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Incident Report: 20230109

2023-01-10T15:43:23Z

11207: some more stuff

{{Incident
|brief=ITS replaced some networking gear and broke some routes. Sad panda.
|severity=High
|impact=Medium (anything URY-related unavailable for around ~8 hours)
|start=2023-01-09 09:30
|end=2023-01-09 17:19
|leader=Joseph Sisson (JS)
|others=Michael Grace (MG), Marks Polakovs (MP)
}}

== Chronicle of Events ==

''(All times GMT)''

Early in the morning of the first day of the first week of term, IT Services (as we later found out) replaced some networking equipment in the Vanbrugh area, and may have incorrectly set some static routes. The first we found out about this is at 9:30, when all of our monitoring pinged that URY had dropped off the face of the internet.

Much scrambling and some (ultimately futile) reboots later, we narrowed down the state of the network to:
* Anything with a 144.32.64.160/27 IP (so all of URY) could send packets ''out'' of URY, but no packets would make it ''in''.
:* With the exception of uryfw0 which has a separate IP (144.32.109.64).
:* Traceroutes showed the packets getting into a loop somewhere in Berrick Saul.
* This meant that the website and online streams were down.
* We could carry on broadcasting on AM, but FM failed
:* MP later diagnosed the FM issue to be a dependency on audio.ury.org.uk for the backup feed, and restored FM at 14:39.
::* You really don't want to know how... no, seriously, it's horrible...

An ITS ticket was filed at 12:12, and at around 17:14 service was restored.

== Lessons Learned ==

* We need to be more happy to assume, if we haven't touched the network and something's happened, it could be an ITS issue. Look at things like traceroutes earlier.
* ITS don't really know about us - like they'd have just assumed uryfw0 is just 144.32.109.64 and not a gateway for all of 144.32.64.160/27, so be happy to remind them of this.
* Phone ITS earlier if it's a big problem.
* Don't get distracted by things that are merely the result of the problem - i.e. our DNS is often external to URY (i.e. wogan or ITS nameservers), so it can't resolve DNS. But it doesn't mean the key problem is DNS - the key problem is that no traffic reached us. What didn't help was the confusion about guest PC being able to access the internet - this is because it has a web proxy (because IRN).

[[Category:Incident Reports]]

Presenters' Contract

2021-05-18T17:03:41Z

11207: Contract Changes Voted In On 17/05/2021

I, the undersigned, agree to abide by University Radio York's (URY's) station rules and regulations as set out below, and the Ofcom Programming Code (accessible at www.ofcom.org.uk). I have fully read and understood these rules and regulations, and I understand that if I break any of the rules or regulations stated by Ofcom or its successor, I will be solely liable for any resulting fines or actions that may be levied against URY.

I also understand that should I break any of URY’s rules or regulations, I am liable to be subject to disciplinary action as decided by URY’s Programme Controller. I will also abide by the YUSU Media Charter (available from the Student Centre). I have never been convicted of any criminal offence related to radio broadcasting.

In the event that I cease to be a member or honorary member of URY, this contract will expire four months following the membership's expiry (or earlier at the discretion of the Programme Controller).

=== Definitions ===
# "Training" refers to either Studio Training or WebStudio Training. Both cover broadcasting rules and regulations.

