Minutes of Meeting on 26/10/20 at 7:00pm

Present Alexandra Purcarea, Tudor Finaru, Anabel Yong, Ananya Majumdar, Artemis Livingstone, Ryan Schuller, Elspeth Smith, Patrick Kage (SIGWeb), Daniel Kirkman, Samuel Macleod, Lars Thalian Morstad, Rokas Gudavicius

Agenda

Welcome new committee members
Donations
Upcoming events

Discussion and Decisions

New members:
- New treasurer = Anabel Yong
  - New 1st year rep = Artemis Livingstone
  - Encouraged to read constitution and familiarise with SIG structure.
Discord needs to be promoted further as it is now being used as primary mode of communication -> put it on the website homepage.
It is getting difficult to keep track of events => better coordination on the Google calendar is required, and adequate descriptions must be added with event details.
Calendar Later was discussed? Blocker: Kyle
RSS feed for calendar to Discord hasn’t worked so far, but if it can be made to work the committee is happy to adopt this.
Secretary: needs to get instagram and twitter accounts back up and running.
Feedback survey: to be posted (social sec)
AcFam Adoption Night was a success - attendees are keep for regular events of similar formats
Budget surplus inciting donation conversation:
- Particular causes we are keen to support include, but are not limited to, computer science promotion and support in primary schools.
  - Links for suggested causes were supplied, to be added.
  - To decide on who to donate to, a curated poll (similar to that used when Turing Trust was selected) could be used to also engage members
  - President has made a Slack thread for committee members to post suggestions of causes in one place
  - We could get involved with CodeDojo in more than a purely monetary capacity
  - Discussion RE: lump sum donation amount still pending
  - All outstanding debts as of this date are currently settled
  - Pay received from Optiver and G-Research
  - For lump sum donation: suggestion of multiple smaller installments, possibly to different recipients, was suggested and supported. This can then be spaced out to accommodate upcoming costs/financial uncertainty
Secretary: news on website needs to be updated