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  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-05-14">
    <p>  
      Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable on    
      Saturday, May 15 due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics and Computer    
      Building (MC) from 7am to 11am.    
    </p> 
    <p>  
      The CSC will begin shutting down machines at 6am in preparation of the outage.
    </p> 
    <p>  
      Please prepare for the outage by:    
      <ul>    
        <li>
          Ensuring all running processes have their state saved (configuration, data, etc.)
        </li>
        <li>
          Any important files are backed up off-site from the CSC
        </li>
      </ul>
    </p> 
    <p>  
      If you have any questions/concerns, please email the Systems Committee.
    </p> 
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-05-07">
    <p>Hello everyone! CSC and DSC are teaming up to bring you all a side-project event next term! Our goal with this event is to help you plan and execute an amazing side project over the course of several weeks, and we&#39;ll be releasing more details about this soon </p>
    <p>Right now, we are <strong>looking for mentors</strong> that are interested in participating! This is an amazing opportunity to gain project management, mentorship and leadership experience, all while giving back to the community of students at UW. </p>
    <p>As a mentor, you&#39;ll be tasked with helping teams of students create roadmaps of their project, setting milestones, and making sure that everyone stays on task.  Additionally, if you&#39;d like to share your technical experience and expertise, we have optional office hours where mentors can help teams debug their code!</p>
    <p>If you&#39;re interested, please sign up! You won&#39;t immediately be committing to the role; and we&#39;ll have a secondary check-in to ensure that you&#39;re familiar with the responsibilities.</p>
    <p>Sign up at <a href="http://bit.ly/uwcsc-uwdsc-mentor-signup!">http://bit.ly/uwcsc-uwdsc-mentor-signup!</a> Alternatively, you can email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with a short description about yourself, your experience, as well as what technical fields you&#39;re comfortable mentoring.</p>
    <p>Deadline to Sign Up: Wednesday, May 7th at 11:59pm EDT</p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-04-09">
    <p>Thank you to all the people that were able to attend our Get Involved event! As promised, we are excited to announce that we are officially accepting applications for CSC's Executive committee. </p>
    <p>The positions available for Spring 2021 term are:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Event Coordinators</li>
      <li>Marketing Coordinators</li>
      <li>Discord Moderators</li>
      <li>Class Representatives</li>
      <li>Senior Frontend Developer </li>
      <li>Graphic Designers</li>
      <li>Linux Server Administrator</li>
    </ul>
    <p>If you're passionate about making a positive change in our community, we'd love for you to apply! You can find more information about each role at this link: <a href="http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-roles">http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-roles</a>!</p>
    <p><strong>Application Deadline</strong>: Friday, April 23rd at 11:59pm EDT</p>
    <p>Apply at <a href="http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-apply">http://bit.ly/uwcsclub-s21-apply</a>!  Alternatively, you can email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca from your UW email with an introduction of yourself, which positions you're interested in and any questions you might have.</p>
    <p>Looking forward to reading your applications!</p>

  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-03-31">
    <p>
      As part of an ongoing series to upgrade our email services, there will be
      some downtime for our email system over the course of the next few weeks.
      This affects mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
      The downtime periods will only occur late at night (EDT) and should last
      no more than an hour at a time.
    </p>
    <p>
      We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. If you have any
      questions or concerns, please email syscom at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-03-29">
    <p>
      The CSC has updated its SpamAssassin configuration to use a site-wide Bayesian
      learner instead of per-user. This will hopefully reduce duplicate efforts to
      keep spam out of our inboxes. Unfortunately this may lead to increased false
      positives. See the instructions on our
      <a href="https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Mail#Spamfiltering">wiki</a>
      on how to revert to the old behaviour if you wish to do so.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-03-19">
    <p>
      Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable on    
      Saturday, Mar. 20 due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics and Computer    
      Building (MC) from 7am to 5pm.    
    </p>
    <p>
      The CSC will begin shutting down machines at 6am in preparation of the outage.
    </p>
    <p>
      Please prepare for the outage by:    
      <ul>    
        <li>
          Ensuring all running processes have their state saved (configuration, data, etc.)
        </li>
        <li>
          Any important files are backed up off-site from the CSC
        </li>
      </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
      If you have any questions/concerns, please email the Systems Committee.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-03-12">
    <p>We're gathering info about the CSC website in order to prep for a redesign.</p>
    <p>Help us out by filling out this form <a href="https://forms.gle/NNG1p4ZFHQJ4ssfc7">https://forms.gle/NNG1p4ZFHQJ4ssfc7</a> and giving us your opinion.</p>
    <p>We want to make sure the site is functional and useful for everyone.</p>
    <p>
      Alternatively, you can also email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with the answers to your questions, available <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/website_questions.txt">here</a>.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-03-07">
    <p>
      CSC now hosts its own instance of
      BigBlueButton at <a href="https://bbb.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">https://bbb.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>,
      freely available for all members.
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org">BigBlueButton</a> is a free and open source
      video conferencing platform. It runs directly in the browser, and includes
      many useful features such as multi-user whiteboards, embedded videos, and
      interactive polls.
    </p>
    <p>
      To get the most out of BBB, there are some tutorial videos you can
      watch <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org/html5">here</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      If you have any questions or concerns, please email syscom.
    </p>
    <p>
      Happy video calling!
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-03-01">
    <p>
      Join Computer Science Club for Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series presented by students. Alt-Tab consists of 10 to 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! We will be hosting it virtually this term late March.
    </p>

