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Minutes of Meeting on 06/02/20 at 6:30pm

Present: Kyle Cotton, Lars Thalian Morstad, Dee Yeum, Lorenzo Baldini, Elspeth Smith, Ryan Schuller, Gwion ap Rheinallt, Lauren Graham, Rokas Gudavicius, Ryan Schuller , Kim Stonehouse, Patrick Kage, Yannik Nelson, Athiya Deviyani, Alan Paul, Samuel Macleod.

Agenda

• HTB Update
  • Barclays confirmed as platinum sponsor.
  • Need to clarify intersection between CompSoc and HtB sponsorships. There has especially been trouble with Optiver.
  • Venue: AT confirmed, still no reply about Gordon Aikman.
  • Planning to accept 230 people, with a split between AT and IF, with workshops in the LTs.
• INFball Update
  • Budget looks good, might need to cut because of external factors. Cuts will likely not be larger than ca. £200.
  • Neil/ the school could potentially help out with paying for things like staff tickets.
  • Graphics for the Facebook page.
  • Invite staff soon.
• Socials
  • Revs Bub quiz.
  • Games Night with GameSoc.
• Notes from TechSec
  • Moving email designer.
  • New static asset server.
  • We’ve adopted ScotQuans digital infrastructure.
• Merch
  • Subsidizing hoodies: £15 per hoodie, CompSoc donated £1 to Turing Trust per hoodie.
• PWNed sponsor issue
  • SIGint has taken on a potentially controversial sponsor, which might cause trouble with EUSA.
  • This is a subsidiary of BAE systems.
  • There was a student who emailed in with some issues with this sponsor, and took it up with EUSA. Might turn into a protest.
  • Negative press might affect CompSoc.
  • The event will probably go forwards without BAE, but will be a lot worse.
  • Might avoid BAE as a sponsor in the following years.
  • Might be sanctions from EUSA.
  • There has been a suggestion to move the event to be co-hosted by the Inf department, so it’s technically not a EUSA associated event.
• Event with EEE.
• Hash code
  • Hosting with Hoppers, will split pizza cost with us.
  • Need to talk about the specifics of cost splitting.
• Sponsors need to be talked more about, both when they are considered and when they are signed on.
• SIGnet is not active at all. The leader should be contacted.
• The commercial law society is trying to merge many law society into one. Might be issues with this and LawTech.

TODO

• Clarify contracts and how CompSoc sponsorships and HtB sponsorships interact.

Votes Vote to keep BAE systems on as a sponsor:

• 9 for
• 3 against BAE will be allowed to continue sponsoring the PWNed event.