Hi all,
The CS Club is hosting a Git 101 workshop this Saturday (Sept 21) and Saturday (Sept 22) at 12 PM in QNC 1502.
The workshop spans two days with the first day covering Git basics such as add, commit, diff, log, GitHub Basics, etc. The second workshop will cover advanced topics like branching, merging, merge conflicts, feature branch workflow, etc. If you are familiar with Git basics, feel free to only attend the second workshop.
Food will be provided for both events.
See you there!
Dhruv Jauhar
President, CSC
Greetings, programs!
Fall 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the
term.
*President: Dhruv Jauhar (djauhar)
*Vice-President: Aditya Thakral (a3thakra)
*Treasurer: Rishabh Kumar Minocha (rkminoch)
*Assistant Vice-President: Tamara Emily Khalaf (tekhalaf)
Murphy Thomas Reynolds (Murphy) Berzish (mtrberzi) was appointed and
ratified as the Systems Administrator.
The following people were appointed:
Office Manager: Zihan (Archer) Zhang (z577zhan)
Librarian: Raghav Sethi (r5sethi)
The IMPAD has yet to be appointed.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the elections, and we hope
that it’ll be a great and successful term for everyone!
--
Rajat Malhotra
Chief Returning Officer, Computer Science Club
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Hi all,
Our Computer Science Club is now a member of Mozilla's OSSN
<https://ossn.club/> (Open Source Student Network). OSSN is a network of
university students and clubs who believe that open source is the engine
that powers innovation. As a part of the network, we get a lot of benefits:
* All CSC members can connect with other club members of participating
clubs <https://ossn.club/clubs> using the OSSN slack
* There is a jobs and internships board
* The fixme app <https://fixme.ossn.club> lets people find actively
maintained open source projects
To get the most of it, sign up on https://ossn.club and join our club
<https://ossn.club/clubs/15>.
We are also organizing Git September
<https://events.mozilla.org/ossngitseptember>, as it will be highly
beneficial for first year students and beginners for contributing to
open source projects, and participating in Hacktoberfest. Benefits of
participating in Git September:
* Understand Git (almost certainly required in a software development job)
* Make your first pull request
* Receive cool stickers
* Prepare for Hacktoberfest
We are planning the first of the two git workshops on Saturday,
September 21, and the second one on Sunday, September 22. We will be
covering Git basics such as add, commit, diff, GitHub basics, etc for
the first one. The second workshop will cover advanced topics like
branching, merging, merge conflicts, feature branch workflow, etc.
Event details and TLDR:
1. CSC is a part of Mozilla OSSN. You can sign up https://ossn.club
2. Git 101: September 21, 12pm - 2:30pm, QNC 1502
3. Git Good: September 22, 12pm - 2:30pm, QNC 1502
Aditya Thakral
Vice President
Computer Science Club
Hi all,
Nominations for Computer Science Club positions closed today at 6:00
PM. Elections will be held tomorrow (September 12th) at *7:00 PM in MC
Comfy*. Here is the list of nominees and members who have expressed
interest for the appointed positions. Names are listed in alphabetical
order. Absentee votes will be accepted by email to
cro(a)csclub.uwaterloo.ca from eligible members until the start of the
meeting.
President
* Dhruv Jauhar (djauhar)
Vice President
* Aditya Thakral (a3thakra)
Treasurer
* Raghav Sethi(r5sethi)
* Rishabh Kumar Minocha(rkminoch)
Secretary/Assistant Vice President
* Daniel Shijia Wang(ds2wang)
* Tamara Emily (Tammy) Khalaf (tekhalaf)
Sysadmin (appointed)
* Daniel Chen (d223chen)
* Murphy Thomas Reynolds (Murphy) Berzish (mtrberzi)
* Simon Zeng (s33aeng)
Office Manager (appointed)
* Zihan (Archer) Zhang (z577zhan)
Librarian (appointed)
* Zihan (Archer) Zhang (z577zhan)
* Raghav Sethi(r5sethi)
Additionally, here is a tentative agenda for tomorrow'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 private
session of exec.
5. Ratification of the remaining appointed positions.
6. Approval of sysadmin honorarium of $300 for last term's sysadmin,
Charlie Wang (s455wang).
Hope to see you all at elections,
Rajat Malhotra
Chief Returning Officer, Computer Science Club
Greetings programmers,
The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for fall 2019
term on Thursday, September 12th in MC Comfy (MC 3001) at 19:00. During
the
meeting, the president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant
vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected, the sysadmin will
be ratified, and the 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 (Rajat) an email at cro(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 mailbox in
MathSoc or present them to me in-person. Nominations will close at 18:00
on Wednesday, September 11th.
Regards,
Rajat Malhotra
Chief Returning Officer, Computer Science Club
Hi all,
There will be a power outage on campus from 7:00 am until 9:00 pm on Sunday, August 18th (EDT). To prepare for this outage, all Computer Science Club servers will be down starting at 11:00 PM on Saturday, August 17th. This includes web hosting, CSC Cloud, email, and mirror. Please make sure you save all of your work before then, and we also recommend backing up your files just in case. After the power comes back, some servers may remain unavailable for a few minutes as they boot up. If any issues arise, an update email will be sent with further information.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, we were not able to arrange for a backup generator to keep our servers up.
The official bulletin from Plant Ops can be found at https://uwaterloo.ca/plant-operations/news/service-interruption-electricity-multiple-buildings-august <https://uwaterloo.ca/plant-operations/news/service-interruption-electricity-multiple-buildings-august>. The power outage affects most of the North half of campus.
TL;DR everything including mirror will be down Saturday night until late Sunday.
Thanks,
Charlie Wang
Sysadmin, Computer Science Club
Greetings fellow Field Gate Programmable Arrays,
Alt-Tab is back, and this time being co-hosted with WiCS on July 18th,
6pm in MC 5417 . Come listen to lightning tech talks by fellow students
that will knock your metaphorical socks off!
The speaker lineup:
- Falah Shazib - How Not To Build A Virtual Escape Room
- Anubhav Srivastava - The Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithm
- Frieda Rong - Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Charlie Wang - Gentle Introduction to Meltdown
- Stacy Gaikovaia - Intro to Verilog: Hardware Simulation and Synthesis
- William Gertler - Ethics in the Age of Lonely Qubits
Food and Bubble Tea will be provided!
This event is open to everyone 🎉
With valediction,
Uday Barar
President, CSC
Hi everyone!
Join CSC and WiCS on July 18th for Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series
presented by students! 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, apply by filling out the form below. Speakers don’t need to
have previous experience and Alt-Tab is a great way to get started with
giving talks! Applications are due on June 29th, 2019 (next Wednesday).
Apply here: https://forms.gle/Dxykac5ZYYbh2an38
Here are some of the things that people have talked about before:
1) Making art with neural networks
2) Making scalable applications
3) Why unicode is weird!
Drop by the CSC and WiCS office if you want help mapping out your talk!
Regards,
Uday, Falah
CSC Prez, WiCS Chair