[committee] For your approval: Insurance Money

[Bob Adamson]

Let me know if you don't agree with this, otherwise I'll send it to ucc@ 
on Monday.



Hi All,

You might have heard that UCC recently got a very large insurance payout 
from the hail storm - just under $55k in fact. Committee will be calling a 
general meeting in the next 2 months to discuss what to do with this 
money, but in the mean time we will be spending a small amount of it (a 
couple of thousand or so). This is your chance to have some input! DO NOT 
SEND PROPOSALS TO THE LIST, there is a wiki page set up at 
http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/MoneyMoneyMoney for people to put discussions and 
ideas. Create subpages where necessary.

In related news, we now have to deal with a large stack of old gear that 
got written off in the hail. All of it got wet, and is in various states 
of broken, but you may want something for parts or hacking. Items being 
offered to members include:
-some PS2 mice and keyboards
-some broken usb webcams
-approx. 5 P4 spec machines
-a couple of dual P4 xeon 1RU servers
-a heap of CRT screens
-1 LCD screen with power supply issues
-1 LCD screen without a power brick
-old mermaid, dual 2.4GHz xeons, 2GB ram, first preference to wheel and 
people who help out the club
-a laminator that doesn't get hot anymore
-3 1Gb FC disk shelves
-8 port dlink switch
-an ultrasparc II box (that's about P2 speed btw)

You have a week to get anything you want, after this it will be going to a 
skip. Be sure to check with myself or another wheel member before you take 
anything.

Bob Adamson
UCC Treasurer

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