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Apologies
- Apologies received from Marcus, Evie, Oli, Sabrina, Leo, Sumeet, Matty,
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HP
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Adoption of Previous Minutes
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LB
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Matters Arising
- Agenda / Minutes format feedback
- Still had no feedback
- HP is unsure if it’ll come back soon, so we’ll upload as is and see how they work
- If people bring it up down the line, we can update accordingly
- JA says it is a reasonable plan
- MN asks if it will be auto converted
- MN says it is a process that can change as we go
- S asks if we can reach out to people who need the accessible format to get their thoughts
- Committee Social
- Bowling is booked for 14 people in total
- If you can not make it, let HP know
- If you now want to go, come along and see if we can get you in
- Remember student IDs!
- Starts at 10 past 6pm
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Incoming Committee Welcome
- Action new members: Do Guild training
- Deadline is the 12th
- 2 people have not enrolled
- Vast majority have completed training
- MW sent a list of people in handover
- Action new members: Write Committee bio
- Haven’t been caught up with
- MN asks for merge, HP thinks 1st July
- Pinned in handover, HP will post again
- Handovers
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Past Events
- Hackathon?
- MLH has emailed us about meeting r.e. birminghack
- LB says they do want to meet with us
- It’ll be a post-exam thing
- ACTION FT: Follow up early June to organise a meeting with MLH
- BBQ
- ACTION MW: Search for BBQs to buy
- ACTION MW: Ask Habiba if we can use disposable BBQs
- ACTION GB: Check if the raffle book is there
- ACTION RJ: New publicity for the BBQ
- JA enjoyed it
- HP says we started later and a few small issues
- Overall, a success to run on the Guild lawn
- RJ thinks it was pretty good overall
- Attendance was lower than expected
- MN says some people said it was a weird day, but also said it was the best day we had
- Raffle & keyrings didn’t happen unfortunately (didn’t get approved in time)
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Future Events (standing item)
- EPS Trophy (formerly Sports Day)
- SB added HP to the group chat
- Newest message: “Hope it’s possible”
- Said payment would be £19.12
- HP is worried about delays and late publicity
- HP will follow up with SB and the group chat
- Pub Night
- ACTION HP: Start sorting Pterobyte stickers
- HP has stickers! They look better!
- Everything else has been sorted
- FT has worked on Instagram publicity
- HP suggests a day-off announcement
- ACTION JA: Write pub night reminder
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Sponsor/Industry Update (standing item)
- The Trade Desk
- HP knows Patricia responded to MG’s email and nothing else
- ARM
- ACTION HP: Chase Vishwas
- Action Complete
- Done right before the meeting so no response yet
- Answer is probably no
- ARM didn’t get the expected amount, so are not sponsoring
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MG
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Finance Report (standing item)
- Most recent statement balance: £142.44
- Actual working balance: £1,588.87
- Pending incomings
- Pending outgoings
- TeX plushies
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MW
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EDI Report (standing item)
- The Big Gay Month
- SA is working on an announcement
- Eid Ul-Adha
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SA
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Committee Suggestions (standing item)
- TeX Pokemon Card
- FT says different cards with types, Terabyte, stats, etc.
- MN asks if we’re encouraging gambling
- FT suggests different cars for different programming languages
- HP says we already have stickers as collectibles
- JM suggests rarity based on number of mentions in CSS
- V suggests membership discounts
- S asks legality & Guild-legality
- MN suggests you just buy the whole set as merch, rather than freebie or giveaway
- HP suggests looking into where we can get/produce these cards
- ACTION FT: Look into getting cards
- Make the new colour roles start with a capital
- “Yes” - JA
- HP decides no :(
- HP will respond admitting their choice
- Wordle channel or thread
- MW has already sorted this
- Make a pet opt-in channel
- MN says already a thread
- People want a channel so it doesn’t keep disappearing
- MN suggests a channel for photography including pets; but that causes issues with food channel
- Pets as a separate channel is more accessible and may encourage people to share pets
- MN says TeXBot will need changing:
- ACTION MN: Add to TexBot
- ACTION HP: Change perms
- ACTION MN: Write non-ping announcement
- ACTION HP: Respond to thread
- Sloman lounge taps are sticky
- CSS Putt Party Tournament
- HP thinks it would be fun for over the holidays
- FT thinks it sounds good
- MN suggests picking a random day in Summer to run it and announce it once we start
- HP suggests a proper event
- HP is unsure whether we should involve outgoing committee; suggests GB & FT
- ACTION FT: Start planning and pick a day
- CSS Minecraft Server
- We have one, but what do we want to do?
- MN mentions build competitions as a short term event
- JM thinks we should continue with survival modded MC
- LB suggested ATM 9 (No Frills) but HP does not like it
- HP prefers something that has something for everyone
- AB suggests ATM 11
- All Of Fabric is an ATM-esque modpack that HP likes
- JM thinks we shouldn’t go too tech-heavy; S agrees, they couldn’t be bothered to figure out the modpack (many agree)
- JM suggests Cobblemon; HP isn’t sure
- AB wants Computer Craft
- “That has Lua, doesn’t it?” - HP
- JM suggests older Feed The Beast
- MN suggests asking for a Discord vote based on a shortlist committee makes
- ACTION Everyone: Put mod suggestions in Minecraft channel
- HP will respond to channel
- CSS Fish Channel
- MN wants to know if we need fish reacting to people, or whether we need a fish POV
- HP says Pets will do this
- We need to fish react all pet images - HP
- HP suggests making pets a media channel so it can only be images
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LB
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Any Other Business (standing item)
- Big Handover Meeting
- HP added this for MW to discuss
- We will bring it up next meeting/in the Discord
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