CompSoc Meeting Minutes 2025-10-20

Attendees

Committee

• President - Kacper
• Secretary - Alex
• Treasurer - Kameran
• Vice President - Anna
• TechSec - Emily
• Social Secretary - Param
• Graphic Designer - Kay
• 2nd Year Rep - Danyil

SIG Reps

• BitSIG - Omar
• TARDIS - Merlin
• NeuroTech - Amar

Items

STMU Prep

• Need to check permission to record event
• Max committee turnout pls
• Will have academics during the break - to chat to students (Hellen?)

HTB Volunteers

• HTB would like more volunteers
• Opening to committee
• Rewards for people who sign up

Merch

• Socks
  • Need to look into templates - what website to get from
• Massively discount the quarter zip
• Do engagement checking to see what people would like in terms of merchandise

EGM

• Voting system
  • Got scripts that we need
  • Just need to encourage
• Need to upload manifestos

Cauldron

• Cauldron labs
• Event 4th November
• Will have some volunteers to represent
• And we do promotion

CloudSig

• People
  • Sam
  • Iretemi
  • Eva
• Planned events
  • AWS Intro
  • Professor talk
  • Sigint - cloud security
  • EdinburghAI/Quantsig
  • Weekly/monthly events?
    • Small challenges
    • Deployments
    • Workshops
  • Requested to come back with plan for regular event
  • Likely to be working on projects together
• Costs
  • Want to host on TARDIS
  • Free AWS etc credits for students
  • People to write to who can come to events for free
  • No immediate costs (?)
• Spoken to old leader?
  • Ghosted
  • Might need to create a new server
• Overlap with tardis?
• How many people interested?
  • No 3rd/4th years interested - but might reach out
  • Plans to expand beyond friends?

Misc.

• QRT Event
  • 10th November
  • 6pm-8pm
    • Will need volunteers
  • Panel discussion
• Halloween Event
  • Param has reached out to Bar 50
  • Will need announcement post
  • Aiming for 25th
  • Need to coordinate prizes with Hoppers

Actions

• Look into sock options @Alex
• Produce survey for merch idea @Alex @Kay
• Coordinate hoppers event @Param
• Check permission to record Bending Spoons event @Anna
• Asked CloudSig to produce:
  • Plan for regular events
  • Estimated expenses
• Post manifestos @Emily