Minutes of Meeting on 19/10/20 at 6:00pm

Present Alexandra Purcarea, Ryan Schuller, Elspeth Smith, Patrick Kage (SIGWeb), Rob Phi (Guest), Samuel Macleod, Daniel Kirkman, Ananya Majumdar

Discussion and Decisions

Voting platform - Rob Phi:
- Democrat is an online, live platform
  - We are being granted a free trial of sorts, which when paid for includes branding and pay per credit costs.
  - Numbers are only shown in admin portal
  - We will be using the simple majority mode
  - Uses Kubernetes?
Production costs: approximately £200-250 per event, but this is roughly half of what would be spent on pizza for IRL events => worth the investment.
Donations: worth looking at, there is enough money to warrant the discussion.
- Considerations to keep in mind include anticipating costs, hit of recession post-COVID, etc.
  - The committee as a whole agrees to not take political actions as that does not fall within the remit of CompSoc
  - Charity suggestion - Black Curriculum
  - General ideas for donating:
    - Merchandise store
      - Talks in collaboration with other societies (eg ISOC)
      - Lump sum
      - Panel discussions - pre-recorded to maintain hygiene, Q&A style.
  - Unanimous vote in favour of donation of some sort.