    <p>
      We are currently looking for speakers! If you're passionate about a technical topic and interested in public speaking, apply by filling out the form below. We'd LOVE to hear from you. Speakers don't need to have prior experience and Alt-Tab is a great way to get started with giving talks!
    </p>

    <p>Here are some topics that past talks have covered:</p>
    <ul>
      <li> Unicode </li>
      <li> Virtual Escape Rooms </li>
      <li> Quantum Computers </li>
      <li> GraphQL </li>
      <li> Pathfinding </li>
    </ul>

    <p>
      You can apply here: <a href="https://forms.gle/JpEsGTZK9WRbFUw46">https://forms.gle/JpEsGTZK9WRbFUw46</a>. Alternatively, you can also email us at exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca to introduce yourself, as well as an outline of your proposed 10-15 minute talk.
    </p>

    <p>
      If you have any questions about giving a talk, feel free to reach out to us at <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
    </p>

    <p>Applications are due on Friday, March 12th 11:59pm EST</p>

    <p>Hope to see you there!</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-01-21">
    <p>Winter 2021 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President: Kallen Tu (k4tu)</li>
      <li>VP: Gordon Le (g2le)</li>
      <li>AVP: Nakul Vijhani (nvijhani)</li>
      <li>Treasurer: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
      <li>Sysadmin: Max Erenberg (merenber)</li>
    </ul>

    <p>The unfilled positions this term are:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>Office Manager</li>
        <li>Librarian</li>
        <li>IMAPD</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-01-13">
    <p>Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Winter 2021 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be appointed. The librarian and office manager will not be appointed, since the office will be closed for the Fall term.</p>

    <p>If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Wednesday, January 20 2021 at midnight EDT.</p>

    <p>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 roles on the Programme Committe! You can apply here: <a href="https://forms.gle/d2mTDAhf1D15Yyk27">https://forms.gle/d2mTDAhf1D15Yyk27</a></p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-01-11">
    <p>MathSoc has decided to waive club fees for the Winter 2021 term
    as well.</p>
    <ul>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member who has already paid for
      Winter 2021 membership, your membership has been extended by one
      term.</li>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member whose membership is expired
      for the Winter 2021 term, you can email
      <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
      to have your membership renewed for the term at no cost.</li>
    </ul>

    <p>If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we
    continue to use the modified process we put in place in Spring
    2020 making remote registrations possible:</p>

    <p>Email the CSC Systems Committee at
    <a href="mailto:syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
    from your UWaterloo email address with the following:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,</li>
      <li>your WatIAM userid, and</li>
      <li>your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and
      agreeing with our
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/services/machine_usage">Machine Usage Agreement</a>.</li>
    </ol>

    <p>The club office will remained closed until further notice.
    Have a safe Winter term!</p>
  </newsitem>
  <!-- <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2020-10-21"> -->
  <!--   <p> Hello CSC members, </p> -->

  <!--   <p> -->
  <!--     Join the Computer Science Club (CSC) and Women in Computer Science (WiCS) on Thursday, November 19th for Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series presented by students! -->
  <!--     Alt-Tab consists of 10 to 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! -->
  <!--     We will be hosting it virtually this term! -->
  <!--   </p> -->

  <!--   <p> -->
  <!--     We are currently looking for speakers! If you're passionate about a technical topic and interested in public speaking, apply by filling out the form below. -->
  <!--     We'd LOVE to hear from you. -->
  <!--     Speakers don't need to have prior experience and Alt-Tab is a great way to get started with giving talks! -->
  <!--   </p> -->

