RBOnly:Minutes 2002 11 04

Minutes of Meeting, 04th November 2002.

Present:

• Mark C., Shane, Nikki, Carla, Declan, David, Cillian, Eoin

Absent:

• Dermot, Grainne, Andrew, Mark Dunne.

Also Present:

• Daire (gumibear)

Microsoft

• Gumibear talked about origianl plan for a box with with Win2k server & IIS installed, with possible view to expansion.
• We may have possible speakers from MS on .NET - this is more likely to come to pass.
• Hardware issue stalled ? There was a lengthy explanation.
• Questions were asked about the box; do we just need software?

SPC Grant / SU

• Nikki, Carla and Andrew met with Imelda today. Imelda knew nothing worthwhile, there will be another meeting tomorrow.
• Could quite possibly get second HDD.
• Discussed people to approach on the SPC. Mark recommended getting our grant form again and going through it with Kate Marquis.
• SU sponsorship cheque has been mislaid, nikki will get after Una Redmond about this.
• Additions to grant form - barcode reader.

Events

• SoSuMe is booked for the 7th November. Free food, with name tagging suggested as a good idea.
• Ask Grainne to mail us acc. statement.
• There will be no tickets.

• Socs Ball - secured 110 tickets, maybe another 100.
• We need to send around a mail about socs ball/SoSuMe/helpdesk tutorials

• Intersocs Event, pencilled in for the 20th Nov.
  • Free venue?
  • Shane made aware of posters.
• Regarding the xmas event, POD was mooted as a venue, it having drinks promos and resident DJs.

Standing Orders

• Phil's Minutes SO - Passed
• Open Redbrick Committee List - Not Passed.
  • (Cillian recommended a trial list and mentioned some examples in the past of bad decisions)(Mark wants members more involved & encourage department discuss lists)
• Mark's SO regarding weekly meetings.
  • these have been delayed for now, with a provisional date set for Thursdays.
• Discussed Open Meetings
  • Cambo, Kamili, Mark made points. It will be taken to the list though first.
• Committee meetings should be starts promptly, and the secretary will take attendance - Passed.
• Committee members will speak in turn - decided not to have this as an SO.

As an aside; Committe list must be responded to. Nikki/ Andrew repliers. We shouldn't ignore mails.

Skip/ Disposal

The batteries need disposing of ASAP.

SSL Cert

• We have to talk to DCU CSD guy to sign a form.

• EZtrust not an actual recognised secure SSL cert provider.

Any Other Business

• Mass hey Standing Order was passed.

• Amendments issue will be left until Andrew is present.

• Nikki is sorry for the College View issue, and our lack of official response.

• Hepldesk tutorials are going fine. Helpdesk lads had a discussion. Jerry said that he will do his talk later in the year.

• The Room: Nikki has been unable to contact Richie Kelly at all. We (as usual) still need to pester him about this room.

• Compsoc is irrelevent (!)

• IRC policy: Everyone is to read it and we can talk about it possibly next week.

• Canoe Club asked for a new urban kayaking account.

• Posters for HTML tutorial tomorrow to attract clubs and societies.

• Cillian suggests more backups be done. Also a regimented way of finding out society/club cmte members for passwords.

• Get webmail started for clubs and societies.

• St. Pats students - Nikki to talk to SPC about this tomorrow, numbers to be confirmed (about 250).

• Cillian mentioned the admin training thing. Discussed how to get people actually working on UNIX boxes we can afford to destroy.

• Accounts are to be disabled December 1st (approx) Cillian recommends against deleting old old ones just yet.