- Ratification of minutes from the previous meeting.
The minutes were ratified unanimously, although Jeff pointed out that he was
absent from the list of people present.
- Report by Ian Abel as Treasurer.
- We have no money.
- Ian gave 30 GBP to Neill on behalf on THCS. The next treasurer
needs to pay this back.
- We have significant credit with Eric.
- We do not currently need new hardware.
- Report by Stuart Rowan as Publicity Officer.
- As publicity officer, Stu was "very trying".
- Few people were interested in New Zealand, as they have only just discovered
telephones there; the Americans were more enthusiastic.
- The domain thcs.org.uk has been registered for the society; Malcolm needs
to be reimbursed for this. Stu pointed this towards the THCS website.
- Stu wrote the yearbook entry.
- He sent a mail to the JCR to encourage new members to sign up; this resulted
in the society's first female members.
- Report by Martin Lester as Secretary.
- We have more members.
- None of the new members were present at the AGM.
- Election of new committee.
- It was suggested that the Publicity Officer be impeached for competence. This suggestion was rejected.
- No applications for posts were received before the meeting.
- Ian Abel was elected as President.
- Jason Morley was elected as Publicity Officer.
- Chris Share was elected as Secretary.
- Stephen Williams was proposed as Treasurer, subject to his approval.
- Timothy Tailor abstained.
- Chris was against being Secretary.
- Jason was in favour of being Publicity Officer.
- Otherwise, all elections to these committee posts were unopposed.
- A "first-year bash" was suggested to raise awareness of the society; Mike
Cripps suggested this might involve a pestle and mortar.
- Static, Matthew Garrett and Malcolm Scott were proposed as mascot.
- Malcolm Scott was elected as mascot with Static as his assistant.
- Appointment of new sysadmins (for Hal).
It was suggested that we approach the first years (Carmen and Jenny),
Theo and Stephen to be sysadmins.
- Bandwidth charging.
- At present, Hal is allowed 8 Gb of external (outside the CUDN) bandwidth;
after that it is charged 50 pence per Gb.
- The Churchill CO suggested charging 10 GBP per gigabyte of traffic.
- Trinity Hall Ents seem to be the main users of Hal's bandwidth.
- We need to count extra-CUDN bandwidth in order to bill users.
- Ian will talk to the JCR about billing societies.
- It may be possible to use the THCS hardware fund to pay for bandwidth.
- For the moment, nothing needs to be done unless there is a problem.
- If the bandwidth usage is absurd (at the treasurer's discretion), the logs
should be used to find out who has used significant bandwidth and bill them.
- Funding for societies ought to come from the college, ultimately; THCS
should not pay for society bandwidth on Hal.
- We need to talk to Eric and Rob about this.
- Sort out alumni.thcs.org.uk.
Stuart Rowan was appointed as Alumni Officer.
- Policy on graduated members' Hal accounts.
Technically, graduates should not have accounts on Hal, although this is not
a pressing matter. Graduates asking for support should be reminded of this.
- Sort out backups.
- Currently, there is a tape drive and a 10 Gb landing area for backups.
- Stephen Williams was co-opted to keep backups.
- It was suggested that we buy two 40 Gb external disks (possibly USB) for backups
and keep them in the president's drawers; we should talk to Eric about this.
- Grind Malc down to dust and see if he forms Malcum Powder.
Unfortunately, Mike's attempts to grind Malc were postponed, due to his absence.
- Any other business.
- Adam Biltcliffe was appointed as Lifetime Honorary Publicity Officer.
- Stephen was appointed as THCS Evangelist.
- With regard to Jeff's report on moose, the moose ate a fish and the moose
was shot, so this is no longer relevant.
- THCS has root on Jeff.
- Jeff is not president.
- Everyone present lost the Game.
- Mike Cripps bought a round, including a girly drink for Matt.
- Chris declared that Stu was made of Lego; Neill disputed this.
- THCS has too many people in hospital.
- Stu asked for the competence of the current committee, including the
secretary, to be minuted.
- A copy of the THCS constitution should be present at future meetings.