  <!--   <p>Here are some topics that past talks have covered:</p> -->
  <!--   <ul> -->
  <!--     <li> Unicode </li> -->
  <!--     <li> Virtual Escape Rooms </li> -->
  <!--     <li> Quantum Computers </li> -->
  <!--     <li> GraphQL </li> -->
  <!--     <li> Pathfinding </li> -->
  <!--   </ul> -->

  <!--   <p> -->
  <!--     You can apply here: <a href="https://forms.gle/o86BkuD3iqCL4jve7">https://forms.gle/o86BkuD3iqCL4jve7</a> -->
  <!--   </p> -->

  <!--   <p> -->
  <!--     If you have any questions about giving a talk, feel free to reach out to us at <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a> -->
  <!--   </p> -->

  <!--   <p>Applications are due on Sunday, November 1st, at 11:59PM ET.</p> -->

  <!--   <p>Hope to see you there!</p> -->
  <!-- </newsitem> -->
  <newsitem author="agaikova" date="2020-09-28">
    <p>Fall 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>President: Mokai Xu (m92xu)</li>
        <li>Vice President: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova) (stepped down as of 2020-11-30)</li>
        <li>Secretary/Assistant Vice President: Edwin Yang (e37yang)</li>
        <li>Treasurer: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
        <li>Sysadmin: Murphy Berzish (mtrberzi)</li>
    </ul>

    <p>The unfilled positions this term are:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>Office Manager</li>
        <li>Librarian</li>
        <li>IMAPD</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="abandali" date="2020-09-28">
    <p>The CSC Systems Committee announces the availability of the
    CSC's own installation of the ZNC IRC bouncer for CSC members at
    <a href="https://znc.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">znc.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>,
    as the second of several steps it is taking to bring modern user
    freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to CSC
    members.  Please see the <a
    href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-September/000840.html">notice</a>
    sent to csc-general for the complete announcement.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="abandali" date="2020-09-12">
    <p>MathSoc has decided to waive club fees for the Fall 2020 term
    as well.</p>
    <ul>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member who has already paid for
      Fall 2020 membership, your membership has been extended by one
      term.</li>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member whose membership is expired
      for the Fall 2020 term, you can email
      <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
      to have your membership renewed for the term at no cost.</li>
    </ul>

    <p>If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we
    continue to use the modified process we put in place in Spring
    2020 making remote registrations possible:</p>

    <p>Email the CSC Systems Committee at
    <a href="mailto:syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>
    from your UWaterloo email address with the following:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,</li>
      <li>your WatIAM userid, and</li>
      <li>your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and
      agreeing with our
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/services/machine_usage">Machine Usage Agreement</a>.</li>
    </ol>

    <p>The club office will remained closed until further notice.
    Have a safe Fall term!</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="agaikova" date="2020-09-12">
    <p>Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science
    Club will be holding elections for Fall 2020 virtually.  The
    president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president
    (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be
    ratified.  The librarian and office manager will not be appointed,
    since the office will be closed for the Fall term.</p>

    <p>If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email
    <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.
    Nominations will close on Saturday, September 19 2020 at midnight
    EDT.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="abandali" date="2020-07-27">
    <p>The CSC Systems Committee announces the availability of a new
    web IRC client for CSC members at
    <a href="https://chat.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">chat.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>,
    as the first of several steps it is taking to bring modern user
    freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to CSC
    members.  Please see the
    <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">notice</a>
    sent to csc-general for the complete announcement.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="abandali" date="2020-05-28">
    <p>Spring 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>President: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
        <li>Vice President: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova)</li>
        <li>Sysadmin: Amin Bandali (abandali)</li>
    </ul>

    <p>The unfilled positions this term are:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>Treasurer</li>
        <li>Secretary/Assistant Vice President</li>
        <li>Office Manager</li>
        <li>Librarian</li>
        <li>IMAPD</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2020-05-26">
    <p>The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage in the Math &amp; Computer Building (MC) on Thursday, May 28 from 10am to 12pm (noon) EDT. Club systems and services will be unavialble starting at 8am EDT. See the <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-May/000835.html">announcement</a> sent to csc-general for more information.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2020-05-13">
    <p>Due to the closure of campus this term, the Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Spring 2020 virtually. The president, vice-president, treasurer and assistant vice-president (formerly secretary) will be elected and the sysadmin will be ratified. The librarian and office manager will not be appointed, since the office will be closed for the Spring term.</p>

