h3. CompSoc Minutes 18/04/2005

h4. In Attendance

* Phil Stoneman
* Ian Norris
* Tim Troy
* Adam Miles
* Chloe Dives
* Tim Retout
* Richard Wilson
* Chris Boyle
* Andrew Sully

h5. Apologies

* Sadiq Jaffer

h4. Bowling

Chloe has sorted out bowling and signups close tomorrow morning (19th April) with the event to go ahead on Thursday 21st. Due to the large amount of signups and many people needing lifts, Chloe will email the people going with details of bus times so most people can go on the same bu...

h3. CompSoc Minutes 25/02/2005

h4. In Attendance

* Sadiq Jaffer
* Andrew Sully
* Tim Troy
* Tim Retout
* Chloe Dives
* Ian Norris
* Paul Broadbridge
* Richard Wilson
* Chris Boyle
* Chris Bates
* Euan MacGregor
* Peter Ellis
* Adam Miles

h4. IBM

Tim and Sadiq talked to Yvonne from IBM about the possibility of the following:

IBM to pay for the production of 200 Knoppix CDs to be distributed next year as was done this year. They may also donate 100 for the LUG project to develop device drivers, which...

The current exec (elected at the AGM) are as follows:

* President: Sadiq Jaffer (Sadiq)
* Treasurer: Ian Norris (icStatic)
* Secretary: Adam Miles (ajmiles)
* Socials Officer: Chloe Dives (Chloe / Bob)
* Technical Officer: Phil Stoneman (DrWatson)
* Gaming Officer: Paul Broadbridge (NeXuS7)
* Linux User Group Officer, elected by the LUG at their meeting 16/02/2005: Tim Retout (Tim)

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-04-14 14:12:04.

Newsletter 2005/02/06

h3. Newsletter 2005/02/06

The management apologises for the lateness of this newsletter, but the first version of it was eaten by Thunderbird about 1 paragraph from completion. Si1entDave was a little miffed to say the least.

This week for your enjoyment:

# The CompSoc AGM
# The Programming Competition
# Forthcoming LUG events
# The New CompSoc Website
# The Mysterious Missing Newsletter

h4. 1. The CompSoc AGM

The CompSoc AGM is upon us once again, and the details are as foll...

Remember guys and gals, Exec meetings are open to all members. If you've got something you want to say, or you think you can make a contribution, feel free to come along to Union North on Friday at 7pm, and join in. Probably a good idea to tell us in #compsoc beforehand though, in case lack of a room means we have to move it somewhere else. Also, this week is the AGM.

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 13:30:41.

The programming competition is now live! With a first prize of a confirmed £250.00 provided by Accenture and large second and third place prizes, there really is no reason not to get involved. Lastest information can be found here.

Update: Thank you to all those who helped organise this, and all those who entered. The winners are listed in the newsletter.

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 13:35:42.

The perl tutorials in conjunction with cs120 are back again!
They're on at 2pm on the 12th, 19th and 26th of January in LIB1.

More information (and lecture handouts) can be found at:
http://davidf.woaf.net/perl

As you may be aware there has been significant server downtime recently. This is due to several factors including powercuts and suspected network problems. As of writing this all the servers except from Insomnia are up and we are talking to ITS to resolve this. Further details will follow in the next newsletter.

IT Services are migrating Warwick Piazza to public IP addresses (announcement), which includes Insomnia. The new IP is 137.205.71.254 and is now active; DNS has been updated accordingly. Most services should be unaffected but, as always, if you have any problems or questions, please contact the tech team (techteam@uwcs.co.uk).

Edited by Christopher Boyle on 2005-02-08 12:32:42.

Insomnia has been fixed. We managed to get ITS to let us in (Ta Mark Charlton) and now things are back. There was a glitch with the module for the network interface (specifically it managed to escape being built. Oops.) We built the module with the new compiler, loaded it, all was well. Any mail that has been stacking up on servers should now be getting to its destination. For further info feel free to email the Tech Team at TechTeam@uwcs.co.uk or pop into the IRC server and get hold of me, (Si1entDave) or ...