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Minutes - 27th May 2013

Posted on 27th May 2013

Agenda
*Present*: ruth, Veltas, "LordCrumpet", Murtag, zed0

h1. Academic

-Ruth: Still waiting on the date of the iLab hackathon to avoid clashing with our own hackathon.
-Ruth has emailed them and will follow this up.
-zed0 happy to do a talk next term.
*ACTION*: zed0 *and* Ruth to do talk next term.
-Ruth: Idea to post past exam paper solutions online.
-Consensus was to do so ensuring permissions from relevant people as we go along, i.e...

Minutes - 20th May 2013

Posted on 20th May 2013

No Agenda
*Present*: Murtag, zed0, Veltas, "Crumpet", hir142

h1. Gaming

*ACTION*: Murtag to buy Wii Sports for Wii and Modern Warfare 3 for 360.
-Decided tournament budget was £10 per tournament at BFL, £20 for main tournament.
*ACTION*: Murtag to email list of games companies that might sponsor BFL to Veltas.
*ACTION*: Veltas to ask games companies about sponsorship for BFL, Razer and Monster as ideas too.
-Consensus on broken drum peddle was it was worth buying the slightly more expensive drum...

Minutes - 13th May 2013

Posted on 13th May 2013

Agenda
*Present*: zed0, james, argha, olibacon, hir142, dDirtus, ruth, Veltas, Murtag

h1. Academic

-Ruth has found the SIBE hackathon to be completely fair for the programmers involved.
-Code will be used for open source not-for-profit reasons.
-It seems the organisers are hoping a campaign organisation will take it over.

h1. Gaming

h2. Recent LAN

h3. Tournaments

-Murtag felt the tournaments at the recent LAN were reasonable.
-zed0: SC2 tourna...

Minutes - 6th May 2013

Posted on 6th May 2013

Agenda
*Present*: ruth, Murtag, Veltas, dDirtus

h1. Academic

*ACTION*: Ruth to find out what happens with code for possible upcoming SIBE hackathon.

h1. Gaming

*ACTION*: Murtag to decide which games to buy for PS3 from ruth's source.
*ACTION*: Murtag to immediately sort out posters for LAN tournies.
-Ruth's suggestion: should get BFL sponsored.
-dDirtus suggests talking to icstatic and zx64 about this.
*ACTION*: Murtag to look into getting BFL s...

Compsoc Newsletter 27th April 2013

Posted on 27th April 2013

Greetings CompSoc!

This term we're planning for tournaments every gaming session, revision football, at least 2 programming competitions, post-exam BBQ, and two LANs (including the BFL, a LAN in Week 10 over 5 days).

*WRONG*: In the coming week we're having the Exam LAN. Come along and waste precious revision hours with all the usual great people, and maybe join in with the StarCraft 2 or Counter-Strike: Source tournaments. http://uwcs.co.uk/events/details/1535/

*CORRECTION: Exam LAN will be held Week...

Minutes - 26th April 2013

Posted on 26th April 2013

h1. Present:

ruth, Murtag, Veltas, runite, Moltenfire, zed0

h1. Minutes:

h2. Academic

-Looking at two prog comps later on in the term.
-Internet programming competition probably week 7.
-Google funded programming competition week 8 or 9.
-Veltas mentioned possibility of arranging an academic trip (for next academic year).
-Suggestions to organise sooner rather than later, with computing museum at Bletchley Park.
*ACTION*: Veltas to ask "FIRST DAY OF TERM 1 IN AND AMONGS...

Compsoc Newsletter 04/03/13

Posted on 4th March 2013

Greetings CompSoc!

This week we're holding a LAN, going to Crash, going to see Wreck-it Ralph in the Odeon in Coventry, and having the annual Exec Handover Meal. Links to details in the next section.

FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS at http://valobox.com/ --- email secretary at warwickcompsoc.co.uk for signup key to get $10 worth of credit.

FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING SURVEY in the following link, the exec will try to use it to make gaming better:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n2p5mrQdtAaRfyItvxfzckscvlgEjvtVRNWKDsXOMn...

48 Hour Progcomp

Posted on 18th February 2013

CompSoc have collaborated with Peter Zaborszky of Best Backups to create a 48 hour competition with fabulous prizes!

The idea will be to either work in a team of two or alone to create something technically interesting to do with backups! Sorry for being vague and mysterious but the specification won’t be released until the start of the competition.

The prizes available are:

- External hard drive, 2TB for 1 person team, 2×1TB for 2 person team

- Online backups – 2 years membership for 1 person team, 2×1...

AGM Results

Posted on 14th February 2013

The AGM was held as planned on 12/02/2013 and the new exec is as follows:

Academic President - Ruth King (ruth)
Gaming President - Matthew Piper (Murtag)
Secretary - Christopher Leonard (ChrisL)
Treasurer - Oliver Raabe
Technical Officer - Argha Sarkar (argha)
Social Secretary - Matthew Mo (Runite)

Congratulations to the new exec!

Christopher Leonard
Secretary

Compsoc AGM for 2012/13

Posted on 30th January 2013

Greetings CompSoc,

The AGM has been arranged for the 12th February in MS0.4 starting at 6pm. If you wish to run for an exec position please send your manifesto to secretary@warwickcompsoc.co.uk. Your manifesto should cover who you are and why you want to be elected to a position in the society. Please note that you need to be a current member (not associate member) of CompSoc to be elected.

UPDATE: You can now vote at: http://uwcs.co.uk/elections/details/4/...