RBOnly:Minutes 2002 12 09

Minutes of Meeting, 9th December 2002

Present:

• Nikki, Elaine, Shane, Declan O'Neill, Declan McMullen, Eoin, Dermot, Cillian, David.

Absent:

• Mark, Gráinne.

CSD & C&S

• CSD seem very reluctant to provide H: for socs and clubs.
• Mark Boyle suggested getting a Microsoft server possibly hosted or adminned by him along with Redbrick admins.

Room in Invent Centre

• Ciaran Byrne possibly giving us space in the server room in the Invent Centre.
• 3TL competition mentioned by Adam Buckeridge to Nikki - seems like some money-grabbing event, we're not taking part.
• Nikki talked to someone in the library about a room in there.
• Eoin pointed out we could talk to CSD about where they're relocating and talk to them about getting space in that room.
• possible swipe card access for the Invent Centre.

ENTS plans

• Christmas event is organised in conjunction with other clubs and socs, Beer promos organised.
• numbers into Da2 for the Fresher's Event were enquired about.
• ideas on the Alt Rag Ball?
• Shane, Eoin and Elaine suggested acts, Elaine says she knows DJs who could help us out.
• find out what's happening in Rag Week, make sure there's no clashes.
• encourage use of the ents-list/Redbrick-discuss

EGM

• EGM went well
• noted that Trev complained in person and in writing.
• gouki situation: he says he's not going to run again - what should we do about this?
• Ask official people what to do about this, i.e. people with knowledge of precedent.
• EGM to be announced for next week?? Tuesday 7pm (room tba)
• co-opting - look into this in the event of no quorum.

Helpdesk Report

Helpdesk has finished its duties until the New Year.

Admins Report

• further patching will be needed so downtime will have to be scheduled in the near future.
• there remains work to be done on Enigma.

Carla Logs Part III

• she wants parts of auth logs pertaining to a user to be made available to that user.
• committee agreed that people wishing to see parts of system logs pertaining to themselves MUST follow official DPA channels.

Standing Orders

• discussed Mark Dunne's SO on /var/tmp - ALL AGREED.
• Eoin went through all of his and Elaine's guidelines on running GMs in future. To be looked at as a guideline and not an SO.
• went through this in meticulous detail.
• Shane recommended a ballot box and to count each vote in.
• Standing order suggested by Dermot to deal with the length of time provided for complaint by a dissatisfied candidate.
• Standing orders to be proposed as well - cleaning up the exam question.