Present
Alexandra Purcarea, Anabel Yong, Ananya Majumdar, Artemis Livingstone, Ryan Schuller, Patrick Kage (SIGWeb), Daniel Kirkman, Lars Thalian Morstad, Rokas Gudavicius
Agenda
- CompSoc masks
- Seasonal events
- HTB
- Discord moderation
- Upcoming events
Discussion and Decisions
- HTB:
- update on planning - dates will be around March, fully online, either 24 or 36 hour duration. Hack Productions (HP) have transitioned to a lot of specifically Twitch-based streaming. HP will manage HTB for us
- The website is in progress, graphics will be from Ryan
- Merchandise: MLH have a system for distribution
- Last year CompSoc gave £4500 to HackSig, need to decide on this year's figure soon but will probably be about the same amount
- Anabel offered to help with finding sponsors
- Need to recruit judges, mentors, volunteers
- MLH provide methods for verification of submissions, which can used after preliminary screening eg GitHub dating
- Main mode of streaming will be bot-ed Discord and Twitch
- Lars is a terrible roast bot
- Ananya to help with sponsorship emails and deck
- About 45-50 people attended collaborative event with WiSTEM :D
- Received good feedback for games night
- Discord moderation:
- The server is growing a lot, this needs to be reflected on the website
- There was an incident where some members had to be banned, this triggered a complete restructuring of the platform's moderation
- We need to define a clear protocol
- There is now a 'quarantine channel' to talk to individuals in question and understand what's happening, conversations in this channel will be one-to-one so as not to 'gang up' on the quarantined
- This also provides a paper trail
- We are still paying for the old minecraft server
- Maybe move to a new one?
- Need to get rid of the old one
- Merchandise:
- Teespring store, idea of prices for general merch and masks = pay per order
- Ananya to ask Neil if he has any other ideas for distribution
- Hoodies ~£20, masks ~£8?
- Idea for donation: match price of items as donation
- Need to come up with a framework for subsidisation
- Events:
- Saturday games nights
- AcFam pub quiz
- Higher lockdown means we need more events to keep people engaged
- Christmas challenges?
- People are concerned that their families didn't turn up but we can't do much about that
- Received good feedback on the artsy challenge
- Donations:
- There will be a poll on the committee slack, not voting means not being involved in the discussion
- Final decision will be made in the next meeting
- Initial installment of £1000, maybe more in the future