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September 2021

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Fall 2021 Elections + Mentors needed for Side Project Event + Looking for Alumni for Alumni Panel
by Computer Science Club 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hello CSC members, Welcome to a new school year! Here are a few of announcements for September. The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2021 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin, librarian and office manager will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Tuesday, Sep 21 2021 at Midnight ET. -------- DSC and CSC are bringing back Project Program for the Fall 2021 term and we are looking for a team of reliable and knowledgeable mentors to help create new and exciting projects! Being a Project Program mentor is the perfect opportunity to develop your leadership, enhance project management skills, and apply your technical expertise to support students to give back to the Waterloo community. As a mentor, you’ll be tasked with helping teams of students create roadmaps of their project, setting milestones, and making sure that everyone stays on task. For more details about the role, you can find all the information you need in the Mentor Role Description (http://bit.ly/uwcsc-uwdsc-mentor-description) If you’re interested, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/61oPfNjDuxMJRj5a7! You won’t immediately be committing to the role; we’ll have a secondary check-in to ensure that you’re familiar with the responsibilities. If you have any questions reach out to us at exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. -------- CSC is planning to host an alumni fireside chat! If you are an alumni of the Math Faculty from the University of Waterloo, we are interested in bringing you and your friends in front of undergraduate students to speak and reminisce about your university experience! We are looking for alumni who have graduated recently, graduated a while ago, and graduated a very long time ago. As a part of this event, you will be able to catch up with your former colleagues whilst providing guidance and direction to current Computer Science and UWaterloo students. If this interests you and your friends, please fill out the following signup form (https://forms.gle/ii8vjLVxGS2Sxk5XA) or reply to this email! We can help to reach out to your friends and bring you together for this event. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions! -- Neil Parikh Treasurer, UWaterloo CSC

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Mandatory public-key authentication on all CSC machines
by Computer Science Club 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hello CSC, Due to the increasing security threats leveraging passwords, the University of Waterloo has moved to require that all SSH Servers exposed to the public Internet must enforce strong authentication by November 1st, 2021. To comply with this requirement, we will be disabling password authentication for SSH on all CSC general-use machines on October 15th, 2021. We suggest that you add your SSH public key to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys if you have not done so already. We will still enable password authentication on the campus network. This means that you may still login via SSH with your password if you are physically on campus, are using a student CS machine as a jump host, or are using the campus VPN. However, we still suggest setting up public key auth anyways for non-campus access. If you have any questions or concerns, please email the Systems Committee at syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. -- Max Erenberg Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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