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5 <newsitem author="scshunt" date="2011-01-11">
6 Nominations have closed at some point. The nominations are as follows:
8 <li>President: ebering</li>
9 <li>Vice President: ssalbiz, jy2wong, b4taylor</li>
10 <li>Treasurer: kspaans, qxi, mspang, d2huo, a42ahmed</li>
11 <li>Secretary: kspaans, d2huo, ehashman</li>
14 <newsitem author="scshunt" date="2011-01-06">
15 It has come to my attention that some people believe I previously claimed
16 that nominations close at 3:00 PM. This is false. They close, and have
17 always closed, at 4:30. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
19 <newsitem author="scshunt" date="2011-01-04">
20 Nominations for Winter 2011 executive are now open on the CSC whiteboard. They
21 close at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, January 11. Elections will be held at 4:00 PM on
22 Wednesday, January 12 on the brand-new furniture in the Comfy Lounge.
24 You can also nominate someone or ask any other questions or just complain to
25 <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
27 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2010-11-03">
28 The CSC has been invited to MathSoc's annual Charity Ball. If you are interested in attending with the CSC, please contact Gwynneth Leece
29 <a href="mailto:gnleece@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">gnleece@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>. The Charitby Ball costs $20 per person and includes a three-course dinner.
30 It is Saturday November 20th at 6pm.
33 <newsitem author="m2ellis" date="2010-09-22">
34 We experienced a recent power outage which caused the RAID array hosting mirror data to need to be rebuilt.
35 As a result, the mirrored data is temporarily read-only. We hope to resume synchronizing as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
37 You can view the reconstruction progress on the <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">mirror's index page</a>
39 <newsitem author="m2ellis" date="2010-09-14">
40 Elections are over. The results are:
42 <li>President: j3parker</li>
43 <li>Vice President: ebering</li>
44 <li>Treasurer: rjputins</li>
45 <li>Secretary: kspaans</li>
46 <li>Sysadmin: jbroman</li>
47 <li>Office Manager: askhader</li>
50 <newsitem author="m2ellis" date="2010-09-12">
51 Nominations are now closed. The nominations are as follows:
53 <li>President: j3parker, kspaans, jdonland, mspang</li>
54 <li>Vice President: ebering</li>
55 <li>Treasurer: rjputins</li>
56 <li>Secretary: askhader, baldajan, kspaans</li>
59 <newsitem author="m2ellis" date="2010-09-10">
60 Time for the election on September 14th has been decided. It will be held at 16:30 in the MC comfy lounge.
62 <newsitem author="m2ellis" date="2010-09-04">
63 Nominations for the fall term executives are now open. They will close on Sunday September 12. The election will be held on Tuesday the 14th.
65 To enter a nomination write the name/position on the CSC office whiteboard or send it to <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
67 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2010-05-11">
68 Elections have concluded, congratulations to the new executive:
70 <li>President: Jeff Cameron (j3camero)</li>
71 <li>Vice President: Brennan Taylor (b4taylor)</li>
72 <li>Treasurer: Vardhan Mudunuru (vmudunur)</li>
73 <li>Secretary: Matt Lawrence (m3lawren)</li>
74 <li>Sysadmin: Mike Ellis (m2ells)</li>
77 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2010-05-10">
78 Nominations for the spring term executive are closed. Nominees are:
80 <li>President: Jeff Cameron (j3camero), Kevin Farnworth (kfarnwor)</li>
81 <li>Vice President: Brennan Taylor (b4taylor)</li>
82 <li>Treasurer: Vardhan Mudunuru (vmudunur)</li>
83 <li>Secretary: Matt Lawrence (m3lawren), Qifan Xi (qxi)</li>
85 Elections will occur as listed in the events section for the two contested positions. If you would like to
86 vote absentee, please send your votes (one vote per position) to <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">the
87 Chief Returning Officer</a> before 5:30 PM EDT on May 11, 2010.
89 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2010-02-01">
90 <h3><a href="http://contest.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">Contest now open!</a></h3>
91 <p>This term's programming contest is now open. Check out <a href="http://contest.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">the website</a>. The problem is Tron,
92 and there will be prizes offered, but if you want details you should really check the website.</p>
94 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2009-10-17">
96 <p>Congratulations to <b>amstan</b> for taking first place.</p>
98 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2009-10-02">
99 <h3>Contest Still Open!</h3>
100 <p>Go to <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/">the website</a> now and get to it!</p>
102 <newsitem author="mgregson" date="2009-06-18">
103 <h3>Do you text... do you iPod?</h3>
106 We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study on mobile
107 hand held device use and any related health or comfort troubles
108 experienced during their use. As a participant in this study, you
109 would be asked to fill out a 5-8 minute computer-administered
110 confidential questionnaire.
