Minutes of Meeting on 01/03/17 at 6:00pm

This week’s meeting covers the future of CompSoc.

Present

Joshua Green, Viktorija Lukosuite, Qais Patankar, Susanne Koster, Aw Young Qingzhuo

General Agenda

68 people coming from the Netherlands
AGM is on the 15th March, event is going up tomorrow
End of year party is on the 4th April
- SDP is over on the 8th of April
Annual report is in progress
Hack the Burgh is going okay
Committee handover bowling sesh
Picnic in a few weeks time
And a picnic a few weeks after freshers week
Games night
- requires a lot of hardware
- Stored safely overnight, and actually stay at the event
- Threat of hardware getting damaged or lost

Future of CompSoc

Being a member of CompSoc, what benefits do you get?
How many events are paid?
There’s no sense of community
STMUs: pizza, and sponsors present themselves, as well as other talks
We have a group split
- Drinkers and non-drinkers
- We need to cater for both, but appear to just cater for non drinkers
MathSoc
- has a lot of socials, most go to drinking, some go to talks
- Liaise with them to not clash events
- Has “sub-committees”, board has managers for “socials”, etc.
- Social manager has their own team that handles small stuff
Constitutional change
- for SIGs?
- You must be in the same year as the year rep you are running for.
HackSec should be appointed, not elected.
- We can’t have a complete newbie running things, Hack the Burgh is a valuable asset.
- It requires dedication, we can’t have people dropping out.
STMUs are Vice President events, not SocialSec’s
Freshers: are very keen, and need to be shown the ropes
The circle is shrinking, we need to improve the community
We need to be closer with Informatics, School of Maths shows up to MathSoc events
Emails
- we can get them sent to all the informatics, but we don’t want to spam. NH is okay with this.
- School of Maths has weekly newsletters, which include “MathSoc is doing…”
- Informatics has weekly blog emails, if we can get them to change it to a weekly newsletter, containing the blog update, compsoc, and general events
As a tech society, we don’t have a lot of tech
- Designated projects people can work on as a society
- WebSIG needs to be expanded and have their own projects