ODay2012 - UCC Wiki

Event planning for O'Day 2012.

For ideas and notes from previous years, see ODay2008, ODay2007, ODay2006, ODay2009, ODay2010 and ODay2011.

Important Info

O'Day is on Friday, 24 February 2012. See http://www.guild.uwa.edu.au/home/activities/oday for more information.
Our stall is A19

We have a number of polos still available, these will be for sale at the stall in the clubroom? [MRD]

Arrange new-member escorts to the room - the bottom of Cameron Hall has a distinct "you're not supposed to be here" feel, and it would also give the new members a friend right off the bat.
Arrange people to talk to small groups of freshers in the room.
Either team up with other Cameron Hall clubs for BIG A2 signage on doors and ground outside or go it alone.
Give new members $5 free dispense credit (their first dispense encounter!) and get them into the room for a chat with a few friendly 2nd years. 2nd years need to explain to people how to use dispense, as well as what some of the things around the room are/do
People (committee and wheel) to set up accounts.

Need a new banner printed for the stall.
Signage leading from the Guild Reception all the way to UCC would help freshers find the place.
Posters need to have the UCC name on them in an obvious way, rather than just being you-beaut pictures - it would be nice if poster designs were consistent, you can get the UCC vector logo from /space/services/http/logos

UCC is older than the Department of Computer Science - 37th year this year. We are also older than the first UNIX users group, the Homebrew Computer Club and the Chaos Computer Club.
Cool stuff:
- Internet coke machine - first one in Australia! (And the Southern Hemisphere)
- Snack machine that not only gets us snacks using a smartcard, but also gets us into the clubroom
Clubroom - dozens of different sorts of computers. Eat your e-mail, read your lunch. Our clubroom is open more often than any club on campus.
Access to webspace, e-mail, computers to experiment with, fully stocked projects bench with tools
For CS students: an excellent way to get exposure to the stuff you won't get taught.
- Also, good place to organise with other smart people
For non-CS students: a chance to play with the kind of equipment you only see in university and corporate environments.
- Good place to go for general computer help
Gamers as well - LANs etc
Not just a student club. Plenty of interesting people around
- People working on Mozilla, GNOME, Flock, Songbird (Yakk's still old guard, right?), Linux, Avahi, plenty of other stuff
- We should down play this. UCC is a student club first and foremost.
A social club, too - our myraid events like LAN's, programming comps, dinners, quiz night, pizza nights, movie nights
Close relationship with other CH clubs - but you don't have to join them all
Begin today by going up to the club, and come to Fresher's Welcome Pizza Night next week and AGM shortly after

The Fresher Guide is in the process of being redesigned and the content updated. [ASH] is working on this. There will be a fresher guide writing night organised by [ASH]

(In name - time - what format)

[ASH] - Will be bouncing between the UASS and UCC stalls all day (with a bit of luck, they'll be close to each other!)
[MRD] - All Day (probably) - Stall, clubroom, being bossy
[TPG] - 11AM onwards - Clubroom (probably working on the trimslice), can be elsewhere.
[BOB] - 7am onwards - everywhere

find a marquee, and how to get tables and pinup boards from the guild
room cleanup
Fresher's Guide
Membership forms - need another 120-150 copies - master available at http://ucc.asn.au/2012membershipform.pdf
Membership stickers
design posters

do a snack run, the machine has to be absolutely full
post a link with dispense instructions on the snack and coke machine. It would also be good if we could have the button labels matching what is actually in the machine (at least at the start of semester)
print posters
check committee can add new members
check machines are all working, upgrade whatever needs upgrading, clear big/old cached user profiles