=== URY Rules And Regulations ===
# You must have passed a URY training session, be a URY Member, and have permission to broadcast from the Programme Controller in order to be allowed to operate broadcast equipment. You must have received training appropriate for the broadcast equipment in question.
# If you operate broadcast equipment, you are responsible for its correct usage and for upholding URY’s stated rules and regulations at all times.
## You are responsible for the content of all broadcasts in which you operate the broadcast equipment, including all technical and audible contributions that you, co-presenters or guests make.
## An individual may appear as a guest presenter on air twice in an academic year without being a URY member. After those two appearances the individual must pay membership, register on MyRadio and become trained before they may appear on another URY show. This may be waived at the discretion of the Programme Controller.
# You must do all shows that you have signed-up for, unless the Programme Controller states otherwise.
# If you are going to be late for your show, you must contact the Programme Controller as soon as possible. If you believe that you will be unable to do your show, you must cancel on MyRadio. If there are less than 48 hours until your show, you must inform the Programme Controller at the earliest opportunity.
# If you have to cancel your show suddenly due to unforeseen circumstances, you must contact the Programme Controller as soon as possible.
# Anyone who runs broadcast equipment on-air must sign in using SIS (Studio Information System). This person must also log in any guests present on the broadcast.
# You must broadcast the station name and frequency at least once an hour during your show (e.g. play the News-in Jingle) unless the Programme Controller states otherwise.
# You must broadcast the news every hour. In the event that there is a technical fault, you must inform the Programme Controller as soon as possible.
# You must play all copyrighted music content on your show through URY Playout Software (i.e. you may not use digital music players, including MP3 players, laptops and mobile phones, streaming services such as Spotify or YouTube, or any physical media such as compact discs), except with special permission from the Programme Controller.
# All copyrighted music content that is not played through URY Playout Software (subject to the previous clause) must be logged manually, as instructed by the Programme Controller. URY Playout Software will do this automatically.
# You must follow our PPL music licence laws at all times. The laws are outlined as follows:
## During any 3 hour period:
### You must play no more than 3 tracks from any album (and no more than 2 consecutively).
### You must play no more than 4 tracks from any particular artist or compilation (and no more than 3 consecutively).
### You must only play a track once in any 1-hour period.
### You must not use tracks as beds at any time.
## For a single hour show, you can ensure you do not infringe on PPL laws by abiding by these guidelines:
### Play no more than 1 track from any album by a single artist.
### Play no more than 2 tracks from any particular artist or compilation (and no more than 2 consecutively).
### A Track may only be played once in any 1-hour period.
### You must not use tracks as beds at any time
# You must show impartiality on all political, sectarian, or otherwise contentious issues. If you intend to or predict that you might broadcast potentially controversial output, consult the Programme Controller.
## You must not swear on-air, nor express racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive opinions in any broadcast. Use of gratuitous swearing is particularly unacceptable.
## If you, or any other participant in a broadcast, swear inadvertently, you must immediately issue an on-air apology.
## Songs that contain swearing or other potentially offensive language may only be played on shows between the hours of 9pm and 5am. A standard or otherwise pre-agreed disclaimer is to be played at the beginning of each hour of the show. It is unacceptable for presenters and their guests to swear at any time.
# You must not claim that we can be heard off campus on 1350AM.
# You must not broadcast under the influence of drugs or alcohol, nor allow anyone on the show to do so.
# If using the URY studios, you must leave the studio clean and tidy. You may not remove any URY property without following the relevant constitutional protocols. You may not remove or copy any URY music. Such activities are illegal and will be dealt with accordingly.
# If you are the last person to leave the station building, you must pull down all blinds (where applicable), close all windows, ensure the studios are switched off, and ensure the front door closes fully. Station key cards must be returned to the porter. Should there be any problem with station key cards or any aspect of URY security, please contact the Programme Controller. In an emergency, contact Security Services on (01904) 32 3333.
# You must abide by the Ofcom Programming Code at all times.

=== Recording ===

All broadcast output is automatically recorded by our systems, and these recordings are retained for a minimum of 42 days. This is a legal requirement for URY. In addition, recordings are maintained for archival purposes.

You can opt-in on MyRadio for every episode of a show to be automatically published to [https://mixcloud.com/URY1350/ Mixcloud] and the URY website. You can later opt-out of this for a show on MyRadio. URY Computing Team may remove old episodes from Mixcloud and the URY website upon request.

=== Disciplinary Actions ===

==== Warnings ====
There are 2 kinds of warnings that the Programme Controller can issue on any occasion, should they see fit. Inappropriate behaviour, misuse of URY property, breach of URY rules and breach of Ofcom rules are the most sensitive occasions in which warnings will be considered.

