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Winter 2020 Election Results
by Computer Science Club 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Greetings, programs! Winter 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term. * President: Richard Shi (r27shi) * Vice President: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova) * Treasurer: Alex Tomala (actomala) * Secretary/Assistant Vice President: Neil Parikh (n3parikh) * Sysadmin: Amin Bandali (abandali) The following people were appointed: * Office Manager: Alexander Zvorygin (azvorygi) * Librarian: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova) * IMAPD: Richard Shi (r27shi) -- Neil Parikh AVP, Computer Science Club

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Nominations Closed, Winter 2020 Elections Today
by Computer Science Club 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Hi all, Nominations for Computer Science Club positions closed yesterday at 6:00 PM. Elections will be held today (January 15th) at *6:00 PM in MC Comfy*. Here is the list of nominees and members who have expressed interest in the appointed positions. Names are listed in alphabetical order. Absentee votes will be accepted by email to a3thakra(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from eligible members until the start of the meeting. President * Richard Shi (r27shi) Treasurer * Alexander Christopher Tomala (actomala) Secretary/Assistant Vice President * Neil Parikh (n3parikh) Sysadmin (appointed) * Amin Bandali (abandali) Office Manager (appointed) * Alexander Zvorygin (azvorygi) Librarian (appointed) * Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova) Pop/IMAPd (appointed) * Richard Shi (r27shi) Additionally, here is a tentative agenda for today's election. 1. Face-down heads-up voting for the elected positions. 2. Appointment of the sysadmin after a private session of exec. 3. Ratification of the sysadmin appointment. 4. Appointment of the remaining appointed positions after a private session of exec. 5. Ratification of the remaining appointed positions. 6. Approval of sysadmin honorarium of $300 for last term's sysadmin, Murphy Thomas Reynolds Berzish (mtrberzi). Hope to see you all at elections, Aditya Thakral (a3thakra) Chief Returning Officer, Computer Science Club

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Winter 2020 Elections
by Computer Science Club 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Greetings programmers, The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for the winter 2019 term on Wednesday, January 15th in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 18:00. During the meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected, the sysadmin will be ratified, and the IMAPd, librarian and office manager will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you can write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC office (MC 3036/3037) or send me (Adi) an email at a3thakra(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Every effort will be made to note down whiteboard nominations, but it is highly recommended to send me an email in addition to writing on the whiteboard. You can also deposit nominations in the CSC nomination box or present them to me in-person. Nominations will close at 18:00 on Tuesday, January 14th. Aditya Thakral CRO Computer Science Club

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EOT Fall 2019
by Computer Science Club 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Hey everyone! Please join us for our Fall 2019 End of Term Event on Tuesday, December 3rd, from 6-9 PM in STC 0060. This is your chance to come chill and hang out with friends to celebrate the end of another term. There’ll be free food provided! Cheers, Tamara Khalaf AVP, Fall 2019

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Code Party F19
by Computer Science Club 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hey everyone! With midterm season (hopefully) out of the way for everyone, be sure to come out to the Fall 2019 Code Party to unwind, work on some assignments, and enjoy free pizza! This term’s Code Party will be on Monday, November 25th, from 6-9 pm in STC 0050. We hope to see you all there! Cheers, Tamara Khalaf AVP, Fall 2019

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LGBTQ++ Student Highlight Series
by Computer Science Club 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

Hello everyone! LGBTQ++ has reached out to us about doing a student highlight series to feature and celebrate LGBTQ+ students in tech. If you are interested in participating, the Google Form is linked down below to be filled out! 🏳️‍🌈 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSw68a-4PtChuvtkVtRqX0MN6KS4y0dZp… Cheers, Tamara Khalaf AVP, Fall 2019

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Data Science Club's Ten Minute Talks
by Computer Science Club 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Greeting programs, The Data Science Club is hosting their first-ever Ten Minute Talks! Anything relating to data science and machine learning is fair game, whether it's a fun project you worked on, an exciting concept or technology, a hot take on the field, or some other interesting topic! They're looking for a set of talks that are some combination of fun, informative, and diverse. The event will consist of 6 talks that are 10 minutes plus 3-4 minutes for questions each. It will be on November 27th from 6-8pm at MC 4020. Apply to speak today! bit.ly/tmt-signup<http://bit.ly/tmt-signup>. The last day to apply is November 20th. Dhruv Jauhar CSC Prez

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Fwd: Alt-Tab and Movie Night with WiCS
by Computer Science Club 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

________________________________ From: Tammy Khalaf <tekhalaf(a)edu.uwaterloo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:02 PM To: exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca Subject: Alt-Tab and Movie Night with WiCS Hi all, We have two events being co-hosted with WiCS that are coming up soon! The first is Movie Night, which will be happening on Thursday, November 7th in MC Comfy, from 7-10pm. You can vote for the movie you'd like to see in the poll on the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/390960055120946/permalink/391593835057568/ There'll be drink and refreshments provided! The secnd is Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series presented by students that'll be happening on Thursday, November 21rst! Alt-Tab consists of 15 minute talks about anything related to tech. They can be about cool new features, a fun project you made or really anything that you are excited about. If you're passionate about a technical topic, and interested in public speaking, please email exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca by Monday, November 11th at 23:59 Feel free to stop by WiCS or CSC if you need help with planning out your presentation! We hope to see you all there! Tamara Khalaf AVP, Fall 2019

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CSC Systems Committee introductory session
by Computer Science Club 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Greetings programs, This is a reminder email that the Systems Committee is looking for new members to help out with server administration and maintenance. We will be having an introductory session on Wednesday, November 6th in STC 0010 from 7pm to 8:30pm. If you have contacted me separately, you've already received an email from me about this with these details. If you haven't contacted me yet or are still undecided, you are welcome to attend this session to learn more about what we do and how you can help. Murphy Berzish CSC Systems Administrator

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New servers and other announcements
by Computer Science Club 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Greetings programs, On behalf of the Systems Committee I am pleased to bring you several updates regarding new servers and services. New Servers =========== We are announcing the general availability of the following servers: neotame.csclub is a server with special configuration to act as a host for IRC clients. If you had an IRC session on taurine before taurine caught fire, we encourage you to use neotame for it now. neotame also listens on numerous low and high ports for your SSH convenience. For complete information, please check the machine list on the CSC Wiki. carbonated-water.csclub is a 48-core general-purpose server with 128GB of RAM. sorbitol.csclub is a 40-core general-purpose server with 64GB of RAM. mannitol.csclub is a 40-core general-purpose server with 64GB of RAM. We would like to thank the Math Endowment Fund for graciously funding several of these servers, and the Computer Science Computing Facility for providing hardware for one of these servers as well as two other new servers which have replaced several of our older internal services machines. Upgrades to Cloud Services ========================== Due to a series of poorly-timed hardware failures, our private cloud services have been degraded for a while. We would like to conduct an upgrade to the cloud servers that will involve a complete reinstall of several critical components and services. As such, current users of the CSC Beta Cloud are asked to migrate any services on cloud instances out of these VMs before Friday, November 8th. At this time the upgrade is scheduled to begin and after this date your instances will be unavailable. We expect to announce the availability of the upgraded cloud services in Winter 2020. We hope you enjoy these new servers and as always, if you encounter any issues please contact the Systems Committee (syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca) for support. mtrberzi CSC Systems Administrator

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