    <p>If you'd like to run for any of these positions, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Nominations will close on Wednesday, May 20 2020 at midnight EDT.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2020-05-05">
    <p>Due to campus closure, MathSoc has decided not collect fees for the Spring 2020 term.</p>
    <ul>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member who has already paid for Spring 2020 membership, your membership has been extended by one term.</li>
      <li>If you are a current CSC member whose membership is expired for the Spring 2020 term, you can email <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a> to have your membership renewed for the term at no cost.</li>
    </ul>

    <p>If you are not a CSC member, but would like to become one, we have put in place a modified process for remote registration.</p>

    <p>Email <a href="mailto:syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a> from your UWaterloo email address with the following:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>a scan or photograph copy of your WatCard,</li>
      <li>your WatIAM userid, and</li>
      <li>your acknowledgement of having read, understood, and agreeing with our <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/services/machine_usage">Machine Usage Agreement</a>.</li>
    </ol>

    <p>The club office will remained closed until further notice. Have a safe Spring term!</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2020-04-15">
    <p>The University has closed all campus buildings, so the club office is now closed until further notice.</p>

    <p>Have a safe Spring term, and hopefully we'll see you back in the office soon!</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2020-01-15">
    <p>Winter 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.</p>

    <ul>
        <li>President: Richard Shi (r27shi)</li>
        <li>Vice President: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova)</li>
        <li>Treasurer: Alex Tomala (actomala)</li>
        <li>Secretary/Assistant Vice President: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
        <li>Sysadmin: Amin Bandali (abandali)</li>
    </ul>

    The remaining appointed positions are
    <ul>
        <li>Office Manager: Alexander Zvorygin (azvorygi)</li>
        <li>Librarian: Anastassia Gaikovaia (agaikova)</li>
        <li>IMAPD: Richard Shi (r27shi)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="mtrberzi" date="2019-09-13">
    <p>Fall 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.</p>

    <ul>
        <li>President: Dhruv Jauhar (djauhar)</li>
        <li>Vice President: Aditya Thakral (a3thakra)</li>
        <li>Treasurer: Rishabh Minocha (rkminoch)</li>
        <li>Secretary/Assistant Vice President: Tammy Khalaf (tekhalaf)</li>
        <li>Sysadmin: Murphy Berzish (mtrberzi)</li>
    </ul>

    The remaining appointed positions are
    <ul>
        <li>Office Manager: Zihan Zhang (z577zhan)</li>
        <li>Librarian: Raghav Sethi (r5sethi)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2019-08-21">
    <p>
    On August 21st, we were informed that sometime before 2:30PM EDT taurine
    caught fire. As a result, it is currently unavailable and is expected to
    remain so permanently.
    </p>

    <p>
    See the
      <a href="https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Machine_List#General-Use_Servers">Machine List</a>
    for alternate general use servers.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="s455wang" date="2019-08-11">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>

    <p>
    See also
        <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/plant-operations/news/service-interruption-electricity-multiple-buildings-august">the notice from Plant Ops</a>.
    </p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="s455wang" date="2019-05-16">
    <p>Spring 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.</p>

    <ul>
        <li>President: Uday Barar (ubarar)</li>
        <li>Vice President: Rajat Malhotra (r24malho)</li>
        <li>Treasurer: Raghav Sethi (r5sethi)</li>
        <li>Secretary/Assistant Vice President: Bo Mo (bzmo)</li>
        <li>Sysadmin: Charlie Wang (s455wang)</li>
    </ul>

    The remaining appointed positions are
    <ul>
        <li>Office Manager: Hannah Wong (sm7wong)</li>
        <li>Librarian: Nolan Munce (nmmunce)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="a3thakra" date="2019-02-19">
    <p>There will be scheduled downtime for maintenance on many Computer Science Club servers on Thursday, February 21 beginning at 9:45 AM. Machines are expected to be up by 11:30 AM, but issues may arise that require more time to correct.</p>

    <p>The list of affected public servers is:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>taurine</li>
      <li>sucrose</li>
      <li>corn-syrup</li>
      <li>high-fructose-corn-syrup (hfcs)</li>
      <li><a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">caffeine</a></li>
    </ul>

    <p>
      During this time, CSC email will be inaccessible but mail will be queued up and delivered after the maintenance period is over. All websites hosted by CSC will be inaccessible for a short period of time as caffeine is rebooted. CSC Cloud will also be unavailable, and any virtual machines on CSC cloud will have to be manually restarted after the maintenance window.
    </p>

