Society Start Up

D.Q

Alright, I'll be entering first year computer science, coming over from the hugely prestigious Orts programme offered by UCD.

I was just wondering what the story is with setting up a society? whats the process involved? really interested in starting one, actually is there a list anywhere of the current societies in DIT?

MikeyCyrus

DIT website, click postgrad student, then society... there not many interestin ones, what would yours be about~?

Irishtrekkie

http://www.socs.dit.ie

15 Payed up members , a good idea , a committee , and budget proposals for the year are the main stuff needed.

Most socs have there Ups and downs over the years , its also hard not having one campus
, but i would say the standard in Dit is very high and
some of the socs could easily be considered the best of there type of society in any college.

MikeyCyrus

sorry irishtrekkie but could you recommend any socs? coz im gonna be new and need to know the best ones

Irishtrekkie

MikeyCyrus wrote: »

sorry irishtrekkie but could you recommend any socs? coz im gonna be new and need to know the best ones

the rule is your surpose to join at least 3 socs, one based on something you like, one based on something new you want to try , and one random/crazy one.

Not sure what to recommend
Gamesoc (had to say that on the committee:D) , DJ soc , Gig soc, Drama soc , Break dance, Bam soc, Fashion , LGBT, Paintball. Are some of the bigger societies , most of them won socs awards last year too. But some of the newer or smaller societies can be just as much fun.

MikeyCyrus

cheers for that

D.Q

I want to start a Mario Kart society.

Smurph90

now i would join that

The Volt

There's already gamesoc so unless it was like real life Mario Kart I can't see it being a runner

MikeyCyrus

REAL LIFE MARIO KART! :L

D.Q

Mario Kart isnt just a game.

just exclusively mario kart.

MikeyCyrus

sounds fun, what would the events be like?

Irishtrekkie

I swear to god is someone starts a mario kart soc i will not be happy . We have a gamesoc Already ,

And we cover all games and already have equipment for events (like projectors wii and yes copies of mario kart). Why not just join the committee and start up a Mario kart event. We had this stuff before with pro evo soc , which made no sense as played a hell of alot of pro evo last year

randomcountdown

No.

Gazza22

randomcountdown wrote: »

No.

Are you finished trolling this forum yet? How long more is it going to last, another few weeks?

randomcountdown

Gazza22 wrote: »

Are you finished trolling this forum yet? How long more is it going to last, another few weeks?

who the **** are you

MikeyCyrus

:L who the **** redgie?

projectmayhem

randomcountdown wrote: »

who the **** are you

At this point I'm going to remind everyone that this is a civil place, so lets be civilised.

We've had a bit of a mad run in the forum with all the first years and a mention in the new handbook from the SU. Let's not get the run of ourselves.

If we have to we'll start issuing bans. And no one wants that...

randomcountdown

projectmayhem wrote: »

At this point I'm going to remind everyone that this is a civil place, so lets be civilised.

We've had a bit of a mad run in the forum with all the first years and a mention in the new handbook from the SU. Let's not get the run of ourselves.

If we have to we'll start issuing bans. And no one wants that...

<snip>

projectmayhem edit: Lets cut out the trolling folks. You will be banned otherwise.

icbinb

excellent job i as a brand new forums user am definitely glad that guy is gone

MikeyCyrus

welcome

Assmaster_Kronk

Hehe, i seem to remember this happening several times last year, he always comes crawling back, he just loves us too much:pac:

icbinb

Assmaster_Kronk wrote: »

Hehe, i seem to remember this happening several times last year, he always comes crawling back, he just loves us too much:pac:

you pretty much do have to crawl through those 42 captchas all of which are **** all use as spammer protection

TheCardHolder

I'm down for mario kart soc.

Irishtrekkie

icbinb wrote: »

excellent job i as a brand new forums user am definitely glad that guy is gone

Lets be honest if randomcountdown did not post it would give mods like projectmayhem very little to do or anybody to ban, its what they live for really

icbinb

Irishtrekkie wrote: »

Lets be honest if randomcountdown did not post it would give mods like projectmayhem very little to do or anybody to ban, its what they live for really

what else is he going to moderate
the pie forum

Assmaster_Kronk

I also think it would be prudent to create a separate society for each console, you know.........for specialisation and resource purposes, i mean gamesoc's good and all........but GameBoySoc could have AGM's on the ****ter

projectmayhem

No more discussion of modding, moderators or anything else. It's tiring...

Back on topic.

...mario kart soc?

jill_valentine

Thing is, takes way longer to set up a new account than it takes to click the ban buttons.

Still though, time that couldn't possibly be better spent talking to a girl or anything.

Assmaster_Kronk

icbinb wrote: »

what else is he going to moderate
the pie forum

I hear all the would-be terrorists hit the pie forum:D

icbinb

Assmaster_Kronk wrote: »

I hear all the would-be terrorists hit the pie forum:D

there is literally nothing i can say to make your posting entertaining