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title: UWA PCS Committee Meeting 2022-09-20

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# UWA PCS Committee Meeting 2022-09-20

## Venue and Time:

- Discord
- 1pm

## Opening:

_Meeting Opened:_ 13:07

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

Apologies: Shalini

Absent:

## Confirmation of Circular Motions

## Reports

### President's report (Alan)

- Submitted EMP + booked room + announcement for Interstate Annual Programming Competition
- Co-ran Trees + wrote a problem

### Vice Pres's report (Bea)
- Nothing to report

### Treasurer's report (Christian)
- Changed OGM date/time on EMP

### Secretary's report (James)
- Announced changed OGM date
- Brought study session snackaroos

### Fresh Rep's report (Heidi)
- Attended the PCS study session

### OCM's report (Shalini)
- Attended the PCS study session
- Announced Atlassian Tech Talk 
- Started organizing the PCS x URC CITS Study Night with Alan.

### OCM's report (Sophie)
- Made marketing material for this week's sessions
- Co-ran trees (Alan carried tho)
- bought snacks for study session and for Atlassian Tech Talk today

### OCM's report (Trung)
- Added changed problem-help channel to new forum feature on discord
- Added 'Manage Server' permission to @committee role in discord to enable use of @carl-bot for scheduled announcements

### IPP report (Gozz)

- Standing apologies

## Training Sessions

### Announcements

- Next week's sessions
    - ACTION @Heidi: Do next weeks training sesh announcements

### Study session (2022-09-13)
- 8 people, 2 non-com

### Trees (2022-09-15) (Sophie & Alan)
- 4 people, 2 non-com

### ICPC Practice Session (2022-09-27) (James)
- Get some easy and challenging problems together for people to practice on - codeforces.com
    - ACTION @James: Print out some problems for the practice session

### String Algorithms (2022-09-29) (Alan)
- It's probably better for Max to run ANZAC review sessions over training seshs
    - ACTION @Alan: Run string algorithm session
    - ACTION @James: Send Alan some ANZAC string alg quesions

## Events

### Atlassian Tech Talk (2022-09-20 4-6pm)
- Nothing to talk about

### Interstate Annual Programming Competition (2022-09-24 10am-12pm)
- Booked Lab 205
- MOTION: Budget $50 for food for Interstate Annual Programming Competition
    - Passed unanimously
    - ACTION @Alan: Buy pizza for Interstate Annual Programming Competition

### ANZAC 7 (2022-10-01)
- MOTION: Budget $50 for food for ANZAC 7
    - Passed unanimously

### URC x PCS CITS Study Session (2022-10-11? 4-6pm)
- URC are doing marketing + EMP
- We're organising snacks/drinks + venue
- EZONE rooms all booked out Wk 10 4-6pm so may need to change date
- MOTION: Budget $20 for food + drinks for URC x PCS CITS Study Session
    - Passed unanimously

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- Still need prizes
- Need to make quiz

## General Business

### VentraIP
- MOTION: Budget $150 for VentraIP top up
    - Passed unanimously

### Westpac Account
- Withdraw more money from Guild account?
    - Motion: Withdraw $300 from Guild account to Westpac for reimbursement
        - Passed unanimously
        - ACTION @Christian: Withdraw $300 from Guild account

## Previous Action Items

- ACTION @James: News announcement on pcs.org.au
- ACTION @Trung @Sophie: Make a general PCS poster design with discord link
- 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 @Sophie @Alan: Run Trees session
    - Done
- ACTION @James: Work on PCS promotion
- ACTION @James @Alan: explore the wilderness for collabs for escape rooms
- ACTION @Shalini: Make announcement 4 days before Atlassian talk
    - Done
- ACTION @Alan: Setup contest for Trees
    - Done
- ACTION @Alan: Ask Max if he's ok with rescheduling String Algorithms
    - Done
- ACTION @James: Make new email + announcement for changed date
    - Done
- ACTION @James: Attend tenancy meeting
    - Not needed

## Action Items
- ACTION @Heidi: Do next weeks training sesh announcements
- ACTION @James: Print out some problems for the practice session
- ACTION @Alan: Run string algorithm session
- ACTION @James: Send Alan some ANZAC string alg quesions
- ACTION @Alan: Buy pizza for Interstate Annual Programming Competition
- ACTION @Christian: Withdraw $300 from Guild account

## Postmortem

_Meeting Closed:_ 13:42

## Digressions:
- Scratch games
- Duolingo binding arbitration clause opt-out