From: "Aidan Delaney" <se30012@cs.may.ie> To: <Minds-disaster@redbrick.dcu.ie> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: [Minds-disaster] Complete history of Minds-Disaster
Ok heres the first bit of documentation on the Minds disaster. This is what I remember and from my opinion.
[First day] Ok so JC pulled the plug. 2 of us noticed as we were online @ the time Me & (I cant remember who else, was it bart?) Yes, it was Bart.
So me and personX (pX for short), went to find the college sys-admin and ask what was happening & where the MINDS> box was so we could fix it.
We were dutifully informed of what happened (CC complaint and unplugging). On hearing this we sent out Scouts for everyone else to meet in the Callan foyer.
pX and I went over to see the SU VP Sinead. She was a personal friend & I thought this could be sorted quickly. (Was I above my station or was I VC at the time? can't remember). You were no longer Vice Chair, you were non-exec sysadmin.
So Dave Barrett came in about 15mins into the meeting with SU VP. Action had already been decided (I know it was not my place to decide it). What was it exactly?
We went about implementing the decided action. We met with ALL of the committee in the foyer (except Darragh), we dis-membered 1stYearDave and started impeachment proceedings against Darragh. No, we decided to start impeachment proceedings against Darragh, who said he would resign, to show the college that we were taking action on this and we were distancing the Minds society from these events.
Darragh got pissed off with us and argued against it. This coused a lot of bad blood. It's a pity really, because Darragh is a nice guy with an impressive knowledge of UNIX. Actually, Darragh didn't argue with us, at the time, over anything except that he was off to eat and wouldn't stay and talk with us, because "food [was] more important to [him] than some (some term of belittlement here) society".
So in the next few days we got the letter from Noel to Darragh, yada yada... can't remember. Which Darragh tore up. I think I have a copy at home though.
David Barrett