RBOnly:Minutes 25 09 2007
Absent: Declan (excused), Matthew (presumed drunk).
Reports
Kev's minutes are awesome!
Werdz's web boards are awesome!
Posters pretty much done/ready!
LDAP broken!
Dev site needs some changes to work in IE7!
Camera ordered!
Standing Orders
Cian still to do this, to be reviewed in 2 weeks.
Server
LDAP Nearly works.
MySQL and Apache still to be moved.
Hopefully will still be ready next week, admins to discuss further.
Advance notice of downtime still important.
Website
Web boards nearly finished, Andrew rocks! (not receive, the other one)
Dev site sucks in IE7, some work still to be done but hopefully ready to launch with web boards next week some time.
Most of the committee don't want a separate web board for private discussion. Kev does, but no-one seems to care :(
Clubs and Socs Days
Availability: Kat, dano, d_fens and receive available most of the time both days. Drag0n available most of Wednesday. Werdz between Games Soc and Redbrick. Eoghan and Cian busy with SPC or other socs.
Andrew (receive) to make a timetable of some sort.
Receive wants to make a PowerPoint presentation with slides mixing gallery pictures and posters etc. It is suggested that bad pictures (eg, those involving Redbrick's scarier members) not be used at the stand. Clippy (or whatever that helpful MS animation is called) to be used. \o/
IRC can be bad on the screen, not to be displayed too much.
Free hoody as a prize?
Camera box or poster/advertising at the stand.
Java CDs, 100 burned, more to go. Damo to contact Charlie Daly about distribution and stuff. Dano, Ashley, Kat, receive to go to a CA lecture and hand them out and talk.
Events
Freshers' Ball
11th of October (most of us didn't know the date)
Posters ready, spelling to be fixed on band name. Camera to be advertised.
Hallowe'en Ball
Dorans available 24th + 30th, but it would have to be open to the public by 10pm and they're not very nice.
The Hub in town, 100 euro plus sound engineer
(the above info may be slightly mixed up, there was some confusion when i wrote it down)
Suggested that we just have a general night out/get together rather than a Halloween Ball, no point running two events so close together when the second has traditionally poor attendance.
Helpdesk
Helpdesk Tutorial
Suggested that it be the 4th, but Thursdays are bad, plus accounts might not be all created. The following Wednesday is better.
Mails out to newbs about account creation to include ads for tutorial + Freshers' Ball.
Helpdesk Plan
Architecture tutorial - need dates and stuff before running it. No D6 for semester one this year. Web design tutorial some time before first year web design project due in.
PHP intro on wiki should be changed to normal wiki or a usable format.
Photoshop tutorial for Arts or Tech Week.
Computing tutorials for engineering tutorials?
CA165 list can be used to advertise from a dcu mail account.
Merchandise, Clothing etc.
Hoodies
New Design? Some suggestions made.
Some like the old one, others don't. It doesn't stand out enough etc.
Redbrick with the "Red" part in red? Phase might sue us.
Writing or logo on shoulder?
URL on the back shortened to "redbrick.dcu.ie"? This would be firstly an admin issue :)
Order of 20-30 should be made at some point.
Ashley to talk to the company we used before.
T-Shirts
New t-shirts would be good.
NO white circle. White circle is banned.
Ashley to contact people who did the SU clothing.
Umbrellas
Do we really want them?
Ashley yet again to look into it.
Shop
shop.redbrick.dcu.ie suggested. Could sell hats, mousemats, umbrellas, clothing etc. Was suggested last year but never happened. Ashley to check if we'd be allowed.
AOB
- I HATE CIAN
- IRC for newbs - #freshers not a good idea. Bots to leave, better moderation needed to ensure /disco is avoided.
- Ops: Should only be for committee where possible, eg - no "esteemed holders of root".
- Meetings: Diarmuid isn't on Tuesdays. But Declan isn't free on Mondays! Oh, the dilemma!
- Flyers - SU think they're racist. It's silly, but we're better off dropping them.