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.

So it will be tutorial one week, Cinema the next and once a month night out. That has got to attract some people's attention.

what sort of compsoc is it going to be?
when are ye planning to meet and what are ye planning to do at it?

im in carlowit compsoc, we meet twice a week, and all we do is play games.
its hard to co-ordinate everyone to play the same games and sometimes its plain old annoying having to setup the games for other people that dont know how all the time.

holy **** this is one spammy thread, wheres your mod?

ohhh nice to meet you, good job you're doing here.

what sort of compsoc is it going to be?
when are ye planning to meet and what are ye planning to do at it?

im in carlowit compsoc, we meet twice a week, and all we do is play games.
its hard to co-ordinate everyone to play the same games and sometimes its plain old annoying having to setup the games for other people that dont know how all the time.

if you get everything official and in writing you can get far when it comes to a server. im sure ye have some system there where you log onto any machine a drive is mapped to your account, for us we get a G drive for ourselves, and a H drive which is common to all students in that year.

for compsoc we got the techies to setup a compsoc account and a compsoci account and they created a 10gig S drive for us. so compsoc account could read from the S drive and compsoci had write access.

we take a lab, the closest one to the techies office, its got maybe 30 P4 2.8ghz 512mb ram machines with ****ty 64mb on board graphics. but i think we got sorted like those are good machines to have available. advertise at the start of your year, do ye have a clubs and societies day???? very good advetising there.

on clubs and socs day, we got two laptops, and set them up playing counter strike ( i hate that game ), we got an extremely high number of people to join from that advertising. next year i say we try to get maybe 4 laptops and a better game going.

we meet twice a week 5pm-10pm or thereabouts, which is better for keeping the soc alive, but bad as some people may not want to go twice a week.

games is always a problem, getting everyone to play the same game is always a problem, setting up and co-ordinating the games is always a problem, getting games to work on the computers is annoying as some games need write access to the c: or registry drive to work and we dont have that

pub time

yeah ET is good fun if you know the maps
do your best to get a server, you should find it easier if you write down on paper what exactly you want the server for, like hosting games, websites, ssh, downloading/burning isos off heanet and so on. the college will be very restrictive though on the services allowed. thats if they are in anyway concerned about their network security