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.

0.1 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.

0.2 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.

0.3 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

0.4 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.

0.5 Helpdesk Report

- Helpdesk has finished its duties until the New Year.

0.6 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.

0.7 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.

0.8 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.