113 If you would like to participate, please follow this link:
114 <a href="http://ithumb.iwh.on.ca/">http://ithumb.iwh.on.ca/</a>
115 This study is being conducted by Richard Wells and Sophia Berolo,
116 Department of Kinesiology, and Benjamin Amick, Institute for Work
117 and Health. If you wish more information, please contact Sophia
118 Berolo at sberolo@uwaterloo.ca. The study has been reviewed by,
119 and received ethics clearance through, the office of Research
120 Ethics, University of Waterloo.
123 <newsitem author="j3parker" date="2009-05-26">
126 <li>UNIX 101: Need to learn unix for a course, or just to be a ninja?
127 Swing by MC 2037 on Thursday, June 2nd at 4:30PM for a tutorial session.</li>
128 <li>Code Party: Have an assignment or project you need to work on? We
129 will be coding from 7:00pm until 7:00am starting on Friday, June 5th
130 in the Comfy lounge. Join us!</li>
133 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2009-05-14">
134 Some of the talks from the Winter term are available on the website
135 in the <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/">media</a> section,
136 including the IQC talk and video from the lab tours. Joel Spolsky and
137 Richard Stallman's talks are coming soon.
139 <newsitem author="kspaans" date="2009-05-12">
140 The elections are complete. Your executive for the Spring 2009 term are:
142 <li>President: mspang (Michael Spang)</li>
143 <li>Vice-President: j3paker (Jacob Parker)</li>
144 <li>Treasurer: sagervai (Sapphyre Gervais)</li>
145 <li>Secretary: mimcpher (Matt McPherrin)</li>
148 <newsitem author="kspaans" date="2009-05-04">
149 Kyle (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date.
151 Elections will be held on <b>Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM</b> in the Comfy Lounge.
152 <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~kspaans/S09-nominees.html">Nominees and voting policy</a> for the election.
154 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2009-04-13">
155 CSC Branded Merchindise is now available for purchase <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/csclub">here</a>
156 for your owning pleasure.
158 <newsitem author="ebering" date="2009-03-24">
159 The contest is still open and will be until Saturday. For
160 contest details go to <a href="/contest/">the contest website</a>,
161 and come to the code party friday night for some last minute hacking!
163 <newsitem author="mgregson" date="2009-01-29">
164 Richard Stallman's flight has been delayed and he will be
165 arriving in Waterloo later than expected. As a result, the
166 talk has been moved to the Modern Languages Theatre at 6:30PM.
167 Drop by the CSC for more information! Sorry for the confusion!
169 <newsitem author="b4taylor" date="2009-01-06">
170 Holden (The CRO) has opened the nominations for positions and set the election date.
172 Elections will be held on <b>Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM</b>
174 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2008-09-16">
175 The following people were elected today:
177 <li>President: m3lawren (Matt Lawrence)</li>
178 <li>Vice-president: ebering (Edgar Bering)</li>
179 <li>Treasurer: mgregson (Michael Gregson)</li>
180 <li>Secretary: j2simpso (James Simpson)</li>
183 The following were appointed:
185 <li>Sysadmin: kspaans (Kyle Spaans)</li>
186 <li>Imapd: j2simpso (James Simpson)</li>
189 <newsitem author="b4taylor" date="2008-05-16">
190 New positions were elected on Tuesday. Check the exec section to see who won.
192 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2008-05-04">
193 Spring 2008 elections will be held on Tuesday May 13th at 4:30pm in the Comfy Lounge.<br/>
194 Get your nominations in as soon as possible on the CSC whiteboard!<br/>
195 Nominations close 24 hours before the polls open.<br/>
196 You can email your nominations to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
198 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2008-01-15">
199 Winter 2008 elections are over; <a href="about/positions">click here</a> to
200 see the new executive and other positions.
202 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2008-01-08">
203 The CSClub mirror (<a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>)
204 is now on the ResNet "don't count" list. This means that downloading
205 software from our mirror will not count against your quota.
