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Week 7: Termly General Meeting
by Andrew Godwin 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hello, good email list members. We have but one thing on this week, so read on! Termly General Meeting ====================== 7pm, Thursday 7th June The Big Bang [0] It's that time again! We meet up at the finest sausage venue Oxford has to offer to enjoy the delicious food, as well as dealing with official matters of the term. We normally conduct the actual TGM in between ordering the food and it arriving, so there's nothing particularly strenuous about it. If you're planning on attending, please reply (to president(a)ox.compsoc.net) saying so; this will help me advise the Big Bang on booking arrangements, as well as how many Mystery Gifts to buy*. * Warning: Mystery Gift may just be a figment of my imagination. Do not taunt the Mystery Gift. [0]: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Big_Bang That concludes this term's emails! We'll be back in Michaelmas, with lots of events, possible tshirts and other themed swag, and a large fresher-shaped net. If you think you might be able to help out at Fresher's Fair, get in touch sometime in the next few months. See you around! Andrew -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Mobile: 0789 0725 396 Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Week 5: 'Being Google' Talk
by Andrew Godwin 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hello, CompSoc minions. Week 5 has appeared, and with it comes our last talk of the term. Being Google: Building your own search engine from scratch ========================================================== Tuesday 22nd May, 20:30 Keble College, Pusey Room (off Pusey Quad; map of Keble [0]) Tom Dyson, of Torchbox [1], will talk about the challenges involved with parsing and indexing text, along with code examples and details of real world implementations. It should be a good talk; Tom has several examples of his own, as well as showing us things drawn from the big giants of the searching and indexing industry. If you have no idea where the Pusey Room is, don't fear; there will be someone hanging around Keble's porters' lodge. [0]: http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour [1]: http://www.torchbox.com/ While that may be all the talks for the rest of the term, there's no need to worry! There's still the TGM to come in week 7, and we'll have a fully-packed term in Michaelmas. As a final note, it is required that you now go and read http://xkcd.com/c262.html. That is all. Andrew -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Mobile: 0789 0725 396 Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Week 4: Catalyst, and the Geek Quiz
by Andrew Godwin 14 May '07

14 May '07

It's another week and so it must be time for more events. This week, we have a talk by Matt Trout, and the Geek Quiz, which we admit to not organising but which we encourage you to attend anyway. DBIx::Class and Catalyst ======================== Wednesday, 16th May 20:30 Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Rd. [0] Matt Trout will come and give us a run-down of tips, tricks and available modules that serve to make Catalyst [1] internationalisable, localisable, capable of dealing with a wide variety of domain models and templating systems. Topics covered include: - URI mapping flexibility - Supported environments - Models - Views - Authentication stores - UTF8 and internationalisation - Javascript - Mad plugin foo (laundry list) There will be someone outside the DWB to let you into the talk; if you have never been before, it's up the large concrete steps at the end of Keble Road, and round the corner. For those who can't be bothered to type links into browsers, Catalyst is a web development framework, implementing such acronyms as MVC and ORM, and is written in Perl. Come along to see shiny examples demonstrating just how nice web application development has become. [0]: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=OX13RH [1]: http://www.catalystframework.org Geek Quiz ========= Thursday, 17th May Doors open roughly 7.30pm North Lecture Room, St John's College [2] (Staircase 4 of the Quad to the left of the Porter's Lodge) This sounds like an interesting prospect - a pub quiz, with a geeky slant. While we haven't organised it, after being informed of its existence last week several CompSoc members are planning on going, and so we encourage you to turn up, and we can form a team (or two, if things go well). The format is bring-your-own-round, with about ten questions a round, so spend some time beforehand and arrive with a few good questions (and answers). The event starts "as soon as people arrive", so I suggest getting there on time, and, says the organizer, "Food and drink are not allowed in the room, so if you are going to bring any clean up after yourselves and don't tell me about it." If you have any questions, you can email the organizer (Adam) at adam.povey(a)sjc.ox.ac.uk; if you're going to come, we'd appreciate you replying to this message (or just send a normal email to president@) to give us (and him) some idea of numbers. [2]: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=OX13JP That's your lot for this week! As a final note, we're planning on possibly having a CompSoc punting outing sometime this term; if you're interested, and would be likely to come along, reply and say when you're able to make it, so we can arrange things accordingly. Andrew [pi]: http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/32983/1178978535/catsink.jpg -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Week 3: How To Make An Indie PC Game
by Andrew Godwin 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello once again, CompSoc members; it's week three, and time for another talk! How To Make An Indie PC Game ============================ Wednesday 9th May, 20:30 Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College (in the ARCO Building) In 2003 Ian Hardingham graduated in computer science from Oriel. He immediately set up his game development company, Mode 7 Games. With no investment and very little experience, he and a team of five students set to work on a stupidly ambitious title - Determinance: a freeform flying sword-fighting game. Nearly four years later, Determinance is a success, Mode 7 have a publisher, and they are diversifying into Nintendo DS and Wii games. This Wednesday Ian will come to tell us: - The best ways to get started in the indie industry. - The technology and communities worth getting involved with. - How to deal with your artists quitting to become carpenters. - The truth about how much money you can make selling games online. - How important Mac and Linux actually are to indies. - What to do when EA give you an audience - but they think you're crazy. - What not to name your games. (Don't call them anything as stupid as Determinance.) This is looking to be a great talk; Ian certainly has many good stories to tell, as you can see. Don't worry about stumbling around Keble trying to find the room; there will be someone at the Keble Porters' Lodge to guide you to the talk. See you there! Andrew -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford University Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Second Life Talk Reminder, Room Change
by Andrew Godwin 02 May '07

