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Spring 2014 Election Nominations Closed
by Computer Science Club 14 May '14

14 May '14

Nominations for the Spring 2014 elections have closed. The candidates are: President: - Jinny Kim (yj7kim) - Matthew Thiffault (mthiffau) - Shane Creighton-Young (srcreigh) - Hayford Peprah (hkpeprah) Vice President: - Luke Franceschini (l3france) - Jinny Kim (yj7kim) - Shane Creighton-Young (srcreigh) - Hayford Peprah (hkpeprah) Treasurer: - Luke Franceschini (l3france) - Matthew Thiffault (mthiffau) - Catherine Mercer (ccmercer) - Joseph Chouinard (jchouina) Secretary - Luke Franceschini (l3france) - Catherine Mercer (ccmercer) - Joseph Chouinard (jchouina) - Ifaz Kabir (ikabir) If you nominated someone and they are not in this list, they probably withdrew their candicacy. If there is an error in the above, contact me at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca immediately. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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Spring 2014 CSC Elections
by Computer Science Club 06 May '14

06 May '14

The Computer Science Club will be holding elections on Thursday, May 15 at 6:00 PM in the MC Comfy Lounge. The president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary for the spring 2014 term will be elected. The system administrator, office manager, and librarian are also typically appointed here. Anyone who is a full member of the CSC is eligible to be nominated for a position on exec. You can nominate another person or yourself for any number of positions. Nominations can be submitted either by writing the person's name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037), or by sending an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. A more detailed explanation of the nomination/election procedure follows. Any contingencies not accounted for below or mandated by the constitution or other applicable documents shall be determined at the discretion of the CRO or, in the case of disagreement on such a procedure, a majority vote of present voting members. Nomination procedure: 1. Anyone eligible to be a full CSC member may be nominated for one or more of the positions for election: president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary. 2. A person may nominate him/herself or someone else for any number of positions. 3. Nominations will be accepted by the CRO via any of the following means: (a) in person (b) email (to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (c) the CSC mailbox in MathSoc (d) the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) 4. Nominations will be accepted immediately, until the end of the nomination period (Wed May 14 2014 at 5:00 PM). Thereafter the final list will be posted on the CSC website. Election procedure: 1. Anyone present and eligible to join the CSC or renew CSC membership for the fall will be permitted to do so at the beginning of elections. 2. A list of the candidates for each position will be read. 3. The positions will be elected in the following order: president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary. Anyone elected to a position will be removed from consideration for following positions. 4. Before each position is elected, a summary of the duties attendant to that position will be given, and each candidate will be permitted to make a brief statement and take questions. 5. Elections will be conducted via heads-down-hands-up approval voting, with the CRO as the final authority on vote counts. Advance votes shall count equal to present votes, except that they are invalidated if the voter is present. In the event of a tie, a runoff election between the equal candidates will be run by the same procedure. Only full CSC members (in particular, MathSoc social members) are eligible to vote. 6. Anyone who is elected but discovered not to be a CSC member must resign the position or immediately gain membership. 7. Following the election of these four positions, the meeting will be turned over to the president-elect, who shall begin his/her office by appointing (with the other new exec) the remaining positions. Advance voting procedure: 1. If you are unable to attend the election, you may submit an advance vote via email only. Such emails must be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from either your @csclub.uwaterloo.ca or @ uwaterloo.ca email, and must be received at least one hour before the beginning of elections. 2. If you attend elections anyway, you must identify yourself to the CRO so that your advance ballot can be invalidated in favour of your present vote. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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Reminder for today's event!
by Computer Science Club 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello CSC, This is a reminder that Battle Decks today is happening from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in MC 4041. There is an informal sign up on the white board inside the CSC room. What is Battle Decks? You prepare a slide deck with 5 slides relating to one concept. Email it to veep@ <veep(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca>csclub.uwaterloo.ca<veep(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. At 6:30 we will randomly choose a presentation from the submissions and have people present the concept impromptu. The idea is to become comfortable with public speaking, by practising in front of your peers, to learn a new concept and to entertain. I hope to see you there. Submissions for slides end at 6pm. You will only be able to present a slide if you submit a deck. The presentations are to run no more than 6 mins each. Thank you Visha CSC Veep W14