    <p>Apologies for the inconvenience.</p>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="a3thakra" date="2019-01-17">
    <p>The remaining positions have been appointed:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Office Manager: Archer Zhang (z577zhan)</li>
      <li>Librarian: Rishabh Minocha (rkminoch)</li>
      <li>IMAPD/Pop: Marc Mailhot (mnmailho)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="a3thakra" date="2019-01-16">
    <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>President: Marc Mailhot (mnmailho)</li>
      <li>Vice-President: Victor Brestoiu (vabresto)</li>
      <li>Treasurer: Tristan Hume (tghume)</li>
      <li>Assistant Vice President: Aditya Thakral (a3thakra)</li>
      <li>Systems Administrator: Charlie Wang (s455wang)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The rest of the positions will be appointed at a later date.</p>
  </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2018-10-29">
     <p>CSC will be hosting Alt-Tab, a slightly longer version of lightning talks. It will be a night full of friendly talks during the week of November 26.</p>

     <p>We need talks! Contact <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>, with your tentative talk title and a short abstract if you would like to give a talk.
       Slides are not required. Please aim for a 10-15 minute talk. I'll send an email with the list of talks closer to the date of the event.
       Please send titles and abstract by November 19th.
     </p>

     <p>Here are some topics that our members have presented before. The titles make them seem more technical than they actually were.</p>

     <ul>
       <li>Overview of SAT solvers</li>
       <li>Communication complexity</li>
       <li>Register allocation in compilers as graph colouring</li>
       <li>Web application security</li>
       <li>PXE booting</li>
       <li>UI and UX</li>
       <li>Train signalling and sensing</li>
       <li>Typed Racket</li>
       <li>Modern GPU architecture</li>
       <li>The comment that took Stack Exchange down and the algorithm that could have saved them</li>
       <li>Register Allocation With Graphs</li>
     </ul>

