Minutes of Meeting on 16/11/20 at 7:00pm

Present Alexandra Purcarea, Tudor Finaru, Anabel Yong, Ananya Majumdar, Artemis Livingstone, Ryan Schuller, Daniel Kirkman, Lars Thalian Morstad, Rokas Gudavicius, Ammir Barakat

Agenda

Pronoun roles on Discord
AcFam Family Feud
STMU
G-Research coding challenge
Christmas Events

Discussion and Decisions

G-Research event moved to 2020-12-03 because not many people signed up for the event, but it is limited to students in their final two years only.
STMU by Transfer Wise: no response from company, so if still no communication by Friday then Ananya will speak about biotech as a student speaker. Allie is okay to postpone event to next Friday, and Tudor to make FB event and add to Google calendar.
Family Feud: could make a league, form to find out family availabilities, to be done by Ananya
Christmas events:
- Due to lockdown, lots of freshers haven’t been able to form strong friendships/groups and will be stuck alone in Edinburgh on Christmas day so we could set up Discord on the day to give people a space to drop in
- Cook-along - Alex: there is a society that has a weekly bake-along, could be done a few days before Christmas
- Christmas movie watch-along: could do joint with Glasgow CompSoc, and create poll to decide which movies to watch. Maybe collaboratively with another society if appropriate depending on movie?
- Committee secret santa -> Ananya, reddit matching
- Recruit volunteers to provide food/entertainment for children throughout Edinburgh during festive period
- Presents to those in Edinburgh? E.g. postcards/socks
Pronoun roles: no opposition, Artemis is on it
Nord VPN: nominal cost to the society, then free to students. Alex has meeting tomorrow.
Cafe partnership supported, Ananya to enquire further
SigINT planning to do a big event soon
CompSoc will be doing the introductions for the next 2 Debias workshops with WiSTEM -> Alex