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+The Computer Science Club will be holding elections for Fall 2022 in
+person, on Monday September 12 at 7PM (location TBD, likely MC/DC). The
+president, vice-president, treasurer, and assistant vice-president
+(formerly secretary) will be elected, and the sysadmin will be appointed.
+
+If you'd like to run for any of these positions or nominate someone, you
+can send an email to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, or present them in-person
+to the CRO, Juthika Hoque, or write your name on the whiteboard in the
+CSC office (MC 3036/3037). Nominations will close on Monday September 12
+at 5PM.
+
+Another email will be sent out closer to the election date for the
+specific location. If you have any further questions about elections or
+nominations, please email cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
+
+---
+
+syscom is pleased to announce the release of two new services: CSC Files
+and CSC Links.
+
+CSC Files is our new Nextcloud instance accessible at
+https://files.csclub.uwaterloo.ca through CSC's Keycloak SSO. It's
+basically self-hosted Google Drive, and every member has 50GB of storage
+available to them. The following notable non-default Nextcloud apps are
+currently installed (subject to change):
+- Audio/Video Players, PDF viewers, etc.
+- Collabora office (with CODE server, self-hosted GSuite/MS Office in
+the browser)
+- Cospend (self-hosted Splitwise, a cost-sharing app for friend groups)
+- Extract (extract zip files)
+- Forms (self-hosted Google/Microsoft Forms)
+- Full text search (for files)
+- Google integration (for migration from Google Drive)
+- ShareRenamer (custom share URLs)
+- Transfer/NCDownloader (allows downloading videos, torrents and other
+files on the internet directly to your CSC Files account without having
+to download to a local computer and then re-upload it)
+NOTE: usage of this app (and all of CSC Files) is still covered by the
+Machine Usage Agreement, you may not do anything illegal with it.
+
+If you need more storage or would like another app installed, please
+email a proposal including a legitimate reason to
+syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca and we will consider your request.
+
+CSC Links is our new Shlink instance, a self-hosted URL shortener.
+Creating/managing shortlinks is currently limited to execs, but may
+change in the future. Official CSC shortlinks will now be exclusively
+served from the domain csclub.ca (i.e. https://csclub.ca/discord)
+
+---
+
+syscom is switching over the default PHP version on caffeine from 7.4
+(going out of support in November) to 8.2 around midnight between
+Saturday August 27th and Sunday August 28th. Please update any PHP
+websites accordingly.