;Informal Warning
:Any member of URY may be issued with an informal warning in the event that they commit an offence that the Programme Controller considers noteworthy, relatively minor, inappropriate or unacceptable. If you receive an informal warning and repeat the infraction warned against, you will receive a formal warning.
;Formal Warning
:Any member of URY may be issued with a formal warning at the discretion of the Programme Controller. The person in question need not have received any informal warnings nor committed previous offences. In the event that they breach URY rules, Ofcom rules or behaves otherwise inappropriately, the Programme Controller may decide to contact the member in question and/or issue a formal warning. If you receive a formal warning and repeat the infraction warned against, your show can be suspended or taken permanently off-air.

==== Suspension ====
The Programme Controller can suspend a presenter on any occasion for as long as they see fit.

==== Expulsion ====
The Programme Controller can decide to cancel a show or ban a presenter from doing a show on any occasion. Presenters may be banned from using URY facilities and equipment, or from URY as a whole.

==== Appeals Procedure ====
If your show is suspended it will be retained virtually on the system for one week, though you will be unable to present this show. Any appeals against the decision can be made to the Station Management within this time. If no appeal is made, the show will be removed permanently from the schedule. If an appeal is made, the presenter will be invited to meet with the Station Manager, Assistant Station Manager, Programme Controller and Training Coordinator to make their case. All decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis.

=== Updates to the Contract ===
The URY Committee reserves the right to update this contract at any time following the procedures laid out in the [[Constitution]].

URY Memes

2021-02-13T22:17:27Z

11207:

An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.

{| class="wikitable"
|+[[URY Memes|Memes]]
|-
! Meme
! Explanation
|-
| Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas)
| A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s]
|-
| [[Christmas Endeavours]] in general
| They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
|-
| 'There's no News'
| [quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
|-
| Wives
| The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
|-
| DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ?
| From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
|-
| 'Black Christmas'
| At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.
|-
| 'News is Happening'
| How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.
|-
| Superb Owl
| Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.
|-
| Alex Light
| The biggest meme of all
|-
| Talkback
| Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window will have to suffice.
|-
| Anthony William's Flute
| From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
|-
| Ainsley Harriot
| A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.
|-
| Biscuit News
| How did this win an award?
|-
| Unbelievable Scenes
| A phrase constantly said by Joshua Kerr to describe sport, antics and anything happening at all, ever
|-
| Other [insert branded item here] are available
| We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
|-
| EWA (Engineers Without Attitude)
| When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
|-
| Michael Eats Kids
| We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
|-
| Alex plugs stuff
| If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging production meeting.
|-
| Kermit the Frog
| Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
|-
| In Other Gravy News
| On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News". Admittedly, the next clip was about chips cheese and gravy.
|-
| Hppenong
| A termly, 12 hour show of just absolute chaos. Included on one episode just playing songs called Go.
|-
| Rob 's House
| This is a joke that was filled in on a fill-in-the-blanks. It wasn't that funny, but we couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes.
|-
| Let's Buy Chairs
| The chairs in the studio are '''awful'''. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. Despite discussing it for a year, Engineering team still haven't bought any.
|-
| Yeah No
| Station manager Ben Allen can never make up his mind, and always says Yeah-No. We made https://yeahno.xyz
|-
| broken - WAT!
| Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
|-
| Colin's Unemployed
| Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job.
|-
|}

URY Memes

2021-02-13T20:56:31Z

11207:

An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.

