Newsletter

Hurrah, first newsletter of the year! Welcome to all the freshers and to those who aren't. :) I (Adam) am Compsoc Secretary for the next two terms, and aim to put out a newsletter every week or two with upcoming events, socials, trips etc that we have planned.

h4. Contents

* First Social
* Gaming
* LAN Signups
* Codathon
* Bowling Trip
* IRC
* Ethernet Cable / Molotov Accounts

h4. First Social

I'm sure you've all got at least one email from Chloe (Socials Officer) in the last couple of ...

Hello and welcome to Compsoc!

For everyone who's joined the society (and even those who haven't yet) there's a welcome social on Wednesday at 7.30 in Meeting Room 3, Union North.

The social should give you an opportunity to get to meet all the regular members and to know some of the cool things we've got planned in the upcoming year.

If you've got any questions, drop the exec an email or hop into IRC (irc.uwcs.co.uk, #compsoc).

Edited by Sadiq Jaffer on 2005-10-04 00:13:50.
Edited by Adam Miles on 2005-...

h3. Present

Laurence, Adam(ajmiles), Christopher West(Faux), Jonathan(Lucidion), John(Nugent), Tim, Phil(DrWatson), Ian(icStatic), Christopher Endicott(MFJ), David(Bucko), Sadiq, Chloe, (Euan)zx64

h3. Fresher's Fayre

Sadiq has spoken to Ed Longden about Compsoc being put on Tuesday, and he's now moved it back to Monday. We also have 200 Knoppix CDs, 60 of which will be given out at the FF, with 120 for the CS133 lecture. We also have some stationery from IBM that can be put on the stall and given out...

The Computing Society Exec will be holding their first meeting of term this evening. If you'd like to come and watch, turn up to Union North for 7:00 pm (We'll be in one of the meeting rooms). Topics for discussion will include:

* Fresher's Fayre

* LAN Signups

* First Social and Alton Towers Trip

* LUG CDs

* Society Finances

* Newsletter

* Codathon / IBM Sponsorship

And, if we get time:

* Hursley Trip

* Clothing

* Guest Lectures

* Tutorials

* IRC Bot

* OSP

If you wi...

Hello all, and welcome to the new academic year. The Computing Society has a wide variety of things planned this year, including our regular LANs, social trips, and academic events.

Signups for the Alton Towers Trip are open for the rest of this week.

Watch this space, and your email inbox, for details of forthcoming events!

Note: If you have joined the Computing Society via the Student Union's website, please be patient. Your password for the CompSoc website will be emailled to you in the evening. If yo...

The exams are over, results are out, the BFL and the end-of-year BBQ all went very well, and now it's time to chill out and relax over summer.

Next year, the exec have all sorts of exciting things planned, including Guest Lectures, tutorials, external trips, LANs, game tournaments, bowling trips, and much more. Watch this space next term for more information.

In the meantime, we hope everyone enjoys their summer and has a chance to relax after the academic year. Some people will be hanging out on IRC over...

This coming Monday, we will be placing an order for official Computing Society clothing. You can order any of the following items:

* Sweatshirt (example) - £11.45
* T Shirt (example) - £7.25
* Polo Shirt (example) - £9.95
* Hoodie (example) - £15.85
* Zip-neck fleece (example) - £19.95

If you would like your name written on the clothing, this will cost an extra £1.76 per item. Our clothing will be black, and an example of how they might look is at http://tinyurl.com/blyup.

Once you have decided wha...

h3. CompSoc Minutes 13/05/2005

h4. Exec In Attendance

* Sadiq Jaffer
* Ian Norris
* Adam Miles
* Chloe Dives
* Phil Stoneman
* Paul Broadbridge
* Tim Retout

h4. LAN

With some reflection on last week's LAN, the following points are mentioned:

If you turn up early (before 8pm), put your PC to one side and help setup.

* If you aren't coming to help setup, do not arrive until 8pm.
* Techteam will have a pre-LAN meeting to discuss network/power layout to alleviate problems (caused by early arrivals) at...

h3. CompSoc Minutes 04/05/2005

h4. Lan Firewall & World of Warcraft

Sadiq outlines that the exec has three options when it comes to potentially restricting World of Warcraft.

# Unrestricted access, with attempts at luring players to other games.
# Compromise, WoW at certain times of the day, but not at others.
# Ban WoW altogether.

After much discussion both on the exec list and in-meeting, it is decided Option 1 is the best course of action. World of Warcraft will be open for the entire LAN, but a "...

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