CSS Committee Meeting - Minutes

Location: LG23 + Discord
Date: Tuesday 9th December
Time: 18:30 BST
Attendees: Matty Widdop (MW) (Chair), Marcus Gustafsson (MG) (Minuting), Albert Waldron (AW), Deji (D), Joseph Adams (JA), Toby Landells (TL), Amrit Bhogal (AB), Sumeet Brar (SB), Sabrina Ahmad (SA), Evie Wilson (EW)

1 Apologies
  • Maddy
  • Oli
  • Sumeet
MW
2 Adoption of Previous Minutes
  • Minutes approved
MG
3 Matters Arising
  • UoB STAR
    • ACTION M: Invite UoB STAR to a meeting
      • Action carried forwards
  • Earplugs
  • Semester 2 Meeting times
    • ACTION MW: Send out lettucemeet
All
4 Committee Handover
  • Drive Transfers
    • Action TL: Find drive transfer script at some point
      • Action carried forwards
All
5 Past Events
  • League Tournament
    • Action EW: Message anyone who hasn’t collected prizes
  • Christmas Meal - Thursday 4th December
    • Cost submitted on SGF
All
6 Future Events (standing item)
  • Break
    • MG, TL
    • ACTION MW: Find Milk Powder
      • Action carried forwards
  • Bar Crawl (30th January provisional)
    • FT’s plan:
      • 19:00-20:30: Flight Club
        • £9pp for darts
          • ML reports there is a limit on the number that can do darts
        • Booking £100 refundable
        • They have food
        • FT reports they get very busy on a Saturday and the crowd is middle aged
      • 20:30-21:00: Katie O’briens
        • Unsure on booking costs
        • We aren’t guaranteed a table
        • They only take walk ins
        • There is live music
      • 21:20-22:00: The Brasshouse
        • Booking fee info should be in the emails
        • £20 for Brasshouse
      • 22:00-23:00: Felsons
        • Online only allows up to 10 for online bookings
        • FT reports it is £10 to secure the booking, they have offered to wave the pool fees
        • FT says they take mixer app
    • ACTION RJ: Update t-shirt
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION MW: Ticket request
      • Action carried forwards
  • Bletchley Park - Saturday 28th February
    • ACTION OB: Write an application to the EPS culture fund
      • Action carried forwards
  • Imitation Game Movie Night
    • Friday 20th February
    • ACTION MG: Do RA, Activity, create channel
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION EW: Find a room and book it by messaging Todd
      • G12 is free
      • Action carried forwards
  • FOSDEM
    • Reminder: Grants
    • Grants submitted
    • Outcomes next week
  • Cross Platform Objective C Workshop
    • ACTION AB: Submit pre-prepared RA
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION AB: Find a date that works for him
      • Action carried forwards
  • Bad Film Collab (hackers)
  • CSS Plush Making
    • ACTION OB: Do a grant application for materials (We did one for the plushes last year which can be repurposed)
      • Action completed
  • Breast Cancer Awareness collab
    • ACTION SA: respond that we are happy to promote but not run (Instagram dm)
      • Action carried forwards
  • SloLAN
    • Tuesday 20th January
    • ACTION MW: Reach out to VRSoc
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION ML: Create pizza tokens
      • Action carried forwards
  • Board Games Night 2
    • Monday 9th February
  • Hackathon
    • ACTION OB: Do a grant (There is one from last year that can be repurposed, but bump up numbers)
      • Action completed
    • ACTION OB: Write an application to the EPS culture fund (Deadline is 18th January)
      • Action carried forwards
    • ACTION D + AB: Reach out to potential sponsors
      • Action in progress
      • D reports that the excel file has been looked at and sponsors are being reached out to
      • D reports that the hackathon sponsors doc is being updated
    • ACTION MG: Reach out to AFNOM about the mini-ctf
      • Action carried forwards
    • D has met up with Adam from Hackathons UK but needs to be added to the group for the hackathon
      • ACTION MW: Add Deji to Hackathons UK group
    • MW reports RA has been sent to guild
  • Ice Skating/Christmas Markets
    • Event cancelled
    • ACTION ML: Check if the ice skating is there after Christmas?
      • Action carried forwards
All
7 Sponsor/Industry Update (standing item)
  • A new sponsorship doc has been put in the sponsorship channel
    • ACTION EVERYONE: Review the new document
    • AB reports that the doc is almost fully converted to HTML and needs a few finishing touches
  • AB reports that the current focus is Hackathon sponsors
AB
8 Finance Report (standing item)
  • Most recent statement balance: £3,842.89
  • Actual working balance: £3107.62
  • Pending incomings
    • Memberships
    • Christmas Meal Tickets
  • Pending outgoings
    • Christmas Meal
  • Grants
    • Grants have been submitted
    • Outcomes next week
    • EPS culture fund deadline in January
  • There is a £210 discrepancy currently
OB
9 EDI Report (standing item)
  • ACTION SA: Write post for disability history month (by the end of next week)
    • Action completed
    • Send out ASAP
  • ACTION ML: Write a Christmas announcement
    • Action carried forwards
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
    • ACTION AB: Respond
      • Action carried forwards
  • Minecraft Server Over Christmas
    • ACTION MW: Investigate Minecraft Server ideas
  • TeX Earrings Merch
    • MW predicts it will be expensive
    • ACTION SB: Investigate and respond
MG
11 Any Other Business (standing item)
  • Thigh Highs
    • ACTION RJ: Research thigh highs
      • Action carried forwards
  • Committee Jumpers:
    • MW reports he is busy
  • Graduation - TeX Stickers
    • JA is happy to attend the later graduation to hand out stickers, but cannot attend the morning one
All
Actual start time 18:35 BST
Actual end time 19:00 BST
Duration 0 Hours 25 Minutes