{| class="wikitable"
|+[[URY Memes|Memes]]
|-
! Meme
! Explanation
|-
| Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas)
| A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s]
|-
| [[Christmas Endeavours]] in general
| They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
|-
| 'There's no News'
| [quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
|-
| Wives
| The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
|-
| DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ?
| From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
|-
| 'Black Christmas'
| At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.
|-
| 'News is Happening'
| How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.
|-
| Superb Owl
| Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.
|-
| Alex Light
| The biggest meme of all
|-
| Talkback
| Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window will have to suffice.
|-
| Anthony William's Flute
| From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
|-
| Ainsley Harriot
| A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.
|-
| Biscuit News
| How did this win an award?
|-
| Unbelievable Scenes
| A phrase constantly said by Joshua Kerr to describe sport, antics and anything happening at all, ever
|-
| Other [insert branded item here] are available
| We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
|-
| EWA (Engineers Without Attitude)
| When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
|-
| Michael Eats Kids
| We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
|-
| Alex plugs stuff
| If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging station meeting.
|-
| Kermit the Frog
| Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
|-
| In Other Gravy News
| On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News"
|-
| Hppenong
| A termly, 12 hour show of just absolute chaos. Included on one episode just playing songs called Go.
|-
| Rob 's House
| This is a joke that was filled in on a fill-in-the-blanks. It wasn't that funny, but we couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes.
|-
| Let's Buy Chairs
| The chairs in the studio are '''awful'''. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. Despite discussing it for a year, Engineering team still haven't bought any.
|-
| Yeah No
| Station manager Ben Allen can never make up his mind, and always says Yeah-No. We made https://yeahno.xyz
|-
| broken - WAT!
| Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
|-
| Colin's Unemployed
| Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job.
|-
|}

URY Memes

2021-02-13T20:53:25Z

11207:

An in-definitive list of all URY Memes and in jokes.

{| class="wikitable"
|+[[URY Memes|Memes]]
|-
! Meme
! Explanation
|-
| Christmas on my Face (A terrible case of Xmas)
| A smash hit URY christmas single from 2008 written by Rob Watts and Steve Gardner [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s]
|-
| [[Christmas Endeavours]] in general
| They are so numerous there's a whole page about them. Basically we embarrass ourselves every year in the name of Xmas
|-
| 'There's no News'
| [quoting Anthony Williams] 'Came from a Roses where the news fader had been re-purposed for something. Helen M came in to do handover to the OB (this is when you had to read out the news intro text yourself), and it went something like this... "*this* is URY News.... there's no news!"
|-
| Wives
| The name given for our roll up banners. Originally known as 'Station Manager's Wife' as it is the only thing an SM can be trusted with at an OB
|-
| DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ?
| From a failed OB of Vanbrugh Jazz in 2014 where Alex Light accosted innocent people
|-
| 'Black Christmas'
| At the same Vanbrugh Jazz OB as 'DO YOU LIKE VANBRUGH JAZZ' the jazz band decided to do a rendition of 'White Christmas' but reworked as 'Black Christmas'. It was a bit racist. We had to fade down the feed.
|-
| 'News is Happening'
| How every News and Sport update must begin at Station Meetings, started by George Lane.
|-
| Superb Owl
| Live coverage of Super Bowls, by people who do not know anything about American Football. Usually involves way too much nudity that is generally acceptable for radio.
|-
| Alex Light
| The biggest meme of all
|-
| Talkback
| Someone will finish this eight year old engineering project so we can talk to the office and studio 2 from studio 1 soon, I promise. In the meantime, mad, occasionally violent gesturing through the window will have to suffice.
|-
| Anthony William's Flute
| From an infamous Alex Light house party where Anthony consumed way too much alcohol through a flute.
|-
| Ainsley Harriot
| A station wide obsession instigated by Qumarth Jash. Ainsley's face would frequently appear as the background to guest pc and an emoji was even made for him when we made a ury slack.
|-
| Biscuit News
| How did this win an award?
|-
| Unbelievable Scenes
| A phrase constantly said by Joshua Kerr to describe sport, antics and anything happening at all, ever
|-
| Other [insert branded item here] are available
| We take impartiality very seriously here at URY
|-
| EWA (Engineers Without Attitude)
| When a band bailed on URY Sessions, Jed Fulwell, Marco Bolt, Peter Rogers and Sam Merryweather stepped up to the plate and performed arguably the worst/best session in URY history. They also returned for a surprisingly excellent come-back at the Cover Your Ears event.
|-
| Michael Eats Kids
| We really don't know where this started. Someone just said it and it stuck.
|-
| Alex plugs stuff
| If he's on air, he's plugging his shows (he does so many), and if we're off air, plugging station meeting.
|-
| Kermit the Frog
| Station manager Ben Allen could do a really good Kermit impression, including singing live on air on multiple occasions.
|-
| In Other Gravy News
| On a Newshour episode, there was a story of a woman storing loads of money in gravy tins, which was found by the recycling people. Beth then went on to continue the show by saying "In Other Gravy News"
|-
| Hppenong
| A termly, 12 hour show of just absolute chaos. Included on one episode just playing songs called Go.
|-
| Rob 's House
| This is a joke that was filled in on a fill-in-the-blanks. It wasn't that funny, but we couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes.
|-
| Let's Buy Chairs
| The chairs in the studio are '''awful'''. You sit on them, and they just sink and get lower. Despite discussing it for a year, Engineering team still haven't bought any.
|-
| Yeah No
| Station manager Ben Allen can never make up his mind, and always says Yeah-No. We made https://yeah-no.xyz
|-
| broken - WAT!
| Don't say broken. People will be angry, and shout WAT!, because we're too lazy to add the h to "what".
|-
| Colin's Unemployed
| Literally everybody else got a job after graduating during the pandemic. The BBC still haven't replied about the One Show job.
|-
|}

