[tech] [ucc] Minutes of Meeting on Monday, 29th February 2016

[Andrew Adamson]

> ##General Business
> ----------------
> - [BOB]: approve me spending up to $286 for a graphics card
>   - Committee is currently investigating the purchase of two new machines,
>     there is provisioning there to purchase a new graphics card when that
>     happens, leave it to committee

These two machines have been "currently investigated" for the past six 
months. Pinball is a 2.67GHz i5 with 8G of RAM - it has plenty of power 
for what it's used for and definitely doesn't need replacing at this time. 
Furthermore, in the time that it's delayed, the projects bench computer 
has no graphics card.

The "leave it to committee" answer is pretty poor when you have a member 
willing and able to do the replacement work immediately - I discourage 
committee from taking the position that only committee members can do 
things within the club. I also note that there is no action item for a 
committee member to do the task anyway.

So, can committee please communicate with each other, perhaps via the 
email lists for once, and come up with a better solution to this that is 
faster than waiting for yet another committee meeting?

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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