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CSC Extra Elections on Friday, Sep 22nd at 6:00pm in the MC Comfy (electing Vice-President, Secretary; appointing Systems Administrator)
by Computer Science Club 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Hello everyone, During the election, we elected the following positions: President: Melissa Tedesco (matedesc) Treasurer: Tristan Hume (tghume) Unfortunately, due to a lack of nominations and the inability to maintain quorum, we could not elect the VICE-PRESIDENT and SECRETARY, and we haven't appointed the SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR. Therefore, the Computer Science Club will be holding extra elections for the Spring 2017 term on Friday, September 22nd at 6:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). The following positions will be appointed: Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the meeting), Office Manager, Librarian and IMAPD. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RUN OR NOMINATE SOMEONE for any of the elected positions, you can put your/their name on the whiteboard or in the nominations box in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or by sending an email to the Chief Returning Officer (In this case the current President, Melissa) at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Please note that executive positions are restricted to MathSoc social members. A list of current nominations will be available on the whiteboard in the office and at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO NOMINATE YOURSELF, WE NEED PEOPLE! Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Thursday, September 21st (24 hours prior to the start of elections). If either the Vice-President or the Secretary position lack nominations at that time, we will postpone the election to a later date. 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, Melissa Tedesco President Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca | exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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Elections: Nominations period has ended
by Computer Science Club 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hello everyone, The nominations period for the CSC election has just ended. The election event will be tomorrow on Friday, September 15th at 6:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). I will make sure that the election itself will start no earlier than 24 hours after this email has been sent. You can find the list of nominations at the bottom of this email. If you can't attend the election, you can vote remotely: Just reply (using either your @csclub.uwaterloo.ca or @edu.uwaterloo.ca address), and for each position, give a list of candidates you approve of! Note that you need to be a member to vote or to be elected. You will have an opportunity to sign up at the start of the election event. There's also a KW Linuxfest happening on 27 January 2018; its Call For Presentations is open until 1 November 2017. Topics should be GNU/Linux, Free Software, Free Culture, concentrating on their history, technological features, or social significance (ie. "What is the Free Software Movement" is good (but that's been done)). Anyone with something interesting to present is encouraged to apply, and everyone with an interest is encouraged to attend! There will also be exhibitor information booths. I'm still drafting up the Call For Exhibitors, but I'd like to extend an early invitation to CSC to have a free (as in gratis) information table. Have a fun election! Felix Bauckholt ******************************* * CSC - Spring 2017 Elections * ******************************* Elections will occur on Friday, September 15th at 6:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge. See https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/constitution for a description of positions and the election procedure. ** ELECTED POSITIONS ** President ========= fbauckho matedesc qllam Vice-President ============== fbauckho qllam Treasurer ========= tghume qllam Secretary ========= mnmailho csfmurph fbauckho qllam ** APPOINTED POSITIONS ** The following persons have expressed interest in the appointed positions: Systems Administrator ===================== jxpryde qllam Office Manager ============== fbauckho qllam Librarian ========= fbauckho pnjarlan qllam Fridge Person ============= fbauckho qllam CTF Club Liaison ================ fbauckho qllam

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Elections on Friday, September 15 at 6:00pm in the Comfy Lounge // StarCon announcement
by Computer Science Club 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

If you're interested in speaking at a conference for the first time check out StarCon at the bottom of this email. Hello everyone, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the Spring 2017 term on Friday, September 15th at 6:00pm in the MC Comfy Lounge (MC 3001). 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 CTF Club Liaison. 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 (Felix) at cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. I will periodically empty the nominations box and notify the people nominated via their @edu.uwaterloo.ca<http://edu.uwaterloo.ca/> email address. Please note that executive positions are restricted to MathSoc social members. Nominations will close at 6:00pm on Thursday, September 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<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Additionally, we’re excited to announce that StarCon (http://starcon.io/) a conference running in Waterloo next January, has opened its call for proposals! We’re looking for folks who have a passion for technology, learning and sharing to submit 15 minute talks about their favourite piece(s) of technology. Submit your talk before September 15 here: https://starcon.io/cfp/ Thanks, Felix Bauckholt Chief Returning Officer Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

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Loss of data on /scratch
by Computer Science Club 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello everyone, The /scratch array failed (likely due to a failed drive) at some point during the past weekend. The Systems Committee attempted to recover the data on /scratch but was unsuccessful. We have created a new /scratch on different (larger) drives, and /scratch is now available again. This failure required us to reboot corn-syrup at 9pm on August 28th. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the loss of data on /scratch and the reboot of corn-syrup. Thanks, CSC Systems Committee

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Systems Updates / Planned Maintenance from the Systems Committee
by Computer Science Club 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

