EM 20011122

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Minutes of the Society Executive Meeting Thursday 22 November 2001

Chair: Gabriela Marcionetti

Attending: Gabriela Marcionetti, Christian Kent, Mendel Monteiro, Michael Miller, Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale, Anand Kumria, Elden McDonald, johnt at cybertech.net.au

Apologies: Murray Grant

• Meeting commenced at 19:05.
• TFM
  • Nicholas needs to RTFM :-)
  • Email section will have three parts: Email General, Pine, Mutt
  • "What is ProgSoc" section
  • Find all the bits in /home/projects/tfm/tfm01
  • section on newsgroups, and Google's facilities
  • ftp section, possibly already done?
  • BOFH section
  • Leave Miranda and Haskell sections out of book, just have in online version
  • Dress section!!! quite popular
  • HTML section
  • Changes to Buildings chapter re new building 10
  • Section on "what to do / what not to do" as a first-year
  • Brief Flamewar History section (to avoid in future)
  • Web culture section
  • DUE: 10 DECEMBER (8 December for Nicholas)
• The Move
  • All executive members should attend, plus any members that want to, eg members with their machines in the room
  • Movers hired by the faculty will be coming to move all gear from old room to new room
  • We should aim to be offline for as long as the Faculty of IT is down (during O-week?) - we will have to be, while they are, anyway
• O-Day
  • Elden is nominated Chief Organising Officer (COO)
  • Go see Heidi at Union activities desk to organise
  • Gabby gave an account of the story "Heidi" at this point in proceedings, at the request of those attending
• CD burner
  • Mendel offered to research IDE CD-Rs to buy
  • Also to check whether one can fit in Sutekh, and is compatible with its OS