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.

0.1 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.

0.2 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?

0.3 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.

0.4 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

0.5 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.

0.6 Helpdesk exam

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

0.7 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.

0.8 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.

0.9 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.