     <p>There will be food.</p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2018-10-07">
     <p>We have been informed of a planned power outage that will affect CSC
       equipment on Oct. 9 at 11pm until Oct. 10 at 5am.</p>
     <p>During this time, all CSC systems and services will be unavailable.
       Please ensure that you have saved all work before then and that you
       have a backup of any important files.</p>
     <p>We expect that most services will recover automatically once power
       is restored, however anything requiring manual intervention
       will be restored later in the day.</p>
     <p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the
       Systems Committee by email at
       <a href="mailto:syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>.</p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2018-09-18">
     <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: Zichuan Wei (z34wei)</li>
         <li>Vice-President: Uday Barar (ubarar)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: Alex Tomala (actomala)</li>
         <li>Assistant Vice-President: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
       </ul>
      <p>Additionally, the following positions were appointed:</p>
       <ul>
	 <li>Systems Administrator: Jennifer Zhou (c7zou)</li>
         <li>Office Manager: Alexander Zvorygin (azvorygi)</li>
         <li>Librarian: Neil Parikh (n3parikh)</li>
     </ul>
  </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="c7zou" date="2018-09-12">
     <p>
       Nominations for the Fall 2018 exec are open. You can nominate candidates
       for President, Vice President, Assistant Vice President, or Treasurer by
       submitting their name, username, and position to the ballot box in the CSC, or
       by emailing <a href="mailto:cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a> with their
       name and position(s). Nominations close Monday, September 17th.
     </p>
     <p>
       Elections will be held Tuesday, September 18th in the Comfy Lounge
       at 6:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are
       invited to come by and vote.
     </p>
     <p>
       Nominations are listed <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/elections/">here</a>.
     </p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2018-09-01">
     <p>Power has now been restored to the machine room and
      most CSC systems and services are now available, with the exception
       of:</p>
     <ul>
       <li>
         <b>sucrose and taurine</b>
         <br />
         We are currently unable to access to servers remotely. To restore
         these servers, we need a visit to the machine room to identify and
         resolve boot issues.
         <br />
         <em>As of Sept. 5, taurine is available again with reduced RAM.</em>
       </li>
       <li>
         <b><a href="http://test-ipv6.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">test-ipv6</a>
           (restored as of Sept. 2)</b>
         <br />
         Currently available from within the UW network only. Investigation
         is still ongoing and may require assistance from IST's security team.
       </li>
     </ul>
     <p>If you experience any issues accessing CSC services, please contact the
       <a href="mailto:systems-committee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Systems Committee</a>.
     </p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2018-08-31">
     <p>While power has been restored to the Math &amp; Computer Building (MC),
       power is not yet available in the machine room. As a result,
       most CSC services are still unavailable at this time.</p>
     <p>The current estimate for power is Saturday, Sept. 1.</p>
     <p>Currently, due to machines located in other buildings and
       emergency generator power to select machines in MC, the following
       services are currently available:</p>
     <ul>
       <li><a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Mirror</a></li>
       <li>Mail (<a href="https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Webmail</a>, SMTP and IMAP</li>
       <li>Caffeine (including web hosting)</li>
     </ul>
     <p>Once power is restored to the machine room, the Systems Committee
       will continue restoring remaining services.</p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2018-07-18">
     <p>The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage
       in the Math &amp; Computer Building (MC) Tuesday, August 21 to
       Thursday, August 30. Systems will be unavailable starting Sunday,
       August 19 at 12pm EDT and are expected to be restored on
       Thursday, August 30.</p>
     <p>We expect that our <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/">
         Open Source Software mirror
        </a>be available during the outage.</p>
     <p>See the
         <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2018-August/000769.html">
          notice
        </a> sent to csc-general for more information.</p>
     <p>Please contact the
       <a href="mailto:systems-committee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
         Systems Committee
       </a>
       if you have any questions.</p>
     <p><em>Updated on 2018-07-19 as the outage time was extended.</em></p>
     <p><em>Updated on 2018-08-02 with additional information
            and extended outage time.</em></p>
   </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="mnmailho" date="2018-05-14">
     <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: Melissa Tedesco (matedesc)</li>
         <li>Vice-President: Dhruv Jauhar (djauhar)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: Tristan Hume (tghume)</li>
         <li>Secretary: Marc Mailhot (mnmailho)</li>
       </ul>
      <p>Additionally, the following positions were appointed:</p>
       <ul>
	 <li>Systems Administrator: Jennifer Zhou (c7zou)</li>
         <li>Office Manager: Aditya Thakral (a3thakra)</li>
         <li>Librarian: Archer Zhang (z577zhan)</li>
         <li>Fridge Regent: Marc Mailhot (mnmailho)</li>
     </ul>
  </newsitem>
  <newsitem author="pj2melan" date="2018-05-14">
    <p>Here are the nominations for the Spring 2018 elections:</p>
    <ul>
	<li>President: Melissa (matedesc), Haoran (h594wang)</li>
	<li>VP: Dhruv (djauhar), Haoran (h594wang)</li>
	<li>Secretary: Dhruv (djauhar), Marc (mnmailho)</li>
	<li>Treasurer: Tristan (tghume)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Additionally, the following people have expressed interest in appointed positions:</p>
    <ul>
	    <li>Office Manager: Aditya (a3thakra), Archer (z577zhan), Haoran (h594wang), Yash (y2mathur)</li>
	    <li>Librarian: Aditya (a3thakra), Archer (z577zhan), Anamaya (agarodia)</li>
	    <li>Pop/Fridge Regent: Marc (mnmailho)</li>
	    <li>Sysadmin: Jennifer (c7zou)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="pj2melan" date="2018-03-26">
    <p>The winner of the uncode party is Jennifer Zhou! For a sorting
      algorithm that works by emailing our VP for each decision.
    </p>
    <p>Again, congratulations on somehow winning an event that even the
      organizers wouldn't know there was going to be a winner at!</p>
  </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2017-05-17">
     <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: fbauckho (Felix Bauckholt)</li>
         <li>Vice-President: z34wei (Zichuan Wei)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: lhsong (Laura Song)</li>
         <li>Secretary: bzmo (Bo Mo)</li>
       </ul>
      <p>Additionally, the following positions were appointed:</p>
       <ul>
         <li>Systems Administrator: ztseguin (Zachary Seguin)</li>
         <li>Office Manager: ubarar (Uday Barar)</li>
         <li>Librarian: pj2melan (Patrick Melanson)</li>
         <li>Imapd: ubarar (Uday Barar)</li>
     </ul>
  </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="b2coutts" date="2017-01-14">
     <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: wyscheung (Wilson Cheung)</li>
         <li>Vice-President: tghume (Tristan Hume)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: jxpryde (Jordan Pryde)</li>
         <li>Secretary: aafata (Amir Fata)</li>
       </ul>
      <p>Additionally, the following positions were appointed:</p>
       <ul>
         <li>Systems Administrator: ztseguin (Zachary Seguin)</li>
         <li>Office Manager: fbauckho (Felix Bauckholt)</li>
         <li>Librarian: csfmurph (Connor Murphy)</li>
         <li>Imapd: ischtche (Ilia Chtcherbakov)</li>
     </ul>
    <p>
      We also amended our constitution to revise our Code of Conduct. The
      updated Code of Conduct can be found at
      https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-11-20">
      <p>Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics &amp; Computer Building on Sat. Nov 26 from 7am to 5pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable.</p>
      <p>It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (<a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF).</p>
   </newsitem>

