RBOnly:Minutes 2002 12 02

Minutes of Meeting, 2nd of December 2002.

Present:

• Nikki, Gráinne, Dermot, Cillian, Mark C, Eoin, Shane, David.

Absent:

• Mark Dunne, Declan

Went through previous minutes and agreed upon them.

Batteries

• Gráinne's been working on asking the SPC for money for the removal of the batteries.
• She got money for the two hard drives Dermot and Cillian bought.

Intersocs Newsgroups

• the Intersocs officer should talk to HEAnet and other college about boards and their decisions.
• We should make this specific to the role of Intersocs officer.
• Will mail Colm to this effect and ask that further questions be directed to Shane on this matter.
• suggest that one member of committee be obliged (possibly constitutionally) to be Intersocs officer.
• get guest speakers for a possible conference?

EGM

• room booked, QG13.
• Find out if the computer will be locked.
• Two people asked about running as one person (ENTS). This was discussed, it was agreed that if done openly, it's a good idea. Will post the idea to Redbrick-discuss
• discussed acetates/laptops/voting-slip system.
• send around a mail to raise awareness and post to .egm and .announce
• check if room is available before 7pm.
• Tell people to bring their Student Cards; swipe program to run on Eoin's machine.
• amendments - only one, Dec's 3 missed meetings one.
• 2/3 majority needed!
• quorum discussed.
• Order will be helpdesk -> Ents -> Secretary.
• Make sure people know what is a valid vote and make this very clear (possibly on slip?)
• Nikki will print out voting slips.
• Shane talked to the Slipper people about afters.

Christmas Event

• Rana talked to Nikki about this
• to be organised with FilmSoc, DCUMAC, Dance soc...
• Post about it
• to be held in Major Tom's, which we got for free.
• 5 Euro on the door, it'll be on Wednesday Dec 11th

Vhosts/guest/project

• Discussed limiting the amount of vhosts one user can have.
• Provisionally decided that from now on it be limited to 2 vhosts per user account.
• We should draft an SO on project/guest accounts on how to treat them
• Should we take money for these accounts? (Example: stephenc and coolmine a/c)
• Donations are welcome :)
• inactive accounts a/cs to be zapped unless necessary and active.
• treat project/guest accounts like paying accounts in that they come up for renewal every year so they will remain under scrutiny and not go unnoticed and will eventually be removed.
• Should we also do this for clubs and socs?

• aside - CSD providing for clubs and socs? Mailing lists/diskspace?
• Adam Buckeridge wanted to contact Nikki about getting a room for RB.

Helpdesk exam

Due to take place tomorrow afternoon, the 3rd of December.

Prodigy Downtime

• Cillian was installing patches, then he rebooted from home and the kernel panicked. The admins worked on it all of Monday, Cillian said it was a tedious process and hasn't been completed yet. It'll be operational tomorrow.

Clubs & Socs passed to CSD

• clubsandsocs.dcu.ie possible!
• email, drivespace and official sigs for the accounts.
• It seems to have happened under our noses.
• Cma wants us to forward clubs and socs email to CSD. Not bloody likely.
• CSD may not stick with this for long.
• n.b. - someone needs to talk to Fergus and Cma about all this.
• Cillian replied to Cma about integrated services for clubs and socs but he never got back to us.
• Do CSD want this? Why are they doing this?
• we won't be forwarding stuff for C&S.
• Gráinne will talk to Imelda about it all.
• Question why Cma seems to be going over our heads.

Any Other Business

• Gráinne mentioned the password system being screwed in the Hub.
• Will Nikki take over events if nobody gets elected?
• We're NOT declaring the EGM void if nobody runs for ENTS.
• SSL Certs - should we ask Fergus to sign stuff? Haven't heard back from EZtrust.
• Pre-EGM meeting on Wednesday, 12:30pm in the C&S area.
• Goodbye and thanks to Mark Campbell.
• Cillian suggested we could move the junk from the C&S area (assorted hard drives, dead motherboards, etc) into the room (c105) until we find a suitable skip/other home for them.
• we might have the money to get rid of the batteries from the EU500 originally budgetted for wiring the room up for a UPS (which is now not going to happen)
• Room access would be needed from Richie Kelly
• Even if we're relegated to CSD, we have 1m^2 and space for maintenance in their server room.
• we could squeeze everything into one rack.
• should we look towards not getting the room in the immediate future?
• in the meantime we can use the room for storage.
• noted that RBradio is back online.