Rocksoc minutes: Monday 15 March 2004

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These minutes taken by: Elise

Minutes of committee meeting 15/03/04
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Meeting opened at 8.45pm
Present: Keith, Baz, Oli, Richard.
Slightly late: Elise.

1. Minutes of the AGM for approval
We actually did this at Octaine last week, without seeing them, but I don't think there were any glaring errors.

2. Treasurers Report
Awaiting.

3. Welcome to the new committee.
This was done. Secretarial equipment has been passed on from Catherine to Elise. Oliver still has the t-shirt, which are to be picked up by Richard and delivered to Oli soon.

Action: Richard/Oliver/Oli

4. Deciding the permanent location of the pub meet.
Pros and cons were briefly discussed. Oli objected to the Pickerel on the grounds that they stopped serving food at seven, but withdrew this when it was pointed out that actually they serve until 8.00. It was decided that we would continue with 8.30 on Mondays at the Pickerel
for the time being, although someone should mail -official to check there are no major objections to this. Oli to update the website to reflect the move. Baz also suggested that we start having informal social evenings at the Alma on Fridays, as there is pool, and potentially free beer.

Action: Oli, someone to mail -official.

5. WUS

Mike(from the Alma) has agreed to close up the club whenever he's there, allowing whoever opens to leave earlier. It will be decided at the committee meeting prior to each WUS who is taking responsibility for opening up and looking after the cashbox. This will usually be Richard or Baz.

6. Publicity

Keith is going to find contacts to put up posters in as many colleges as possible. Richard to email him with a copy of the most recent poster. Baz is going to sign up as manager for the CUSU societies database, which should automatically get our listings into TCS (Elise to forward him email about this). Places which will take flyers: Forbidden Planet, Sunrise, Clowns, KSR, Portland Arms, Alma, Cult clothing(?), the cafe on Burleigh Street (called?). Sainsburys will also allow posters. Listings to go into Varsity and CEN, and someone should keep an eye on Metal Hampster and Kerrapp in case they start taking club listings again.

Action: Ketih, Baz, Elise.

7. Events.

Will probably use Man on the Moon for gigs. They have a couple of power-metal tours which we could promote. There will be one gig next term, a May Brawl, possibly on the 15th of June. One of the aformentioned tours could be used, but Baz & Richard to talk to a)the Kambar and b)the band about dates.

Other events to hold include the usual punting and picnic in the summer, possibly things like laserquest and bowling, and trips to other towns for their rocksoc events. Suggestions of Nottingham, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester and Liverpool were made. We may hold a college-based event
next term. Keith to contact colleges, find out whether they'd hire us a room, if non-students are allowed and costs. Elise to bring calendar to next meeting, so we can start filling in dates. There should be a term-card this term.

Action: Keith, Baz, Richard, Elise

8. Report.

A link to an online survey has been sent to everyone who signed up at the fresher's fair. Elise to look at results and summarise before next meeting. We need to get more feedback by talking to people at WUS, pubmeets and so on. We'll come back to this in three weeks once we have some more feedback, and come up with some draft possibilities for the direction of the society, before we start looking into pros and cons. Elise foolishly volunteered to head the writing of the report.

Action: Elise, All

9. Adoration and abhorations.

The committee adores:
Black-faced mountain sheep, Beer, Gibson Les Pauls, Red Bull, and
Curry.

The committee abhors:
Motorised scooters, the Irish(particularly the rugby team), NFS, not
drinking, and people who walk in cycle lanes.

Meeting closed at 9.30pm