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Elections on Jan *12*, Further Code of Conduct Details
by Computer Science Club 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

More greetings programs, The Election is being held next Thursday January *12*, not January 5 as the last email said. In addition, we have a fancy HTML diff detailing the proposed changes to the Code of Conduct, which can be viewed at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pj2melan/csc/about/coc-amendments. Thanks, b2coutts Chief Returning Officer

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CSC Elections and Code of Conduct Changes Next Thursday
by Computer Science Club 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Greetings Programs, The CSC will be holding its termly election next Thursday, January 5th, at 6PM in MC Comfy. We will be electing a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, and appointing a Systems Administrator (to be ratified at the election), Office Manager, and Librarian. If you would like to nominate someone (for one of the 4 elected positions), you may either write their name on the whiteboard in the CSC office, or send an email to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca (from either your @uwaterloo.ca or @csclub.uwaterloo.ca email) with the userid of the member you would like to nominate, and the position(s) you want to nominate them for. Note that only mathsoc social members (including all undergraduate math students) are eligible. Nominations will close at 6PM on Wednesday (Jan 11). 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. In addition, at the election we will be considering changes to the Code of Conduct. The gist of the changes we will be considering is: - Have decisions made by committee, not by one person - Keep the faculty advisor in the loop, and give them a veto - Clarify this doesn't override laws or uni policy - List relevant university policies - Define the office, IRC, and events as specific CSC spaces - Say that new members should sign the CoC - Make exceptions in confidentiality section for the faculty advisor and police services Any questions regarding the election can be sent to cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Thanks, Bryan Coutts Chief Returning Officer

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CSC/PMC Joint EOT Party Today at 6PM!
by Computer Science Club 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Greetings Programs, The term is coming to a close, and the CSC is hosting its end-of-term event together with the PMC today. We'll be meeting in MC Comfy at 6PM to eat lots of snacks and Indian food from Kismet, hang out, and play board games. This will be our last event of the term. Thanks everyone for a great term, and good luck with your exams! Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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ALT+TAB today at 6PM, EOT next Monday
by Computer Science Club 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, This is a reminder that we are running ALT+TAB today at 6PM, in MC 4063! ALT+TAB is the CSC's version of SASMS. Six CSC members will be giving brief, 25-minute talks on various CS-related topics (a list of the members and their talks is at the bottom of this email). It's a great way to learn a little bit about a lot of different things. There will also be free dinner provided at the event. In addition, the CSC will be hosting its last event of the term, the EOT party, on Monday Dec. 5 at 6PM in MC Comfy. We'll take over the Comfy and have free dinner for everyone, and just hang out with each other. Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire List of ALT+TAB talks: Felix Bauckholt: *A Short Idris Tutorial* Bryan Coutts: *Linear and Integer Programming* Sean Harrap: *Communication Complexity* Christopher Hawthorne: *Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem* Charlie Wang: *Typed Racket* Ifaz Kabir: *How Modern SAT Solvers Work*

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Member Talk at 6 PM Today, ALT+TAB Next Wednesday
by Computer Science Club 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, The CSC is hosting a member talk today at 6 PM, in MC 4063. Edmund Noble will be giving a talk titled "Purely Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific Languages"; the abstract is at the foot of this email. There will be snacks and drinks at the end of the talk. In addition, the CSC is hosting ALT+TAB (aka SCP or SAMS), the CSC's version of SASMS, next Wednesday at 6 PM in MC 4063. Several members will be giving short, ~25 minute talks on various CS-related topics. A running list of confirmed talks can be found at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~b2coutts/alttab.html. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the title of your talk, and optionally a brief abstract, ideally by the end of Monday. Remember that there will be a planned power outage in MC tomorrow (Nov 26) from 7AM to 5PM; CSC machines will be shutting down at 6AM in preparation. Also, thanks to the Mathsoc Capital Improvement Fund (CIF), the CSC finally upgraded natural-flavours, also known as the shitty machine in the corner of the room that nobody wanted to use! It now has an i7-6700k and 16GB of RAM. - Calum T. Dalek Member Talk Abstract: Dependency injection is an often-used technique in object-oriented programming to easily modify the behaviours of an object by providing it with objects it would have otherwise generated on its own, to increase modularity. Aspect-oriented programming is a related technique which adds additional behaviour ("advice") to existing code, aiming to address cross-cutting concerns which affect wide areas of an application without sacrificing modularity. Dependency injection might not seem a common topic in functional programming, but application modularity is essential to functional programming in a practical setting. A natural analogue to dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming in functional programming comes from a surprising place, and offers superior modularity to both. The free monad (F f) for a type constructor (and domain-specific language instruction set) f provides a syntax tree with internal nodes as domain-specific language instructions, which in combination with coproduct functors, allow domain-specific languages to be composed and combined easily.

