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The University has closed all campus buildings, so the club office is now closed until further notice. Have a safe Spring term, and hopefully we'll see you back in the office soon! Winter 2020 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term. Fall 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term.
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.
See the
Machine List
for alternate general use servers.
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.
See also
the notice from Plant Ops.
Spring 2019 elections have concluded. Here are your executives for the term. 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. The list of affected public servers is:
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.
Apologies for the inconvenience. The remaining positions have been appointed: Here are the results from this term's elections: The rest of the positions will be appointed at a later date. 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. We need talks! Contact exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, 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.
Here are some topics that our members have presented before. The titles make them seem more technical than they actually were. There will be food. We have been informed of a planned power outage that will affect CSC
equipment on Oct. 9 at 11pm until Oct. 10 at 5am. 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. We expect that most services will recover automatically once power
is restored, however anything requiring manual intervention
will be restored later in the day. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the
Systems Committee by email at
syscom@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. Here are the results from this term's elections: Additionally, the following positions were appointed:
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 cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with their
name and position(s). Nominations close Monday, September 17th.
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.
Nominations are listed here.
Power has now been restored to the machine room and
most CSC systems and services are now available, with the exception
of: If you experience any issues accessing CSC services, please contact the
Systems Committee.
While power has been restored to the Math & Computer Building (MC),
power is not yet available in the machine room. As a result,
most CSC services are still unavailable at this time. The current estimate for power is Saturday, Sept. 1. Currently, due to machines located in other buildings and
emergency generator power to select machines in MC, the following
services are currently available: Once power is restored to the machine room, the Systems Committee
will continue restoring remaining services. The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage
in the Math & 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. We expect that our
Open Source Software mirror
be available during the outage. See the
notice
sent to csc-general for more information. Please contact the
Systems Committee
if you have any questions. Updated on 2018-07-19 as the outage time was extended. Updated on 2018-08-02 with additional information
and extended outage time. Here are the results from this term's elections: Additionally, the following positions were appointed: Here are the nominations for the Spring 2018 elections: Additionally, the following people have expressed interest in appointed positions: The winner of the uncode party is Jennifer Zhou! For a sorting
algorithm that works by emailing our VP for each decision.
Again, congratulations on somehow winning an event that even the
organizers wouldn't know there was going to be a winner at! Here are the results from this term's elections: Additionally, the following positions were appointed: Here are the results from this term's elections: Additionally, the following positions were appointed:
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.
Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics & Computer Building on Sat. Nov 26 from 7am to 5pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable. It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF). The Code of Conduct and the amended version can be found below: Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics & Computer Building on Sat. Oct 22 from 7am to 11pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable. It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF). Here are the results from this term's elections: Additionally, the following positions were appointed: Elections for Spring 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected and ratified: Many of the Computer Science Club's systems and services will be unavailable for maintenance on Wednesday, February 17 from 11am to 5pm. See the announcement for more information. The Computer Science Club Mirror is now running on potassium-benzoate, our new server which was purchased with funding from the Mathematics Endowment Fund (MEF). We have also enhanced our mirror's network connectivity, adding IPv6 and 10Gbps. Running our mirror is made possible with assistance from: Elections for Winter 2016 have concluded. The following people were elected: By-Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected: In addition, the following people were appointed to non-elected positions: Elections for Spring 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected:
The Computer Science Club adopted the proposed Code of Conduct (with
amendments). The complete code of conduct can be found here:
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/code-of-conduct
There will be a general meeting on March 27th to discuss constitution
amendments and the institution of a Code of Conduct. The full diff can be found here:
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/coc-constitution.patch,
and the proposed Code of Conduct here:
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~glgambet/csc/about/code-of-conduct.
Elections for Winter 2015 have concluded. The following people were elected: The following people were appointed:
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.
Our free software
mirror 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.
