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Constitutional Amendment, Sysadmin Ratification, BOT date, and much more!
by Computer Science Club 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Hello, The vote for the constitutional amendment will be delayed as our Beginning-of-Term event has been moved to Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. It will be held at STC 0060, 7:00pm. Discussion on the amendment is still open on our Discord server (https://csclub.ca/discord) in the #constitution-amendments channel. The changes will be finalized by January 22nd, 2025, 7pm. Due to low participation and time conflicts at election, the Sysadmin for W25 was not ratified. At the BOT event on January 29th, the elected executives will appoint and ratify the Sysadmin for this semester. The BOT date is stated above. There will be a variety of activities such as; would-you-rather, squirt, and/or the limbo challenge. Come by to have a fun time and eat some great food! In addition, earlier in the week MathSoc is running a Mock Interviews, and they're looking for volunteer Mock Interviews. If you'd like to volunteer as a Mock Interviewer, contact Kareem, the MathSoc VPA this term to participate! You'll also receive free food if you volunteer at this event! Also, Alt-Tab will be making a return this term! Right now we're in the early stages of planning Alt-tab, but we will be running it this term! Alt-tab is an event where anyone can come up and present a 10-20 min presentation on any topic they'd like. In the past we've had topics such as; PXE Dream Servers, Desmos for Fun and for Profit, Python is Compiled, and so much more! We suggest preparing any topics you'd like to present now, as they normally take some time to make, and practice. In addition CSC plans on providing UNIX tutorial in supplement to the UW course curriculum, as well as giving an introduction for the general audience. If you are experienced with the subject, please reach out to Sourojeet to help out with it! (s23adhik(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) Projects Program, headed by our community representatives is underway! Students will have the opportunity to make meaningful side projects to sharpen their skill and put it on their resume! Sign up for mentors and mentees will be available shortly, stay tuned for updates! If you'd like to be notified about future events and generally be informed about the happenings within CSC, we suggest joining the CSC-Newsletter, you can subscribe at https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/postorius/lists/newsletter.csclub.uwate…. Thank you, Sourojeet Adhikari Winter 2025 President University Of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC W25 Election and Constitutional Amendment Vote Update
by Computer Science Club 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Hello, As a reminder, the Winter 2025 Election will be held on Monday, January 13th, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET, scheduled to end at 9:00 PM ET. The location will be DC 1302 and it will also be held virtually in our Discord (https://discord.gg/Acm29mJA?event=1326735119871901796) If you would like to run for any of the available positions (President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer), you may still do so by emailing cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, submitting your nomination in-person to the CRO (Iris Liao), or writing your name clearly on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). We will reach out to nominees to obtain their platforms. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET. If you cannot attend either in-person or online, you may email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca to request an absentee ballot. All candidates and voters must be CSC members. Find out more at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/get-involved/. The vote for the constitutional amendment will be delayed as our Beginning-of-Term event (BOT) has been moved to Friday, January 31st, 2025. The time and location will be announced when they are confirmed along with the finalized version of the pending amendment. For now, discussion is still open in our Discord server (https://csclub.ca/discord) in the #constitution-amendments channel. Thank you, -- Iris L. (she/her) Fall 2024 President & Winter 2025 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Election Update (Winter 2025)
by Computer Science Club 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

Hello, The election vote will be held on Monday, January 13th at 7:00 PM EST (UTC-5:00) instead of the previously stated time. The in-person location is still to be determined and will be announced in another email when we have confirmed the booking and the virtual voting will be done via Discord as mentioned prior. Accordingly, the nomination deadline is also now moved to Friday, January 10th at 7:00 PM EST (UTC-5:00) and you have until Saturday, January 11th at 7:00 PM EST (UTC-5:00) to request an absentee ballot. Thank you, -- Iris Liao (she/her) Fall 2024 President & Winter 2025 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Winter 2025 Election Notice
by Computer Science Club 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

