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Temporary Server Shutdown
by Computer Science Club 10 Jun '26

10 Jun '26

Hello everyone, On *Thursday, June 11th*, from *9:30pm to 3:30am* the *servers will be shut down*. Due to an Electrical Shutdown being conducted by Plant Ops. Thank you, -- Sourojeet Adhikari |https://racha.ca Spring 2026 President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Notice Of Disruption to Services, & Events for the term
by Computer Science Club 20 May '26

20 May '26

Hello everyone, Firstly; *What is happening? *Hardware Installation & Upgrades in Cloud 2.0 (Proxmox)'s main nodes. The servers; Teriyaki, Tahini, and Sorbitol will be shut down for a period for the hardware to be installed. *When is this happening? *May 20th, 1pm EDT to 3pm EDT is the expected time frame. Services may be online earlier *How does this affect the CSC Community? *A few members/services (Matrix, Club Websites, etc) are housed on these servers and will be down for the duration. Secondly; On the note of Events we are tentatively planning Trivia night on June 2nd, Alt-tab on July 2nd, a Picnic on July 9th, and a Game Night on July 23rd. Thank you, -- Sourojeet Adhikari |https://racha.ca Spring 2026 President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Constitution Amendment Finalized Version
by Computer Science Club 07 May '26

07 May '26

Hello CSC Members, The Executive Council of CSC is initiated an amendment of the Constitution and Code of Conduct in March and has received extensive feedback from members, past executives, as well as external bodies which we work with. The Executive would like to extend our sincere appreciation for your efforts in improving CSC. The draft has now been finalized and available to view on Gitea as well as HackMD. A summary of changes is also available to see. You may log in to our Gitea using the credentials for your CSC account. - Summary: https://hackmd.io/@TechCiel/S1iXfjQoWl (no log in needed) - Changes: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/c256zhao/www-club/pulls/1/files - Amended Version: https://hackmd.io/@TechCiel/BJSzt2QoZg (no log in needed) At the General Meeting on May 14th at 6PM at STC 0040, there will be a brief explanation on the amendments, followed by a vote to adopt this amendment. As per Chapter 8 Section 6 and Chapter 10 Section 5 of the Constitution, a quorum of 25 full members or more with 2/3 vote is required to pass and adopt the amendment. -- Thank you, Enming Yang, on beahlf of the Winter 2026 Executive Council Winter 2026 President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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Computer Science Club Spring 2026 Election and General Meeting Call
by Computer Science Club 06 May '26

06 May '26

Hello Computer Science Club members! The Executive Council of CSC is calling a General Meeting on Thursday, May 14th, at 6:00PM EDT (UTC-4) at STC 0060. You may attend in-person or virtually via the Stage Channel on our Discord server (csclub.ca/discord) <https://csclub.ca/discord>. It will be held jointly with the S26 election. The amendment vote will take place first. In March, the Executive Council initiated an amendment of the Constitution and Code of Conduct. After more than 28 days of discussion, with many helpful inputs, comments, suggestions, we have iterated on the initial proposal. The executive council would now like to move to a vote by the members. The election for the Spring 2026 term will be held in-person and virtually on Thursday, May 14th, at 6:00PM EDT (UTC-4) at STC 0060 after the General Meeting. Virtual attendees can join the Stage Channel on our Discord server. 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. The election will follow procedures outlined in the current constitution as to not be affected by the outcome of the constitution amendment vote. 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, 2. Present your nomination in-person to the CRO (Rui Huang), or 3. Write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Wednesday, May 13th, 2026, at 6PM EDT (UTC-4). The CRO will reach out to nominees for their platform. Platforms will be available on the nominee-platform-s26 discord channel and send out via Email after the nomination period ends. If you are unable to attend the elections live (in-person or virtually), you may email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca by Wednesday, May 13th, 2026, at 6:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) to request an absentee ballot. In-person voting will be done via form submission. You must be a CSC member and Mathsoc Full or Social Member for the Spring 2026 term to run for a position or vote in the election. You can sign up or renew your CSC membership in person at 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 Cordially, Rui Huang, Spring 2026 Chief Returning Officer Enming Yang, Winter 2026 President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC Constitution Amendment Proposal
by Computer Science Club 15 Mar '26

15 Mar '26

Hello CSC Members, The Executive Council of CSC is initiating an amendment of the Constitution and Code of Conduct, to keep them updated and in align with our years of practices, while also cleaning out some contradictions and repetitions, improving the general readability and relevancy. The draft amendment is available on the Gitea of the Club at the links below. You may log in to our Gitea using the credentials for your CSC account. - Summary: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/c256zhao/www-club/pulls/1 - Changes: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/c256zhao/www-club/pulls/1/files - Amended Version: https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/c256zhao/www-club/src/branch/main/content/a… The draft will now enter a discussion and request for comments period of 28 days, and will be finalized on April 12. All respectful comments from our members are welcomed by: - using the review and comment feature of Gitea for easier reference - posting in the #constitution-amendments channel of [our Discord server](https://csclub.ca/discord) - sending them to exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca -- Thank you, Enming Yang, on beahlf of the Winter 2026 Executive Council Winter 2026 President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club

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CSC W26 General Meeting Notice
by Computer Science Club 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

You are receiving this email as you are (or were) a Computer Science Club Member. To stop receiving these emails, send an email to csc-general-leave(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your CSC email address watiamid(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Hello Computer Science Club members! You're invited to CSC's W26 General Meeting, taking place on Sunday, March 15th at 3:00 PM. Location: DC 1351 This meeting will include recognition of individuals and groups who have made significant contributions to the club, club update, and information on next term planning and hiring opportunities. Everyone is welcome to bring questions and share feedback to the exec council. This is an open general meeting, so all members and interested parties are encouraged to attend. There will be snacks and drinks provided. 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>. We look forward to seeing you there! Claire Wang Winter 2026 Assistant Vice President University of Waterloo Computer Science Club _______________________________________________ Computer Science Club General Announcements To unsubscribe, send an email to csc-general-leave(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or go to https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/postorius/lists/csc-general.csclub.uwat…. If you have difficulty unsubscribing, try using your @csclub.uwaterloo.ca to unsubscribe

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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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