UCC Committee Meeting on the 6th July 2022

UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-07-06

  • Last committee minutes have been uploaded to the website

Attendance

  • [BRD] Cormac Sharkey, President
  • [BLU] Grace Fowler, Vice President
  • [MCW] Lara Frcej, Secretary
  • [GPO] Gary O'Donovan, Treasurer
  • [CJN] Conor Bennett, Fresher Representative
  • [->|] Daniel Ledovsky, Ordinary Committee Member
  • Ming Han Ong, Ordinary Committee Member

Apologies

Absences

  • [LMH] Liam Hammond, Ordinary Committee Member

Start Time

  • 15.10

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • Down south till tuesday
  • havent done account locking yet
    • will get it started by tonight

Vice President's Report

  • Was going to make a Cam Hall Quiz Night server, but Jackie beat me to it.
  • Enrolled for semester 2 and did my timetable. RIP 9am starts.
  • attended unigames camp

Secretary's Report

  • Have new laptop & can finally do stuff again
  • also on holidays

Treasurer's Report

  • Westpac Main $4,492.49
  • Westpac Savings $44,827.80
  • Westpac Card $88.04
  • Guild Acc $4,072.60
  • Submitted last year's AIS for ACNC and AssocOnline
    • It was so much fun
    • o7

Fresher Rep's Report

  • Nothing to report
  • new haircut
  • went to project night

OCM Reports

Daniel:

  • viewed some documents last minute for a possible anniversary venue
  • most locations seemed to be in the CBD area
  • one location, however, stands out: Hampden Hotel @ 156 Hampden Road, Nedlands
  • price range of 10 < $ < 40

Machine Technical Reports

Servers

  • they are running
    • [GPO] could not catch them

Network

  • nothing to note

Desktops

  • catfish
    • RAM bad
    • 1 short beep
      • somethings up with the ram
    • [GPO] will check it out again cause its being weird
  • corvo
    • works but fan ramping is annoying

Misc.

  • Last meeting minutes look funny on the website.
    • [BRD] fucked fricked it up!!!!! :(
    • he will fix it after the meeting
  • VR games on sale
    • must act quickly
    • we could get a bundle...
  • [BRD] motions that we budget 150$ for VR games
    • [GPO] seconds
    • unanimous
  • Ming enters 15.25
  • Get LAN (drm-free) games as well

New Equipment

Drinks and Snacks

  • locking in costco trip for sunday the 17th of july
    • details to come....

External Entities

Mail

  • not checked since 2 weeks ago

Guild/SOC

  • Insurance and semester grants
    • no response from SOC
    • we can try in person once uni starts
    • [GPO] will ask socpac treasurer about why we got so little money from semester grants
      • will probably have to get insurance yearly not just for each seperate event
      • will have to double check what we actually have insurance on

Other Entities

  • westpac
    • [GPO] is trying to reach them to book a meeting
    • they are not picking up the calls
      • will try emailing/calling the employee we met last time directly

Events

Anniversary timeline [BRD] made:

 _4/6 (This week)
|    -
|-11/6
|    -
|-18/6
|    -RSVPS?  
|-25/6 (Sem 2 Starts)
|    -Semester 2 Welcome?
|-1/7
|    -Anniversary 5/7
|-8/7
|    -
|-15/7
|    -
|-22/7
|    -
|-29/7
|    -
|-5/8

Anniversary

  • Hampden Hotel @ 156 Hampden Road, Nedlands
    • price range of 10 < $ < 40
    • Week 2
      • friday 5th of august
      • call hotel in next few days to see if theyre booked
        • once we know how much of a notice they need we can decide on an RSVP date
      • draft an email and send it next week
  • [BRD] actions [MCW] to write an email for RSVPs and [->|] for calling up the hotel

Inter-Uni LAN

  • wrap up meeting on last saturday
  • discusssed what went wrong with the event/what went right
  • profits from this events will go to the next one
    • if none is run, they will be distributed
      • by november 30th
      • money will be put into UCCs account because its convienient
      • [GPO] will do the money stuff