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Richard Mann Prof Talk Today at 6:15 PM
by Computer Science Club 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, This evening at 6:15 PM (not 6 PM!), in MC 4063, Richard Mann will be giving a talk about open source software for sound measurement and analysis, and providing information about CS 489 - Computational Sound, the topics course he is offering in Winter 2017. The abstract for his talk can be found at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4063-2016-11-21-6:15_PM. This Friday (November 21) at 6 PM, in MC 4063, CSC member Edmund Noble is giving a talk, titled "Purely Functional Programming with Freely-Generated Domain Specific Languages". The talk will focus on embedded DSLs, which exist within other languages. The abstract for his talk can be found at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_4063-2016-11-25-6:00_PM. In addition, next week we will be hosting ALT+TAB. If you're familiar with the Pure Math Club's recurring SASMS event, this is the CSC's version of that. Several members of the club will take turns giving brief (~20 minute) CS talks. We're tentatively planning to host ALT+TAB next Wednesday (Nov. 30), so start thinking about topics if you want to give a talk! More details will come later this week. Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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Planned Outage on Saturday, Nov. 26
by Computer Science Club 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Hello all, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable on Saturday, Nov. 26 due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics and Computer Building (MC) from 7am to 5pm. The CSC will begin shutting down machines at 6am in preparation of the outage. This outage will impact: - Web hosting (all personal and club websites) - Email (@csclub.uwaterloo.ca emamil addresses) - Servers and Office Terminals Thanks to the assistance of the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF), it is expected that mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca remain available for the duration of the outage. Please prepare for the outage by: - Ensuring all running processes have their state saved (configuration, data, etc.) - Any important files are backed up off-site from the CSC If you have any questions/concerns, please email the Systems Committee at 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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General Meeting Results and Minutes
by Computer Science Club 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi all, Our general meeting has concluded and the motion to change our Code of Conduct has passed, with amendments. The exact wording of the motion can be found in the attached minutes of the meeting. In short, we have removed those sections of the code of conduct, on the condition that the code of conduct be up for consideration again at the next general meeting. This would most likely be our next election. Also, the minutes themselves need to be approved at our meeting. Thanks, Charlie Wang President, Computer Science Club

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Code Party and GM Wednesday; CS4U Volunteers Wanted
by Computer Science Club 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Greetings Programs, A reminder to all that our Code Party and General Meeting are being held Wednesday, Nov 16 at M3 1006 (the big lecture room). The Code Party begins at 6:30 PM, with a break for the General Meeting at 8:30, followed by more coding and partying until late. See our homepage http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca for more details on the General Meeting, including the proposed changes to the Code of Conduct. In other news, the Department of Computer Science is looking for volunteers to help out with CS4U Day Wednesday, December 7th. CS4U day is a CS outreach event for students in grade 9-12 and they are looking for people to talk about CS and/or our club. Please reply to this email if you are interested in volunteering so that more details can be forwarded. Thanks, Calum T. Dalek Chairbeing Extraordinaire

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Code of Conduct Alternative Changes
by Computer Science Club 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hi all, We've received feedback about our proposed changes to the Code of Conduct and our Constitution. Our members value the Code of Conduct as a symbolic reminder of what our club atmosphere and culture should be. Given how valuable it is, even without enforcement abilities, we have proposed a different set of changes to the Code of Conduct, where any suspect sections relating to confidentiality and enforcement will be removed. Notably, we have removed the sections on "Experiencing Unacceptable Behaviour", "Consequences of Unacceptable Behaviour", "Addressing Grievances", and "Confidentiality". The proposed Code of Conduct can be found in full at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment/about/code-of-conduct [1]. The patch of the proposed changes can be found at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment.patch [2]. Both versions of the Code of Conduct are available for viewing in the office. Since we have to maintain 7 days notice for any changes, the General Meeting will not start until 8:30 PM on the day of the meeting. The Code Party will instead start at 6:30 PM. Thanks, Charlie Wang Computer Science Club University of Waterloo Links: ------ [1] https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eexec/proposed-amendment/about/code-of-conduct [2] https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eexec/proposed-amendment.patch

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