Hello everyone, This email contains multiple sections: 1. Updates and reminders 2. Upcoming Maintenance (including machine reboots) on Friday, August 18 3. Introducing the CSC Cloud SECTION 1: UPDATES / REMINDERS A few updates and reminder: - Disk space: Please remember that disk space is limited. Home directories have a 4GB quota and SHOULD NOT be used for computational purposes. Please use /scratch or /scratch-hfcs for large storage and computational purposes. Disk space in both is limited, so please remove large items once you are done with them. If space is fully utilized, the systems committee may remove large items to make room for others. - caffeine: When caffeine was upgraded to Debian Stretch a few weekends ago, PHP was not fully upgraded. This has been resolved, and we are now running PHP 7. - Networking for all MathSoc clubs (including the CSC) was upgraded to provide additional redundancy and capacity. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, there were some issues when the inter-building (MC -> DC) link was activated that resulted in unavailability of the CSC network for periods of time during the day. These issues have now been resolved and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. - Is there a piece of software that you'd like installed on our machines? Email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca to request the package. SECTION 2: UPCOMING MAINTENANCE On Friday, August 18, 2017, from 12pm to 6pm, the CSC will be in a maintenance period. During this period: - Machines will be rebooted to upgrade their kernels (including security updates). Please ensure that all program state is saved prior to the start of the maintenance period to ensure minimal loss. - corn-syrup and high-fructose-corn-syrup will have a 10Gbps network card installed. SECTION 3: INTRODUCING THE CSC CLOUD The CSC systems committee is currently working on the development of a private cloud for all CSC members. Our cloud, powered by OpenStack, will allow us to offer virtual-private servers to members. We are currently looking for beta testers. Please email cloud(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you are interested in joining the beta. *Please include your CSC username in the email.* We will ask you for your feedback and ask that you report all issues to us. Thanks to the Math Endowment Fund (MEF) and CSC members for hardware donations that made this project possible. CONCLUSION Finally, we are looking for people interested in joining the systems committee. Please contact syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you are interested in learning more. If you have any questions/concerns/comments about the content of this email or about the CSC systems, please email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Thanks, Zachary Seguin Systems Administrator Computer Science Club | University of Waterloo syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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System upgrades: upcoming maintenance window (Sun. July 30)
by Computer Science Club 23 Jul '17

23 Jul '17

Greetings programs, Syscom will be performing Debian system upgrades on most of our stable systems (taurine, mail, caffeine [webserver]) on Sunday, July 30th between the hours of 8am and 8pm EST. During that time, mail and web hosting services may be interrupted briefly. We do not anticipate any system reboots at this time. taurine will be getting irssi and weechat upgrades, so we recommend you restart your IRC sessions once the maintenance is complete to take advantage of the new software. You may have noticed that we already completed upgrades on all our Debian testing systems (sucrose, corn-syrup, hfcs). Please reach out to the Systems Committee if you have any questions, concerns, or deep dark secrets you'd like to share: syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Thanks for flying CSC Air, -- Elana Hashman Systems Committee Computer Science Club University of Waterloo syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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End of Term Party!
by Computer Science Club 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Hi Everyone, Come join CSC for the End of Term party next Monday, July 24 from 6pm - 10pm in MC Comfy! We will be serving Urban Bricks! Events page: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2017-07-24-6:00_pm Regards, Bo

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Alt-Tab S17
by Computer Science Club 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Hi everyone, CSC's Alt-Tab is back! Join us for food and interesting member talks. The current lineup includes: Ifaz Kabir<https://www.facebook.com/ifazk>: "The comment that took Stack Exchange down and the algorithm that could have saved them" Fatema Boxwala<https://www.facebook.com/fatema.boxwala>: "Manic PXE Dream Servers" Charlie Wang<https://www.facebook.com/charliewangg>: TBA (Something About Typed Racket) Sean Harrap: "Register Allocation With Graphs" Bryan Coutts<https://www.facebook.com/bryan.coutts.5>: "Vehicle Routing" Reila Lee: TBA Facebook event page found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/501869783485380/. Secretary, Bo

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Talkers and Hackers and CS, Oh My
by Computer Science Club 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hey you, CS Club member! If you came out to our CSC/WiCS bonfire then we hope you appreciated the marshmallows and samosas as much as we appreciated seeing your faces. Because now we have more events coming up! And this time you get to be part of them. -------- *Alt-TAB:* You talk about something you find interesting CSC will be hosting our Alt-Tab on Jul 17/18 this term and is currently looking for speakers, please email z34wei(a)uwaterloo.ca with the topic you would like to talk about and approximate time needed (preferably within 30 minutes) Before July 14. In past terms, people have talked about train signals in the TTC, writing kernel modules in Rust, and finding the closest pizza shop on a graph if the pizza shop takes negative time to cook your pizza. More details soon, once we get speakers! -------- *Crypto CTF, Solve Security Puzzles:* Get brownie points for doing it! On July 13th between 1800h and 2100h, the University of Waterloo Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) lab will be hosting a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition in STC 0010. For this competition, the CrySP lab has created challenges and puzzles to test your programming, logic, forensics, and other computer science related abilities. The more challenges you solve the more points you get! Winning teams will receive prizes! Even if you don't think you will win, this is a good opportunity to test your skills and gain instant feedback on how well you are doing. We host these competitions so participants can learn new skills, expand on old ones, and understand alternative uses for their knowledge. If you would like to join us, please sign up at ctf.uwaterloo.ca ! (You will need to bring your own laptop to the event.) If you have any questions please email bpostnikoff(a)edu.uwaterloo.ca <bpostnikoff(a)uwaterloo.ca>. -------- Submit your talks, come to the CTF next Thursday! -- Patrick Melanson Computer Science Club University of Waterloo pj2melan(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca

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Code Party 0!
by Computer Science Club 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hi Everyone, Code Party 0 will be held in STC 0020 on Thursday, June 22 from 6-9pm! Abstract Come code with us, eat some food, do some things. Personal projects you want to work on? Homework projects you need to finish? Or want some time to explore some new technology and chat about it? You can join us at Code Party 0 and do it, with great company and great food. Secretary, Computer Science Club Bo Mo

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