RBOnly:Minutes 2002 12 02

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Minutes of Meeting, 2nd of December 2002.

Present:

  • Nikki, Gráinne, Dermot, Cillian, Mark C, Eoin, Shane, David.

Absent:

  • Mark Dunne, Declan

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.

Intersocs Newsgroups

  • 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?

EGM

  • 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.

Christmas Event

  • Rana talked to Nikki about this
  • to be organised with FilmSoc, DCUMAC, Dance soc...
  • Post about it
  • to be held in Major Tom's, which we got for free.
  • 5 Euro on the door, it'll be on Wednesday Dec 11th

Vhosts/guest/project

  • 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?
  • aside - CSD providing for clubs and socs? Mailing lists/diskspace?
  • Adam Buckeridge wanted to contact Nikki about getting a room for RB.

Helpdesk exam

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

Prodigy Downtime

  • 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.

Clubs & Socs passed to CSD

  • 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.

Any Other Business

  • 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.