The Society is looking at organising an end of term Paintballing event in conjunction with PaintballSoc. At the moment we are looking at how much interest we get from members before confirming it but initial reaction has been positive. Before we can decide how to run the event we need members to decide if they want to do a full day or a half day at the event.

The event will take place on Saturday 23rd June (10:00-15:00 (full day), shorter if we do the half day).

Approximate cost will be around £35 for th...

There's a "clothing order":/society/events/details/774 up on the website. You can get T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Polo shirts, Hoodies and Fleeces - an unprecedented variety! We have also changed suppliers, so the quality should be higher. Clothing should also arrive before the BFL - so alumni members should have no problem collecting their orders.

Hey everyone! Judging by the "LAN sign-ups list":/society/events/details/733 (Have you signed up yet?) it appears many of you were unaware that you could set/edit your nickname on the new website. You can do so on the "Website Account":/society/members/website page in the 'Members' section. Go go go.

Welcome back to term 3 and the excitement that is CompSoc. This announcement is primarily that Gaming will be returning this Friday at 8pm. It will be preceded by a social in the Rootes Social Bar between 7pm and 8pm. For the more hardcore there is a Techteam meeting from 6pm to 7pm, preceding the social.

"ITS":http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/ have been experiencing multiple "major failures":http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/newschanges/incidents/power24-apr-07/ as a result of power failures on campus last night. Again, we apologise for any inconvenience caused and are working towards making all our services available again. Please contact techteam@uwcs.co.uk if you have any queries.

You may have noticed that the Computing Society servers have been experiencing difficulties over the past few days. There have been two major causes for this:

* ITS have been performing upgrades to their network that resulted in an "unexpected service outage":http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/newschanges/incidents/network17-apr-2007/
* A kernel upgrade to our main server (molotov) resulted in unexpected LVM related failures. We believe that this issue has been resolved, due to it operating as expecte...

If you still happen to be in the vicinity, the WUGLUG are still meeting on Wednesdays and the Techteam are busy setting up our new servers in DCS. Why not pop along? Some gaming and pubbing happen too. More details on the website and on "IRC":http://irc.uwcs.co.uk/. See the rest of you next term. Have fun!

It was nice seeing many of you at the "Microsoft talk":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/682 last week. Please return the questionnaire to one of the exec by Wednesday if you wish to enter the competition.

We have a busy week ahead of us:

* Our regular "pub social":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/701 on Monday
* "Joint gaming social with VGDSoc":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/727 on Tuesday
* "Exec planning meeting":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/729 on Wednesday
* "_A Brief Guide to C++ for Java Programmers_":http://events.uwcs.co....

On Wednesday 7th March at 14:00-15:30 in S0.11 (Social Studies), we will be hosting a "Microsoft Tech Talk":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/682 titled _New Interfaces with Windows Vista_. All are welcome.

Also, next week, on Tuesday 13th March at 19:00 in S0.10 (Social Studies), we will be holding a joint event with VGDSoc: A "console session":http://events.uwcs.co.uk/727 with combined mini Laptop LAN.

Finally, on the Friday (16th), at 19:00 in B2.07/B2.08, we will be holding a "console gaming social":http://eve...

The AGM was held yesterday, some interesting discussion took place regarding the future of the society (that lasted 1h30!) and good questions were posed to the candidates.

The new Exec will be:

|President|Richard Warbuton (Mulletron)|
|Treasurer|Bruce Tinton (Bruce)|
|Secretary|Simon Hammond (Hamster)|
|Tech Officer|Timothy Retout (Tim)|
|Gaming Officer|[removed at owner's request]|
|WUGLUG Liaison|Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke)|
|Academic Officer|Arun Prasannan (Polar)|

Good luck to the new exec, we will ha...