Committees

2021-02-13T20:33:34Z

11207: 2020/21

((ury)) has had many '''committees'''.

== 2020/21 ==

This year, the large wave of freshers formed committee, and only 2 weeks into their reign, were shoved into new territory as the pandemic happened. They went through a whole year of not seeing each other, and never actually going into the station. They discovered a '''love''' of Zoom and Google Meets, put Alex in the waiting room, and wondered if Connor would ever turn his camera on.

== Various Committees Happened ==

== 2013/14 ==
This year, Al Riddell continued his rein as Surpeme Ruler of the York Campus Airwaves, and also led the first committee bound by version 2.0 of our constitution which saw some changes to the team structure (yep - 46 years old and it's the first time we've rewritten it from scratch).

=== The Riddell committee (redeux) ===

{{Committee 2013}}

== 2012/13 ==

=== The Edwards committee ===

{{Committee 2012}}

Because of the large proportion of finalists in the original 2012/13 committee, a special by-election was held in Summer Term 2013 to replace those leaving the university forever; the result was an "interim" committee led by new Station Manager Al Riddell until the Autumn 2013 election round.

=== The Riddell committee ===

{{Committee 2012b}}

== 2011/12 ==

This year had two station managers: Rob Stonehouse, and Jennifer Rothery.

=== The Stonehouse committee ===

{{Committee 2011a}}

=== The Rothery committee ===

Because of the large proportion of finalists in the original 2011/12 committee, a special by-election was held in Summer Term 2012 to replace those leaving the university forever; the result was an "interim" committee led by new Station Manager Jennifer Rothery until the Autumn 2012 election round.

{{Committee 2011b}}

== 2010/11 ==

Darren Webb was Station Manager this year.

== 2009/10 ==

Oliver Julian was Station Manager this year.

== Ancient Committees ==

* [[Committees 1967-1969]]
* [[Committees 1970-1979]]
* [[Committees 1980-1989]]
* [[Committees 1990-1999]]

Timeline

2021-02-13T20:28:24Z

11207:

This is the general '''URY timeline''', arranged by decade.

== 60s ==

* ''1960: The UK's first student radio station is founded as Crush Radio (but it doesn't legally broadcast for a while)''.
* '''1967''': URY is founded as the UK's first ''legal'' independent broadcasting radio station, as Radio York under a test licence from the BBC.
* '''1969''': Radio York is refounded as University Radio York and opened with a guest broadcast by John Peel.

== 70s ==

* '''1976''': URY hosted the National Association of Students broadcasters 5th Annual College, Goodricke College, Saturday 31st of January to Sunday 1st of February.

