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Week 6 Newsletter: Termly General Meeting
by Thomas Denney 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi all, Good morning! Best of luck to everyone who has exams this week or starting soon :). This week on Wednesday evening we will have our Termly General Meeting with reports from the committee before our usual Geek Night on Saturday. Have a great week! Thomas and the rest of the committee EventsTermly General Meeting <https://www.facebook.com/events/1281695645218079> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Wednesday (6th week)* The committee will report on this term's activity and what we have planned for the forthcoming year. There will also be the opportunity to raise motions and any other issues with the committee. As with all our events, pizza and drinks will be served after the meeting. Geek Night 6 <https://www.facebook.com/events/119873758592225> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Saturday (6th week)* Please note that as some of the committee have exams we won't be running themed Geek Nights for the rest of Trinity - but they will resume in Michaelmas! Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. It is recommended that you bring your laptop! We will also have an Adafruit IoT starterkit and a BBC micro:bit if you are interested in learning some embedded programming. Sponsor NoticesMicrosoft talk: The Future of Tech with James Whittaker <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> *Said Business School, 12:15pm Tuesday (6th week)* Apps are eating the web. The Internet of Things will ultimately mean more Internet traffic generated and consumed by machines than by humans. Machines are learning our habits faster than we can form them. What does all this mean for the future? How will we interact with our devices when they are as smart or smarter than we are? How will anyone manage to make money is this coming world? Join Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker for an entertaining and thought provoking jaunt into the future - a future coming a lot faster than most people imagine. Register for the talk here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> . Entrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> We're on the lookout for a Student Partner to help us change the way the most talented students think about their careers. At Entrepreneur First we specialise in supporting people to build technically defensible companies from scratch and we're looking for ambitious Student Partners to help us inspire and engage the best student technologists to build a startup with EF. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in tech startups and either see yourself founding one or working for one in the future. *The role* You'll be helping us grow EF's brand at your university and encourage the best student engineers to start companies. This is a community-facing role and you'll be the eyes and ears 'on the ground' - gathering first-hand insights about our customers and helping them to kick-start their startup journeys with EF. You'll be focused on building a technical community and running tech and startup-focused meetups and events. You'll play a key role in driving applications to our EFX Internship programme enabling students to experience working for a startup first hand. For more information click here. <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> Other events In a new section for our newsletter we're going to start sharing events run by other societies that we think may be of interest to our members. Oxford AI Society: Zinc <https://www.facebook.com/events/1030025840461980/> *Maths Institute, 4:30pm Tuesday (6th week)* Zinc is a new organisation dedicated to replicating the high-tech innovation system in the social sciences. In October 2017, it is launching the "Zinc Transformers", a 6-month full-time programme bringing 40 social innovators together in London to work out a business idea, find their co-founders and create a highly scalable, commercially successful and socially innovative businesses. They will be intensively supported by top entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and tech experts. Note that you need to register for the talk on Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zinc-founding-a-startup-to-solve-big-social-…> . ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Thomas Denney President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Week 5 Newsletter: LAN Night and TGM
by Thomas Denney 22 May '17

22 May '17

Hi all, Good morning! Instead of our usual Geek Night this Saturday we will instead be hosting a LAN Night *on Friday* in conjunction with the eSports Society. Next week we will also have our Termly General Meeting. Have a great week! Thomas and the rest of the committee EventsLAN Night <https://www.facebook.com/events/1722509571099775/> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Friday (5th week)* Join us for an evening of video games and pizza to kill the fifth week blues! You'll need to bring your own laptop, but we'll provide everything else. We aren't planning to play any particular games in advance - so it will just be whatever people fancy. Termly General Meeting <https://www.facebook.com/events/1281695645218079> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Wednesday (6th week)* The committee will report on this term's activity and what we have planned for the forthcoming year. There will also be the opportunity to raise motions and any other issues with the committee. As with all our events, pizza and drinks will be served after the meeting. Sponsor NoticesMicrosoft talk: The Future of Tech with James Whittaker <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> *Said Business School, 12:15pm Tuesday (6th week)* Apps are eating the web. The Internet of Things will ultimately mean more Internet traffic generated and consumed by machines than by humans. Machines are learning our habits faster than we can form them. What does all this mean for the future? How will we interact with our devices when they are as smart or smarter than we are? How will anyone manage to make money is this coming world? Join Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker for an entertaining and thought provoking jaunt into the future â€“ a future coming a lot faster than most people imagine. Register for the talk here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> . Entrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> We're on the lookout for a Student Partner to help us change the way the most talented students think about their careers. At Entrepreneur First we specialise in supporting people to build technically defensible companies from scratch and we're looking for ambitious Student Partners to help us inspire and engage the best student technologists to build a startup with EF. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in tech startups and either see yourself founding one or working for one in the future. *The role* You'll be helping us grow EF's brand at your university and encourage the best student engineers to start companies. This is a community-facing role and you'll be the eyes and ears 'on the ground' - gathering first-hand insights about our customers and helping them to kick-start their startup journeys with EF. You'll be focused on building a technical community and running tech and startup-focused meetups and events. You'll play a key role in driving applications to our EFX Internship programme enabling students to experience working for a startup first hand. For more information click here. <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Thomas Denney President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Week 3 Newsletter
by Thomas Denney 16 May '17