Elections for Fall 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected: The following people were appointed: Elections for Spring 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected: The Sysadmin and Office Manager were not appointed at the election. Elections for Winter 2014 have concluded. The following people were elected: The following people were appointed:
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 the
executive. 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.
Bowling has been moved from Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. See the
event details
for more information.
A number of talks on security and privacy have been planned for this term.
Email progcom if you are
interested in getting involved. See individual events for more detail.
Is there something that you're particularly passionate about and would like
to share with others? Do you want to practice presenting on a topic of interest
to the membership? We are accepting proposals for member talks for the Fall
2013 term. Tell us about a project you're really passionate about, or perhaps a
theoretical problem you find interesting.
Please send a proposed abstract and some possible talk dates to our programme committee and we
will get to work on getting your talk scheduled.
Congratulations to this term's new executive!
Additionally, the following people were appointed.
Consider attending the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in
Montreal, Quebec this semester, July 10—14. Funding for transportation
and accommodations has been generously provided by MEF, MathSoc, and the Dean's
Office. To apply for funding, please fill out this form. If you have any questions, please contact me directly. Congratulations to this terms new executive!
Additionally, the following people were appointed.
The position of librarian has not yet been filled. Welcome to Spring 2013! Elections for the Spring term have been set; see above. Elections for Winter 2013 have concluded. The following people were
elected.
Additionally, the following people were appointed.
Due to repeated power failure in the MC building, multiple CSC systems
are experiencing critical service interruptions. We apologize for the
inconvenience.
Elections for Fall 2012 will be held on September 13 at 4:00 PM.
Nominations will begin on September 6th, and will end 24 hours prior to
elections. Nominations may be emailed to cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. This term's
CRO is Owen Smith (omsmith).
To all of our members who are interested in attending CUMC at UBCO this
summer, please remember to apply
for funding!
The CSC and AMD are running an OpenCL programming
contest! If you're interested in winning a laptop or a graphics card, you
should read more and register
here.
Registration has been reopened for anyone who did not get a
chance to register on time, so make sure you sign up!
Recorded talks from 2010 to 2012 have been added to the media page.
Elections for Winter 2012 have concluded. The following people were
elected.
Additionally, the following people were appointed.
Elections for Fall 2011 have concluded. The following people were
elected.
Additionally, the following people were appointed.
Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are closed. Nominees are as follows:
Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001)
from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are
invited to come by and vote. If you are unable to attend but would like to vote
please
e-mail your ballot to the CRO.
Voting will
take place by approval voting, so vote for as many people in each race as
you like.
Nominations for the Fall 2011 exec are open. You can nominate candidates
for
President, Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary by writing their name on
the office whiteboard under the appropriate heading, or by emailing cro@csclub.uwaterloo.ca with
their name and position(s). Nominations close Sunday, September 18th at
4:30PM.
Elections will be held Monday, September 19th in the Comfy Lounge (MC 3001)
from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. All CSC members that have paid Mathsoc fees are
invited to come by and vote.
The results, including appointments, are:
The remaining appointed positions are
The remaining appointed positions are
The remaining appointed positions are
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.
As of Sept. 5, taurine is available again with reduced RAM.
Currently available from within the UW network only. Investigation
is still ongoing and may require assistance from IST's security team.
This term's programming contest is now open. Check out the website. The problem is Tron, and there will be prizes offered, but if you want details you should really check the website.
Congratulations to amstan for taking first place.
Go to the website now and get to it!
We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study on mobile hand held device use and any related health or comfort troubles experienced during their use. As a participant in this study, you would be asked to fill out a 5-8 minute computer-administered confidential questionnaire.
If you would like to participate, please follow this link: http://ithumb.iwh.on.ca/ This study is being conducted by Richard Wells and Sophia Berolo, Department of Kinesiology, and Benjamin Amick, Institute for Work and Health. If you wish more information, please contact Sophia Berolo at sberolo@uwaterloo.ca. The study has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, the office of Research Ethics, University of Waterloo.