== 80s ==

== 90s ==
*'''1998''' URY celebrates its 30th birthday by a Restricted Service Licence (RSL), broadcasting on FM for four weeks to the city of York as well as campus.

*'''1999''' URY moves from an induction loop system on campus to the current Low Power AM (LPAM) transmitter, enabling a stronger signal on campus and more listeners. URY's frequency changes from 999kHz to the current 1350kHz.

*'''1999''' To celebrate the turn of the millenium URY compiles the "Ultimate Student Chart" with "Bohemian Rhapsody" named the No.1 song. The station also organised its first gig featuring local and national bands called "Spark".

== 00s ==

* '''2005''': URY wins the SRA Award for Best Student Station.

*'''2008''': URY celebrates its 40th birthday with a 2 week FM broadcast in May.

== 10s ==

* '''2011''': URY joins the UK Radioplayer service as one of the first stations to do so.
* '''2012''': URY moves to a larger webcaster licence. At the same time, Tom Whitehouse ends his long tenure as Honorary President and is replaced.
* '''2013''': URY wins 7 Student Radio Awards out of 9 nominations.
* '''2014''': URY wins Best Journalistic Programming at the Student Radio Awards with its coverage or river safety.
* '''2018''': URY celebrates its 50th Anniversary. (maybe don't trust the years at the top of this page)
* '''2018''': We won a grant from the alumni for £40,000 to upgrade our studios.

== 20s ==
* '''2020''': The pandemic happened, and we moved to a year of remote broadcasting from home.
* '''2020''': URY won Gold for Best Student Radio Station at the Student Radio Awards.

[[Category:URY History]]

Computing

2021-02-13T20:20:35Z

11207: Imagine us existing for the last 8 years

{{Team
|tstyle={{Teamstyle Computing}}
|name=Computing Team
|logo=[[File:Ctlogo.png]]
|brief=Maintains URY's computer systems, both hardware and software. Keeps the URY streams and website running.
|csec=[[Constitution#Computing_Team|Here]]
|roles=[[Head of Computing]]<br />[[Assistant Head of Computing]]<br />[[Webmaster]]<br />[[Computing Officer]] (multiple)
|teammail=computing@ury.org.uk
|freshermail=computing@ury.org.uk
|hotmail=head.of.computing@ury.org.uk
}}
'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.

== What do we do? ==

We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:

=== Website ===

We look after the URY website and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.

The main public website is written in Go, and our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server.

=== Servers ===

We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies. If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.

Of course, it isn't all about the hardware. We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots. We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.

=== Desktops ===

Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service. These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.

=== Software ===

Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].

==== LoggerNG ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]

LoggerNG is our output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runned on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.

LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).

==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.

The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.

It is a computing team joke about people starting BAPS3. Various people have tried this, and the current try is a server called BAPSicle using the WebStudio interface. Let's see if it works.

==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]

Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with. There's also a lot of shouting and arguing with it too. Its a range of emotions.

==== MyRadio ====
This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:

* Presenter Training
* Show Scheduling
* URYPlayer Podcasts
* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
* Show Planning
* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
* Chart & Playlists
* Central Music Library
* iTones
* Mailing Lists
* Webcams (and archives)
* Show Monitoring
* Statistics

All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.

This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.

Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!

==== WebStudio ====

2020 happened. Pandemic happened. WebStudio got made, to allow people to present from home. Written in TypeScript, React and Redux, with the server side in Python.

==== Show Planner (this is pretty much dead now, this is here for the history) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]

Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.

During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.

Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.

Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.

Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.

=== Fun ===

Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.

Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things. Here are a few examples:

* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)

We also spend a lot of time in the studios just tinkering around, and helping engineering team with Outside Broadcasts.

== Prospective members ==

Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!

URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.

=== What we use ===

As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge. We use all of these things, and you'll learn so much more too!

* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
* Python
* PHP
* Go
* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
* Network administration (hardware and software)
* Continuous integration - Jenkins/Hudson, Travis
* Shell scripting
* Systems programming - C, Go, etc.