206 <a href="http://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Mirror">Click here</a> for a list
207 of Linux distributions and open-source software that we mirror.
209 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2007-09-09">
210 The Fall 2007 election has been scheduled for Sept 20 at 4:30 pm in the
213 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2007-09-01">
214 Nominations are now being accepted for Fall 2007 executive positions.
215 Nominiations close on Sept 19 at 4:30 pm. See
216 <a href="/newsgroup/article.php?id=11045&group=uw.csc">uw.csc</a> for
219 <newsitem author="dtbartle" date="2007-09-01">
220 Our talks our now mirrored on mirror.cs for ResNet and on-campus users.
222 <newsitem author="mspang" date="2007-05-11">
223 The <a href="/about/exec">executive</a> has been elected for the Spring 2007 term.
225 <newsitem author="daltenty" date="2007-01-12">
226 The <a href="/about/exec">executive</a> has been elected for the Winter 2007 term.
228 <newsitem author="woconnor" date="2006-09-21">
229 The <a href="/about/exec">executive</a> has been elected for the Fall 2006 term.
231 <newsitem author="hkarau" date="2006-06-04">
232 The BeBox lives again. BeOS is a unique operating system from the same era as Windows 95. If you'd like to see it run, port something to it (we
233 have the developement tools!), or just watch the funny lights on the front of it, stop by the office and take a look
235 <newsitem author="hkarau" date="2006-05-19">
236 Larry Smith's talk on Creating Killer applications is now online in our
237 new <a href ="/media/"> section </a>(in video :-)).
239 <newsitem author="hkarau" date="2006-05-10">
240 The CSC <a href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Summer 2006 term
244 <newsitem author="ddenisen" date="2006-01-10">
245 The CSC <a href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Winter 2006 term
248 <newsitem author="jeperry" date="2004-10-23">
249 The F04 CSC Programming Contest is underway. Go to
250 <a href="/~contest/">the website</a> for more information.
252 <newsitem author="jeperry" date="2004-09-27">
253 The Fall 2004 elections have occured. We have a new
254 <a href="/about/exec">executive</a>.
256 <newsitem author="mbiggs" date="2004-09-15">
257 <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csclub/buss-talk.mp3">Here</a> is the audio for Professor Buss'
258 talk: Game Complexity Theorists Ponder, in mp3 format. Enjoy!
260 <newsitem author="zbnichol" date="2004-05-31">
261 Audio has been added for the Larry Smith talk: Computing's Next Great
262 Empires. It is available <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csclub/larry-smith-talk.ogg">in Ogg
263 format</a> or <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csclub/larry-smith-talk.mp3">in MP3 format</a>.
264 Thanks to all who came out. The talk was a great success.
266 <newsitem author="mbiggs" date="2004-05-12">
267 The CSC elections took place and we have a new <a
268 href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Spring 2004.
270 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-04-19">
271 <tt>perpugilliam</tt> has been restored, with two new disks courtesy of
272 MathSoc and MEF. There are now disk quotas for users, with a 250 MB
273 soft quota and a 500 MB hard quota, with a 14-day grace period.
275 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-04-16">
276 <tt>carbonated-water</tt> is back up. It now runs as the backup mail
277 exchange and also serves a a slave LDAP server. What this means is
278 that if <tt>perpugilliam</tt> goes down, your mail will not be dropped
279 and you'll still be able to login to other machines.
281 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-04-16">
282 <tt>perpugilliam</tt> will be going down for hardware upgrades on
283 2004-04-16 to 2004-04-19. We thank MathSoc and MEF for their
284 generous support in purchasing this hardware, and apologise for
285 any inconvenience this downtime will cause.
287 <newsitem author="mbiggs" date="2004-04-07">
289 <a href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gallery/ctrl-d-w2004">CTRL-D</a>
290 are available in the gallery.
292 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-04-02">
293 <tt>glucose-fructose</tt> is back on-line. It has a new 120 GB hard disk,
294 a new power supply, and an nVidia GeForce FX 5900.
296 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-04-01">
297 <tt>glucose-fructose</tt> will be going down for hardware upgrades on
298 2004-04-02 for an indeterminate amount of time. We thank MathSoc and
299 MEF for their generous support in purchasing this hardware, and
300 apologise for any inconvenience this downtime will cause.
