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+# **CompSoc Meeting Minutes 2025-10-20**
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+## **Attendees**
+### **Committee**
+* President \- **Kacper**  
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+* Vice President \- **Anna**  
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+* TechSec \- **Emily**  
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+* Social Secretary \- **Param**  
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+* Graphic Designer \- **Kay**  
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+* 2nd Year Rep \- **Danyil**
+### **SIG Reps**
+* BitSIG \- **Omar**  
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+* SIGINT \- **Archie**  
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+* Tardis \- Merlin  
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+* Cloudsig \- Iretemi, Suvan, Eva
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+Guest \- Isaac (taking minutes)
+## **Items**
+**AI and accessibility hackathon**  
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+Anna approached by Aurora Constantin from school of informatics  
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+Google and skyscanner as sponsors (unsure if this is actually obtained or just planned targets?)  
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+Asking for help from compsoc  
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+Could be promotion, making challenges, organisational advice  
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+Planned to be in February  
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+Kacper \- Don’t want it to be like cauldron labs event, i.e. make sure compsoc doesn’t take too much of the burden
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+**EGM**  
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+uni events team aware of everything going on  
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+booked from 5-9pm  
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+Don’t share bending spoons recordings publicly, can stop/start livestream around it, post recording privately  
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+Kay has camera with mini-hdmi out which can be used for livestream through OBS, need to get adapter to HDMI  
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+Emily \- Need to rewrite rust code for scraping members list because uni changed auth stuff
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+Kaiwen won’t be allowed to play video during election, unfair as not explicitly stated in rules
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+**Kacper \- Web3 society hackathon collab request**  
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+Originally wanted to do it in sem1, rejected because of HtB, so moved to sem2  
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+Allegedly revolut, solana, etc. are willing to support  
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+“Crypto HtB I guess”  
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+AI agents, stablecoins, mini apps, DeFi  
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+Potentially say compsoc can’t help them unless they’re a SIG  
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+Ask if QuantSIG are interested?  
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+Kacper will get some of the web3 people to a future committee meeting to talk more about it
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+**Cloudsig**  
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+Kacper doesn’t want to vote about them today, technically they don’t need a quorum by the constitution, but practically they should need one because the SIG has been dead for 2 years so no direct line of succession  
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+Merlin \- point of quorum vote is to prevent priv-esc takeover of committee by small group of  people  
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+They have a budget, \~£350/year, over about 7 sessions, project share is more like £20 per session for snacks and stuff, list of sponsors to cold-email, might want to check for ones which have bad reputations (BDS lists) after getting responses  
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+Start running regular events in Sem2 to give more time for planning, start with a big intro event (AWS workshop), do regular events every 2 weeks  
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+Smaller businesses are more amenable for speakers  
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+Michael glienicke would be likely to be willing to do a talk \- might be useful for getting more traction with non 1st years  
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+SIGINT collab, CTF with cloud theme, e.g. misconfigured s3 buckets, …  
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+Anna, Kacper \- Important to advertise aggressively to try and get more non-1st years  
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+Push back Sem2 event by a week or 2 because lots of people won’t get back for a bit after christmas hols  
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+Emily \- clearly are taking it seriously, have proper planning for events, concur around importance of getting non 1st-years, diversifying committee outside of just 1 friend group to make SIG more sustainable, finding people who have more expertise for teaching  
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+Kacper wants to sign off on any announcements before they get sent  
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+Try to get access to mailing list for advertising  
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+Anna \- vote on cloudsig quickly to make it easier to do planning, events, advertising  
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+Don’t have enough of exec commitee for vote to take place this week  
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+kameran’s busy with HtB so might not be able to help out  
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+CloudSIG back for halloween \- frankenstein