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Waterloo Warriors Band - account access
by Computer Science Club 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

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

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Server upgrade planned for November 28 + Winter 2022 Internal Committee Apps Open
by Computer Science Club 21 Nov '21

21 Nov '21

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. --- Additionally, CS Club’s Internal Committee is hiring for Winter 2022! Are you interested in organizing … [View More]

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F2021 Election Results
by Computer Science Club 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

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) -- Max Erenberg Systems Administrator Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo

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Fall 2021 Elections + Mentors needed for Side Project Event + Looking for Alumni for Alumni Panel
by Computer Science Club 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Hello CSC members, Welcome to a new school year! Here are a few of announcements for September. The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2021 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin, librarian and office manager will be appointed. If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Tuesday, Sep 21 2021 at … [View More]

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Mandatory public-key authentication on all CSC machines
by Computer Science Club 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hello CSC, Due to the increasing security threats leveraging passwords, the University of Waterloo has moved to require that all SSH Servers exposed to the public Internet must enforce strong authentication by November 1st, 2021. To comply with this requirement, we will be disabling password authentication for SSH on all CSC general-use machines on October 15th, 2021. We suggest that you add your SSH public key to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys if you have not done so already. We will still … [View More]

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Alt Tab Speaker Applications (Due July 15) + Afterhours: Burnout (July 17) + Machine Downtime (July 17)
by Computer Science Club 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hello programs, Here are a few announcements for July. Join CSC for Alt-Tab, an event that consists of 10-15 minute talks by students on some interesting topics in the field of tech! Some topics that students have delivered talks on include virtual reality, pathfinding, web development, and competitive programming. The event will be hosted virtually at the end of July! Currently, we are looking for speakers for the event who are passionate about tech and want to gain some public-… [View More]

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Spring 2021 Fees waived + Election Results + Titus Winters Tech Talk (June 10th) + Speed Friending (June 15th)
by Computer Science Club 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Hello all, Hope you're all having a great summer so far. A few updates for the month of June: MathSoc has decided to waive club fees for the Spring 2021 term. If you are a current CSC member who has already paid for Spring 2021 membership, your membership has been extended by one term. If you are a current CSC member whose membership is expired for the Spring 2021 term, you can email syscom(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca to have your membership renewed for the term at no cost. ------- Spring … [View More]2021 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term: - President: Kallen Tu (k4tu) - VP: Gordon Le (g2le) - AVP: Ravindu Angammana (rbangamm) - Treasurer: Neil Parikh (n3parikh) - Sysadmin: Max Erenberg (merenber) The unfilled positions this term are Office Manager, Librarian and IMAPD. ------- Become inspired in an upcoming talk by Titus Winters on June 10th from 7-8pm ET, who will share how good team culture can positively impact code! Titus Winters is a senior staff software engineer at Google, the chair of the global subcommittee for the design of the C++ standard library, a teacher and an author. Over the years, Titus has started several Google projects that are believed to be in the top 10 largest refactorings in human history. This unique scale and perspective has informed his thinking on the care and feeding of software systems. In this tech talk, Titus will discuss the roles of individual contributors, team leads, and managers in fostering a good culture, and show how this has a positive impact on project outcomes. Titus's talk will hit many teamwork and leadership themes of the "Software Engineering at Google" book, and the habits that have made his teams successful. Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97312996497?pwd=Vnl5ZXNFTEJHQkRqMndnR3N0VjlJZz09 Registration (optional): http://bit.ly/csc-sesoc-google-tech-talk-signups ------- We know a virtual Spring term is making meeting new friends even harder, but we are happy to announce that our Speed-Friending event is back! Come hop on a Zoom call with us to get a chance to connect with others in our community. Like last term's event, you will be able to meet others in groups of 3 or 4, with around 10 minutes to talk. An optional prompt will act as an icebreaker, but feel free to discuss anything you want! Remember to connect with the people in your groups if you'd like to stay in contact afterwards! Registration is optional; we'll just be sending you a reminder on the day of, as well as a calendar invite. Event Date: Tuesday, June 15th 2021, 8-9pm EST Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94998577861?pwd=REFJK0FUZXUzWUdlQVRjQVo4WGtJZz09 Sign up at http://bit.ly/uwcsc-speed-friending-signups! Alternatively, you can also email us at exec(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca. -- Neil Parikh Treasurer, UWaterloo CSC [View Less]

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Migration from Freenode to libera.chat
by Computer Science Club 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello CSC, Due to recent events involving the takeover of Freenode and the departure of most of its staff, we have decided to migrate the #csc channel on Freenode to libera.chat (https://libera.chat/) We are currently using Matterbridge to bridge messages between the two IRC networks, but this is only a temporary measure to ease the transition. If you are in the #csc channel on Freenode, please migrate to the #csc channel on libera.chat at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions,… [View More]

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[CSC]Spring 2021 Fees + Elections + Power outage + Events
by Computer Science Club 14 May '21

14 May '21

Hello all, Welcome to the Spring term! Here are a few updates: There will be a planned power outage in MC tomorrow (Saturday, May 15) from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. Most CSC services will be unavailable during this time. CSC machines will be powered off one hour before the outage begins, at 6:00 am. --------------- Mathsoc has currently not decided on whether club fees will be collected for the Spring 2021 term. If you are a current CSC member whose account was active last term, you will retain … [View More]

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Changes to SpamAssassin
by Computer Science Club 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Hello CSC, Some time this week, we will be making changes to our SpamAssassin configs to use a site-wide Bayesian learner instead of per-user. Given that the vast majority of our spam is directed towards our mailing lists rather than individual club members, I think this makes the most sense for us. We will also be increasing the scores for the Bayes tests to keep spam out of our inboxes more aggressively. Unfortunately, this means that there will likely be some false positives. I will try to … [View More]

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