what to do next year?

How about ye get a server and give me a shell account on it? I've been in gmit for long enough now, havent I?

Well an AGM to start with and some new members. Then they can be asked what to do.

Intro to courses is always a good one. Get someone from year above to give a quick review of what to look out for. Like what lectures to attenda or where to get books/notes.

How about support groups for everyone who has had tony o leary?

On a more serious note im a "former" gmit student i.e i dropped out but if i can help with anything just give me a shout.

Ah yeah the mans a living legend but tbh liam shaughnesy is the overall winner i'd say if ya got that man mental he has the skills to design your doom in cad and then whip up a device to kill you in materials and processes all of course with a bit of help from batman aka jim borge. ,

Aye when did ye form i didnt see anything about the soc before i left this year?

Originally posted by tman
how about hearting less cock?
that goes for you too, Asok.

T.I fanboy still eating yore lemons!

Originally posted by ARGINITE
thanks man always a help pitty you wont be around next year to greet all the new members: )
and pick a pr officer!

I'll be around to welcome them and i'll have a decent signup program with database access also

The pr person will be around next year. I'm sure their might be some other attractive women I can help promot also

I had a bit of a chat with some of ye at the last lan, but here's a few ideas (about to run out the door from work):

1. Write up some formal Society Constitution.
Hold an AGM, get official and legal-smart straight away. Make sure you cover the collective asses of the committee members and auditor well.
Will save you hassle in the long run.

2. Write up slides (powerpoint/Impress), book a room, advertise the ****e out of it and hope people turn up. About an hour is long enough for a tutorial.
Try an have at least one tutorial/talk/event/workshop every fortnight. If ye can do that consitently and actually have people show up, you'll be doing grand

3. Run events for ragweek, freshers week etc.
One thing I've done the last two years was a retro gaming session in the bar/college/somewhere with people.
You'll get alot of people coming up who are attracted by the shiney lights. And you'll also discover that the most unusual people will recognise some of the old games.
Plenty of dolly birds seem to remember Lemmings for instance.

4. Pimp Opensource software for people doing work.
GMIT has got a decent net connection doesn't it?
It's hooked up to ITNet afaik.
USE IT, IT'S THERE FOR EDUCATION.
YOU'RE SOCIETY'S PURPOSE IS TO INCREASE PEOPLE'S KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS WITH COMPUTERS.
I can't see how they won't give you a connection and a few U of rackspace for a server.
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie has over a metric shitload of various linux distros.
Grab Debian, RedHat/Fedora, SuSE or Mandrake for beginners, offer it around (prehaps buy a spindle or 2 of decent CDRs+ plastic pockets, burn off a few copies of Mandrake Live or Knoppix, Setup a desk some monday and offer the first 25 free to people if they sign up, take orders from other people for the next week.
If people pay a €1 membership fee, they get a CD with a nice free powerful pretty OS in a week's time. Will build membership, and prehaps funding.
Maybe also ask people/members to donate a bit of money to the server fund.

5. Show a film or two during the year.
Terminator 2 prehaps.


Re: Server, network etc.
If they agree to give you a connection, try and ensure you easy access to the box if needed, that it's in a safe place, that it's plugged into a surge protector that isn't in danger of being pulled out when the cleaning lady needs to hoover.
Ensure that the actual network connection is 10Mbit Fullduplex or better.
by Network connection I mean the connection from the server to the GMIT lan.
Anything 1Mbit or above is good enough to start with.
External connectivity is more important than an ocean of bandwidth at the start.
You'll need to either run your own firewall on the box (IPtables), be able to request certain ports open/closed fairly easily or both.
Going from what I've heard before, it's important that you stress to whoever listens that linux is "more secure", "more educational", "more production standard" and above all is "free" (and in more than just the monetary sense).
You must also stress that the society is capable of adminning the box securely, will take responsibility for the actions of it's members/users and the other few things.
As for the machine itself, I would push you to try and go dual cpu if you can, and a RAID 1 pair of 120+Gig drives. At least that way if a drive dies, you need only RMA it, slap int he replacement, rebuild the array from teh good disk (simply copy stuff onto the new empty drive) and not a byte is lost.
Also, with RAID1 you'll get 2x the read rate over a single disk, though only 1x the write, as it's writing the same data to 2 disks, which takes the same amount of time.

I'm rambling now, but if you want a chat about the server, society or whatever (possibly over some frosty beverages), I can arrange a bit of a pissup some weekend in Galway before September.

lol what happened? DVD compatibility issues?

Was it not in one of the new lecture theatres with their ceiling mounted projectors, The film society shows movies in them and it works pretty well, altho sound is mono and a wee bit low

lol an .avi eh?
Well I have it on DVD for again,
I thought last year was supposed to be more of a test run, because of server probs and all the rest...