Hello, everyone.
Firstly, apologies about the website being unavailable earlier in the week.
We've been having some server issues, although everything should be working reasonably well now.
This week we have two events! See below for details.
Telepathy
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Thursday 1st November, 20:00
Stafford Crane Room, Keble College
Robert McQueen of Collabora will extol the virtues of Telepathy, the instant messaging
framework used on the Nokia N800, the One Laptop Per Child project, and on a Unix desktop
near you. He'll introduce D-Bus (the IPC system underlying Telepathy), discuss novel uses
of IM (such as collaborative editing and podcast recording) that Telepathy makes feasible,
and will demonstrate how to do useful IM-related things with surprisingly few lines of Python.
There will be someone at the Keble Porters' Lodge to show you to the talk;
this may involve a short wait outside if the porters don't let us keep the door open, but
we'll keep sticking our heads out (quite literally).
Bletchley Park Trip
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Saturday 3rd November, 10:00ish
Bletchley Park (meet at Gloucester Green Bus Station)
We plan to go and visit Bletchley Park, one of the homes of modern
cryptography, and home of the World War I codebreaking effort.
We'll be travelling to Bletchley using the bus and train; an exact
timetable will be available shortly, but we'll be catching the X5
from Gloucester Green bus station to Milton Keynes, and then taking
the train from there to Bletchley.
Travel costs should be less than £14, and once we've figured out the
best way to price things up we'll have a more exact figure.
Admission to Bletchley itself is £8, and if you plan to eat at
the cafe there you'll need more money (expect standard
visitor-attraction-cafe prices).
We will probably be leaving around 10ish in the morning (quite likely
the 10:05 bus from gloucester green), and getting to Bletchley around
11:30, and returning sometime in the afternoon.
If you're planning to go on the Bletchley trip, then email me so I
can get some idea of numbers.
Hopefully we'll see you at one or more events this week, they're both
looking to be pretty good ones!
Bear in mind that this is the last week for free admission to
events; from next week, non-members will get charged £2 at the door.
Andrew
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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
Hello everyone.
Firstly, a talk move. In case you haven't heard, the talk we had
scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday 25th) has been moved to Thursday next
week; you can see the new details about it on the website at [1]. I'll
be emailing around again next week with the summary and location
instructions, as usual.
Secondly, we're going ahead with the Bletchley Park trip, as the
response has been overwhelmingly positive. You can read some initial
information about it at [2]; we'll be getting more accurate info as time
passes. I'll also be elaborating more on this in my next email.
We'll be asking for some idea of numbers for the Bletchley trip; if you
know already you can make it, then please reply to me
(president(a)ox.compsoc.net) saying so.
On a side note, we still have three CompSoc tshirts lying around (one
medium, two large) from our print run over the summer; if you'd like
one, email me.
Finally, someone has written into me asking for information about web
filtering at colleges, so if you have filtering at your college, then
please email me (president(a)ox.compsoc.net) with a few details about it,
and I'll forward it on.
That's it for this week; we're not placing any real demands on you, so
take this opportunity to relax, or do work, or whatever you like.
See you next week!
Andrew
[1]: http://www.ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2007/michaelmas/Week_4/Telepathy/
[2]:
http://www.ox.compsoc.net/termcards/2007/michaelmas/Week_4/Bletchley_Park_T…
--
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
Hello, everyone. This week, we have the OUCS tour!
OUCS Tour
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Wednesday 17th October, 17:30
OUCS: see http://www.ox.compsoc.net/venues/OUCS/
Somewhat of a CompSoc tradition, we'll be having a tour of OUCS' machine
room,
with several mostly-willing OUCS people on hand to show you around,
answer questions, and suchlike.
It's normally a great insight into the bowels of this most important
of departments, and offers many great challenges (such as figuring
out quite what their naming scheme is).
Meet at the main OUCS entrance on Banbury Road for 17:30; there will
be a sign up so you know you're at the right place.
We hope to see many of you there; if you're new to the society, and
haven't yet handed in your registration form and/or some moneys, then
feel free to bring them along to the event.
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
Greetings, and welcome to First Week.
I hope you're all settling down into the start of many weeks of work,
but there's no need to fret - CompSoc is here with events galore to
distract you from those troublesome pages of knowledge.
This week, we have the Pubmeet on Thursday (11th Oct), where we all meet
up in the Lamb and Flag [1] for a nice relaxed meet, talk, and drink (if
you're so inclined). Turn up at any time from 8pm onwards; we'll be
there for a large majority of the night, and it's a good chance to come
along, meet people with similar interests, and ask the committee awkward
questions.
Next week is a tour of OUCS, which is always fun; I'll be emailing you
all with information about that next week. Remember, all events are free
in the first four weeks, and we have a 2-week special cheap membership
offer on; you might have picked up a membership form up at the Fair, but
if not, don't worry - we'll have some at the events, and you can hand
your form and payment to us directly then as well if you like.
If you want to unsubscribe from this fresher's fair mailing list, just
visit [2], and put your email address in the box at the bottom of the page.
One last item that might be of interest to some of you; the Oxford
Student are looking for people to help with their website redesign,
which will be using Django [3]. If you'd like to help out, email
griffith.rees(a)hertford.ox.ac.uk.
Well, that's it for now. Hopefully we'll see many of you on Thursday!
Andrew
[1]: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Lamb_And_Flag
[2]: http://lists.ox.compsoc.net/mailman/listinfo/compsoc-freshers
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/
--
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
Hello,
If you're receiving this email, then you signed up to our freshers'
mailing list at one of our previous events.
We're about to add this year's list of emails, and we are leaving
everybody on the list in case you still want to hear about this year's
events.
If you want to unsubscribe from the list, then either visit
http://lists.ox.compsoc.net/mailman/options/compsoc-freshers and enter
your email in the relevant box (leave the password blank), or, if you
prefer, send an email to secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net.
We hope this doesn't cause you too much inconvenience, and hopefully we
may even see you at some of our events this year.
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
