Hello All,
It was great to see some new faces at Geek Night on Saturday. Due to the cancellation of the eth1 Hackathon, Geek Night is back on for this Saturday, we hope to see you all there.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening we will be joined by local company CoreFiling, who will be talking about Docker. This is an exciting new technology that is worth knowing about for any developer or budding sysadmin. There will be plenty of free pizza and drinks after the talk, as well as an opportunity to further talk to the speaker about the topic.
Learn To Code returns on Thursday. Please note that due to unexpected levels of interest we will be operating on a first-come-first-served basis for entry. We also ask that everyone who can bring their own laptop does so, and comes with Python 3 pre-installed so we can dive straight in. More information and instructions can be found on the Facebook Event.
Kind regards,
The CompSoc committee
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday (2nd week)
David North and Jay Anslow from local software company CoreFiling will talk about Docker (https://www.docker.com/), which aims to do for software deployment what shipping containers did for international cargo. We'll talk about the problems it aims to solve, our experience of them, our early work with Docker and our plans for future use.
Lecture Theatre B - 7:30pm Thursday (2nd week)
The long awaited return of Learn to code, the introductory programming course. We will be starting with an introduction to python. This is a beginners course, so no prior experience is necessary.
Please view the Facebook event for more information, as some preparation is required.
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (2nd week)
Our second Geek Night of 2016, with our usual selection of food, drinks, games, chatting and coding. We would love to see some new faces, so please do feel free to come along. Open to all members and anyone interested in joining.
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday (3rd week)
Edmund Pringle will be joining us from Metaswitch:
Can you afford to trust your tools? An undetectable hack (and how to detect it).
The goal of this talk is to get you thinking a bit more about what trust assumptions you’re making when you’re creating software. I’ll cover a classic and elegant example of abusing those assumptions, and cover briefly what you can (and can’t) reasonably do to protect yourself. Then we’ll eat pizza and forget about it all while I pass around a USB stick with the presentation on it. Just the presentation. Nothing else. Honest. You can trust me, right?
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Wednesday (6th week)
We require 20 voters to meet quorum, so please do nominate a proxy if you cannot attend. At our annual general meeting we will be electing our new executive committee for the next year. The positions up for election are:
President: Leads the society and liaises with the senior member.
Secretary: Organises events and logistics.
Treasurer: Handles the society bank account and reimbursements.
If you have any questions about these positions, and would like to discuss them with the current committee email us at committee@ox.compsoc.net or talk to us in person at any event this term.
Anyone is welcome to attend, but only CompSoc voters may cast their vote on motions or run for positions. If you are not yet a member register this term to have your say on the future of the society. If you are unable to attend in person you may nominate another member who is then able to vote on your behalf. If you wish to do this please email us at committee@ox.compsoc.net.