Hello, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2025 term in-person and virtually on Friday, January 10th, 2024 at 7:00PM EST (UTC-5). The location of the in-person event will be announced once we have confirmed the room booking and 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. 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 (Iris Liao), or 3. Write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Wednesday, January 8th, 2024, at 7:00PM 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 Thursday, January 9th, 2024 at 7:00PM EST (UTC-5) to request an absentee ballot. In-person voting will be done via anonymous ballot and virtual voting (both through virtual attendance and absentee ballots) 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 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<https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Thank you. -- Iris Liao (she/her) Fall 2024 President & Winter 2025 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Server & Service Outage on Sunday
by Computer Science Club 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Hello all, This is a notification to inform you of scheduled downtime for all CSC services due to a planned power outage in MC (https://plantops.uwaterloo.ca/service-interruptions/notice.php?ID=2433) Downtime Details: Date: Sunday, December 22nd Time: 7:00am - 4:00pm (EST/UTC-5) Affected Services: - Web hosting (all personal and club websites) - Email (@csclub.uwaterloo.ca email addresses) - Servers and Office Terminals - CSC Mirror & Cloud - Any other services hosted by CSC There may also be intermittent disruptions to CSC Cloud, Corn-Syrup, and other systems on Friday, December 20th in preparation for the power outage. Please save your data and backup anything important. If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Regards, -- Ohm Patel F24 Systems Administrator University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Constitution Amendment Proposal
by Computer Science Club 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Hello CSC Members, We, the CSC Executives, are initiating a constitutional amendment to improve our Systems Committee (syscom) and Terminal Committee (termcom) processes and definitions, as well as to update a bit of wording. These changes intend to address some operational issues with syscom and termcom, specifically the former having many alumni and not having a clear path for students to become involved, and the latter not representing a fulfilling role nor meeting its intended "syscom-in-training" purpose. You can find the live revision of the amendment on the CSC Git here: https://csclub.ca/amendments. As per Section 10 (Amendments and Procedures) of the CSC Constitution, there will be 28 days of discussion before announcing the finalized version to go to the voting phase, which will occur in-person at our Beginning of Term event. To discuss this amendment, please join our Discord server at https://csclub.ca/discord. Look for the #constitution-amendments channel at the top of the server under the office status channel. Thank you, -- Iris L. (she/her) — on behalf of the Fall 2024 Executive Council Fall 2024 President + Winter 2025 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Server Maintenance Downtime Notification for Caffeine
by Computer Science Club 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hello all, This is a notification to inform you of scheduled downtime to upgrade Phosphoric-Acid, which hosts the webserver Caffeine. Downtime Details: Date: Friday, October 11th 2024 Time: 10:30AM - 2:30PM (EDT/UTC-4) Affected Services: All websites, databases, and other services hosted on Caffeine will be unavailable during this period. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Regards, -- Ohm Patel F24 Systems Administrator University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC October Election & General Meeting
by Computer Science Club 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Hello everyone, As of September 28th, 2024, Nathan Chung, our previous Systems Administrator, has resigned from his position, effective September 29th, 2024. In the absence of the Systems Administrator, as per the constitution, their duties are to be carried out by the Systems Committee, until a new Systems Administrator is available. With the vacancy of this position, the Executive have called for an election and general meeting to appoint and ratify a new Systems Administrator. Per the constitution, the Executive will select a member of the club to be a Systems Administrator, and members at the election will then vote to ratify the candidate. Additionally, after the election, a general meeting will occur which will contain updates from the organizing committee, with an opportunity to ask any questions you may have for us. The election and general meeting will be on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 at 7:00PM EDT (UTC-4), both virtually, in the Stage Channel on our Discord server, and in-person in STC 0010. If you have any further questions about the elections or the general meeting, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> or exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. -- Gordon Lin (he/him/his) Fall 2024 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Sunsetting of Sorbitol and Mannitol
by Computer Science Club 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

Hello everyone, We are writing to inform you about the upcoming sunsetting of two of our general-use servers, Sorbitol and Mannitol. Effective September 17, 2024, these servers will no longer be available for use by general members. If you have any services or applications running on these servers, we kindly ask that you migrate them to alternative servers before the specified date. Please note that any remaining services on Sorbitol and Mannitol after this date will be terminated. After the transition, both Sorbitol and Mannitol will continue to operate as part of CSC cloud. However, both will return to be general-use servers sometime in the future. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation during this process. Should you have any questions or require assistance with the migration, please do not hesitate to reach out. Regards, -- Ohm Patel Systems Committee University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Fall 2024 Elections
by Computer Science Club 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Fall 2024 term in-person and virtually, on Monday, September 9th, 2024, at 7:00PM EDT (UTC-4) in DC 1302 and in the Stage Channel on our Discord server. The President, Vice-President, Assistant Vice-President, and Treasurer will be elected, and the System Administrator will be appointed. If you’d like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can: send an email tocro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>; present your nomination in-person to the CRO, Gordon Lin; or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Saturday, September 7th,2024, at 6:00PM EDT (UTC-4). Nominees will be contacted to share their platforms. If you are unable to attend the elections in-person or virtually by livestream through the CSC Discord, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> by Sunday, September 8th, 2024 at 6:00PM EDT (UTC-4) in order to request an absentee ballot. You must be a CSC member for the Fall 2024 term in order to run for any of the positions or to vote in the elections. You can find more details about becoming a member or renewing your membership on our website at csclub.uwaterloo.ca. If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. -- Gordon Lin (he/him/his) Spring 2024 President & Fall 2024 Chief Returning Officer University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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