RBOnly:Minutes 1999 03 24
DCUNS Committee Meeting - 24 March 1999
CG20
present apologies
Justin John Looney
Jonathan
Caroline
Brian
Chau
Adam
Barry
Sarvesh
Aoife
Cecily
1. The new committee members, chau, and adam, we welcomed.
2. Hardware
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Patrick Grant has given a list of hardware for which he can
guarantee SPC funding.
It includes a PII Motherboard and 400mhz Processor (not celeron),
SCSI Card, and Fast Ram.
Adam will get another two quotes for a dual board instead, and
present that proposal to the SPC, rather than a single processor
board.
Hard Drives - /var, and /home, are nearly full, we need to get more
disk space.
We have over 60gigs of disks, but they are noisy, and we need
to find another room for the monolith. Justin will investigate.
3. Newsgroups
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Some ridiculous groups are appearing - "things tanya hates", and
"house of jam".
Brian suggested a newsgroup hierarchy.
House of Jam will be removed, and "things tanya hates" will make
way for a redbrick.hated group instead.
4. AGM
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Night in the Bar on the 8th
Night out on the 15th instead, cecily will investigate "the norseman"
in Temple bar.
Dave murphy has put forward some motions which can be read on the
newsgroups; the basic argument being that admin test is not compulsary
(9 committee members voted against supporting the motion, only
brian voted in favour, therefore the committee will NOT support this
amendment to the constitution).
It also calls for non-elected admins to have the same authority and
power that elected admins have, again, the committee were not in
favour of this motion.
Candidates for election as we see them at the moment are...
Chairperson - Jonathan Lundberg, Anthony "huey" Miles
Secretary - Caroline Sheedy, Kevin "p" cannon
Treasurer - Damien "otto" martin, Justin Moran
Helpdesk - Tibor, Neomage, Munchkin
PRO - Julie, Kudo
Ents - Cecily, Orly "orly" orly.
Webmaster - Brian.
It was decided that no candidates should be publically endorsed
by the committee, but members of the committee are free to
nominate who they wish.
Voting this year will be done by a proportional representation system.
There will be no electronic voting, or postal voting.
5. 486's - These will be sold to the highest bidders.
6. AOB
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User "Jasper" got an account called mother, and attempted to
impersonate an admin in order to get ppl's passwords..
drop him to adventure shell.
Flin is no longer a feasible option, and will make way in september
for a new shell written by John Bolger.
Chat - IRM is good, but nonstandard, it should be used for now.
Kevin Cannon is writing an IRC script to make RBIRC easier
to use.
7. Helpdesk Test - Last years results will not count for this year.