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Archive date: January 2014

Minutes - 31st January 2014

Posted on 31st January 2014

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, crumpet, agga, rayhaan, ruth, hir, zed0, mcnutty

h1. Academic

-Candle talk will be wednesday week 7.
*ACTION*: ruth to ask dept. about room for Candle talk
*ACTION*: veltas to cancel booked room

h1. Gaming

-murtag: needs to ask about big screen
-People who turn up for setup should go to DCS
-Zero Space competition or Samurai Gunn for DCS

h1. Tech

-agga: asked Roger about storing servers, he wants to know some details ...

Minutes - 24th January 2014

Posted on 24th January 2014

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, zed0, rayhaan, hir, ruth, oli, murtag, Gazok

h1. Academic

-Put rayhaan's talk in newsletter
-Candle's talk still being organised, ruth will poke Candle

h1. Gaming

-murtag: We're going to do samurai gun tonight
-murtag: Probably doing some minecraft events at LAN
-murtag: zero space

h1. Tech

-agga: have received an email from warwick fencing soc saying their website isn't working, had some permission issues
*ACTION*: ...

Announcing the Annual General Meeting 2014

Posted on 21st January 2014

The 2014 Annual General Meeting of the Computing Society (UWCS) shall be held on the 5th of February at 3pm, in the Student Union HQ's Central Meeting Area.

The AGM is the opportunity for members to vote on changes to the society's constitution, and also the time for members to elect the new executives of the society.

Details about the event, as well as the election process, can be found on the event page.

Minutes - 17th January 2014

Posted on 17th January 2014

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, ruth, hir, murtag, zed0, oli, agga

h1. Academic

-ruth: candle's talk to do

h1. Gaming

-murtag: need a new TV for Wii U
*ACTION*: murtag to buy TV online
-murtag: game design pub yesterday suggested competition of making 2-player games and we hold tournament
-Seems legit
-zed0 to fix bot in IRC for warcraft3

h1. Tech

-Mailman replacement should be investigated
-Unused mailman lists should be removed even if mailman isn...

Newsletter January 13th

Posted on 13th January 2014

Greetings CompSoc!

I hope you all enjoyed your holidays. If you didn't, why not come along to one of our gaming or programming events and cheer yourself up?

This term we have our usual weekly pub socials on Mondays, weekly programming workshops, and weekly Friday night gaming as usual alongside XING. Event details for this week further down.

Signups are open for the first LAN of term in week 4, another LAN to come week 8.

We also expect at least a couple extra academic talks, and are arranging a trip to...

Minutes - 10th January 2014

Posted on 10th January 2014

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, murtag, ruth, rayhaan

h1. Academic

-ruth: talk from BBC arranged with Candle looking like week 7, still in the works
-rayhaan to do a talk week 4
*ACTION*: veltas to book room for rayhaan's talk week 4
*ACTION*: ruth to put programming workshop on website
-veltas: should be able to arrange computing museum trip for week 6 (if not week 3)

h1. Social

*ACTION*: hir to put pub on website
*ACTION*: oli and murtag t...