RBOnly:Minutes 2002 11 04: Difference between revisions

Present:  

*Mark C., Shane, Nikki, Carla, Declan, David, Cillian, Eoin

Absent:   

*Dermot, Grainne, Andrew, Mark Dunne.

Also Present:

*Daire (gumibear)

==Microsoft==

*Gumibear talked about origianl plan for a box with with Win2k server & IIS installed, with possible view to expansion.

*We may have possible speakers from MS on .NET - this is more likely to come to pass.

*Hardware issue stalled ? There was a lengthy explanation.

*Questions were asked about the box; do we just need software?

==SPC Grant / SU==

*Nikki, Carla and Andrew met with Imelda today. Imelda knew nothing worthwhile, there will be another meeting tomorrow.

*Could quite possibly get second HDD.

*Discussed people to approach on the SPC. Mark recommended getting our grant form again and going through it with Kate Marquis.

*SU sponsorship cheque has been mislaid, nikki will get after Una Redmond about this.

*Additions to grant form - barcode reader.

==Events==

*SoSuMe is booked for the 7th November. Free food, with name tagging suggested as a good idea.

*Ask Grainne to mail us acc. statement.

*There will be no tickets.

*Socs Ball - secured 110 tickets,  maybe another 100.

*We need to send around a mail about socs ball/SoSuMe/helpdesk tutorials

*Intersocs Event, pencilled in for the 20th Nov.

**Free venue?

**Shane made aware of posters.

*Regarding the xmas event, POD was mooted as a venue, it having drinks promos and resident DJs.

==Standing Orders==

*Phil's Minutes SO - Passed

*Open Redbrick Committee List - Not Passed.

**(Cillian recommended a trial list and mentioned some examples in the past of bad decisions)(Mark wants members more involved & encourage department discuss lists)

*Mark's SO regarding weekly meetings.

**these have been delayed for now, with a provisional date set for Thursdays.

*Discussed Open Meetings  

**Cambo, Kamili, Mark made points. It will be taken to the list though first.

*Committee meetings should be starts promptly, and the secretary will take attendance - Passed.

*Committee members will speak in turn - decided not to have this as an SO.

As an aside; Committe list must be responded to. Nikki/ Andrew repliers. We shouldn't ignore mails.

==Skip/ Disposal==

The batteries need disposing of ASAP.

==SSL Cert==

*We have to talk to DCU CSD guy to sign a form.

*EZtrust not an actual recognised secure SSL cert provider.

==Any Other Business==

*Mass hey Standing Order was passed.

*Amendments issue will be left until Andrew is present.

*Nikki is sorry for the College View issue, and our lack of official response.

*Hepldesk tutorials are going fine. Helpdesk lads had a discussion. Jerry said that he will do his talk later in the year.

*The Room: Nikki has been unable to contact Richie Kelly at all. We (as usual) still need to pester him about this room.

*Compsoc is irrelevent (!)

*IRC policy: Everyone is to read it and we can talk about it possibly next week.

*Canoe Club asked for a new urban kayaking account.

*Posters for HTML tutorial tomorrow to attract clubs and societies.

*Cillian suggests more backups be done. Also a regimented way of finding out society/club cmte members for passwords.

*Get webmail started for clubs and societies.

*St. Pats students - Nikki to talk to SPC about this tomorrow, numbers to be confirmed (about 250).

*Cillian mentioned the admin training thing. Discussed how to get people actually working on UNIX boxes we can afford to destroy.

*Accounts are to be disabled December 1st (approx) Cillian recommends against deleting old old ones just yet.