As Warwick Estates have still yet to furnish our new gaming room, we'll be running a console gaming session this Saturday in B2.13/14 at 7pm-midnight to attempt to inject some gaming into the society!

Please, if you have a TV you can bring/lend us, let the exec know (either by email or by specifying in a signup comment)!

Sorry about the late notice!

CompSoc will be running a bowling social on Thursday of Week 3, leaving campus from the main bus stop at 6:30pm. We'll be eating in Leamington before heading over to the TenPin in Leamington.

Enjoy!

Just to let you know that the Linux User Group is organising a "pub social":http://www.uwcs.co.uk/society/events/details/679 this Wednesday. We'll be at the Phantom Coach from 6:30pm onwards, for an informal get-together and meal. Everyone is welcome to attend, whether you're a Linux user or not. We'll most likely be staying for the pub quiz afterwards, which should be a fun evening for all.

The "entries":http://warwickgamedesign.co.uk/projects/48hcompetition/ for the game coding event have been judged by FreeStyleGames and the results are as follows:
1. Powerstation
2. Neutro
3. Mutation
4. Atomz
5. Ponies / Dirty Bomb

This year's "ProgComp":http://progcomp.uwcs.co.uk/ is now live. Accenture have kindly provided us with a prize fund of £500. Deadline: Week 12.

Thanks to everyone who attended the 48 hour game coding competition and the Perl tutorial.

The second LAN party of the year kicks off tonight (24th).

The guest lecture from IBM (scheduled for 29 Nov) has unfortunately had to be cancelled. We shall attempt to get this for next term.

You can still join us on our industrial trip to IBM's Hursley labs on the 15th of November. You don't need to be a member to come along. See "event page":http://uwcs.co.uk/society/events/details/656 for further details and to sign up.

Due to the recent resignation of our Academic Officer, as many of you may know we just held an Emergency General Meeting to elect a new Academic Officer onto our Exec. Arun Prasannan (Polar) and Graham Hayward (covbob) both stood for the position, and after speeches we held a vote. We're now pleased to announce our new Academic Officer for the remainder of this exec term will be Arun Prasannan (Polar), and that Graham Hayward has kindly offered to help organise academic events from outside the exec. Arun is...

Due to the resignation of our Academic Officer (David Byard) over the summer, we have to hold an EGM (Emergency General Meeting) at the start of this term to elect a new Academic Officer for the remainder of this exec period (until the end of Term 2).

The EGM will be held on the Friday of Week 2, most likely in the Union meeting rooms, at 7pm. Further details of the location will be sent out via an email to all society members nearer the time.

Any members interested in running for the position should send...

We're now rapidly approaching the start of the new year, so I'd just like, on behalf of all the exec, to welcome all our existing members back, and to say hello to any freshers who are thinking about joining the society. :)

As some of you may know, the new website is now almost ready, and should be going live reasonably soon, so expect to see a new look. We also have brand new forums, which we invite any and all to sign up for and use.

To anyone thinking of joining us, if you use IRC and want to say hello...

Due to many mounting personal issues I (David Byard) have stepped down as Academic Officer. Consequently, I am no longer part of the exec and this position is now re-open for nominations.

If you believe you have skills to bring the society forward - management skills, passion for computing, and a touch of creativity - email the exec with your proposition.

I wish my successor every success and shall make a handover as smooth as possible.