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...

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...

Thanks a lot to everyone who took part in our speed programming competition yesterday evening, sponsored by Red Gate. I was really surprised with the number of people who had a solution to all four problems! The winner was David Purser, who solved all four problems, solving question 3 in O(n) time, who gets the fabulous prize! Most people who solved question x gave the minimax style solution, however a special mention goes to Alex Best who came up with the max flow style...

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, murtag, ruth, rayhaan, Crumpet, hir, zed0

h1. Academic

-ruth: Progcomp is today, there's a super prize
-ruth: Possible talk from Candle corp next term
-Trip to be booked for week 3 term 2
-Also need to sort out transport
*ACTION*: veltas to look at how payment was done last time and base it on that
-ruth: Ben to do bentime stories

h1. Gaming

-Roger found the remote randomly, was not impressed with us losing it...

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, hir142, argha, mcnutty, murtag, rayhaan, ruth

h1. Academic

-ruth: RedGate talk stuff - it went incredibly well, probably because they gave us marketing materials and the company's quite good, also on careers day
-ruth: final progcomp next week - sponsored? Yet to find out
-Bletchley park to do still
-ruth doing a talk next week
-ruth: not going to have weekly talks next term

h1. Gaming

-Big screen stuff?
-murtag: going ...

Announcing our lightning talks from RedGate next Wednesday, from 4:30-6pm in MS104.

RedGate will be coming in to give us 4 lightning talks on different topics:

Tom Smith (Software Engineer and former Intern) – ‘Programming in the real world’
Forbes Lindesay (Software Engineer and former Intern) – ‘Ventures’
Aegir Thorsteinsson (Web App Developer) – ‘Down Tools Week’
Chirayu Shishodiya (Software Engineer and former Intern) – ‘Developing at Red Gate’

RedGate are a very cool company - they have been announc...

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

h1. Academic

-ruth: everyone invite everyone to RedGate talks!

h1. Gaming

-murtag: drumkit arrived, Soul Calibur V being shipped
-murtag: Got a whole bunch of survey responses
*ACTION*: murtag to talk to roger about remote.
*ACTION*: ruth to set up LAN rota.
-murtag to do minecraft stuff for coming LAN probably

h1. Tech

-veltas: maybe make a Tech team again? Seems to be de-facto ...

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, murtag, hir142, crumpet, ruth, zed0, rayhaan, mcnutty

h1. Social

-ruth: Crash has been organised.
-We are going to organise Pop alongside animesoc.
*ACTION*: hir142 to add himself to contact page on website.
*ACTION*: hir142 to organise Lazerquest for week 9.
*ACTION*: argha to give admin to hir142 on the website.
*ACTION*: all exec to sign up for Pop on Facebook (who's going).

h1. Academic

-ruth: Free food wa...

Announcing our guest talk from Steven from ComputerMinds next Wednesday. The talk will take place from 1-2pm in LIB2.

Title: Do IT projects always fail, go over budget, and disappoint?

Abstract:
Between the theoretical dream of Agile software development and fixed price waterfalls of project management there is the hard reality of delivering a IT project with a fixed budget but changing requirements. We explore some real world examples of how software projects have run and what compromises have had to be ...

Agenda
*Present*: veltas, ruth, zed0, murtag, rayhaan, mcnutty, crumpet, hir142, Argha

h1. Academic

-Someone in software engineering class to announce talk.
-Programming competition went fine.
-zed0's talk was good.

h1. Gaming

-Gaming survey to finish.
-Murtag arranged to talk to 'big screen lady'.
-zed0: Would be a good idea to have a tournament in the piazza.
-zed0: NUEL tournament group stages start this Friday.

h2. Upcoming LAN

-...