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Minutes of Meeting on 25/10/18 at 6:00pm

Present: Elspeth Smith, Rokas Gudaviskus, Mo Javad, Joao Maio, Patrick Kage, Tony Duggan, Likhitha Sai, Kyle Cotton, Elena Lape

Ceilidh and InfBall

• Looking at Venues for the InfBall
  • Neil Heatley has a list of approved discount venues that we should look into.
• Ceilidh should have a burns supper added on to it.
• Elspeth will be talking to the Haggis.
• Ceilidh would be Late-Jan/Early-Feb.

Argos Pub Quiz

• Event date either 9th or 6th of November.
• Venue is Bar50.
• Send out the event in a newsletter to advertise.
• Advertise on the Facebook group and page.
• Marketing aimed at students in penultimate year.

Local Hack Day

• Taking place on Saturday from 10:30AM - 11PM.
• Start resources page is up.
  • Page includes back-end, front-end, ML, blockchain, etc.
  • Will include lists of Open Source projects that students can work on.
  • Patrick needs to add extra resources.
  • Possibly put some things for inspirations of students.

Hack The Burgh

• Committee will be Athiya, Alan, Viktor, Elspeth, Elena, Bianca(possible), Vivek, Sanvith(possible).
• Union Of Genius has blacklisted us because of miscommunication on our part last year.
• We are also not going with University Caterers.
• JPMorgan and SquarePoint Capital have become our gold sponsors.

Business in Tech

• Speeches from Microsoft and Accenture.
• A panel being moderated by Don Sannella.
• We have decided to give glasses of wine to attendees.

NewsBytes and CompSoc Website

• Suggested by Caterina in last year’s election.
• Try and get it up and running at the beginning of the semester.
• Thanks Joao.
• The website will need to be redeveloped.
  • Visual Overhaul
  • Content and layout changes.

Merchandise

• Membership Cards
• CompSocks
• Stickers
• Mugs
• Pint Glasses
• T-Shirts

Event Ideas by Tony

• Pub Nights
  • November
• Pub Quiz
• Pub Crawl
• Beering and Gearing
• Bowling
  • November
• Paintball
• Trampolining
• Board Game Night