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Minutes 2024-01-14

Started at: 18:04
Does Committee agree on last weeks minutes: yes

  • Points of Info:

    • Chair Update:

      • end of last meeting
        • chaos, not how it should work
        • new rule, if door open, nobody speaks
      • voluntary society
        • if you cant do something, arrange other people to fill in
        • let people know

    • Vice-Chair Update:

      • no updates

    • SysAdmin Update:

      • chair sysadminning in sysadmin’s place this weekend
      • apache unhappy, gave it some love (with a hammer)
      • zeus filling up, rip email generator :(
      • sorted now
      • meeting with iss tomorrow
        • want to talk about their plans for dcu networking
        • rb.dcu sub domain
        • few ports, ssh onto apeture (want to move main services onto it)
        • might try to get minecraft port open
        • delay for mc, can’t set up on new servers right now, would need vpn access
        • no plain port root out
        • zeus unhappy, other place to host
        • send any requests onto dom before 1pm tomorrow**
        • sysadmin - add mail and irc to ports we want to expose**

    • Events Update:

      • games night

        • wasn’t amazing
        • wasn’t many games
        • not snacks we hoped for
        • fell apart due to miscommunication
        • some people thought it was in common room
        • not too well planned out
        • lessons to learn, more communication, rob was’t available on thursday
        • people could have brought games, set up wii etc
        • ended up in the common room
        • worked out alright in the end
        • universal handover, doc in cmt wiki about it

      • demonware talk

        • went pretty well (chair is biased)
        • great turnout, around 30 people logged, but more were there
        • online aspect, could be heard
        • 1 member said they enjoyed it
        • Damien Marshall good speaker

      • Arista

        • arista do everything
        • they are ordering pizza
        • they are sponsoring pizza, 30 pizza
        • can always pick up drinks if needed
        • big push for arista event
        • pro, mention the voucher prizes in announce, top 5 get interviews **
        • internship interviews, but 3rd-4th years only
        • 2nd years generally do the best in it (question complexity)
        • Arista have events and helpdesk numbers (prob around 2:40-2:45)
        • tshirts as well

      • fosdem

        • no meeting with c&s
        • likely not happening
        • been 2 working days since hearing back from them
        • haven’t responded yet, any can reply
        • we werent the only society
        • could do fosdem outside of dcu
        • we can’t be part, but can give flights details, accom, etc
        • shouldn’t have happened, was discussed in meeting, ping went out
        • get details together for people to get to fosdem themselves**

      • prizes for brick of the world

        • ps5, very potentially (person emailing abroad atm, back tomorrow week)

      • christmas party

        • talk to ash and other guy about nubar
        • week 12, wednesday (most 4th years in as well, main event that week), 29th November
        • who is santa: one of helpdesk **
        • organise dvds from CeX
        • less than 10 dvds in server room
        • could give out random server room stuff
        • whos going to CeX: events**
        • 30 euro of dvds
        • wrapping paper in server room

      • last event

        • for semester 2, have backup event planned, everything laid out
        • follow a predefined fallback plan (discord bot talk, cmt lightning talks)

      • sem 2

        • demonware, 2k

      • chair ci/cd talk

        • gitlab 3rd and 4th years
        • tuesday week 12 or wednesday week 11
        • seperate to hackerclub

    • Treasurer Update:

      • bank jank

    • Helpdesk Update:

      • hackerclub next week
        • will sort out later
        • let gdo know by thursday**
      • last week
        • went well
        • shell scripting
        • fun scrips
        • everyone was interested, a lot of engagement, people laughing, having a good time
        • went off at the end, personally interested in topic, made people interested
      • this weeks
        • arista

    • Webmaster

      • disdisdis
        • 3 hour discussion happened
        • blockbot, how we can get commands for role self assign
        • alumni can opt out of on campus events, hackerclub etc
        • choose pings
        • suggestion box for feedback from everyone (events, webgroup etc)
        • micro frontend
          • contributers can help with web based services
          • solid understanding now
          • up to admins to figure out
          • new service to deploy
        • gitified markdown
          • markdown and history of society discussion
          • trying to get it all back
          • rootholder collected info from website in 2014
          • if you don’t know who associate it, you can ignore input
          • get a lot of services to use markdown
          • centralised gitified markdown collection, used across services
          • sysadmin would love it, but we can’t really unifiy it
          • can’t really do it with wiki, how it operates
          • media wiki, logging in through ldap, cmt are moderators etc
          • anyone can propose changes, can set for markdown
          • gitified markdown approach, fine for websites, not feasable for wiki
          • queries against database is not something we want to do frequently
          • throw wikimedia database somewhere
            • have frequent backups would outweight gitified markdown thing
        • blockbot/rootspa
          • emails spammed
          • bunch of github releases
          • blockbot repo up with basic command
          • job spec on nomad
          • pull request there
          • can get blockbot officially online
          • up to admins to fix cdn issue
          • getting jobs deployed
        • first webgroup meeting
          • joint with hackerclub
          • hackerclub discusses discord bot
          • webgroup will contribute to bb and submit pr at end of session
          • semester 2
          • working on development containers
          • pull container, vscode with right extentions etc

    • PRO Update:

      • no updates

    • GDO Update:

      • thanks for weekend help

    • First Year Rep Update:

      • happy to be here

    • Ordinary Member Update:

      • no updates

    • Common Room Committee Update:

      • gavin’s office
        • have 600 euro approved for common room
        • he will look after dishwasher and other stuff
        • need to provide space heater ourselves
        • drying rack, shelving, etc
        • 4 shelevs free we can put in whenever
        • can get people to put them in
        • funded by faculty, school of engineering, ece, computing
        • tv won’t be paid for
        • faculty tends to throw out tvs, if he gets one, it’s ours

  • Points of Discusion:

    • hoodies
      • form has been sent out
    • blueblock hoodies
      • advertised as same as rb hoodie, but blue
      • can get it changed (zipper)
      • hoodies same as previous years
      • could email all blueblock list
      • options are, rb hoodie but blue, or hoodie with no zip
      • decided:
      • sysadmin asked for same hoodie, but in a blue colour, all mentions of rb to bb
      • ^ forward hoodie email to cmt
      • sysadmin - clarify that it is a zip**