The Computer Science Staff-Student Consultative Committee (SSCC)

Agenda for meeting to be held 1-2pm on Wednesday 23rd November 2005 in 114 Foster Court

1. Apologies for absence
2. Notification of any other business
3. Approval of minutes of the last meeting (March 2nd 2005)
4. Matters arising from last minutes:
   - Student lockers
   - Quiet lab
   - Tutorial arrangements 
   - Late return of coursework 
   - 1B10 test feedback 
   - Recycling bins
   - Scholarships
5. Lab and Computing issues (Andy Maule, Ben Evans, David Tatarata)
   - Servers rebooting every night 
   - User shell changing not supported 
   - Public key authentication with ssh
   - Lab computers not running sshd 
   - Interaction with Helpdesk difficult
   - Cost of additional printer quota excessive 
   - Quicker response by helpdesk for installing software 
   - Wireless network
6. Email issues
   - Users setting up their own forwarding (Ben Evans)
   - Email sent to request from external account being ignored (Ben Evans) 
   - Automatic subscription to email lists (Andrew Cox)
7. Building issues
   - Coffee machine, drinking water, etc. (Andrew Cox, Stefanie Foerch) 
   - Bigger common room (David Tatarata)
   - Wheelchair lift and lift key (Steve Edwards)
8. January Exams (Andrew Cox)
9. Marking of PLINC101 (Prolog) Exam capped at 80% (David Tatarata)
10. Capping of resit and repeat marks at 35% not fair (David Tatarata)
11. 2009 HCI Coursework deadline - moved a month forward (Andrew Cox)
12. Z26 Professional Practice, assessment for SSE students (George Diamantidis)
13. Workshops for GS02 Advanced Analysis and Design (George Diamantidis)
14. Summer Research Programme (David Tatarata)
15. Any Other Business

The next meeting is due in February 2006. In early June 2006 there will be end of year wrap-up sessions for each undergraduate year and for the MSc groups, providing a forum similar to that of the SSCC.