    <newsitem  author="ubarar" date="2016-11-10">
        <p> The Code of Conduct and the amended version can be found below: </p>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="https://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment/about/code-of-conduct">Proposed CoC</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~exec/proposed-amendment.patch">Diff between current and proposed CoC</a></li>
        </ul>
    </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-10-18">
      <p>Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics &amp; Computer Building on Sat. Oct 22 from 7am to 11pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable.</p>
      <p>It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (<a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF).</p>
   </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-09-19">
     <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
      <ul>
         <li>President: s455wang (Charlie Wang)</li>
         <li>Vice-President: b2coutts (Bryan Coutts)</li>
         <li>Treasurer: lhsong (Laura Song)</li>
         <li>Secretary: ubarar (Uday Barar)</li>
       </ul>
       <p>Additionally, the following positions were appointed:</p>
       <ul>
         <li>Systems Administrator: ztseguin (Zachary Seguin)</li>
         <li>Office Manager: j2sinn (James Sinn)</li>
         <li>Librarian: fbauckho (Felix Bauckholt)</li>
         <li>Imapd: ischtche (Ilia Chtcherbakov)</li>
     </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="pj2melan" date="2016-05-12">
    <p>Elections for Spring 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected and ratified:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Luqman Aden (<tt>laden</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Melissa Tedesco (<tt>matedesc</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Jon Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Aditya Shivam Askothar (<tt>askothar</tt>)</li>
    <li>SysAdmin: Jordan Xavier Pryde (<tt>jxpryde</tt>)</li>
    <li>Office Manager: Zachary Seguin (<tt>ztseguin</tt>)</li>
    <li>Librarian: Charlie Wang (<tt>s455wang</tt>)</li>
    <li>Fridge Regent: Marc Mailhot (<tt>mnmailho</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-02-09">
      <p>Many of the Computer Science Club's systems and services will be unavailable for maintenance on Wednesday, February 17 from 11am to 5pm.</p>
      <p>See <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/newsgroup/article.php?id=12268&amp;group=uw.csc">the announcement</a> for more information.</p>
   </newsitem>

   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-01-21">
    <p>The <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">Computer Science Club Mirror</a> is now running on potassium-benzoate, our new server which was purchased with funding from the <a href="https://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mefcom/">Mathematics Endowment Fund (MEF)</a>. We have also enhanced our mirror's network connectivity, adding IPv6 and 10Gbps.</p>

