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Wednesday's talk- change of venue
by Ken Kawamoto 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi all, There has been a change of venue for Wednesday's talk, "Mac OSX - Like UNIX, only more so". Originally announced to be at Lincoln, it will now be in the Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, inside the Denys Wilkinson Building. This is on the corner of Banbury Rd + Keble Rd, opposite St Giles Church. I (or someone else) will be manning the door (which is swipecard- protected) between 8:10 and 8:30, so please get there on time. Remember that the events this week are free for non-members as well. See you all there! Ken. +---------------+ Ken Kawamoto St Edmund Hall, Oxford President, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.compsoc.net/ president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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CompSoc week 2
by Ken Kawamoto 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, Here are the events for Week 2. Remember that events are free for non-members until Week 3 (inclusive). Mac OSX - Like UNIX, only more so Graham J Lee Wednesday 19 Oct 20:30, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College ------------------------------------------------ Mac OSX is Apple's Unix based next generation operating system. Graham J Lee will be giving an overview of OSX, as well as diving briefly into the OSX APIs which are stunningly sexy. He will also go through some of the more important open source projects built up around OSX. FreeBSD Release Engineering Murray Stokely Friday 21 Oct 20:30, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College ------------------------------------------------ Murray Stokely, a FreeBSD core team member and release enginner, will describe the open source FreeBSD Project. He will talk about the history, how it differs from Linux, and some of the exciting new developments. He will focus particularly on the development organization, and how source code changes are managed and how releases are built. Note that the termcard is now on the website: http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ The speaker of Friday's talk, Murray Stokely, has asked me to pass on his words that he would be interested in talking with anyone who is just graduating and looking for work, as Google is hiring aggressively. ===Some other stuff A link I've been asked to circulate (from Blitz games): http://www.play4charity.co.uk/ -- A guy from GameFactory, Inc. has contacted me asking if any of our members would be interested in beta testing their (free) game, Albatross18: Realms of Pangya, and has provided us with test accounts which have been upgraded with extra points. Please e-mail me if you're interested at all. Have a look at: http://www.Albatross18.com Have a great week! Ken +---------------+ Ken Kawamoto St Edmund Hall, Oxford President, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.compsoc.net/ president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Reminder- Freshers' drinks
by Ken Kawamoto 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hi all, Just a reminder of today's event: Freshers' drinks Friday 14 Oct 19:30, Lamb & Flag (St Giles Rd.) ------------------------------------------------ Freshers' Drinks is a chance to meet existing Compsoc members and find out what the society's all about. We'll be there all evening (as usual!) and will hopefully be easy to spot, so drop by at any time. Remember that there will be free mags for the first 25 lifetime members, and DVDs for the first 100 members. See you all there! Ken. +---------------+ Ken Kawamoto St Edmund Hall, Oxford President, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.compsoc.net/ president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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Welcome to CompSoc
by Ken Kawamoto 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Dear freshers, Congratulations; if you're receiving this e-mail, we were able to make out your handwriting. It was great seeing you all at the freshers' fair. Now on to the membership details: The first 25 people who take out a life membership of the society at Freshers' Drinks can have: A copy of the latest issue (no. 54) of Linux User and Developer magazine (donated by the publisher). This comes with a DVD that includes OpenSolaris and has a cover price of 5.99 - which is more than the membership fee in the first week! Plus 1 DVD chosen from: - Fedora Core 4 (donated by Red Hat); - Suse Linux Professional 9.2 (donated by Linux Magazine - cover DVD from May 2005 issue); - Knoppix 4 (donated by Linux Magazine - cover DVD from Nov 2005 issue). In addition, the first 100 people to join this term can have: An archive DVD containing the first 49 issues of Linux Magazine (donated by the publisher). The fee structure is as follows: Week 1 Thereafter Annual 3.00 6.00 Lifetime 5.00 10.00 There will be a charge of 3 pounds for non-members at our events. The termcard should be ready today or tomorrow. In the mean time, let me advertise our first event of the term; Fresher's drinks Friday 14 Oct 19:30, Lamb & Flag (St Giles Rd.) ------------------------------------------------ Freshers' Drinks is a chance to meet existing Compsoc members and find out what the society's all about. We'll be there all evening (as usual!) and will hopefully be easy to spot, so drop by at any time. Wish to see you all there. Cheers, Ken. +---------------+ Ken Kawamoto St Edmund Hall, Oxford President, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.compsoc.net/ president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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[csoc] Welcome back
by Ken Kawamoto 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi all, Welcome back to a new year! Hope you all had a great summer. The fresher's mailing list will soon be cleared to make way for this year's freshers. If you want to continue receiving compsoc announcements, please take a moment to sign up to the compsoc-announce mailing list: http://lists.ox.compsoc.net/mailman/listinfo/compsoc-announce The first event of this term will be the fresher's drinks on 14 Oct (Fri) at the Lamb&Flag, at 7.30pm. The termcard will appear on the website shortly... Cheers, Ken +---------------+ Ken Kawamoto St Edmund Hall, Oxford President, Oxford University Computer Society http://www.compsoc.net/ president(a)ox.compsoc.net

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