[tech] [ucc] Minutes of Meeting on Thursday, 13th October 2016; Re "Need wheel to come throw out stuff"

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TL;DR: The committee does not need to have *wheel* come in to deal with 
old things,
it needs to have individual members (many of whom are on wheel), come in 
and deal with the old things.
Because in general there are like 3 things that wheel actually need kept.
And a pile of crap a very small number of people want kept for their 
personal hobbies.
Hobbies that the club exists to encourage, for sure.
But personal hobbies, not wheel issues.


On 13/10/2016 11:43 AM, Oscar Hermoso wrote:
>    - Need to arrange for wheel to come in and chuck deal with old things
>      - Club needs to keep moving forward to stay relevant
>        - UCC used to be about new technology
>        - No reply email from guild yet about long term storage
>      - Current committee wheel aren't the appropriate wheel members to deal with old machines

 From a wheel perspective, there is very little we can't throw out.
There are only a couple of things that are needed for maintaining the 
machines that are not utterly obvious
(Eg don't throw out the switchs we use for LANs, or machines currently 
in use)
Those things are:

  *   A small variety of serial-ish console cables, used to interact
    with the Switchs
  * the PS2 and VGA extension leads, used to connect computers to the
    KVM switch
  * *Tools* from the tool cupboard and/or machine room, eg The external
    DVD drive, the crimping tools,


Anything beyond that, really, is not a wheel concern but rather the concern
of individual people, who happened to be members of wheel.
And thus really can deal with it just like any other member of the club.

Eg,

  *    I personally feel that it would be dumb to throw out all the
    currently unused rack mountable cases, because we can use them next
    time we build a server.
  *   A couple of people eg [TPG], [BOB], have a retro-computing
    f̶e̶t̶i̶s̶h̶   hobby. what they do in their free time, is not the
    concern of wheel.
  *   Quiet a number of people believe we should keep the ability to
    read any portable media from days gone by (eg Floppy disks).

But everyone involved feels this not because they are wheel members but 
because they want the club to do well at achieving it's objectives -- 
just like most members, just like committee.
The cause infact goes the other way -- they are on wheel, because they 
want the club to do well.

Determining which conflicting members to listen to, and giving action to 
plans is a committee problem.
It is a duty given onto the committee to use the power's of the club, to 
further the clubs objectives.

*11 Duties of the Committee*
The Committee shall be responsible to the Club in General Meeting for 
giving e ect to the objects of
the Club

*13 Powers of the Club*
The Club may do all things necessary or convenient for carrying out its 
objects and purposes, and in
particular, may:
1. acquire, hold, deal with, and *dispose***of any real or *personal 
property*



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Wheel Member
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