Hello everyone,
The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2022 in
person, on Monday September 12 at 7PM (location TBD, likely MC/DC). The
president, vice-president, treasurer, and assistant vice-president
(formerly secretary) will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed.
If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person
to the CRO, Juthika Hoque, or write your name on the whiteboard in the
CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Monday September 12
at 5PM.
Another email will be sent out closer to the election date for the
specific location. If you have any further questions about elections or
nominations, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
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syscom is pleased to announce the release of two new services: CSC Files
and CSC Links.
CSC Files is our new Nextcloud instance accessible at
https://files.csclub.uwaterloo.ca through CSC's Keycloak SSO. It's
basically self-hosted Google Drive, and every member has 50GB of storage
available to them. The following notable non-default Nextcloud apps are
currently installed (subject to change):
- Audio/Video Players, PDF viewers, etc.
- Collabora office (with CODE server, self-hosted GSuite/MS Office in
the browser)
- Cospend (self-hosted Splitwise, a cost-sharing app for friend groups)
- Extract (extract zip files)
- Forms (self-hosted Google/Microsoft Forms)
- Full text search (for files)
- Google integration (for migration from Google Drive)
- ShareRenamer (custom share URLs)
- Transfer/NCDownloader (allows downloading videos, torrents and other
files on the internet directly to your CSC Files account without having
to download to a local computer and then re-upload it)
NOTE: usage of this app (and all of CSC Files) is still covered by the
Machine Usage Agreement, you may not do anything illegal with it.
If you need more storage or would like another app installed, please
email a proposal including a legitimate reason to
syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca and we will consider your request.
CSC Links is our new Shlink instance, a self-hosted URL shortener.
Creating/managing shortlinks is currently limited to execs, but may
change in the future. Official CSC shortlinks will now be exclusively
served from the domain csclub.ca (i.e. https://csclub.ca/discord)
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syscom is switching over the default PHP version on caffeine from 7.4
(going out of support in November) to 8.2 around midnight between
Saturday August 27th and Sunday August 28th. Please update any PHP
websites accordingly.
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Best
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Raymond Li | https://raymond.li
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Hi all,
The CSC Executive is updating our Machine Usage Agreement, which will go
into effect on 18 July 2022. The updates are as follows:
- A note was added that CSC Cloud resources fall under the same policies
as the rest of CSC's machines and network.
- A note was added that the Systems Committee may delete CSC Cloud
resources when their CSC account expires.
- A directive was added that all club reps read the Wiki page on Club
Hosting when they become a club rep and then at least once a term for
notices on that page.
- MFCF was replaced with CSCF (when the previous 2007 version was
published, CSC had relations with MFCF instead of CSCF, which may not
even have existed at the time. CSC now has relations with CSCF more than MFCF.)
- Various grammatical errors were corrected.
The exact wording changes can be found in this pull request:
https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/www/www-new/pulls/473/files
Please email the executive at exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca if you have any
questions or concerns.
Best
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Raymond Li | https://raymond.li
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Hi all,
All CSC machines will have their software updated (which requires a
reboot), with the exception of sorbitol and neotame (which have already
been upgraded), at 6pm EST on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (this coming
Wednesday). General-use machines will be offline for a few minutes, and
Cloud machines (i.e. CSC Cloud VMs) *may* go offline as well (we'll try
our best to keep them up, but no guarantees). Since sorbitol and neotame
will not be rebooted, we recommend you move any services you do not want
to be disrupted to these machines.
We will send a `wall` warning message to all logged-in users on affected
general-use machines at 5pm EST, before the upgrade begins. We apologize
for any inconveniences this may cause. If you have any questions or
concerns, please contact the Systems Committee at:
syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Best
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Raymond Li | https://raymond.li
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Hello everyone,
The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Spring 2022 in
person, on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 5:30 pm in DC 1351. The president,
vice-president, treasurer, and assistant vice-president (formerly
secretary) will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed.
