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*Present*: murtug, hir142, Crumpet, mcnutty, veltas, argha~, zed0*, ruth^

h1. Academic

-Argha: Corefiling clashed with year 2 thing.
*ACTION*: Veltas to book a room plx kthxbye for zed0.
-ruth: Redgate emailed (to do a talk and sponsor a programming competition), we're waiting on that.
-Progcomp moved to wednesday (to avoid clashing with annual spooky day).

h1. Gaming

*ACTION*: Murtag to ebay a new drumkit
*ACTION*: Murtag to bu...

This evening we ran our first speed programming competition of the term. This was the first of a series of fortnightly programming competitions we are running, which will hopefully have a sponsored prize for the best overall competitor at the end of term! Stay tuned for more details on this.

The competition was won by Thomas Kiley, a third year Discrete Maths student who managed to successfully answer the first three questions and had a go at the fourth. In second place with Richard Townsend who got questi...

Congratulations to our new Socials Officer hir142.

Agenda
*Present*: Veltas, murtag, hir142, ruth, Crumpet, dirtus, zed0, argha*

h1. Academic

-ruth: Little prizes could be a good idea for academic competitions.
-Good idea to do progcomps fortnightly.
-Crumpet: maybe other weeks do workshops?
-NextJump buying people drinks etc., maybe academic talk earlier in the day.
-zed0 confirmed for talk week 5.
-Company sends: "I think it might be interesting to essentially do a case study of a rece...

Welcome, freshers, to UWCS. I'm sending out a newsletter that you'll receive by email (or can view on the website if not a member) later in the week detailing what's going on in the next fortnight or so.

For this week, at least, we have the first gaming session on Friday. Details in the 'Events' section of the website, as always!

You can join the society at your leisure here: http://www.warwicksu.com/societies/computing/

Greetings compsoc,

Unfortunately our current social sec runite will be unable to carry on with his role this academic year, so we will need a new Socials Officer, to run from now until the coming AGM half way through term 2, and to help in the transition period until the end of term 2 if need be.

The election meeting for the new Socials Officer will occur next week, on Wednesday 9th October at 5pm in MS.04.

To stand for the role you must be a member of the society, eligible for being an executive of a Un...

Agenda
*Present*: Argha, Veltas, zed0, Crumpet, hir142, murtag, nobodynat

h1. Upcoming society fair

-Fair is Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 4pm.
-We've got posters and stuff to give out at the fair.
-zed0: Should have a game or two running at fair.
-Will bring Wii U, no TV required.
-Decided upon also having Soul Calibur V, will change if poorly received.
*ACTION*: Veltas to make society fair rota (done, in #exec /topic).
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The hackathon we ran in collaboration with SIBE last weekend was a success, with some students staying up the entire night to create their solution!

The competition was won by a team from Sheffield University, who created a web platform for campaign organisations using Twitter Bootstrap, winning £250. CompSoc came second place, with a competing web platform winning £200. Third place was Adam Roberts, an independent developer from Liverpool who created an iOS app.

An article about the hackathon was publis...

Agenda

1. *Present*: zed0, Murtag, ruth, Gaylord, Veltas, james
   

h1. Academic

-Ruth: Hackathon will be Sunday of Week 9, to Monday.
-Also there is an iLab event Monday.
-IPSC, the internet prog comp, is this Saturday.
-Amazon voucher quite possibly prize for this, since we don't have anything else planned.

h1. Gaming

*ACTION*: Murtag to get advertisement posters sorted for BFL tournaments.
-Murtag: Peddle ordered.
-Moltenfire ha...

Greetings CompSoc!

In-between owning exams you may be interested in coming to one of the events we have over the next two weeks, including gaming with a Dawn of War tournament, going to Crash with compsoc, football with compsoc, or the Internet Problem Solving Contest. Also, just announced:

SIGN-UPS FOR BFL ARE NOW OPEN
To the uninitiated, the BFL (Big Fu... *ahem* Friendly LAN party), is the almighty 5-day annual end-of-year LAN event that gives you your money's worth for your (increasingly expensive) d...