RBOnly:Minutes 2002 12 02

Minutes of Meeting, 2nd of December 2002.

Present:

Absent:

Went through previous minutes and agreed upon them.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.