== History ==

* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.

== Members (past and present) ==

=== Heads of Teams ===
* ''2020-Present'': [[Marks Polakovs]]
* ''2019-2020'': [[Laura Silaja]]
* ''2018-2019'': [[Jordan Cameron]]
* ''2017-2018'': [[Matthew Stratford]]
* ''2017-2017'': [[Charles Pigott]]
* ''2016-2017'': [[Chris Taylor]]
* ''2014-2016'': [[Anthony Williams]]
* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
* ''2008-2009'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* (More to be inserted here)

=== Other Members ===

In a rough reverse chronological order.
* [[Connor Sanders]]
* [[Ben Allen]]
* [[Michael Grace]]
* [[Brooke Hatton]]
* [[Sophie Kinley]]
* [[Qumarth Jash]]
* [[Charles Pigott]]
* [[Sam Willcocks]]
* [[Adam Taylor]]
* [[Andrei-Costin Zisu]]
* [[Vivan Jayant]] (Webmaster, 2012)
* [[Sam Gamble]] (2011-12)
* [[Anthony Williams]]
* [[Danny Bell]]
* [[Donal Cahill]]
* [[Lloyd Wallis]] (2011-2014, still an active alumnus)
* [[Andy Durant]] (as a "computerneer")
* (Expand this list!)

== Big Updates ==
During breaks between terms, CompTeam will often update or upgrade a large number of services. We like to post a list of changes toward the end of the break.

* [[Computing Updates: Christmas 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Summer 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Easter 2013]]
* Spring 2021: We're still here, and realising the wiki is very out of date.

Incident Report: 20191130

2019-11-30T15:12:00Z

11207: Create the Incident Report

{{Incident
|brief=Jukebox just gives up.
|severity=Moderate
|impact=Moderate (Approx 20mins of dead air)
|start=30/11/2019 03:50
|end=30/11/2019 05:02
|leader=Michael Grace (MG)
|others=Ben Allen (BA)
}}

==Summary==
Jukebox just couldn't deal with playing music anymore. Liquidsoap seems to have turned to those solid soap bars you get, which always get covered in dirt and never used. Often they smell nice though.

==Timeline==

03:49:50 - Jukebox Begins Playing You Really Got Me - The Kinks

03:50:53 - '''Dead Air Starts'''

03:51 - First Liquidsoap Email, Jukebox has switched to Jukebox. Dearie-Me message posted on #studio-faults. MG is on the bus from Flares, swears out loud, and is angry in slack

03:54 - Second Liquidsoap Email, Jukebox has switched to Jukebox. MG listens to all the feeds on audio.ury.org.uk to find we’re not broadcasting on AM, online or on the jukebox feed

03:56 - MG is on dolby through csteach1 and attempts to restart the jukebox.liq file. It doesn’t do anything. MG also tries ‘sel 1’ then ‘sel 3’. Also, doesn’t work.

03:58 - The sad realisation hits that MG isn’t going home, and will have to run to the studio from the library bus stop. Gets really strange looks from Vanbrugh porters when MG
picks up the key card.

04:06:54 - MG, out of breath, starts breathing heavily down the microphone in red. '''DEAD AIR ENDS. Total Dead Air: 16:01.''' The jukebox fader is also outputting silence.

04:07:09 - MG plays Flagship News In, giving him time to schedule a few things in BAPS. Messages Slack to say he’s doing a show.

04:11:12 - MG plays Flagship News Out and starts Pyramid Song by Radiohead. Can now start troubleshooting given music is cued in BAPS. MG attempts to restart the liquidsoap service to no result. MG opens the liquidsoap logs to see what’s happened.

04:16:00 - Pyramid song ends and MG geeks out about it’s time signature and rhythm. Attempts to sing on air but realises immediately its a big mistake.

04:16:35 - Venusian 1 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard starts. MG still looking through logs.

