h2. Present:

zed0, MikeCobra, Goshawk, Moltenfire, James, Ruth.

h2. Minutes

h3. Talks and business connections

-Ruth is in communication with Google about their talk.
-Email the “backup company” to request a more technical idea suitable for a competition.

h3. Speed progcomp

-It has been decided to wait for other other events to be scheduled before organizing another progcomp, although it is planned for the future.

h3. IBM Hursley

-The trip will be subsidised by the society and we are currently awai...

On Thursday 22nd CoreFiling Ltd will be coming in to give a talk about continuous integration. The talk will take place in S0.13 at 5pm.

Abstract:
“A talk about how continuous integration is a key tool for the rapid development of high-quality, reliable software. Topics will include an introduction to the ideas of continuous integration, an overview of some of the systems which implement it, how CoreFiling built their own system in the absence of a suitable alternative, challenges and limitations of CI, a...

h2. Present:

James, zed0, ruth, goshawk, demo, olly, moltenfire.

h2. Minutes

h3. Fresher's fair

-Zed0's custom trackmania track will be used at the fair on Moltenfire's laptop. Top three times will receive a prize this Friday.
-Ruth will request use of the department's trolley to transport our equipment to the fair.

h3. Laser quest social

-Zed0 has booked laser quest in Coventry for Wednesday of week 3; with a planned meetup on campus and joint bus ride to the event.

h3. Programming competition

-W...

This summer the University of Warwick Computing society is pleased to announce a summer long programming competition to write an AI for the game Bomberman!

Entrants have the summer to write their AIs which will be scored during the final week before term starts. Make sure your AI is running during this week!

The top three AI writers will be awarded a fabulous prize - we have a Kindle, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi up for grabs with the winner getting first choice. They'll also be invited to IBM Warwick! ...

h2. Present:

MrWilson, zed0, Ruth, Dirtus, James, MikeCobra, Moltenfire, Murtag

h2. Minutes

h3. End of term BBQ

*ACTION*: zed0 to send email.

h3. Sponsorship

-Redgate: Can't have branding on website, could give out stuff at Freshers fair.
-Sky: Asked for price list (menu)
*ACTION*: Ruth to reply to Redgate
*ACTION*: Ruth to create price list and email Sky.

h3. Lans

-Need to book rooms for next years Lans.
-Roughly weeks 3 and 8.
-Book the rooms with 2 hours before and after lan as leeway.
*ACTION*:...

On Friday 18th May we have Unruly Media coming in to deliver a talk entitled "Taming Scalability, and how Extreme Programming can help". The talk will take place in S0.13 from 4pm.

"Abstract:
In this talk we will discuss three types of scaling challenges involved with adserving – Performance, Reliability, and Innovation.

We will cover some of the performance challenges we have encountered growing to tens of millions of impressions per day, and the approach we took to solve them, together with reliability...

h2. Present:

zed0, MikeCobra, Goshawk, Moltenfire, James, Ruth, Dirtus, Murtag.

h2. Minutes

h3. End of term BBQ

-The event will take place at the usual date of Sunday before BFL.

h3. IBM Sponsorship

-IBM have agreed to provide us with sponsorship for Hursley as well for other events next academic year.

h3. Starcraft 2 related issues

-The Iron Squid tournament (Starcraft 2) finals will be broadcast at LAN.
-Murtag and Ruth will distribute the posters around to campus to advertise the tournament.

We are running a trip to Bletchley Park, the world renowned secret wartime code breaking site and birthplace of the modern computer.
There will be a tour around the site and a talk specially for us about cryptanalysis and the Enigma machine.

For more information and to sign up go to http://uwcs.co.uk/events/details/1438/

Minutes - with guest Secretary MrWilson

h2. Present:

Dirtus, Cranman, Agaeki, Moltenfire, MikeCobra, Murtag, zed0, ruth, MrWilson, James

h2. Minutes

-James and MrWilson have had haircuts.
-James baked some bread and showed us pictures. The exec were in awe.
-James doesn't want to drive a train when he's older

h3. The Durham Situation

-Some kind of collaborative programming competition
-What? Irc bots, programming language design, game AI (defcon was mentioned).
-How? Communication through IRC, source...

h2. Present:

MrWilson, TeamDoherty, zed0, MikeCobra, Taby, EvilGenius666, Goshawk, Moltenfire, James, Ruth.

h2. Minutes

h3. Starcraft Tournament

-The tournament will be open to everyone, but a entry fee will be charged for those not in the society. The fee will be set as the price to join the society, so players will be encouraged to join UWCS if they already have a SU account.
-A set amount for prizes will be set beforehand, partly to compensate for the entry fee.

h3. IBM Partnership

-Ruth was conta...