CJS] leaves.


- [DJA] : New laminator.
 - [MRD] notes that a cheap laminator is available from Officeworks for $48.
 - [LOL] seconds purchase of this laminator, unanimous.
 - [CJS] and [BOB] to buy this laminator.


[CJS] returns.


- [MRD] : [Name of accounting company redacted]
 - This does not look like something we would want to get involved with.


[LAW] leaves.


- [BOB] : Can I go and buy _another_ crimp tool please, and a vice, and some CR2032 batteries.
 - [*OX] : Also another set of multimeter leads.
 - Estimated cost about $150.
 - [LOL] seconds, unanimous.
 - [BOB] and [CJS] to buy crimp tool, vice, CR2032 batteries and multimeter leads.


Current Action Items
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- [RVS] to send notice of the 2010 AGM.
- [LOL] to chase up payments for polo shirts.
- [CJS] and [BOB] to buy a whole lot of stuff mentioned above.


Meeting closed at 14:07
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