302 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-03-19">
303 Kernighan came to Waterloo, and the Computer Science Club got our books
304 signed by him. Not only that, but we took
305 <a href="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gallery/kernighan-2004">photographs
308 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-03-16">
309 The books that we purchased have arrived. Now we have two books that
310 can be signed by Kernighan when he comes.
312 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-02-05">
313 We voted 15 to 0 to 0 in favour of changing the
314 <a href="/about/constitution">constitution</a> to follow MathSoc
315 policy. An updated copy of the document is now online.
317 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-02-02">
318 <tt>perpugilliam</tt> went down over the weekend due to a failing disk.
319 Please back up all your important data as it is starting to go bad.
320 We are trying to acquire a replacement.
322 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-01-25">
323 <tt>carbonated-water</tt>, <tt>h2o</tt>, is back down. It's awaiting
326 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2004-01-22">
327 The CSC elections took place and we have a new <a
328 href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Winter 2004.
330 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2003-09-17">
331 The CSC elections took place and we have a new <a
332 href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Fall 2003.
334 <newsitem author="ja2morri" date="2003-08-12">
335 <tt>carbonated-water</tt>, <tt>h2o</tt>, is back up. It's a great machine
338 <newsitem author="ja2morri" date="2003-08-12">
339 The <a href="http://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/wiki/Exec_Manual">CSC
340 Procedures manual</a> has been added to the website. Thanks go to
341 Shannon Mann for reminding us of this document.
343 <newsitem author="ja2morri" date="2003-08-06">
344 We've finally gotten around to disabling accounts. If you find your
345 account has been improperly disabled please email
346 <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">the executive</a>. We are
347 keeping a back up of the files and mail for each disabled account for
348 a short period of time.
350 <newsitem author="ja2morri" date="2003-07-09">
351 Jim Elliott gave a great talk for the CSC yesterday and has put his slides
353 <a href="http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events">
354 http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/events</a>
356 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2003-07-03">
357 We have been notified by the Guelph Computer Club that they are unable
358 to host our group event. Sorry for the inconvenience.
360 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2003-06-05">
361 We have a new computer called <tt>glucose-fructose</tt>, or <tt>sugar</tt>
362 for short. As a result, <tt>carbonated-water</tt> is temporarily out of
363 service, although it should return within a month.
365 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2003-05-14">
366 The CSC elections took place and we have a new <a
367 href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Spring 2003.
369 <newsitem author="sfllaw" date="2003-01-13">
370 The CSC elections took place and we have a new <a
371 href="/about/exec">executive</a> for Winter 2003.
373 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-10-29">
374 Due to lack of time for preparation, the Romp Through The Linux Kernel talks were cancelled.
375 Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully these talks will happen next term.
377 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-09-30">
378 The business meeting of 2002-09-30 was concluded and the <a
379 href="/about/constitution-change-20020920">constitutional
380 change</a> was approved with a 14:2 majority (and one spoiled
381 ballot). See the new <a href="/about/constitution">constitution</a>.
383 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-09-16">
384 The Fall elections have occured and the <a
385 href="/about/exec">results</a> are in.
387 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-09-18">
388 We've changed to the new site! Please send your comments to the <a
389 href="mailto:webmaster@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">webmaster</a>. The <a
390 href="/old/">old site</a> is still available. A few things may not
391 be working quite right yet, but I'm working on it.
393 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-04-22">
394 Added <a href="http://library.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">books</a>! About 2.5
395 shelves are there, minus a whole lot that weren't readily accessible from
396 the Library of Congress. Getting all of the books on there is going to
397 be a tough job. These are, by the way, managed by good-old (or new?)
398 CEO. Thanks to Ryan Golbeck and Petio for their hard work getting
399 ISBN numbers onto disc.
401 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-04-15">
402 Added a bunch of <a href="/events/old">old events</a> and some
403 documents, including the <a
404 href="/about/constitution">constitution</a>.
406 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-04-15">
407 Added the <a href="/about/members">membership list</a>. <a
408 href="/events/old">Old events</a> are working. Event terms, as
409 well as the current term are determined automagically now. Lots of
410 work done. Some more stubs up (office etc.). And I introduce cow -
411 that is, the CSC Ontological Webalizer - which is just a wrapper
412 around libxslt with some extra xpath functions. It is now what is
413 being used to build the site, instead of xsltproc.
415 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-02-04">
416 About/Memberlist stub up. Made the CSC logo gold. Isn't it nifty?
418 <newsitem author="sjdutoit" date="2002-02-03">