CSS Committee Meeting - Minutes

Location: LG23 + Teams
Date: Monday 20th October
Time: 18:00 BST
Attendees: Matty Widdop (MW) (Chair), Marcus Gustafsson (MG) (Minuting), Sumeet Brar (SB), Amrit Bhogal (AB), Sabrina Ahmad (SA), Evie Wilson (EW), Jhundon Mendi (JM), Rohit Jose (RJ)

1 Apologies
  • Fearne
  • Toby
MW
2 Adoption of Previous Minutes
  • Minutes adopted
MG
3 Matters Arising All
4 Committee Handover
  • Drive Transfers
    • Action TL: Find drive transfer script at some point
      • Action carried forwards
All
5 Past Events
  • Hackathon?
    • Valyfy
      • ACTION MW: Contact guild
        • Action carried forwards
  • BBQ
    • ACTION SA: Put training on SGF
      • Action Cancelled
  • Welcome Week
    • Ming Moon
      • ACTION FT: Complete SGF for ‘deposit’
        • Action carried forwards
All
6 Future Events (standing item)
  • Break
    • AB, SA, EW and MG will be there at various times
  • Halloween Quiz - Thursday 30th October
    • ACTION MG: Get baby pictures
      • Action in progress
      • MG will put out last call this week
    • ACTION MW: Buy alcohol
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION MG: Poll for costume judges
      • Action complete
    • ACTION MG: Print out answer sheets
  • EGM - Wednesday 22nd October
    • First year rep, PGT rep, PGR rep, Hackathons officer
    • Auth code is pinned in the EGM committee channel
    • MW reports we have someone for each role but only 3 manifestos
    • MW reports zoom has been set up
  • Christmas Meal - Thursday 4th December
    • ACTION MW: Email/Ring about rainbow lasagna and two courses
  • League Tournament
    • ACTION EW: Create Team VCs and Online Gaming category
      • Action complete
    • ACTION EW: Create sign-up form
      • Action complete
      • EW asks when the sign-up should go out
      • MW suggests 2 weeks before
    • EW reports that we have decided on Friday 21st November
    • EW reports the winner will receive hygiene products and there will be a secret runner up prize
  • Bar Crawl
    • Provisionally Saturday 15th November
    • FT’s plan:
      • 19:00-20:30: Flight Club
        • £9pp for darts
        • Booking £12pp
        • They have food
      • 20:30-21:00: Katie O’briens
        • Unsure on booking costs
      • 21:20-22:00: The Brasshouse
      • 22:00-23:00: Felsons
        • Online only allows up to 10 for online bookings
    • ACTION MW: RA and ticket request
      • Action in progress
      • MW reports RA complete but ticket request needs t-shirt prices
    • ACTION MW: Buy Pterobyte stickers
      • Action carried forwards
  • OSM Mapathon
    • Thursday 27th November
    • ACTION MW: Do RA
  • Bletchley Park
    • ACTION MW: Book coach
  • FOSDEM
    • Reminder: Grants
  • Cross Platform Objective C Workshop
    • ACTION AB: Submit pre-prepared RA
  • Bad Film Collab (hackers)
    • ACTION SA: Ask Bad Film if they are on board with Hackers
    • SA suggests we supply popcorn
  • CSS Hookers Collab
    • ACTION MW: Reach out to hookers
All
7 Sponsor/Industry Update (standing item)
  • Hastings Direct
    • ACTION HP: Redirect Hastings Direct to Amrit
      • Action complete
    • AB went to the Birmingham investment and finance group and reports that a lot of companies are waiting to make budget decisions until the Bank of England decides rates
    • AB reports he is going to reach out to bending spoons
    • AB is going to the careers fair
AB
8 Finance Report (standing item)
  • Most recent statement balance: £2,474.59
  • Actual working balance: £1,447.51
  • Pending incomings
    • Memberships
  • Pending outgoings
    • Stickers
    • Ming Moon
  • TeX plushies
    • 48 sold
    • 2 remaining(?)
      • JM reports no responses to plushie e-mails
OB
9 EDI Report (standing item)
  • ACTION SA: Write Black History Month post
    • Action in progress
  • ACTION SB: Write Diwali post
SA
10 Committee Suggestions (standing item)
  • New emoji competition
    • ACTION SB: Compile list of lesser-used emojis
      • Action carried forwards
  • Ban Amrit from the kitchen
    • JM asks if this covers just AB’s kitchen
    • MW says no
    • ACTION AB: Respond
MG
11 Any Other Business (standing item)
  • Thigh Highs
    • SA suggests we take deposits and if we don’t hit a threshold, we refund
      • Hard to do through guild systems
    • ACTION RJ: Research thigh highs
All
Actual start time 18:05 BST
Actual end time 18:56 BST
Duration 0 Hours 51 Minutes