Cam Hall Quiz Night

  • Will have our first meeting sometime this week or next week.
  • PCS and UWASCA want to be involved, but the first subcom meeting will just be Panto, Unigames, UniSFA and UCC to discuss about having more clubs join in.
    • If PCS and UWASCA don't join subcom, there most likely will be guest rounds for them.
    • planned to happen around study break
      • no definite date yet though

Relay For Life

  • Semester 2 wek 9, 1st and 2nd October - 24hr event
    • did it with UWAnime last year
    • last year by this time there was already a sign up
    • [BRD] will message UWAnime about that

Semester 2 Event Calander

Second Semester Welcome

  • Week 1
    • Tuesday 26th July

Lecture Bashing

  • Week 1 and 2
    • would need to contact unit coordinators about when to come
      • email them a week before uni start

Fresher VR

  • Week 3
    • Friday?
    • will ask Alex if he wants to help out again :)

Artemis LAN

  • Week 6
    • Saturday 3rd or Sunday 4th September?
      • Weekend before study break. May change due to Cam Hall Quiz Night date.
      • Nick has volunteered
        • need to know when he's available

Build and Break a PC

  • A monday night to run alongside project night
    • week 4/5/8

Create and Print a 3D Figurine

  • we could try making a tutoria video before this event
    • week 4/5/8

Tech Talks/Videos

  • Anytime
  • we can come back to the QR code idea
    • Also maybe have videos showcasing what UCC can offer people, ie. VR, PC's, 3D Printer

Others

  • Minecraft LAN?

    • needs to be shorter if we run it again
  • Techy Screenings?

    • havent done anything about it yet
  • PC/console game night?

    • could also be a LAN
  • Online events

    • weekly game nights?
  • Shared events with the other tech clubs?

    • tech club quiz night
    • would be nice to collab more though
    • last year the tech club presidents met up once a month
      • might be a good idea to do it again
  • Relay for life fundraise event a week before?

  • Also check previous years events, https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/Events

    • [BLU] still needs to finish updating the 2021 Events page.
    • Should start a 2022 one as well.
    • Use Facebook for advertising more often & earlier & bigger & better
      • look into putting up posters around campus...
  • we can discuss event cross posting for better advertisement

Tech club quiz night

  • Need to elect 2 reps
  • [BLU]
  • [BRD]
  • [MCW] motions to appoint [BLU] and [BRD] as Tech Club Quiz night representatives
    • [BRD] seconds
    • unanimous

Joint Camp

  • we need to appoint a new camp subcommittee member since [LMH] will be resigning

  • [BLU] motions to appoint [BRD] as camp rep

    • [GPO] seconds
    • unanimmous
  • [CJN] exits 16.26

General Business

  • secretary keys

    • nobody knows/ responded
    • should contact Grace
  • Account Locking

    • Will be done tonight
  • Maybe partnering with Hi-Rez Uni Hall to do a UCC promotional video?

    • Hi-Rez is a part of UniHall
      • their president needs to make a video
      • a promotional video for UCC
        • theyre offering to do it for us
        • unsure about the cost
      • [BLU] needs to follow up on this.
  • How's archiving going?

    • currently at 200 items
    • [->|] will create a tool that will help streamline the process
  • [NTU]: Steam sale VR games: https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264411219627212801/989019661087694848 , including https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9184/VR_Essentials https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload

  • [->|] exits 16.32

    • refer to above budget
  • Charity vigil cash money, Unigames Gibbi will hand it to an Exec to put in the safe and [GPO] can deal with it.

Action Items

  • [GPO] to check out catfish again
  • [BRD] to fix website minutes
  • [MCW] to write RSVP email for anniversary
  • [->|] to call up hotel and ask about booking (for anniversary)
  • [BRD] will message UWAnime about relay for life
  • [BLU] still needs to finish updating the 2021 Events page
  • [BLU] needs to follow up on this.

End time

  • 16.36