Minutes: 1999-2000/1999-05-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MINUTES

10/05/99

 

The meeting was called to order by la presidenta

at 2035 BST. Throughout the meeting absolutely no getting side-tracked*

was allowed. Even pausing for breath was frowned upon.

All of the committee were present except Jinx

who was off getting married or something.

1. The proposed end-of-term event.

We are still waiting for confirmation from the

Portland Arms. Baz assured us that he would "ring them tomorrow" and email

us the result with all haste. We are still hopeful that something can be

arranged in the month or so that we have left. The secretary is to try

and get some more .mp3 samples of the various bands online. Keeping Iris

were added to the list of possible bands.

 

2. Posters and flyers (WUS).

Alex told us that he now has m$ publisher and

can get on with designing some flyers. There was a short discussion as

to the various merits of .eps format as opposed to hardcopy. It was agreed

that the latter would be perfectly adequate and a lot simpler. Kit is to

do some special flyers to promote her Black Metal set (later this term).

It was noted that no flyers had been done in time for the next WUS (11-5-99).

It had been publicised though to members via the website/rocksoc-announce

and is now listed in Varsity.

The WUS officer told us that it was essential

for the design to be at the printers by the end of the week at the latest.

All nodded in agreement.

 

3. FTOTM for June.

It was decided that it should take place and although

some people will have exams looming, it will be on the 3rd June. Iain is

to ring the F&F and the format will be the same as last time (Beer/Jenga/Rock).

Kit will be DJ again. (There was some discussion as to Rob Wilcox being

offered the job, but according to Alex he is crap and repetitive.)

 

4. Flyers for the above.

Alex is to try and redeem himself. Posting them

to non-email members was proposed and all agreed that it should be done.

The treasurer assured us that we could afford it and the secretary pointed

out that it should be a lot easier with our new shiny computerised database.

There was then some discussion about ways to promote

T-shirt sales. The secretary suggested that the committee could all wear

them to the forthcoming FTOTM. This was badly received (they all laughed

at me). La presidenta led the assault saying: "Bloody walking around looking

like a load of sad gits is out of order." The committee is therefore not

going to promote the T-shirts by wearing them. The secretary was then accused

of wearing a RockSoc T-shirt inside out at that very moment. After being

subjected to a thorough investigation by the web warlock, he was proved

to be in fact wearing a plain black T-shirt. It was proposed as an alternative

that T-shirts should be displayed on the door at WUS.

 

5. Progress with the website/mailing lists.

DD (that’s David Damerell if you’ve been wondering)

was blamed for some of the links being messed up on the website and various

other things. Since we are now an official society, we are able to apply

for space on the university PWF. This is to be done and a page linking

directly to the current website will be put up. Alex informed us at this

point that the Metal Hammer website was crap.

 

6. AOB.

It was suggested that the (permanent) swapping

of CDs should be encouraged/facilitated. Alex is to look into ways of incorporating

some sort of list/database into the website.

 

 

The meeting was closed at 2056 BST. We did all

that in only 21 minutes!

 

* This is quite curious – the grammar checker

on m$ word97 disagrees with "side-tracked" and suggests "sidetracked" instead.

The spell checker is not happy with that and says that "side-tracked" is

the correct spelling.