16 May '17

Hi all, Good evening! This week we have our usual Geek Night on Saturday, but next week we will be hosting a LAN night on Friday instead. Have a great week! Thomas and the rest of the committee EventsGeek Night 4 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1916607178595457/> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Saturday (4th week)* Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. It is highly recommended that you bring your laptop! We will also have an Adafruit IoT starter kit and a BBC micro:bit if you are interested in learning some embedded programming. Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. LAN Night <https://www.facebook.com/events/1722509571099775/> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Friday (5th week)* Join us for an evening of video games and pizza to kill the fifth week blues! You'll need to bring your own laptop, but we'll provide everything else. We aren't planning to play any particular games in advance - so it will just be whatever people fancy. Sponsor NoticesMicrosoft talk: The Future of Tech with James Whittaker <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> *Said Business School, 12:15pm Tuesday (6th week)* Apps are eating the web. The Internet of Things will ultimately mean more Internet traffic generated and consumed by machines than by humans. Machines are learning our habits faster than we can form them. What does all this mean for the future? How will we interact with our devices when they are as smart or smarter than we are? How will anyone manage to make money is this coming world? Join Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker for an entertaining and thought provoking jaunt into the future - a future coming a lot faster than most people imagine. Register for the talk here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-tech-james-whittaker-tickets-3…> . Entrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> We're on the lookout for a Student Partner to help us change the way the most talented students think about their careers. At Entrepreneur First we specialise in supporting people to build technically defensible companies from scratch and we're looking for ambitious Student Partners to help us inspire and engage the best student technologists to build a startup with EF. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in tech startups and either see yourself founding one or working for one in the future. *The role* You'll be helping us grow EF's brand at your university and encourage the best student engineers to start companies. This is a community-facing role and you'll be the eyes and ears 'on the ground' - gathering first-hand insights about our customers and helping them to kick-start their startup journeys with EF. You'll be focused on building a technical community and running tech and startup-focused meetups and events. You'll play a key role in driving applications to our EFX Internship programme enabling students to experience working for a startup first hand. For more information click here. <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Thomas Denney President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Week 3 newsletter
by Thomas Denney 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hi all, Good morning! This week we have our usual Geek Night on Saturday, however there will not be a talk on Wednesday. One of our sponsors has asked that we share this UCAS survey about how CS students view technology <https://www.surveybuilder.com/s/eQkba/nav#p/186a0>. It only takes a few minutes to fill in. Have a great week! Thomas and the rest of the committee EventsGeek Night 3 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1831861043802355> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Saturday (3rd week)* Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. We will also have an Adafruit IoT starterkit and a BBC micro:bit if you are interested in learning some embedded programming. Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. Sponsor NoticesEntrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> We're on the lookout for a Student Partner to help us change the way the most talented students think about their careers. At Entrepreneur First we specialise in supporting people to build technically defensible companies from scratch and we're looking for ambitious Student Partners to help us inspire and engage the best student technologists to build a startup with EF. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in tech startups and either see yourself founding one or working for one in the future. *The role* You'll be helping us grow EF's brand at your university and encourage the best student engineers to start companies. This is a community-facing role and you'll be the eyes and ears 'on the ground' - gathering first-hand insights about our customers and helping them to kick-start their startup journeys with EF. You'll be focused on building a technical community and running tech and startup-focused meetups and events. You'll play a key role in driving applications to our EFX Internship programme enabling students to experience working for a startup first hand. For more information click here. <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Thomas Denney President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Week 2 Newsletter: CoreFiling tech talk this week
by Thomas Denney 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hi all, Hopefully you're all settled back into your Oxford routines and you're looking forward to the rest of term (aside from exams, perhaps!). This week we're hosting our usual geek night as well as a tech talk from CoreFiling, a local Oxford company, on the Internet of Things and Kubernetes. If you're interested in either embedded hardware or containers this should be a great talk to come along to! One of our sponsors has asked that we share this UCAS survey about how CS students view technology <https://www.surveybuilder.com/s/eQkba/nav#p/186a0>. It only takes a few minutes to fill in. Have a great week! Thomas and the rest of the committee EventsCoreFiling Tech Talk: Internet of Things and Kubernetes <https://www.facebook.com/events/1829602414032197/> *Lecture Theatre A, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Wednesday (2nd week)* Former Oxford CS student David North will be joining us to talk about how the Internet of Things and Kubernetes, an open-source project for automating containerised application deployment, have affected their development strategies over the last year. Pizza and drinks will be served after the talk :). Geek Night 2 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1917807691841532> *Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science - 7pm Saturday (2nd week)* Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. We will also have an Adafruit IoT starterkit and a BBC micro:bit if you are interested in learning some embedded programming. Join us for an evening of relaxing, chatting, games, coding, and the usual selection of food and drinks. Sponsor NoticesEntrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> We're on the lookout for a Student Partner to help us change the way the most talented students think about their careers. At Entrepreneur First we specialise in supporting people to build technically defensible companies from scratch and we're looking for ambitious Student Partners to help us inspire and engage the best student technologists to build a startup with EF. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in tech startups and either see yourself founding one or working for one in the future. *The role* You'll be helping us grow EF's brand at your university and encourage the best student engineers to start companies. This is a community-facing role and you'll be the eyes and ears 'on the ground' - gathering first-hand insights about our customers and helping them to kick-start their startup journeys with EF. You'll be focused on building a technical community and running tech and startup-focused meetups and events. You'll play a key role in driving applications to our EFX Internship programme enabling students to experience working for a startup first hand. For more information click here. <https://boards.greenhouse.io/workforef/jobs/599587#.WPTpeFLMyV5> ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook Page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/oxcompsoc>, or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Thomas Denney President - Oxford University Computer Society president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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