CompSoc Meeting Minutes 2026-01-19

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

SIG Reps

• AISig - Leo
• TARDIS - Merlin
• NeuroTech - Amar

Items

CompScotch

• 25th year of CompSoc
• Coordinate with company
• Might hold some event
• Lead time from distillery?
  • Ask Niel
• Make some design
• Sell the drink at the birthday

Neurotech event

• Going to try for G.007
• Have placed a EUSA room booking request

Next STMU

• Struggling to get speakers
• Might need to move to 30th
• Will try to do 28th
• Will reach out to speakers

AOC rewards

• Will have a booth at back of STMU
• Rewards to do
  • Mug
    • Need design ASAP
    • Couple of days before STMU
  • Blahaj
• Booth at back of STMU
• Bex sorting
• How many mugs? Might need to order mugs
  • ~3

Huawei Event

• Huawei wants another event, maybe paid separately to sponsorship
• Another OE focused hackathon / AI
• Limited info

Board game nights

• Merlin and Alex board game night idea
• Historically used own board games
  • Informatics Forum board games cupboard
  • Or Edinburgh Board Game Library
• Approval, volunteering
  • Support from committee
  • Happy to look at board game library membership
• Also when?
  • Potentially Tuesdays
• Maybe run one and see how many board games we can get without paying

Welcome back social

• People want more:
  • Tech talks
  • Game nights
  • Hackathons
  • Careers events
• Welcome back social
  • Maybe 31st
  • Karaoke again

Event website

• Danyil made CompSoc events website

SEM2 Hackathons

• Abdul planning AcFam hackathon
• Coordinating around
  • AI expo - first Friday of march
  • PWNED - 15th March
  • Tuples
  • Project Share awards night towards end of semseter

Actions

• Bex to sort out AOC rewards
  • Kay to design AOC reward mug
• Alex, Amar, Anna sort room booking for Neurotech (SOON)
• Alex, Merlin plan board game night
• Param to plan welcome back social