UCC Committee Meeting on the 29th of September 2023

  • Last committee minutes have been uploaded to the website.

Attendance

  • [BLU] Grace Fowler, President
  • [GPO] Gary O'Donovan, Treasurer
  • [MCW] Lara Frcej, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [BRZ] Bryce O'Connor, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [BRD] Cormac Sharkey, Ordinary Committee Member

Apologies

  • [KKZ] Ariel Carter, Secretary
  • [LTX] Celine Wang, Fresher Rep
  • [I2N] Lorenzo Iannuzzi, Vice President

Absences

Start Time

  • 18.30

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • Went to the UCC x Unigames TTS event
  • That was it

Vice President's Report

  • Absent

Secretary's Report

  • Absent

Treasurer's Report

  • Westpac Main $7,365.63

  • Westpac Savings $46,042.68

  • Westpac Card $2,987.34

  • Guild Account $2,118.31

  • Went to project night

  • Went to TTS night

    • Turned into jackbox night lol

Fresher Rep's Report

  • ABsent

OCM Reports

  • [BRD]

    • Project night
    • TTS Night

  • [MCW]

    • Project night
    • [BRZ] and I put out announcments & posters for [LGM]'s tech talk
    • TTS Night

  • [BRZ]

    • Went to the UCC x Unigames TTS (Jackbox) event
    • Put up posters for [LGM]'s tech talk with [MCW]
    • Did packet loss tests for UWAIT with [GPO]'s help

Action Items from Last Meeting

  • [GPO] to email Kelvin at Guild Tenancy about power outage.
    • Failure
  • [BLU] actions Committee to go on the next food run (if available) to discuss the future of our pricing.
    • Organised (for Sunday 1/10)
  • [GPO], [I2N]: Will try to get commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.
    • Not done
  • Committee/Wheel: Start on data retention policy.
    • All the details have been hashed out, we just need to write it
  • [BLU] will write something about it (?Code of Conduct).
    • FAILURE
  • [GPO], [BRZ], [I2N]: Do more packet loss tests for UWAIT.
    • Done and sent
  • [MCW] talk to CSSC/CFC/PCS about a collab tech talk.
    • Done (DSC & PCS)
  • [GPO] will purchase Tenda e33 ax5400 tri-band gigabit wi-fi 6E PCI-E adaptor from PLE.
    • Not done

Machine Technical Reports

Servers

  • KillMussel.org is progressing
  • [BRD] replacement of gothamburg with updated Mac VM (florence)

Network

  • Latency issues still ongoing
  • One out of the 6 purple switches works!
  • We have a new 10Gbit network switch named mineral

Desktops

  • Bones has purchased a new CPU and some new RAM for the Mac Pro. (venice)
  • Cobra still slow, need new boot drive

Miscellaneous

  • 3D printer works again (bed needed levelling)
    • now to get octoprint working

New Equipment

  • CPU and RAM from Bones
    • Once we get receipt we will accept purchase and reimburse bones
  • Sandpaper donated from [MCW]
    • [GPO] motions to accept, [BRD] seconds
    • 4 for, 1 abstention
    • Accepted

Drinks and Snacks

  • Food run
    • Campbells in Balcatta, and surronding supermarkets
    • If not able to go, be online so you can respond to pricing discussion
    • Make a shopping list tonight.

External Entities

Mail

  • Not checked

Guild/SOC

  • SOCPAC meeting on Tuesday 26th
    • Clubroom applications are open
    • Sem 2 grant soon
    • UWAlternative applied for SOC affiliation
      • Voted no
    • UWA Slavic Society applied for SOC affiliation
      • Voted no
    • UWAnime applied for PAC affiliation
      • Voted yes

Other Entities

  • Nothing to report

Westpac

  • Nothing to report

Events

Past Events

  • TTS Night
    • Advertisement needs to go out earlier
    • Bad timing maybe?
    • Mostly UCC people, few Unigames
    • Ended up playing Jackbox

Confirmed Events

  • [LGM] Enterprise storage Tech Talk
    • Next Tuesday 3pm
  • Wk 11 VR night
    • Wednesday/Thursday 2pm
    • Need 6GHZ adaptor

Project Night

Tech Talks

Tentative/Future Events

Club Collaboration

  • Camp
    • Budget is not yet completed
    • EMP is submitted, not yet approved.
    • Make a list of stuff to bring
      • 4 PCs, plus power, network, peripherals and VR.
  • UniLAN
    • Subcommittee regs need to be adjusted
      • Allowing non-club committee stakeholders to be a member of the subcom.
      • Subcom meeting tomorrow to sort out final details.
      • Will update how it goes
      • Likely will be held at Curtin or Murdoch this sem.

Closed Section

General Business

Important/Get Done Soon

Miscellaneous

Major plan/ideas to do this year

New equipment we should get

Action Items

  • [GPO], [I2N]: Will try to get commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.

  • Committee/Wheel: Write data retention policy.

  • [BLU] will write something about it (?Code of Conduct).

  • [GPO] will purchase Tenda e33 ax5400 tri-band gigabit wi-fi 6E PCI-E adaptor from PLE.

End time

  • 19.22