04:19:45 - MG starts another link, saying he’s signing into Google Drive so he can save screenshots of the logs. MG contemplates staying in the studio all night.

04:20:20 - Come Together - The Beatles starts. MG tries putting his screenshot into Google Drive, but the quality isn’t good enough to bother. Takes pictures on phone instead.

04:24:29 - Mr Brightside - The Killers starts. MG attempts to run some of the files in the liquidsoap/scripts directory on dolby, starting with jackStart.sh.

04:28:44 - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana starts. During this song, BA, who can’t sleep, looks at his phone to find what’s happened. He starts listening to URY, thinking its working because it’s playing music.

04:33:34 - MG admits on air he needs to go to the toilet. BA realises that actually MG is presenting, not Jukebox. BA messages Slack saying he’s on his way.

04:44:45 - Bohemian Rhapsody starts because it’s a long song. MG goes to the Vanbrugh toilets.

04:36 - MG returns and replies to BA on Slack saying he’s presenting. Asks for a jumper because he’s cold in only a short sleeved shirt.

04:37 - BA arrives in studio out of breath.

04:39:35 - Bohemian Rhapsody ends. MG and BA do the first joint link. Towards the end of the link, the chair MG is sitting on starts going down. It was weird.

04:40:54 - Fire - Kasabian starts. MG briefs BA, and they attempt jackConnect.sh and jackStart.sh. These also doesn’t work.

04:45:00 - MG and BA give their opinions on the URY christmas decorations. BA complains about how '''engineering need to fix the headphones in the studio'''. MG and BA discuss when the watershed ends, which looking up afterwards is 5:30am. MG introduces U Can’t Touch This, which is from 1990, and MG tries to make a comment about touching jukebox, but fails miserably.

04:48:10 - U Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer starts. During this song, we run startAudio.sh, and Jukebox is now playing through the fader. We assume this means it is working properly now.

04:52:24 - MG and BA discuss their nights out. They want to go and do the 5am news now.

04:54:43 - Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd starts. They are monitoring the Jukebox fader during this, hoping all is good.

04:58:59 - Final link before the news.

04:59:45 - Flagship news in starts. MG and BA sign off to do the news.

05:02:00 - Flagship news out, and switch to Jukebox. End of Situation. MG and BA monitor for about another 25 minutes. MG runs to get a 05:35 bus to Goodricke and goes to bed at about 06:30.

== What Went Well ==

Michael and Ben pulled off a good radio show whilst trying to fix the problem.

== What Did Not Go Well ==

After the jukebox software died, there was nothing to replace it, as even Monty Python is in the jukebox script for when MyRadio gives up.

== How We Got Lucky ==

MG had been on a night out, and was on the bus back, so the response time was very quick.

==Investigation==

Despite the Dead Air starting at 03:50, the Jukebox logs go until 03:56 where shutdown starts at 03:56:53, and the log ends at 03:56:59. There is nothing unusual in the logs beforehand, except at 03:56:14 at "#get called when not #is_ready" message appeared, which isn't supposed to happen, but frankly is normal with Jukebox.

At the point of Dead Air starting, another one of those error messages appeared. After this, the log restarts at 03:55:58, which MG thinks is when he attempted to restart jukebox on the bus.

==Differences to last time this happened==
Last time, on 29/10/2019, jukebox was still running, just not outputting on AM or online. This was rectified by resetting the selector. This time, the jukebox software had completely crashed.

The last event brought the introduction of DEARIE-ME, which was where the first notifications came from for this incident.

==Conclusions==

We believe what happened was a bug in liquidsoap related to the #get and #is_ready error message caused jukebox to crash for the first time, despite many of these errors. In attempting to reload everything, Jack basically said "I've already got a Jukebox feed, I don't care about a new one" as the jack wasn't released when Jukebox crashed.

==Further Work==

The issue with the error message has been there all term, and we're still trying to work out why is sometimes gets called, why the liquidsoap clocks get out of sync giving us brief moments of silence. The investigations must continue.

[[Category:Incident Reports]]