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Winter 2018 Elections: Nominations period has ended. (Elections held on January 15th at 5:00pm in Comfy; snacks provided)
by Computer Science Club 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

Hello everyone, The nominations period for the Winter 2018 CSC elections have ended. The elections will be held tomorrow, on Monday, January 15th at 5:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). This election will start no earlier than 24 hours from the time stamp of this email. You may still express interest in appointed positions, either via email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca or in person at the elections. Coffee and Timbits will be served at the elections. See https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution for a description of positions and the election procedure. All those who have accepted nominations or expressed interest in the appointed positions are kindly asked to attend the elections. Upon any extraordinary circumstances, you are asked to instead send a short written blurb to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca that explains the circumstance and why you should still be considered for the position. It will be read by me, or someone appointed by me, to the membership present at the elections. You can find the list of nominations at the bottom of this email. Do note, although it is possible that no voting will actually take place due to many of the elected positions being seated via acclamation, we still need at least 15 members to attend in order to achieve quorum and ratify our new executive members. If you attend elections, you must be a full member of the CSC in order to vote or be elected. Per our consitution, full membership are those who have paid their membership fees for the term and are MathSoc Social/Voting Members. If you are a Math undergrad student or on a official co-op term and have not refunded your fees, you are a MathSoc Social/Voting member. You may also pay MathSoc in their office to become a Social member. If you can't attend the election, you may vote remotely: please send a message with the subject "Winter 2018 Absentee Votes Enclosed" to <cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca> using either your @csclub.uwaterloo.ca or @edu.uwaterloo.ca address, and for each position, give a list of candidates you approve of. Your votes will be counted in accordance to our constitution: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution. *Do NOT reply* to this message with your votes, they will be revealed to all current exec members and will not be counted. I will reply to all absentee votes acknowledging receipt. Finally, I have nominated myself to the position of Secretary due to it being unfilled. Since I am currently CRO and have expressed interest in being the Systems Administrator, I will give the membership during the election some time to voice objections to my appointment as Secretary (as will such a period be given for all positions). If any valid objections are voiced, as per section 4.7 of our constitution, I will step down from the secretary nomination. Thanks, Jordan Pryde Chief Returning Officer and F2017 Systems Administrator Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca ******************************* * CSC - Winter 2018 Elections * ******************************* ** ELECTED POSITIONS ** President ========= pj2melan Vice-President ============== s455wang Treasurer ========= ss2hu adpranaj - Provisional on full membership Secretary ========= jxpryde ** APPOINTED POSITIONS ** The following persons have expressed interest in the appointed positions. The nominations for these positions have not yet closed. See https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections/ for the most updated list. Systems Administrator ===================== jxpryde Office Manager ============== z34wei zlaing Librarian ========= ly3cai - Provisional on CSC Membership z34wei IMAPD ===== (unfilled)

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Elections on Monday, January 15 at 5:00pm in the Comfy Lounge
by Computer Science Club 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Winter 2018 term on Monday, January 15th at 5:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). There will be snacks at the elections, probably Timbits. The following positions will be elected: President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. The following positions will be appointed: Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting), Office Manager, Librarian and IMAPd (fridge and snack runs). If you would like to run or nominate someone for any of the elected positions, you can put your/their name and Quest ID as well as a list of positions on a piece of paper into the nominations box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or send an email to the Chief Returning Officer at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. I will periodically empty the nominations box and notify the people nominated via their @csclub.uwaterloo.ca (or failing that, @edu.uwaterloo.ca) email address. Please note that club officer positions (elected positions, plus Systems Administrator) are restricted to MathSoc social members. Nominations will close at 5:00pm on Sunday, January 14th (24 hours prior to the start of elections). At this time, I will publish the list of nominations via the CSC mailing list as well as at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections. Voting will be done in a heads-down, hands-up manner and is restricted to MathSoc social members. A full description of the roles and the election procedure are listed in our Constitution, available at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution. Any questions related to the election can be directed to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Thanks, Jordan Pryde Chief Returning Officer and F2017 Systems Administrator Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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End of Term Event This Friday
by Computer Science Club 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi all, This Friday (December 1st), join fellow CSC members for our end of term social. There will be food and good company. We can grab board games from Mathsoc. The event will run from 6-8pm in the MC Comfy. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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CSC Shirts Have Arrived!
by Computer Science Club 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi all, This semester's CSC shirts have finally arrived and are available for pickup in the CSC office. I'll personally be in the office this Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 to 12:50 and Wednesday from 2:30 to 5:00, but shirts can be picked up from office staff whenever the office is open. We have no extra shirts, so they are only available to those who ordered in advance. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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Computer Networking Workshop Tonight
by Computer Science Club 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

