RBOnly:Minutes 2003 01 17

Minutes of committee meeting held on 17/1/2003.

Present: Nikki Kenny, Trevor Johnston, David Johnston, Cillian Sharkey, Elaine Bannon, Dermot Duffy, Shane Tallon, Eoin Campbell, Declan O'Neill, Declan McMullen, Mark Dunne

Excused: Grainne Sheerin

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ratified.

RedBrick Room

• Richie Kelly had said to call after Christmas and Nikki will

call him after her exams and before term starts.

• Cillian suggested that this would be a good time to suggest

wiring the room since roof work is being done in the building. He will mail James Healy.

• We need to know if the Henry Grattan building will still be

standing in three years time; no point discussing this further until we know.

Kevin Warwick Talk

• This will be 10am in the Venue on Wednesday 19th February.
• Colin (grimnar) is taking care of sound and the

video-conferencing equipment we are borrowing from HEAnet.

• Colin has requested a copy of Prof. Warwick's Powerpoint

presentation prior to the day of the event.

• We will need to gain access to the blind and light controls.
• We must promote this on Intersocs; that it will be on the web

and open to all visitors. Trevor will write these posts/emails and send them.

• We are sending a taxi to meet him at the airport. We should

arrange a meal also.

• There will be no charge for this event.
• We will check with Colin as to whether or not the web-cast can

be saved and made available on our website.

Ragless Ball

• AFSoc has decided not to run this event.
• Nikki is not happy with RedBrick teaming up with other

societies for events. She feels we need to do them on our own.

• Elaine said that you need more than one society for a big

event.

• Dermot enquired as to why we need big events.
• Eoin suggested possible choices for ragweek events; no event or

a small event.

• Mark said that associates being angry on the boards are simply

concerned about the society and that many of them had themselves ran the society very well and so know of what they speak.

• Dave pointed out that the SPC should be made happy regardless

of whether it is an SPC event because they give us money for many things.

• There will be no alt.rag.ball.
• Nikki said we should do something small, however.
• We need a good DJ.
• It was suggested that we should ask the membership what sort of

event they want. Declan McM in particular agreed. We thought the redbrick-discuss mailing list was not necessarily the best way to conduct a poll and decided upon an online poll that will probably run when users log in to the system.

• We drew up the questions for the poll and Dermot will write the

voting utility.

AOB

• There was no other business.

This concluded the business of the meeting.