Meeting minutes

2019-10-31

Last modified 10/21/2024

Present: Kyle Cotton, Lars Thalian Morstad, Dee Yeum, Athiya Deviyai, Patrick Kage, Alan Paul, Lorenzo Baldini, Samuel Macleod, Alexandra Purcarea, Ryan Schuller, Elspeth Smith, Gwion ap Rheinallt, George Gilligan, Guneet.

Agenda:

  • SIGquant SIG proposal:
    • Tailors to both STEM and other students.
    • Prepared 8-week syllabus with a Trading competition at the end. Aiming for 15-20 people.
    • Concerned with FinTech.
  • Finance rundown
    • Projected spending sheet has been made.
    • We can spare ca. £3000 for HTB, ca.£3000 for infball and ca. £5,500 unassigned.
    • We are fine for money.
  • New Sponsors
    • Optiver is a gold sponsor and Modulr is a silver sponsor. Contracts have been sent out.
  • HTB
    • Modulr and Optiver are CompSoc sponsors at HTB this year.
    • HTB is getting £3k from CompSoc.
    • Sponsors have been confirmed.
    • Still missing some responsible people.
  • SIGINT
    • Large CTF for UK universities.
    • Would be expensive, but many potential sponsors.
    • Replaces an event which is no longer running. Fills a niche.
    • Many interested parties, the school, companies and the government.
    • Can potentially compete with HtB, but the target audience is different.
  • Workshops and LHD: Build
    • Samuel can potentially run
    • We need concrete suggestions for workshops
  • ScotQuan
    • EUSA associated social enterprise.
    • Some potential branding and money issues.
    • Problems: payment, name changes.
  • Merch
    • Membership Card. Circuit board design was chosen and Appleton tower on the back.

TODO

  • Talk to Neil about suppliers.
  • Keep track of SIGINT event
  • Order membership cards
  • Finalize hoodies
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