Minutes of Meeting on 12/04/21 at 6:00pm

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.