If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
can send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person
to the CRO, Amy Wang, or write your name on the whiteboard in the CSC
office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Wednesday, May 4, 2022
at 5 pm ET.
If you have any further questions about elections or nominations, please
email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
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Ever wanted a virtual private server (VPS) like GCP or AWS, but balked
at the price? Now you can get FREE cloud computing, included with your
CSC membership!
Specs:
- 8 CPU cores
- 8 GB RAM
- 40 GB disk space
Split between up to 8 different VMs, all yours!
Read the documentation at https://docs.cloud.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ to get
started today!
Note: If you need additional resources, email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca
with your reasoning and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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Amy Wang (she/her)
Spring 2022 Chief Returning Officer (CRO)
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Hello CSC,
Due to electrical work in MC 3015, there will be a power outage on most
CSC machines this Friday (January 7) from 8 am to 12 pm EST.
To prepare for the outage, CSC machines will power off at 7 am. Please
save your work and logout before then.
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The Winter 2022 Bootcamp Event is looking for mentors to take on resume
critiques, host mock interviews, and help prepare students for their
co-op search! In order to qualify to be a mentor, you must at least have
started your second coop.
There is a resume review event happening on January 16 from
6:00pm-10:00pm ET and a mock interview event on January 23 from
6:00pm-10:00pm ET. You can choose to participate at either event for a
select number of hours!
All sessions will take place virtually on our Bootcamp Discord Server!
Students will have a chance to meet with you 1 on 1 to discuss their
resumes/conduct their interviews.
Sign up at https://bit.ly/uw-bootcamp-mentor-signup
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Max Erenberg
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Hi everyone,
Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Winter 2022 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be appointed.
If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>. Nominations will close on Wednesday, January 5 2022 at midnight EDT.
If you'd like to get involved with CS Club, but don't want to run for an elected position, we are also accepting applications for Marketing Coordinators and Designers on the Programme Committee! You can apply here<https://forms.gle/dM1opTKwy4gsaa4s9> if you are interested!
Thanks,
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Juthika Hoque (she/her/hers)
Winter 2022 Chief Returning Officer (CRO) | UW Computer Science Club
Visit us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/uw.computerscienceclub> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/uwcsclub> | Discord<https://discord.gg/pHfYBCg> | Twitch<https://www.twitch.tv/uwcsclub> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWouvEY1mQUG1fgR8VRA2sQ>
Hello!
I'm a member of the Waterloo Warriors band, and also a current member of
the csclub (Username ajmcvitt). It seems that none of the current members
have access to updating the warriors band csclub website information, and
I'd like to take on the role of maintaining it.
Please, let me know if there is any additional information I should
provide.
Cheers,
-Alex McVittie
Hello CSC,
A planned software update will occur on November 28 on all CSC
general-use machines. As this will require a reboot, the machines will
be offline for a few minutes. We will send a "wall" warning message to
all logged-in users at least one hour before the upgrade begins.
If you have any questions/concerns, please contact the Systems Committee
at syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
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Additionally, CS Club’s Internal Committee is hiring for Winter 2022!
Are you interested in organizing program-wide events, reaching out to industry professionals, or being a member of an impactful community? Are you passionate about making a difference in the UW CS and surrounding communities?
We are looking for people like you to join our Programme Committee and/or Systems Committee!
Role descriptions can be found here<https://bit.ly/uwcsclub-w22-roles> and the application form can be found here<https://bit.ly/uwcsclub-w22-apply>. Alternatively, you can email us at exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UW email with an introduction of yourself, which positions you're interested in and any questions you might have.
We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so be sure to apply ASAP!
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Dora Su
President
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
Fall 2021 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the
term:
President: Dora Su (d43su)
VP (Head of Events): Jason Sang (jzsang)
AVP (Head of Marketing): Anjing Li (a348li)
Treasurer: Yanni Wang (y3859wang)
Sysadmin: Max Erenberg (merenber)
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Max Erenberg
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo