Summary
The position of the President comes with the duties of running a society and dealing with admins!
Overseeing the running of the Computer Society.
Co-ordinate the training of new committee.
Finding resolution in cases of dispute among committee
Organising the committee and setting tasks, being there for advice for shadow committee.
Liaising with C&S Development officer in areas that need to be discussed
Scheduling events and assigning tasks to committee
Regularly logging into #skycom on irc.skynet.ie. This is a room set up to specifically deal with committee related topics, such as events that need to be organised, discussion items relating from C&S Council. this makes it easier for us to get work done as not everyone has the time available to meet up in real life. This was a new room set up this February and so far it is working out extremely well.
Carrying around server room key.
Guide
A computer cluster with no users, no admin's and no community is just a bunch of boxes. You need to stimulate and foster the community surrounding the computer society.
The computer society has typically been a group of people whose common interest is computers, but have interest in much wider fields. From a career/course perspective it draws engineers, business students and teaching students, to name a few. We've even had a midwife on committee!
You need to make sure that there are things happening to keep this broad group interested. It doesn't always have to be deeply technical, not everyone will be interested in how to manage memory in the Linux kernel (sorry mel). Frequent pub meets in the last few years have really kept everything ticking over.
That being said, people like looking forward to big events, to milestones where they can hang out, swap fluids, tell stories and generally have a good time. A trip or two a year go down a treat, generating stories in themselves (like that time Boots gave us all the plague at CeBIT). Even a day trip up to Dublin to visit some office (HEAnet, Google, Intel, &c.) is welcome.
Moving onto diplomatic skills; you can't keep everyone happy, so don't try. Your main objective is to have vision, direction and come to conclusions; not to keep the committee happy. You will make decisions which people will disagree with, but you're not here to make friends.