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title: UWA PCS Committee Meeting 2022-08-08

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# UWA PCS Committee Meeting 2022-08-08

## Venue and Time:

- Discord
- 4pm

## Opening:

_Meeting Opened: 16:03_

Present: Alan, Bea, Christian, Heidi, James, Sophie, Trung

Apologies: Gozz (standing apologies)

Absent:

## Confirmation of Circular Motions

## Reports

### President's report (Alan)

- Got covid
- Did an intro to graphs talk (unprepared)
- Talked to VentraIP

### Vice Pres's report (Bea)
- Sent out a last call announcement for committee eoi
- Closed the applications for committee eoi
- Preparing vibe-check questions
- Went to guild finance with Christian

### Treasurer's report (Christian)
- Went to guild finance to withdraw to external bank account
- Reimbursed Sophie and Gozz (pending approval)
- Attended intro to programming session
- Attended the end of intro to competitive programming session
- Attended ANZAC 4

### Fresh Rep's report (Heidi)
- Attended tech clubs quiz night meeting
- Made announcement for training session

### OCM's report (James)
- Showed up for programming competition talk
- Fetched some pizza for ANZAC 4

### OCM's report (Sophie)
- Did intro to programming competitions talk

### OCM's report (Trung)
- Nothing to report

### IPP report (Gozz)
- Standing apologies

## Training Sessions

### Survey for Topics
- To be sent out soon
    - ACTION @Alan: Send out survey for topics tonight

### Study Sessions
- On weeks where we don't have Tues session, advertise chill study session
- No study session this Tues

### Intro to Programming (2022-08-02) (Gozz)
- 3 people including Gozz + Christian
- Got canned :(
- Can be restarted later, we've got some more topic ideas
- Is running something every single Tuesday necessary/good for attendance?

### Intro to Competitive Programming & Intro to Graphs (2022-08-04) (Sophie & Alan)

### Intro to Programming (2022-08-09) (Gozz)
- We have a rolling booking, should we do a study session with it?
    - Probably not really going to give much attentence
- Cancelled

### Complete Search (2022-08-11) (Bea)
- Bea is running this in-person
    - ACTION @Bea: Run Complete Search topic
    - ACTION @Alan: Prepare contest and write problems
    - ACTION @Sophie: Do this weeks announcements

### Introduction to Quantum Computing (2022-08-16) (Bea)
- Bea running it
    - ACTION @Bea: Run Intro to QC

### Number Theory (2022-08-18) (Alan)
- Alan running it
    - ACTION @Alan: Run Number Theory topic
    - ACTION @James: Prepare Number Theory contest

## Events

### ANZAC 4 (2022-08-06)
- Went okay, 3 non-committee showed up

### Club Carnival (2022-08-09 12-2pm)
- On Thursday now
    - Able to make it: Heidi, James, ?Trung?
    - Treasurer box is needed
    - ACTION @Christian: Bring Treasurer box to club carnival

### Tech Clubs Quiz Night (2022-11-14)
- Cosplay minigame?
- $50 from each club for prizes (Between 2-4)
    - ACTION @Alan, @Heidi : Think about Tech clubs Quiz Night prizes

## General Business

### Club Bank Account
- $$$ has been deposited

### Committee Re-election
- All good, hopefully new commitee by next week
    - ACTION @Bea: Organise interview times for committee elections

### VentraIP

- Need to budget to renew pcs.org.au
    - MOTION: Renew pcs.org.au domain for 3 years ($60)
        - Passed unanimously
        - ACTION @Alan: Renew pcs.org.au domain for 3 years
- I forgot to do the actual application for pcs.au, will do that this wk
    - ACTION @Alan: Manage application for pcs.au domain

## Previous Action Items

- ACTION @Gozz: Website tech updates
- ACTION @Alan, @Bea, @James: Work on hackathon handover (All committee feel free to add/edit)
- ACTION @Bea: Make vibe check questions
- ACTION @Christian @Bea : Go to Guild Finance to reimburse Sophie and Alan
    - Done
- ACTION @Alan: call VentraIP to check on domain registration
    - Done
- ACTION @committee: Think of low-effort ideas for social event over study break
- ACTION @Sophie: Make announcement for pod mentors/mentees
    - Passed to Alan
- ACTION @Trung, Heidi, James: Arrange new pods
- ACTION @Christian @exec: Put $500 into bank account
    - Done
- ACTION @Bea: Make last call announcement for committee re-election
    - Done
- ACTION @James: Website page updates

## Action Items

- ACTION @Alan: Send out survey for topics tonight
- ACTION @Bea: Run Complete Search topic
- ACTION @Alan: Prepare contest and write problems
- ACTION @Bea: Run Intro to QC
- ACTION @Alan: Run Number Theory topic
- ACTION @James: Prepare Number Theory contest
- ACTION @Christian: Bring Treasurer box to club carnival
- ACTION @Alan, @Heidi : Think about Tech clubs Quiz Night prizes
- ACTION @Sophie: Do this weeks announcements
- ACTION @Bea: Organise interview times for committee elections
- ACTION @Alan: Renew pcs.org.au domain for 3 years
- ACTION @Alan: Manage application for pcs.au domain
- ACTION @Gozz: Website tech updates
- ACTION @Alan, @Bea, @James: Work on hackathon handover (All committee feel free to add/edit)
- ACTION @Bea: Make vibe check questions
- ACTION @committee: Think of low-effort ideas for social event over study break
- ACTION @Alan: Make announcement for pod mentors/mentees
- ACTION @Trung, Heidi, James: Arrange new pods
- ACTION @James: Website page updates

## Postmortem

_Meeting Closed: 16:57_

## Digressions:
