- csc-general - CSC Mailman

Updated CSC Election Date
by Computer Science Club 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

Hello, The CSC election has been rescheduled! The election will now take take place on January 19th from 6PM to 8PM in DC1351. Although nominations remain closed you may request an absentee ballot before January 19th 12PM. Email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you have any questions. Best, Andrei Stan (He/Him), CRO Winter 2026, University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC General Election Call
by Computer Science Club 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Hello, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2026 term in-person and virtually on Thursday, January 15th, at 6:00PM EST(UTC-5). The location of the in-person event is to be determined and will be posted to the discord as well as sent out via this email channel. Virtual attendees can join the Stage Channel on our Discord server (csclub.ca/discord<https://csclub.ca/discord>). The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer will be elected whilst the Systems Administrator will be appointed by the new executives and ratified by vote at the election. If you wish to nominate yourself or anyone else for any of these positions, please do so via one of the following methods: 1. Send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, 2. Present your nomination in-person to the CRO (Andrei Stan), or 3. Write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Tuesday, January 13th, 2026, at 6PM EST (UTC-5). The CRO will reach out to nominees for their platform. If you are unable to attend the elections live (in-person or virtually), you may email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> by Wednesday, January 13th, 2026, at 6:00 PM EST (UTC-5) to request an absentee ballot. In-person voting will be done via form submission only identifiable by the CRO to ensure validity of votes. You must be a CSC member for the Winter 2026 term to run for a position or vote in the election. You can find more details about becoming a member or renewing your membership on our website at csclub.uwaterloo.ca<https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/>. You can also renew your membership in person at the election. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Sincerely, Andrei Stan (He/Him) Winter 2026 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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[IMPORTANT] Cloudstack sunsetting, Elections, Events for Winter 2026
by Computer Science Club 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

Hello Everyone, Hope you had a great Christmas! Please check the updates below regarding our cloud service and upcoming events for the next term. *SUNSETTING CLOUDSTACK* Our CloudStack service will be sunset and discontinued on January 7th, because maintaining it has become increasingly complex and costly. We've decided to move to another platform and are currently developing the tooling required to use it as a cloudstack replacement. VM creation is now disabled. All existing users will soon receive another email with details on how to backup or migrate. In addition, we are working on a Kubernetes replacement, which is expected to be functional by January 2026. *ELECTIONS* The elections for Winter 2026 are anticipated to be held within the first two weeks of January, pending room bookings. *EVENTS FOR WINTER 2026* As of now, these are the planned Events, and the months in which they will occur: January: Resume Review, Beginning of Term, Unix 101, CSC 888 February: Unix 101, Rising Star, CSC 888, Unix 101 March: After Hours, Prof Talk, CSC 888, Alt-tab, Trivia, Bonfire Quick explanation of events: Resume Review: Have your resume looked over by others, if you'd like to review other people's resumes, send an email to exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Beginning of term: Social get together of CSC members. Unix 101: Short tutorial on using Unix-like systems via a terminal. CSC 888: Student led paper reading group focused on Computer Graphics. Rising Star: Graduate students sharing their research and experience as a graduate student in replacement of SCS's Rising Star. After Hours: Organized small-group discussions on student related topics about mental health. Prof Talk: A professor gives a talk on their particular field of interest. Alt-Tab: A series of talks given by students for students on topics related to Computer Science. Trivia: Trivia night, mainly on CS. Bonfire: An end-of-term social event. Thank you, Happy Holidays, and stay safe during the New Year! -- Sourojeet Adhikari Fall 2025 Systems Administrator University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Server Maintenance + General Updates
by Computer Science Club 15 Oct '25

15 Oct '25

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! -- Sourojeet Adhikari Fall 2025 Systems Administrator University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Fall 2025 Election Results
by Computer Science Club 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Fall 2025 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term: President: Enming Yang (emyang) Rankings in descending order were: Enming Yang, Claire Wang, Amol Venkataraman, Jerry Zhu Vice-President: Kevin Kang (k8kang) with 30/38 votes Assistant Vice-President: Shaurya Suri (s4suri) with 22/38 votes Treasurer: Mincy Yang (m299yang) with 38 votes Sysadmin: Sourojeet Adhikari (s23adhik) with 38 votes Regards, -- Ohm Patel F25 Chief Returning Officer (CRO) University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Fall 2025 Election
by Computer Science Club 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2025 term on Thursday, September 11th at 5:30pm in DC 1302 and on the CSC Discord (csclub.ca/discord). The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer are to be elected, if you wish to nominate someone you may: - send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca - present your nomination in-person to the CRO, Ohm Patel - write your nomination on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) Nominations will close on Wednesday, September 10th at 10:00 AM. Nominees will be reached out to for their platforms. Current nominations can be viewed on the #nominee-platforms-f25 channel of the Discord (you should definitely run for prez). You must be a CSC member for the Fall 2025 term in order to run for a position or vote in the election. You can find more details about becoming a member or renewing your membership on our website at csclub.uwaterloo.ca/get-involved. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Regards, -- Ohm Patel F25 Chief Returning Officer (CRO) University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Mail Server Changes
by Computer Science Club 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

Hello everyone, As per new University policies we are now using the University of Waterloo Internet & Services Technology mail server as a relay. There shouldn't be any visible changes, or issues, if there are please notify the Systems Committee at syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca <syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca\> The new guidelines can be found here; https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/about/policies-standard… -- Sourojeet Adhikari Spring 2025 Vice President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Fall 2025 Election Nominations
by Computer Science Club 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2025 term. The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer will be elected, and the Sysadmin will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can: * send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> * present your nomination in-person to the CRO, Ohm Patel * write your nomination on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) Nominations will close on Wednesday, September 10th at 10:00 AM. Nominees will be reached out to for their platforms. The elections will be held in-person and online on Discord (csclub.ca/discord<https://csclub.ca/discord>); the exact date will be communicated soon. You must be a CSC member for the Fall 2025 term in order to run for a position or vote in the election. You can find more details about becoming a member or renewing your membership on our website at csclub.uwaterloo.ca/get-involved<https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/get-involved/>. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Regards, -- Ohm Patel F25 Chief Returning Officer (CRO) University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Presidential Resignation, and Fall 2025 CRO Appointment
by Computer Science Club 03 Aug '25

03 Aug '25

Hello everyone, About a week ago on July 24th our President, Dundee Zhang stepped down from their role as Club President. We sincerely thank Dundee for their leadership, dedication, and for the overal positive impact they've made during their time with us. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Seeing as it's the end of the term, we decided to not run another election, and I'll be stepping in as Acting President for the rest of this term. Next, for the Fall 2025 term, Ohm Patel, the current Systems Administrator will be the CRO. Thank you, Sourojeet Adhikari Spring 2025 Acting President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Downtime notification + Events
by Computer Science Club 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Hello all, Today (June 20th) mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca will be down from 12:30pm-3:30pm. Also Sorbitol has been taken out of general-use. In addition there will be a couple of events running in the next few days you may be interested in; * On June 23rd there will be a Prof Talk presented by Tavian Barnes on testing software in MC 4061 * On June 26th there's a talk being given by a member of the RCMP Cybercrime Unit in DC 1302 * On July 4th CSC is running a badminton tournament at PAC Small from 8-10pm * On July 8th CSC is running a LeetCode party at STC 0020 Also, Class Profile for 2024 has been released, can be accessed at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/classprofile/ Thank you, Sourojeet Adhikari Spring 2025 Vice-President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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