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Upcoming Events
by Computer Science Club 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be hosting these events in the forthcoming weeks: 1) Code Party 1 (2014-03-14 - 6:00 PM - Comfy Lounge) We will be having our 2nd code party this term. Enjoy a free dinner, relax, and share ideas with your friends about your favourite topics in computer science. 2) Battle Decks (2014-03-18 - 7:00 PM - MC 4041) Create a 5-slide PowerPoint presentation about a specific topic. Bring it with you to the event (on a flash drive). Submit it into the lottery. Select a random PowerPoint presentation from the lottery and talk about it on the spot. 3) HackWaterloo (2014-03-28 - 7:00 PM - Multimedia Lab at CPH 1346) Work on a software project for 24 hours in teams of up to 4 members. Swag will be provided by Facebook and Google. A Microsoft Surface Table will be awarded to the winning team. Register and find out more at: http://hack-waterloo.com/ -- Take care, Mark Farrell Secretary

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Notice of Scheduled Downtime: high-fructose-corn-syrup
by Computer Science Club 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Greetings programs, This is a maintenance advisory for scheduled downtime on the machine: high-fructose-corn-syrup Maintenance will be taking place on this machine on 2014-02-18 after 5:30 pm. The maintenance work will involve halting the machine for a period of time during this window. We plan to install a 750GB SSD into high-fructose-corn-syrup in order to provide a fast local scratch drive. This should increase the performance of this machine for users who need fast access to large amounts of temporary disk space for their jobs. Thank you for your patience as we perform this maintenance work. Murphy Berzish CSC Systems Administrator

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Bloomberg Talk Tomorrow / UNIX 101 and Code Party 0 on Feb 13
by Computer Science Club 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Greetings members, I hope you have all been having a good term so far. We have a number of events planned for the next couple of weeks. Tomorrow at 5:30PM, we have a database talk from Alex Scotti of Bloomberg. Thursday of next week, we will have UNIX 101, a basic command-line tutorial, followed immediately by our first code party. Longer descriptions follow. Bloomberg's Alex Scotti will be presenting a talk this Tuesday on concurrency control implementations in relational databases. Free swag will be handed out at the event. The talk will take place in MC 4058 at 5:30 PM on February 4th, 2014. Next Thursday (Feb 13), we will offer UNIX 101, where people can learn the basics of using command-line tools found commonly on UNIX-like operating systems, such as Linux. The event will take place in the Mac Lab in MC 3003, from 5:30-6:30PM. Immediately after UNIX 101, at 6:30PM, we will be having our first annual code party in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). Enjoy a free dinner, relax, share ideas with your friends about your favourite topics in computer science, and work on that side project you've been thinking of for the past week. Thanks, Bryan Coutts CSC President

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Winter 2014 Nominations Closed
by Computer Science Club 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Nominations for the Winter 2014 elections have closed. The candidates are: President: - Jonathan Bailey (jj2baile) - Nicholas Black (nablack) - Bryan Coutts (b2coutts) - Annamaria Dosseva (mdosseva) - Youn Jin Kim (yj7kim) - Visha Vijayanad (vvijayan) Vice-President: - Nicholas Black (nablack) - Bryan Coutts (b2coutts) - Visha Vijayanad (vvijayan) Treasurer: - Jonathan Bailey (jj2baile) - Nicholas Black (nablack) - Marc Burns (m4burns)* - Bryan Coutts (b2coutts) Secretary: - Jonathan Bailey (jj2baile) - Bryan Coutts (b2coutts) - Mark Farrell (m4farrel) * Not currently a CSC member for Winter 2014, according to LDAP. If you nominated someone and they do not appear in this list, the person probably withdrew their candidacy. If there is an error in the above, contact me at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca immediately. -- Jeremy Roman Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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Winter 2014 CSC Elections
by Computer Science Club 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

