DM Meeting @ 2009-02-03 18:11:00
6:11pm, Kami Lounge.
(1) Welcome and apologies.
Present: Matt, Andrew, George, James, Martin, Mat, Natalie, Pierre,
Rachel, Vicky.
Apologies: Rob (LATE).
(2) Rotas.
The Chief DM had helpfully added an exciting new feature to the PDF rotas: surname initials. This was suggested when Mat qualified so it has only taken a few short weeks from inception to implementation (which took some 40 seconds).
Yet this revolutionary change was not without flaws: some thought the James' name should appear as "James McL" rather than "James M". James clarified that whilst in Scotland "McL" would be preferred over "M" (itself to be preferred over "Mc"), in England the situation is rather different: "M" is in fact the preferred form (with "Mc" still a distant third).
The Chief DM revealed that the new system works by appending the surname initial to the "Nickname", which caused much consternation. It was agreed that it would be better if it only added the surname initial if the nickname was the same as the first name.
(3) EPOS System.
The Chief DM had the idea of adding an option to show setup to choose between slow or unreliable membership checking. Rachel said that DMs should not be trusted with decisions, so it should just try the unreliable one and then switch to the slow automatically when necessary.
(4) Sponsored event.
Pierre can help with the quiz from 9:30. Pizza fascists will set up the food.
(5) AOB.
* The next Chief DM will encourage the next IT officer to work on EPOS v3. It was noted that Mat may be the next Chief DM and next IT officer, in which case he will be encouraging himself to do something he has no idea how to do.
* Rachel's beer tasted nice.
* Thanks to James for the chocolate.