compsoc-announce January 2013

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Week 3 Newsletter
by Sam Lanning 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi everyone, Thanks to all those who turned up at the Facebook Event last week, we had a great turnout! This week unfortunately Unity are unable to do their talk so instead we're going to have lightning talks at the same time and place, followed as usual by pizza. We are still interested in having more speakers at this event. Details Below. On Saturday we are having geek night again as usual. Also included at the end of this email is a message about a Geek Girl Meetup being held at the Uni. Cheers, Pete & Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lightning Talks <http://ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Lightning_Talks/> Wednesday 30th January, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A *Please Note: The original event that was going to take place at this time had to be canceled. This is the new event* We are hosting a lightning talks session (a number of 5-10 minute talks packed together one after another). So if you have something computer-related you would like to present to attendees of this event, just send an email over to committee(a)ox.compsoc.net <mailto:committee@ox.compsoc.net> letting us know that you're interested, so that we know how many speakers to expect. The projector will be available for you to use, and of course you dont need to present / talk to attend! Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/151382661681939/ Posted Wed 23 Jan 2013 23:55:32 GMT Coding Night 3 <http://ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Coding_Night_3/> Saturday 2nd February, 19:00 Department Of Computer Science - Undergraduate Social Area This event is part of a new series of events that run each weekend. To find out more information, see the coding nights <http://ox.compsoc.net/coding_nights/> page. Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/237530619714596/ Posted Sun 27 Jan 2013 16:20:28 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geek Girl Meetup Oxford Geek Girl Meetup is holding its first ever University showcase un-conference at Oxford University on February 17th, between 13.00 and 18.00 at the Founders Room in the Said Business School. The afternoon will revolve around empowering more female students that are interested in technology and entrepreneurship. There will be 8 distinguished female entrepreneurs and technologists that will speak about what it is like to found a company, and go through a product lifecycle (idea, concept, design, development, marketing, financing, and growth). There will also be discussions allowing every participant to share their knowledge with others and ask questions. Geek Girl Meetup's goal is to create new networks and elevate female role models in the tech industry. Tickets and more information is available here: http://www.geekgirlmeetup.co.uk/2013/01/geekgirlmeetup-at-oxford-university/

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Unity Event Canceled - Replaced with Lightning Talks
by Sam Lanning 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi Everyone, Due to Unity Technologies not being able to come down and give us a talk, after discussion, the committee have decided to instead host a lightning talks session (a number of 5-10 minute talks packed together one after another). So if you have something computer-related you would like to present to attendees of this event, just send an email over to committee(a)ox.compsoc.net letting us know that you're interested, so that we know how many speakers to expect. The event is going to take place in at the same time and place that the unity talk was going to, Wed 30th January, 6:30pm in Lecture Theatre A. So yes you also have a projector if you would like to incorporate that into your presentation. You can find the facebook event over here: https://www.facebook.com/events/151382661681939/ Looking forward to seeing you at the event! Pete & Sam, President & Secretary

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Week 3 Event
by Peter York 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi everybody, Unfotunately Unity are unable to come and do their talk next week, so we are currently trying to find a replacement event. We will send out details of that as soon as we know about them. Sorry for anyone excited for the event, we will try to rearrange this talk for next term. One potential option is to have a set of lightning talks where anyone can do a brief talk on whichever computer related subject they like. If you would like a chance to practise your public speaking, and have an idea for such a talk, please get in touch - if we do end up doing it would be nice to know how many speakers we could get. We will try to update you as soon as possible. Cheers, Pete

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Week 2 Newsletter
by Peter York 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

Hello Everybody, Hope everyone enjoyed the first coding night - maybe next time we will actually do some coding. I apologise for paintball being cancelled, we will try to rearrange this soon. Looking forward, this week we have a talk from Facebook, details below. Also we will have another coding night. If you are interested in coming along here is the facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/groups/oxcompsocgeeknight/. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Facebook Talk <http://compsoc.net/termcards/2013/hilary/Facebook_Talk/> Wednesday 23rd January, 18:30 Department Of Computer Science - Lecture Theatre A Building Facebook -- Tools and Culture In this talk, Tom Elliott - Engineer at Facebook, will take a look at how Facebook manages to build new features quickly into one of the worlds largest websites, using a combination of innovative internal tools, unusual processes and hacker culture. http://www.facebook.com/events/360381854069351/

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Memorial Service for pod (Chris Cooper)
by Peter York 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hello all, Some of you will know pod (Chris Cooper), an honorary member of CompSoc since 2004. We are very sorry to inform you that pod died on Friday, 28 December 2012. pod worked in Oxford at the Mathamatical Institute from the mid 90s and joined OUCS in November 2001. He was a highly respected member of both the Network and Systems development and support teams; many of us, benefited from pod's technical brilliance, sense of humour and playfulness. He will likely be best remembered within CompSoc for helping with the OUCS machine room tours, and attending talks. He will be very much missed. There will be an event held in Oxford next Saturday to celebrate pod and his interests. If you would like to hear more about this, please email Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> Regards, Pete

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Week 1 Newsletter 2
by Peter York 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi, Tonight's event will be in the Catz JCR Lecture Theatre rather than the PDR like it normally is. This Saturday we will have our first 'coding night'. We are going to host a social coding session (and plan to do so every Saturday) where you can come along, eat pizza, and collaborate on whatever projects you might want to work on. This will be held in the undergraduate social area, from 7pm. Details on the website. In addition to this, there is a hackathon in the works for Oxford Entrepeneurs, where people would come along with ideas for something they would like made, and then people who like to program come along, listen, and work together on whichever of these projects they are interested in. More concrete details will be available at a later date, but if this is something that would interest you, please respond and tell us, because we would like to start to get an idea of numbers. Cheers, Pete

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Comp Soc Week 1 Newsletter
by Peter York 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hello everybody, I hope you all had a good holiday and are ready for the new term. This week we have, as always the welcome back drinks, and, excitingly, paintball vs Cambridge! We are currently fully booked for this event, but if you would like to come you should still email us to sign up, and we will add you to the waiting list in case people drop out. Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome Back Drinks <http://compsoc.net/termcards/2012/trinity/Termly_General_Meeting/> Wednesday 16th January, 20:00 St Catz PDR <http://compsoc.net/venues/St_Catz_PDR/> Come along to the St Catz PDR for free drinks and food, and to find out about what's going on this term. Here is a handy map for finding Catz:http://g.co/maps/eeut2 And here is another one for finding the PDR:http://compsoc.net/images/catzmap.png If you get truly lost in Catz, you can call Pete on 07702883768 Here's a link to the Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/410301752379660

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