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Week 7: Lightning! Talks!
by Andrew Godwin 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

It's week 7, and time for an event! Shocking... read on for more. Lightning Talks =============== Thursday 22nd November, 20:00 Morley Fletcher Room, Worcester One room, one projector, and many speakers. Everyone is invited to give a short talk on something they're involved in or interested in; don't worry if you don't like public speaking, you're more than welcome to watch the rest of us screw it up (although, of course, this would be a great place to give a talk if you've never done so before). Talks don't have to be computer-related, or even technical; if it's interesting, entertaining or pretty, then give it a go! If you don't feel like giving a talk, don't worry; come along anyway, there's looking to be a wonderfully varied range of talks. We'll have a projector and a laptop there to show presentations on, but if you're using a particularly obscure file format or prefer your own computer, bring it along. There will be someone at the Worcester porter's lodge to take you along to the room! If you're planning to speak, we'll be having a rather odder-than-usual "speaker's dinner" beforehand; email me if you want to come. ~~~~~ Also, we have some on-topic announcements. Firstly, Oxford Geek Night 4 is on Thursday next week; it's a great event, come along to it if you can! See http://oxford.geeknights.net/2007/nov-28th/ for more details. Secondly, the Oxford University Latin American Society are looking for a "javascript programmer" for their website (they stress programmer, not designer) - if you're interested, email me and I'll pass on your details. Hopefully we'll see you at the lightning talks! Next week, we'll be having the GM/Christmas Party... more about that then. 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 6: The Carbon Account (Web Development with Django)
by Andrew Godwin 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hello, everyone. This week we have the Django talk; read on for more infos. The Carbon Account ================== Speaker: Tom Dyson Wednesday 14th November, 20:00 Roy Griffiths Room, Keble Tom Dyson, of Torchbox, will be coming to talk about their in-house Django project, aimed at helping people cut down on carbon emissions. He'll delve into the technical aspects of implementing such a computationally-heavy web application, as well as giving a few general tips and pointers on this sort of web development. Meet outside/just inside the Keble Porter's Lodge at 8, and a Very Nice Compsoc Person will walk you down to the right place. There's a few bits of other business; the TGM/Party/Possible Movie Showing has been moved to Monday of 8th, but on the plus side we have a nice large, posh room now, so I expect you all to come so we can fill it up! More details on that one closer to the time. Lightning talks are next week; we're still finalising the venue, but keep that Thursday free, and if you feel up for the challenge prepare a small presentation (only 5-10 minutes, or longer if you like!), otherwise, you can just come and laugh at the rest of us, and our professional talking skills. It'd be nice if you could email me (president(a)ox.compsoc.net) if you're planning to give a talk; current proposals include one about "Windows vs Linux (from a more normal perspective)", and one on pretty graphing of musical history, and a few other people who have yet to properly decide! If you do give a lighting talk, like all our speakers you'll be invited to a pre-talk dinner. We're not going to pay for everything, but we might be able to stretch to something... so, even more reason to sit down and think for a while! Hopefully I'll see you all on Wednesday! 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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Bletchley Park
by Andrew Godwin 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello everyone. Tomorrow is the Bletchley Park trip, and so I have some final information about it! We'll be meeting at Gloucester Green bus station (at the X5 stop, bay 11) at 9:55 on Saturday morning. You'll need around £22 for travel and admission (possibly less), and if you want to buy lunch there there's a reasonably-priced cafe. More details can be found on the website at [1]. Hopefully we'll see plenty of you bright and early (well, for the weekend) tomorrow! Andrew [1]: 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

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CompSoc, Week 4
by Andrew Godwin 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

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 ========= 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 =================== 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 -- 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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CompSoc, Week 3/4
by Andrew Godwin 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

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

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CompSoc, Week 2
by Andrew Godwin 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hello, everyone. This week, we have the OUCS tour! OUCS Tour ========= 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

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CompSoc, Week One
by Andrew Godwin 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

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

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Freshers Mailing List 2007
by Andrew Godwin 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

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

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SysAd workshop changed to *THURSDAY*
by Ken Kawamoto 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi all, The system administration workshop/talk scheduled for Wednesday has been changed to Thursday. Location: Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building (on Banbury Rd & Keble Rd) Time: 8:00pm - 19 Jan You may want to bring your laptops to try things out on the spot. Regards, Ken.

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CompSoc- Welcome back
by Ken Kawamoto 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hi all, Welcome back to a new term! Starting this term we're running a crash course of technical talks and workshops that aims to cover everything someone working with computers ought to know! OK, so we won't have enough time to cover absolutely everything, but in future many of you will find yourselves - often not by choice! - responsible for setting up and administering computer systems. Inevitably that involves tracking down and fixing problems when things go wrong. Firstly, we want you to be equiped with the understanding and practical troubleshooting skills that could help you become a (well-paid) computing expert. Secondly, we'd like to provide a broad exposure to many different aspects of computing at many levels so you feel you know something about all sorts of things you might encounter. We'll get started by looking at the world from the perspective of a systems administrator, and focus on security and then networking. Once things get going, we're hoping that some of you will offer to share your own particular expertise with other members as part of this programme. The first event will be this Wednesday and there'll be roughly one each week. Alongside this we intend to apply some of the skills to set up a server in Oxford for the society again. Hope you all have a great term. Ken.

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