CompSoc Meeting Minutes 2025-11-10

Attendees

Committee

• President - Kacper
• Secretary - Alex
• Treasurer - Kameran
• Junior Treasurer - Dhyey
• Vice President - Anna
• TechSec - Bex
• Social Secretary - Param
• Graphic Designer - Kay
• 1st Year Rep - Kaiwen
• 2nd Year Rep - Danyil
• Old Person Rep - Pa'uk

SIG Reps

• SIGINT - Archie
• BitSIG - Omer

Guests

• Yuto

Items

Next STMU

• Huawei - just waiting on a specific speaker
• And found a PHD student happy to be there on the 26th
• Will book - worst case use lightning talk idea

CloudSig Vote

• "To reinstate cloudsig as a sig with Eva, Iretemi, Sam as leaders"
  • Will be part of CompSoc
  • Will receive £200 preliminary budget
• Using remote voting
• Aye - 12 committee votes, 2 sig
  • Vote passes

Event interest registration

• Danyil's project to create website RSVP system
• Will need to consider GDPR and data collection
  • Only collecting emails and maybe delete after event
  • Will require contact for early delete

AoC Event

• Yuto speaking about advent of code
• Advertise at November STMU
• Poster?
• Close adding points on the 22nd
• Organise collection in January
• Committee timeline
  • Decide rewards before December and advertise
  • Buy rewards during December
  • Organise collection in January
• Budget
  • 100-150 quid for prizes
• Reward ideas
  • Stickers
    • Will need design
  • Keychains
  • Ducks!
  • Small Blahajs
  • RPI Picos
  • AT Lego Kits
  • Bex suggests - custom mugs
  • Kameran - informatics forum lego set
• Point of contact
  • Bex

Neurotech Sig

• Been hunting speakers
• 3 Speakers lined up
  • Speaker might need travel reimbursement
  • Check EUSA reimbursement rules
• Want to hold a launch event last week of November
  • Won't do that
  • Will launch during SEM2
• Will announce at STMU

SoI Comms Support

• School wants someone to do comms
• Would be a social media manager for SoI
• On-off role
• Paid by event
• Speak to Anna - Param interested

Merch

• Tote bags
• Merchandise
• Sort socks

Misc.

• Committee christmas social
  • Secret santa - Kay
• Some christmas social - Param

Actions

• Instate cloudsig - Anna, Bex
• Decide AoC rewards - Bex, Yuto, overall committee
• Announce Neurotech Sig - Anna
• Merch - Alex, Kay
• Christmas social - Param
• Secret santa - Kay