Hello, all!

To start off this academic year's set of external speakers for the society, we have Paul Yarrow, a Systems Specialist from IBM speaking on the topic of "A New Dimension in Computing" on Wednesday 17th of November.
The talk will cover the most current and cutting-edge topics facing the business world today.

The venue is S0.11 as always, and free pizza will be provided.

Hope to see you there!

Alex Wilson

Greetings CompSoc!

First things first, a big thank you to everyone who helped to clean up after our first LAN of the new year, I hope all the attendees had fun too.

Secondly, we have a few events going on you might be interested in:
-We have a guest speaker from IBM speaking on the topic of “A New Dimension of Computing” this Wednesday.
-Our traditional Christmas meal on Friday 26th(Friday week 8) at Wing Wah's.

There may only be a limited number of places for the Christmas meal so sign up sooner rather...

h2. Present:

MrWilson, Zed0, Kuros, Fyorl, Trip, Sinjo, Starspell, SigmaD, TeamDoherty

h2. Minutes:

h3. LAN:

-This Friday.
-MrWilson will sort out the trolley.
-We will take the X-Box/monitor to LAN.
-MrWilson will turn up with cupboard keys for the setup.
-TeamDoherty has sorted the game rota, which is ready to go.
-We should buy hazard tape for the LAN : MrWilson thinks it looks really cool.
-We need to restock Duct tape for the LAN.
-SigmaD will do a LAN pizza order
-There may be an unofficial beast ...

Hello members!

For those of you who didn't already know, the Fresher and Member sign ups for the first LAN of term are now open.
The first LAN of the year is always a good one, so we recommend signing up soon!

(Sign ups for non-members will open on Friday 5th November, one week before the LAN starts).

If there are any games that you would like to see played, speak to either Tom (TeamDoherty) or Nick (Agaeki) so we can add them to the schedule.

h2. Present:

MrWilson, TeamDoherty, Kuros, Connorhd, Fyorl, Sinjo, Cranman, SigmaD

h2. Minutes:

h3. Academic Stuff:

-This week's talk by IBM has been moved to the 17th of November.
-Haven't had e-mail from Bloomberg confirming talks.
-We can use CS0.01/2 on Saturday for Bloomberg ProgComp.
-'I didn't say blow up their building, why would you assume that?' - TeamDoherty

h3. Accenture:

-We currently have enough money, so we shouldn't need extra...

Greetings CompSoc!

I'm getting to touch to let you all know about our first LAN of the new year. If you haven't been to one of these before, details can be found on the website here: http://www.uwcs.co.uk/cms/about/gaming/lans/

If you're a fresher, then I have good news for you, LAN signups are already open! Places can fill up fast so if you want to come along, make sure to sign up soon.
Signups for regular members open on Friday 29th of October.

Can sign up and view details of the event here: http://ww...

Present: TeamDoherty, MrWilson, Cranman, Mogmiester, Fyorl, Sinjo, Connorhd, Starspell.

NOTE: These minutes were taken by MrWilson and as such may be partially or entirely wrong.

Communication in the Society:
- Better communication, agree on stuff at exec meeting.
- No-one cares about Guitar Hero 6.

Bloomberg Competition:
- 9am is an optimistic start.
- Maybe 10am.
- No, wait, 10:30am

Gaming Tournaments:
- Atrium tournament, bad idea
- Pros don't want distractions.
- "Something" in the Atrium, publicity...

A huge welcome to all of the new members of the Computing Society, and an equally large welcome back to our members from last year!

Now that Term 1 proper has started, we are pleased to announce the first of our Academic Talks.

It will take place this Wednesday in S0.11 at 6:15pm and will be about "Getting the most out of your Shell Account", a highly useful topic especially for new Computer Science students. The speaker will be Chris Sinjakli (Sinjo on IRC), and there will be pizza provided.

So come al...

h2. Present:

SigmaD, MrWilson, Demo, Azurit, dangerman, Cranman, Connorhd, Sinjo, Fyorl, Trip, Dirtus, Kuros

h2. Minutes:

h3. Gaming:

-Agaeki updated the list of games on the website
-Minecraft is working.
-Gaming was slow.
-Due to Backus reboot, the script wasn’t working.
-This will be fixed for gaming this week.

h3. Bloomberg:

-There will be a conference call on Monday 3:30 to discuss academic talk topics and the ProgComp.
-ProgComp would be best on a Saturday in weeks 2-4 term 2
-DCS computers ma...

Welcome to uwcs.co.uk, home of Warwick's Computing Society!

This year promises to be an exciting one, with academic talks lined up from IBM and Bloomberg, our popular programming competitions, and our awesome weekly gaming meetings in DCS.

We have a stall on the Thursday of Freshers' Fair, so come along and say hi, and receive goodies from us and our sponsors!