RBOnly:Minutes 20 11 2007

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Absent: None

Previous minutes approved.

Reports

• Andrew and Kat did bouncy castle stuff.
• d_fens is working on website stuff.
• Hoodies are 30 euro again.
• David helped on Open Day.
• Padraig did tshirt design.
• Amy helped on Open Day and did accounts stuff.

Committee Tasks

• Receive suggests everyone pick a task and do it by next week.
• Werdz to do apache stuff.
• Kat to organise receipts.
• Richard to do web stuff.
• Helpdesk organising a tutorial soon.
• Amy to read mail and login
• Eoghan to contact Ubuntu people about usergroup stuff.
• Cian to save admins from legionnaire's disease.

Ice Skating

• Redbrick have gotten 50 free tickets.
• Ice Skating takes place next Wednesday at 5.30pm in the RDS.
• Games Soc to be invited to shift more tickets.

Tech Week

• Less talks and more interactive stuff needed this year.
• Helpdesk suggest a joint E+S and RB Photoshop tutorial if Eimear is willing. Cian disagrees as he likes the fake rivalry. Redbrick + Style suggested for it instead.
• Linux workshop, live CDs could be given in advance to preview linux.
• Games Soc to do games talks.
• Web design tutorial. Al O'Connor, Barry/barballs and Richard "d_fens" Dalton suggested to run it.
• Google suggested.
• Older admins and associates could do events or have contacts.
• Communication school people and Computing people could be good
• Societies that we could get involved: Music, MPS, Games, Film, Drama, Style (Tech Ball!?), Art, Fotosoc, Debate, AMS.
• Need to pick a week for it.

Redbrick Clothing

• Hoodies are 30 euro each for current design again.
• Padraig to try new designs and find prices for printed versions instead of embroidered.

Accounts + Tshirt/Drink money

• Some issues with paying for tshirts, tshirts can be returned and reused for future events if people don't really want them.
• Drink money from committee meal is paid by committee members.
• Accounts: Currently cash flow is poor, should have €2551 after paypal + SPC stuff + Open Day money.

Admin position + Root

• Should drag0n retain root after resigning?
• Some disagreement, could be a bad precedent for future admin dropouts if they can retain root after resigning.
• Most believe it's safer to remove root.
• Admins don't need someone right away to fill the third position. Will be mentioned in mail, interest to be gauged.

Charity Sleepover

• Redbrick Net Cafe, money for internet usage.
• PC's needed, could be some from School of Computing, CSD need to be contacted about opening ports in the Venue.

#lobby

• Bad for new members, some older members spamming/being abusive.
• At this point in the meeting, Eoghan Cotter falls off his chair.
• Poor behaviour from certain members is costing us regular logins from first years/new members.
• Troublemakers to be warned and banned if they continue.
• Padraig is opposed to long term bans from the channel.

AOB

• Helpdesk - Week 11, screen tutorial. To be taught without logging in to IRC to reduce spam.
• Bans - Eoghan dislikes people unbanning after a ban has been set. Committee to be mailed with info when a ban is put in place.
• Long meeting is long.
• Christmas Party - more info soon!