Present: Alexandra Purcarea, Samuel Macleod, Yuto Takano, Andi Dicu, Ammir Barakat, Patrick Kage, Jorge Sanz (SIGINT), Michael Andrejczuk, Artemis Livingstone, Karthik Narayanan, Paula Sparrow
Agenda
- Checking in on handover, in particular email accounts, how to make sense of all the emails we get etc.
- EUSA annual report
- Arty mentioned something about BCS
- Tardis donation pitch
- Discord mental health channel discussion + bots that might be needed (this might entail some voting)
Discussion and Decisions
- SIGINT update: everything is going well, other than BCS, which is taking a while to pay and in the meantime, people are waiting for prizes. We decided to float them the money to buy prizes.
- TODO for Anabel: pay SIGINT 1,800 GBP (contact Jorge Sanz).
- If people to get control of their emails back, they should share a password rather than ask Yuto to transfer the email account again.
- Tardis is in need of money in order to upgrade their services. Although not a SIG, many of our members are invested in this project, and it is older than CompSoc. There was a discussion of whether we should help them through reimbursements. We would probably prioritize Tardis over a charity donation. Moreover, we could set up a way of receiving money in their name.
- QUESTION: Should we allocate (a fenced amount of) 3,000 GBP to be used by Tardis on a case-by-case basis throughout the year? Voted in favor unanimously.
- Mental Health Channel: Discussion over including said channel as it might be innactive or might be too dark. Was suggested to have access on a role operated channel. Suggestion for it to become a venting channel so as to avoid dark themes, and it should be closely supervised. Instead of channel a workshop was suggested as well as having a professional come in to give a talk.
- CONSENSUS Against having a mental health channel as it has a potential to spiral into dark themes. Mental health resources will be provided by Ammir and pinned to #serious/#announcements. There was talk of a mental health workshop and talk for next year.