Report for STOIC Committee Meeting 1 22/10/2002

***Head of Publicity's Report***

Stoic has achieved fame. And lots of it. I'm sure I don't need to mention
to anyone reading this about the technicalities, but the hit counter on
the website has gone up by about 5000 since this time last week,
webstreams are hitting the limits (in windows media, since logs aren't
available for real or downloads of MPEGs, AFAIK)

Amongst the places we've been mentioned:

BBC news education on IC stories (plus credited with several quotes from
footage placed on the website)

The NaSTA website (www.nasta.org.uk) - with a link to one of the BBC stories

Live! have credited us with a lot of things, and referenced to some of the
things on our website. We also now have a banner on the front page of
their site, thanks to AndyG.

The protest (union.ic.ac.uk/protest I think..... the union sites appear to
be down at this moment in time) site has us as one of the main sites to
visit on the subject, and 2 photos have stoic members in- one is of AndyG
and Sameena interviewing Andy Heeps, and in another one, you can just
about make out a blurred image of myself.

We remain as a link on the front page of the union site.

People are watching stoic! Not only did a banner at the protest proclaim
"We are not interested in increasing the financial burden on students",
attributing the quote to one Richard Sykes in May 2001 (pictured on a bbc
story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2339265.stm )  , we also
have the streaming statistics (again, only for windows media), and on
Friday in the bar, random hacks were mentioning the news less than an hour
after we put it up, after learning that there were stoic people at the
table.

Transmission would be VERY nice, given the college-wide interest in what
we've got to show at the moment..... but there's not much I can do on that
other than poke the appropriate people.

I can't think of anything else right now......