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Updated brochure for open house tomorrow

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\section*{Membership:} \section*{Membership:}
Membership in the Computer Science Club is open to anyone willing to join, Membership in the Computer Science Club is open to anyone in the University of
though voting membership is only open to undergraduate math students at the Waterloo community, costs \$2 per term, and may be paid in
University of Waterloo. Membership costs \$2 per term and may be paid in advance. Members have lots of benefits, and support our events. In particular,
advance. What does membership get you? they have access to club services such as our computing environment, web
Here's the quick summary: your fee supports club events that are hosting, office, pop fridge, and library.
open to all and grants you access to club services such as our computing environment,
office, pop fridge, and library. It also makes you eligible for volunteer positions in the club, if you'd \subsection*{Office:}
prefer to do more than just pay to support our activites.
The CS Club office can be found in MC 3036/3037. It houses the library, members
during our business hours, the pop fridge, and of course, five office
computers. It is open most any hour of the night and day and populated by
helpful and friendly office staff.\\[5mm]
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\section*{Events:} \section*{Events:}
Each term, the CSC runs numerous acadamic and social events. Each term, the CSC runs numerous acadamic and social events.
These events run the gamut from These events run the gamut from socials, the most infamous being the
socials, the most infamous being the end of term dinner, CTRL-D; through end-of-term dinner, CTRL-D; through tutorials and workshops; to talks
tutorials and workshops, including an introduction to the CS student's best from professors and Computer Science luminaries. Some talks from the past
friend: the UNIX environmen; to talks from professors and Computer Science include Bill Gates in 1989 (before he was famous), John McCarthy in 1994 (he
luminaries. Some talks from the past include Bill Gates in 1989 (before he created LISP), and more recently, Richard Stallman, Gerald Sussman, and Herb
was famous), John McCarthy in 1994 (he created LISP), and more recently, Sutter.
Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Richard Stallman.
We have also toured the labs of the Institute for Quantum Computing after
enjoying a talk from the director Raymond Laflamme on the future of quantum
computation and the current state of programming available to quantum
computers.
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\section*{Services:} \section*{Services:}
The Computer Science Club provides several services to its members, including The Computer Science Club provides several services to its members, including
a computing environment with all the toppings, a library of literature, and an a computing environment with all the fixings, a library of literature, and an
office to use it all in. office to use it all in.
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\subsection*{Computing Environment:} \subsection*{Computing Environment:}
The main benefit of becoming a CSC member is to get access to our various The main benefit CSC members enjoy is access to our various machines. Our
machines. We offer a large range of hardware, including Alpha, MIPS, primary development machine, {\tt high-fructose-corn-syrup}, is a quad AMD
UltraSPARC, i386, and AMD64. Our primary development machine, taurine, is a Opteron (64 cores in total) with 192 GB of RAM. Most of our network is on
dual AMD Opteron (4 cores in total) with 8 GB of RAM. Most of our machines gigabit ethernet. We offer all members 4 GB of disk quota that is accessible
are connected via gigabit ethernet. We offer 4 GB of disk quota that is from all of our machines.\\[-3mm]
accessible from all of our machines. Our wiki contains a full machine list.
Members also receive a username@csclub.uwaterloo.ca email address, Members also receive a {\tt *@csclub.uwaterloo.ca} email address,
accessible via POP3, IMAP, and webmail. accessible via IMAP and webmail.\\[-3mm]
Many of members take advantage of our web hosting service. Our web server Many of members take advantage of our web hosting service. Our web server runs
runs on Apache, and has PHP, Python, and Perl modules installed. We also a LAMP stack, and has most any modern software you might need for your
have MySQL and PostgreSQL databases available upon request. website needs.
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\subsection*{Library:} \subsection*{Library:}
The CSC maintains an extensive collection of Computer Science related The CSC maintains an extensive collection of Computer Science related books in
books. The library can be browsed online by going the library section of our our office. Members are free to borrow most of the books in the library,
website, or in person in the office. CSC members are free to borrow most of with the exception of certain signed copies and course textbooks.
the books in the library, with the exception of certain signed copies and
course textbooks.
\subsection*{Office:}
The CS Club office can be found in MC 3036. It houses the library, a great
place to socialize with other members, the pop fridge, and of course,
several computers. It is open most any hour
of the night and day and populated by helpful and friendly office staff.
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to sign up the info below will tell you who to email, or you can just ask to sign up the info below will tell you who to email, or you can just ask
in person at our office. in person at our office.
\subsection*{Program Committee} \subsection*{Programme Committee}
Headed by the Vice President, the Program Committee organizes club events and Headed by the Vice President, the Program Committee organizes club events and
meetings, works with speakers and presenters to make sure they're happy, gets meetings, works with speakers and presenters to make sure they're happy, gets
the venues and equipment ready, and does everything else involved in running talks. the venues and equipment ready, and does everything else involved in running talks.
If you'd like to get involved contact the Vice President at If you'd like to get involved contact the Vice President at
veep@csclub.uwaterloo.ca {\tt exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca}.
\subsection*{Systems Committee} \subsection*{Systems Committee}
If systems administration is more your passion, and you would like to help run If systems administration is more your passion, and you would like to help run
the CSC's systems contact the Systems Administrator at the CSC's systems contact the Systems Administrator at
sysadmin@csclub.uwaterloo.ca and join the Systems Comittee. The volunteers {\tt sysadmin@csclub.uwaterloo.ca} and join the Systems Comittee. The volunteers
help keep our computing environment up, under the Administrator's help keep our computing environment up, under the Administrator's
direction. direction.
\subsection*{Others} \subsection*{Other}
In addition to our two large committees there are several other ways to be In addition to our two large committees there are several other ways to be
involved, talk to the executive about one of the appointed positions: involved, talk to the executive about one of the appointed positions:
librarian, office manager, webmaster, or ask the office manager about joining librarian, office manager, webmaster, or ask the office manager about joining
the office staff. In addition to these named positions we can always use a the office staff. In addition to these named positions we can always use a
helping hand, so email exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca and tell us what you can do. helping hand, so email {\tt exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca} and tell us what you can
do.\\
For more information about the club, visit our website at {\tt
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/}. You'll find our wiki and other resources there.
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\begin{description} \begin{description}
\item[Website:] http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ \item[Website:] {\tt http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/}
\item[IRC Channel:] \#csc on irc.freenode.net \item[IRC Channel:] {\tt \#csc@irc.freenode.net}
\item[Newsgroup:] uw.csc \item[Newsgroup:] {\tt uw.csc}
\item[Office:] MC 3036 \item[Office:] MC 3036/3037
\item[Phone:] (519)-888-4567 x33870 \item[Phone:] (519)-888-4567 x33870
\item[Executive E-Mail:] exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca \item[Executive E-Mail:] {\small\tt exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca}
\item[Facebook Group:] Waterloo Computer Science Club \item[Facebook:] Waterloo Computer Science Club
\item[Twitter:] {\tt @wat\_csc}
\item[Reddit:] {\tt csclub}
\item[Chairbeing:] Calum T. Dalek \item[Chairbeing:] Calum T. Dalek
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