The Computer Science Club will run its termly executive elections on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 5:30 pm in the MC Comfy Lounge. At this meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary of the Computer Science Club will be elected. The system administrator, office manager, and other appointed positions are typically appointed at this meeting as well. In particular, voting this time will be heads-down, hands-up voting only by MathSoc social members. You may request voting by ballot, but overruling my interpretation of voting eligibility would require a majority of the assembly. Boring legalistic details follow. Any contingencies not accounted for below or mandated by the constitution or other applicable documents shall be determined at the discretion of the CRO or, in the case of disagreement on such a procedure, a majority vote of present voting members. Nomination procedure: 1. Anyone eligible to be a full CSC member may be nominated for one or more of the positions for election: president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary. 2. A person may nominate him/herself or someone else for any number of positions. 3. Nominations will be accepted by the CRO via any of the following means: (a) in person (b) email (to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (c) the CSC mailbox in MathSoc (d) the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) 4. Nominations will be accepted immediately, until the end of the nomination period (Wed Jan 15 2014 at 4:30 PM). Thereafter the final list will be posted on the CSC website. Election procedure: 1. Anyone present and eligible to join the CSC or renew CSC membership for the fall will be permitted to do so at the beginning of elections. 2. A list of the candidates for each position will be read. 3. The positions will be elected in the following order: president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary. Anyone elected to a position will be removed from consideration for following positions. 4. Before each position is elected, a summary of the duties attendant to that position will be given, and each candidate will be permitted to make a brief statement and take questions. 5. Elections will be conducted via heads-down-hands-up approval voting, with the CRO as the final authority on vote counts. Advance votes shall count equal to present votes, except that they are invalidated if the voter is present. In the event of a tie, a runoff election between the equal candidates will be run by the same procedure. Only full CSC members (in particular, MathSoc social members) are eligible to vote. 6. Anyone who is elected but discovered not to be a CSC member must resign the position immediately gain membership. 7. Following the election of these four positions, the meeting will be turned over to the president-elect, who shall begin his/her office by appointing (with the other new exec) the remaining positions. Advance voting procedure: 1. If you are unable to attend the election, you may submit an advance vote via email only. Such emails must be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, and must be received at least one hour before the beginning of elections. 2. If you attend elections anyway, you must identify yourself to the CRO so that your advance ballot can be invalidated in favour of your present vote. -- Jeremy Roman Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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Office Clean-out Dec. 4 / CTRL-D Dec. 12
by Computer Science Club 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hi all! This will be the last email of the term. Good luck with your exams and enjoy the break! OFFICE CLEAN-OUT: TOMORROW, DEC. 4 --- It has been a long time since the office was last cleaned. Cleaning will be a monumental effort, and will be taking place tomorrow, Dec. 4, starting around 11AM. If you have any unclaimed belongings in the office, THEY WILL BE THROWN OUT OR REPOSSESSED. Please *ensure* you have not left any personal belongings in the office, or email offsck(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you aren't able to pick them up before tomorrow. Anyone that is interested in helping out with the office cleaning is free to show up. CTRL-D (END OF TERM PARTY): THURSDAY, DEC. 12 --- Our termly "CTRL-D" party has been scheduled for next Thursday, Dec. 12. If you're not sure where it is being held (usual location) and you'd like to attend, a number of people will be departing for the EOT from the CSC office around 6 or 6:30PM. Or you can drop by the office in advance and ask for directions. Godspeed, -- Elana Hashman President Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca

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CSC Shirts! and other reminders
by Computer Science Club 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Greetings programs, CSC SHIRTS --- After much delay, shirts are ready for ordering. They will be black American Apparel shirts, silkscreened with the winning design of our t-shirt contest. See the attached images for the AVL-tree design, courtesy of our winner, Holly Xu. Final pricing and pickup date have not yet been determined, as these are dependent on the number of shirts that will be ordered. Price will be no more than $15 (we hope to price around $10), and shirts will be available for pickup in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) no later than mid-exam period. You can order them on the webform at http://goo.gl/ypaHRZ Responses will be accepted no later than 12PM noon on Friday, Nov. 29th. OTHER REMINDERS --- Our last event of the term is running today at 5:00PM in MC 2038. Zak Blacher will be presenting his talk on "Disk Encryption." Bob Jonkman invites CSCers to his presentation on encrypting email with Enigmail and Thunderbird, followed by a keysigning party, on Dec. 2 at 7:00PM. More details on the event, hosted by the KWLUG, can be found here: http://kwlug.org/node/909 Our end-of-term party, CTRL-D, has not yet been scheduled. Stay tuned for more details... and let us know if you'd like to host! Cheers, and good luck on your final exams, -- Elana Hashman President Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca

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