Compsoc Newsletter

All,

Welcome to Term 3. There are various events in the busy CompSoc timetable which are listed below and at the "CompSoc events page":/society/events.

h4. Timetable

This week and next week:

* Friday 27th April 2007, 18:00, SU North, Tech Team Meeting
* Monday 30th April, 19:30. Pub Social, City Arms, Earlsdon
* Tuesday 1st May, 15:00, Exec Meeting (location yet to be decided)
* Wednesday, 2nd May, WUGLUG Meeting (likely to be PUBGLUG), 19:00

h4. Notices

* There was an accidental...

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h4. Contents

* Programming Competition
* Resignation
* Social Events
* Academic Events
* UWCS Calender
* Gaming Sessions
* Linux User Group
* Exec Meetings
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. Programming Competition

This year's programming competition has been launched and full details are available from http://progcomp.uwcs.co.uk/. This year participants are invited to write an AI which controls five robot tanks with the aim of obliterating the opposing team. The deadline for ent...

Newsletter week 8

h4. Contents

* Apology
* Social Events
* LAN
* TShirts
* Academic Events
* Pub
* Gaming Sessions
* Exec Meetings
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. Apology

Unfortunately this newsletter starts with an apology for the rather out of date newsletter which arrived a few weeks ago. A number of people spotted the date was somewhat in the past, while other astute members pointed out that many of the `upcoming' events has already happened. I'm not quite certain ...

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h4. Contents

* LAN
* Gaming Sessions
* Exec meetings
* Socials
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. LAN

As all of you cannot have failed to notice, it is the first LAN party of the year this weekend. In order to help things run as smoothly as possible, if you are signed up can you please email your MAC address (also known as your 'hardware address', this can be found with"ipconfig /all" on Windows or "ifconfig" on Linux), your name, your preferred IP address and ...

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* Emergency General Meeting
* Terms of Service
* LANs
* Gaming Sessions
* Socials
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. Emergency General Meeting

Due to the resignation of the academic officer, we will be holding an EGM to elect a new one on Friday 13th October (1 week this coming Friday) at 7pm in meeting room 3 in the union. All members are invited (and indeed, encouraged) to attend.

Currently standing are Arun Prasannan (Polar) and Graham Hayward ...

Newsletter. Dont forget our upcoming LAN party.

h4. Contents

* Video Game Design Society Competition
* LAN party
* Jobs email list
* Gaming Sessions
* Socials
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. Video Game Design Society Competition

The Video Game Design Society have invited CompSoc to compete in their 48hr games competition. This is a repeat of the event they have previously held in which teams are invited to spend 48 hours writing a game and see what they have come up wi...

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* LAN party
* Exec meetings
* New IRC Policy
* Gaming Sessions
* Socials
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. LAN party

The sign-ups for our next LAN party, which takes place at the end of week 4, go live;

* this Friday (28th April) at 12:00 for members
* Sunday (30th April) at 9:30 for non-members.

While we appreciate this will land at an inconvenient time for some members, due to exams, there really is no time this term where it would not clash w...

UWCS Newsletter

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* AGM Election results
* Ice Skating & Pub Crawl
* LAN party
* Compsoc Gallery
* Gaming Sessions
* Socials
* Linux User Group
* Internet Relay Chat
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. AGM Election results

Well the AGM has happened, although the new exec do not take full charge until the start of Term 3. I am sure you all want to know the results, so here they are:

* President - Andrew Wheat (Candle)
* Secretary - Laurence Hurst (Laurence)
* Treasurer - Bruce Tinton (Bruce)
* Gaming O...

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* IBM Hursley Park Industrial Trip
* Console Tournament Report
* Gaming Sessions
* Socials
* LUG
* IRC
* Cable / Web Hosting

h4. IBM Hursley Park Industrial Trip

Compsoc has organised a trip to IBM Hursley Park, one of IBM's biggest software development labs, for Wednesday 16th November (Week 8). IBM have arranged a wide spread of speakers and fascinating demonstrations (especially if last year is anything to go by!) so anyone going will be sure to see/hear some interesting material.

A coa...

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* Guest Lecture from Blitz Games!
* 48hour Game Coding Event
* Console Tournament
* Gaming Sessions / LAN Signups
* Socials
* Exec Meeting
* LUG
* IRC
* Ethernet Cable / Web Hosting

h4. Guest Lecture from Blitz Games!

The Video Game Design Society has organised a Guest Lecture featuring Philip Oliver from Blitz Games this Thursday 20th at 6:30pm in LIB2. Blitz are one of Europe's top game developers responsible for the fantastic "Dizzy" series of games. Everyone is welcome, n...