02 May '07

Just a reminder that the Second Life talk is today, at 8:30. We've had a room change, to the Morley Fletcher Room in Worcester College, but we will still be meeting at the Porter's Lodge, where there will be someone to take you there. Andrew

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Week 2: 'Second Life and IBM' Talk
by Andrew Godwin 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hello, people of CompSoc. It's Week 2, and we have our first talk of the term on Wednesday, at 8:30: Second Life and IBM =================== Speaker: Ian Hughes Wednesday 2nd May, 20:30 Sainsbury Common Room, Worcester College Ian Hughes talks on Second Life and IBM, and how virtual worlds are impacting the company and others: Ian Hughes, a.k.a. 'epredator potato' in Second Life, is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist who has worked on leading edge emerging technologies for the past 17 years, a programmer since he was 14. He is now officially an IBM Metaverse Evangelist having led in bands of colleagues into Second Life for the past year with a view to understanding what the social, business and technical implications are of virtual world technology used with a web 2.0 mentality and user generated content. What makes this work now? What has caused the massive increase in usage from 70,000 to 4.2 million registrations in less than a year? How can business become involved without killing the spirit? Who are we online? Head for the Porter's Lodge at Worcester; there will be someone there to guide you to the Sainsbury Common Room. Second Life is a great subject for a talk, and now the university has bought an island[0] it's even more relevant, so come and listen! [0]: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/secondlife/ Next week, we'll have Ian Hardingham talking about game development; if you want more information the full termcard is now up on the website, for your planning pleasure. See you at the talk. Andrew -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford University Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com Web: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Week 1: A Pubmeet 'Reminder'
by Andrew Godwin 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Good people of CompSoc, The mailing lists, and stanley, have returned to their usual working state, and I am therefore very hopeful that this email will reach all of you. A reminder (well, for those lucky enough to get my first email) that this week's event, the Pubmeet, is at the King's Arms [0], on Wednesday 25th April (that's today), starting around 8:30. Come along and join the legions of CompSoc members talking about Things That Have Happened, and have your first go at 'welcoming' the new committee. [0] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?King's_Arms The website has also re-appeared, and a full termcard really will appear soon, possibly along with a slightly updated site. Our first speaker will be next week, when Ian Hughes will be giving a talk on Second Life; more details on that in next week's email, and hopefully on the website before then. Andrew -- Andrew Godwin, President, Oxford University Computer Society Jabber/GTalk: andrewgodwin(a)gmail.com MSN: andrew_godwin(a)hotmail.com CompSoc: http://www.ox.compsoc.net