Hi all, Tonight the CSC will be hosting a Computer Networking Workshop in collaboration with the University of Waterloo CTF Club (ctf.uwaterloo.ca). The event will start at 6:00pm in STC 0010. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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Capture the Flag Event and Code Party 1
by Computer Science Club 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hi all, The Computer Science Club has two exciting events coming up this week. Tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 14), we are partnering with the CTF Club to host a Capture the Flag Competition. Come test your programming, web, networking and security skill while learning how to reverse engineer programs and crack codes. This is a beginner friendly CTF. The event starts at 6:00pm in STC 0020. This Wednesday (Nov. 15), Code Party 1 will be happening starting at 5:30pm in STC 0050. Come work on personal projects, schoolwork, or anything else with other CSC members. Pizza will be served. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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Alt+Tab, T-Shirts and TerribleHack
by Computer Science Club 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi Everyone, There are lots of things going on this week: First, Alt+Tab talks are happening this Thursday the 9th at 6pm in MC4059. There will be pizza, and we have a great slate of short technical talks lined up: - Sumit Gupta: What is a landing page? - Tristan Hume: Dynamic programming as path finding - Marc Mailhot: How to compute on a GPU - Dave Pagurek: Subsurface scattering Also, There are still some slots left for ordering the new CSC T-Shirt - we will be taking orders until the end of this Friday, or whenever we run out of shirts, whichever comes sooner. The CSC would like to thank Fatema Boxwala for doing the artwork for the T-Shirt design. This Sunday, the TerribleHack organizers are bringing back Waterloo's terrible ideas hackathon! TerribleHack X will be happening in M3 1006 from 9am to 6pm on November 12th. Check out the website: http://terriblehack.website/ and Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2374585532765678/ - Tristan Hume Treasurer & Programs Committee Computer Science Club

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CSC T-Shirts now Available
by Computer Science Club 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi all, We are now taking orders for new CSC T-Shirts. As per the results of the earlier poll, the T-Shirts feature a goose at a keyboard, and will be printed on Heather Gray T-Shirts. The shirts are available in unisex or women's styles and cost $10. A mockup of the design can be found at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~mnmailho/files/Mockup.jpg The shirts will be printed on Bella + Canvas 3001 (for unisex) or 6004 (for women's) blanks, sizing charts are available in the office. To order, please come into the office with your $10 and speak to any member of the office staff who will be able to take your order. We have a limited number of shirts available, so act fast. For those out of town this term, we will take a limited number of orders by Paypal - please email exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you wish to do this. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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CSC/WiCS Social this Thursday (ft. Wonder Woman)
by Computer Science Club 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Hi all, This Thursday (November 2, 2017), the CSC is cohosting a Fall Social with WiCS (wics.uwaterloo.ca). There will be free food, board games, and a showing of Wonder Woman. The event starts at 7pm in MC 4059 and MC 4061. Marc Mailhot Secretary Computer Science Club

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Call for Alt+Tab talks
by Computer Science Club 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Hi Everyone, The CS Club will be running an "Alt+Tab" short talks event at 6pm on Thursday November 9th. Members will be giving short 10-15 minute talks on interesting programming-related topics. If you'd like to give a talk (please do, we have lots of slots!) contact me by emailing tghume(a)uwaterloo.ca with your name and a preliminary talk title (you can change it later if you want). In the past people have talked about the things they learned or built in their previous co-op term, done short introductions to new programming languages, and taught others about something interesting they learned. Examples of past talk titles include "Stepping into math: building a step-by-step algebra solver”, "Typed Racket", "Online database migrations at scale” and “How your text editor does syntax highlighting”. There's lots of things you can talk about and it's a good environment to give your first talk, so go ahead and sign up! - Tristan Hume Treasurer & Programs Committee Computer Science Club

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