    <p>Running our mirror is made possible with assistance from:</p>
    <ul>
       <li>The <a href="https://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mefcom/">Mathematics Endowment Fund (MEF)</a></li>
       <li>The <a href="http://mathsoc.uwaterloo.ca">Mathematics Society (MathSoc)</a></li>
       <li>Dave Gawley and the <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/resources-services/cscf">Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF)</a></li>
       <li><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/">Information Systems Technology (IST)</a></li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="pj2melan" date="2016-01-14">
    <p>Elections for Winter 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
    <li>Acting Vice-president: Theo Belaire (<tt>tbelaire</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Luqman Aden (<tt>laden</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Naomi Koo (<tt>m3koo</tt>)</li>
    <li>SysAdmin: Zachary Seguin (<tt>ztseguin</tt>)</li>
    <li>Office Manager: Reila Zheng (<tt>wy2zheng</tt>)</li>
    <li>Librarian: Felix Bauckholt (<tt>fbauckho</tt>)</li>
    <li>Fridge Regent: Marc Mailhot (<tt>mnmailho</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="kpwarr" date="2015-05-22">
    <p>By-Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Secretary: Keri Warr (<tt>kpwarr</tt>)</li>
      <li>Treasurer: Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>In addition, the following people were appointed to non-elected positions:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Librarian: Yomna Nasser (<tt>ynasser</tt>)</li>
      <li>Office Manager: Ilia Sergei Chtcherbakov (<tt>ischtche</tt>)</li>
      <li>SysAdmin: Nicholas Black (<tt>nablack</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="glgambet" date="2015-05-14">
    <p>Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Luqman Aden (<tt>laden</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="glgambet" date="2015-03-27">
    <p>
      The Computer Science Club adopted the proposed Code of Conduct (with
      amendments). The complete code of conduct can be found here:
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct">
        https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct
      </a>
    </p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="glgambet" date="2015-03-17">
    <p>There will be a general meeting on March 27th to discuss constitution
      amendments and the institution of a Code of Conduct.</p>
    <p>The full diff can be found here:
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch">
        https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch</a>,
      and the proposed Code of Conduct here:
      <a href="https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct">
        https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct</a>.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="yj7kim" date="2015-01-16">
    <p>Elections for Winter 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Gianni Gambetti (<tt>glgambet</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Edward Lee (<tt>e45lee</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Patrick Melanson (<tt>pj2melan</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The following people were appointed:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>Sysadmin: Murphy Berzish (<tt>mtrberzi</tt>)</li>
    <li>Office Manager: Shikhar Singh (<tt>s285sing</tt>)</li>
    <li>Librarian: Aishwarya Gupta (<tt>a72gupta</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="glgambet" date="2014-11-05">
    <p>
      We are waxing the office floors on the evening of November 5th.
      You can come out for 7pm to help move anything on the floor out of the office.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="scshunt" date="2014-10-15">
    <p>
      Our <a href="http://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Mirror">free software
        mirror</a> is currently down due to maintenance and multiple disk
      failure on the backup. We are working on bringing up a replacement. We do
      not have an ETA at this time for when service will be restored. Apologies
      for any inconvenience.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="yj7kim" date="2014-09-22">
    <p>Elections for Fall 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Jinny Kim (<tt>yj7kim</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Theo Belaire (<tt>tbelaire</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Jonathan Bailey (<tt>jj2baile</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Shane Creighton-Young (<tt>srcreigh</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The following people were appointed:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>Sysadmin: Sean Hunt (<tt>scshunt</tt>)</li>
    <li>Office Manager: Mark Farrell (<tt>m4farrel</tt>)</li>
    <li>Librarian: Gianni Gambetti (<tt>glgambet</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="b2coutts" date="2014-05-15">
    <p>Elections for Spring 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Jinny Kim (<tt>yj7kim</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Luke Franceschini (<tt>l3france</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Joseph Chouinard (<tt>jchouina</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Ifaz Kabir (<tt>ikabir</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The Sysadmin and Office Manager were not appointed at the election.</p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="jbroman" date="2014-01-16">
    <p>Elections for Winter 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>President: Bryan Coutts (<tt>b2coutts</tt>)</li>
    <li>Vice-president: Visha Vijayanand (<tt>vvijayan</tt>)</li>
    <li>Treasurer: Marc Burns (<tt>m4burns</tt>)</li>
    <li>Secretary: Mark Farrell (<tt>m4farrel</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>The following people were appointed:</p>
    <ul>
    <li>Sysadmin: Murphy Berzish (<tt>mtrberzi</tt>)</li>
    <li>Office Manager: Nicholas Black (<tt>nablack</tt>)</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="ehashman" date="2013-10-23">
    <p>
      It's been a while since we last ordered shirts for members. As such, we
      would like to order a new batch, and invite you to supply the design for
      the shirt! The winning candidate (and possibly some runner-ups) will
      receive a free shirt in the size of their choice. Please send your
      submissions to <a href="mailto:exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">the
      executive</a>.</p>

      <p>The deadline will be Nov. 13 at midnight, and winners will be announced
      by Friday, Nov. 15. At that point, a signup sheet will be made available.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

  <newsitem author="ehashman" date="2013-10-18">
    <p>
      Bowling has been moved from Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. See the
      <a href="events/Bingemans-2013-10-30-6%3A00PM">event details</a>
      for more information.
    </p>
  </newsitem>

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    <p>
      Security and privacy talks all have scheduled times and rooms! Please
      note the swap between Zak Blacher's and Simon Gladstone's talk.
    </p>
    <p>
      The final dates, times, and locations are as follows:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Tuesday, October 8, 5:00PM, MC 4041 &mdash; Sarah Harvey</li>
      <li>Tuesday, October 15, 5:00PM, MC 4060 &mdash; Eric Dong</li>
      <li>Thursday, October 24, 6:30PM, DC 1302 &mdash; Simon Gladstone</li>
      <li>Tuesday, November 5, 6:00PM, MC 3001 (Comfy Lounge) &mdash; Nick
        Guenther and Murphy Berzish host a key signing party!</li>
      <li>Tuesday, November 12, 5:00PM, MC 4060 &mdash; Zak Blacher</li>
      <li>Tuesday, November 26, 5:00PM, MC 2038 &mdash; Speaker TBD</li>
    </ul>
  </newsitem>
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  <newsitem author="ehashman" date="2013-10-01">
    <p>
      A number of talks on security and privacy have been planned for this term.
      Email <a href="mailto:progcom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">progcom</a> if you are
      interested in getting involved. See individual events for more detail.