Greeting, members!
# System Maintenance
This is a notification to inform you of scheduled maintenance of **ALL** CSC general-use servers and services to facilitate hardware upgrade for CSC's storage cluster.
## When?
Thu Oct 16 8:00 PM until Sun Oct 19 8:00 PM
It's likely that the switchover will conclude sooner than Oct 19, but since this is one of the largest infrastructure upgrades we've done in the past decade we want to be safe with our estimation.
We will provide service recovery notice via Email and Discord announcements if the upgrade went smoothly and partial services (like our beloved HFCS) are restored.
## Why?
All CSC systems will be taken offline to allow us to switch home directory hosting to our new filer (generation 3 at this point!). All CSC systems (including mails, general-use servers and web hosting) will be unavailble for the duration of our maintenance window. Make sure to save your work, and plan ahead to use a different machine during that time.
# General Updates
## Matrix Server
We now run our own Matrix Server! The homeserver is csclub.uwaterloo.ca, your watiam is your username, and the CSC Space should be public.
## Events
Projects Program will be running on October 28th from 7 to 9pm during the series of events you can gain hands on experience working with a team on a project together, and potentially compete for a prize at the end of it!
Mentee application form, apply now before October 21, 11:59 PM
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbjQeZWaTnJFB_5BZPagIKNb29b3sDUFA…
Mentor sign-up form, sign-up before October 23, 11:59 PM
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScknZJvIqldskCRAIU9Fz0Xqil32LpRwoE… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScknZJvIqldskCRAIU9Fz0Xqil32LpRwoE…>
Then we've got Alt-tab on November 5th, where you can show off any basically anything, whether it be about how compilers tokenize stuff, all the way to an incredibly in secure calculator in Python. If you would like to present, please sign up with this link before October 22, 11:59 PM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGaYx5CHA0gVs-uwUkATDhtSxdvMT09a_…
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGaYx5CHA0gVs-uwUkATDhtSxdvMT09a_…>
Then there's our Co-Hosted Hackathon, to find out more details head to this link https://luma.com/v9c3gjxo
## Class profile
The class profile survey for Class of 2026 is now officially live! Survey Link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebPFwXVDOPVgcoQ6qj9CcUzDi_C0bRR2Y…> for those graduating, please fill it out and send it to your graduating friends! Class of 2025's class profile has recently closed their survey, and the page is undergoing construction. Class of 2024's class profile is available https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/classprofile/2024/ if you'd like to have a look.
Good luck, and Happy Hacking everyone!
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Sourojeet Adhikari
Fall 2025 Systems Administrator
University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