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Downtime for stanley.ox.compsoc.net
by Michael Howe 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hi all, This Friday, 13th April, stanley.ox.compsoc.net will be moving from its current location with C&W to a new home with Community Internet [0], who have kindly offered to host it. The server will be down between midday and 6pm. During this time, there will be no shell access to the server (obviously), and the website[1] may also be down. For those of you with mail aliases with us, mail will not be forwarded in that time but will be queued on our backup MXen, so you'll get a nice deluge of spam when stanley returns and the DNS settles down. I think that covers it - back to lasers and other such fun things. Michael 0: http://www.community.net.uk/ 1: http://www.ox.compsoc.net/ -- Michael Howe System Administration Co-ordinator, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.ox.compsoc.net/

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Week 8: Simon Cole (AMD) on virtualisation and Barcelona
by Will Thompson 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Good people of Compsoc, A year has passed, and it is with some sadness that I compose my final missive to the Compsoc masses. In celebration of the end of Dave, Michael and my time in our posts, I think you should come to the last event of term, which is tomorrow! AMD Virtualization and Barcelona (Simon Cole) ============================================= When: Tuesday 6th March, 20.00 Where: Keble College, Pusey Room Simon Cole, who spoke to Compsoc in Michaelmas 2001 and presented a server[0] donated by his employer, AMD, in Hilary 2002, returns to give us an overview of AMD's on-chip virtualization technology, and introduce their forthcoming "Barcelona" quad-core processors. [0] http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/descriptions/amd.shtml If you came to Dominic Hargreaves' geo-fu talk in week 5, this is in the same place. If not, http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour might prove useful. The Pusey room is on the Pusey Quad, roughly opposite the lodge. Someone will be hovering in the lodge to point you in the right direction in any case. If you've got no other plans for food tomorrow evening, why not come to Noodle Bar on Gloucester Green[1] at 18.39 (this time was agreed upon after bitter negotiations on #compsoc) and eat with Simon and fragments of the outgoing and incoming committees? Feel free to give me a ring or an SMS, or drop an email to -discuss, if you have any questions about meeting up. [1] http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?id=Noodle_Bar Epilogue ======== People seem to like pictures of cats. I hope that http://tinyurl.com/35xqmg pleases you. It's been a fun year. I have no doubt that I will enjoy the next year at least as much: all the Compsoccy goodness, with none of the responsibility! Take it away, Andy, Martin and David, Will -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society's outgoing President Jabber: <resiak(a)feayn.org>; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 <http://www.ox.compsoc.net>

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Tonight: Peter Gradwell on Mobile VoIP
by Will Thompson 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hello, good people of Compsoc, You should come to tonight's talk! Mobile VoIP - Will VoIP learn to walk in 2007? ============================================== When: Thursday 1st March, 20.00 (tonight!) Where: Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building[1] Peter Gradwell of Gradwell dot com[2] will be speaking to us on the possibilities of combining mobile devices with Voice over IP technology: The past two years have seen much development in the VoIP fixed handset market, and anyone who is purchasing a small office phone system would be silly to ignore it. But what about those who are mobile? Can VoIP be used in the mobile environment, who has working products and what are the challenges of making a call from a Wi-Fi hotspot? We'll have someone at the entrance to let you in. If you're late, you'll be stuck outside, since there's no phobile reception in the lecture theatre. If you're likely to get there late, phone or SMS or email someone (possibly even by hitting reply!) and we'll see what we can do. [1] http://tinyurl.com/yeqtzg [2] http://www.gradwell.com/ Also, you might like to know what happened at last night's AGM. The 2007-08 committee was elected: President: Andrew Godwin Secretary: Martin Smith Treasurer: David North The minutes of the meeting will be on the interglobal tubosphere Real Soon Now(TM). The new committee will be at tonight's talk, so if you want to complain at them about how much you hated us, tonight would be a good opportunity. I promise to try not to listen carefully. Will -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society President Jabber: <resiak(a)feayn.org>; Mobile: +44 (0)7771 77 40 70 <http://www.ox.compsoc.net>

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