Hello All,
Welcome back, we hope you enjoyed the vacation, and are ready for a new term packed full of computing events.
We have loads of great events coming this term: The return of Learn to Code; Geek Nights; Tech Talks from some exciting companies; and even a 12 hour Hackathon (very soon, sign up now). Events are listed on our Facebook page, but some upcoming ones are listed below.
All events are hosted in the Department of Computer Science, and Geek Nights and Tech Talks include free food and drinks, so don't worry about missing out on dinner. More details can be found at the bottom of this email.
We are holding our Annual General Meeting in 6th week, giving all of you a chance to be part of the future of CompSoc. It is vital that we get enough members to attend, or vote via proxy, so that we can elect a new committee for the next year. If you cannot attend in person please contact the committee to nominate a proxy voter (details below).
We look forward to seeing you,
Kind regards,
The CompSoc commitee
Undergraduate Social Area - 7:00pm Saturday (1st 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 Saturday (1st 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.
Undergraduate Social Area - 10am-10pm Saturday (2nd week)
There will be no Geek Night in 2nd week.
eth1: a day-long programming contest. Form teams and have your software compete against others and the markets. A significant cash prize is on the line for the winning team. There'll be lots of (free) food and drinks available.
Absolutely no knowledge of finance, nor OCaml is required. You don't have to be a CS student or a full on programmer to participate but you'd need some knowledge of coding. You can use any language, but we'll provide some helper libraries in a few common ones. The contest is entirely technical in nature and you won't need any visual design skills.
Follow this link to register and please bear in mind spaces are limited: http://goo.gl/forms/sMxQcw8fgA
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Saturday (2nd week)
Can you afford to trust your tools? An undetectable hack (and how to detect it).
Metaswitch will be hosting a Tech Talk on the security impact of implicit trust in tools.
Room 379 - 7:00pm Saturday (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.
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 liases with the senior member.
Secretary: Organises events and logistics.
Treasurer: Handles the society bank account and reimbursments.
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.
Geek Nights are a great chance to meet other geeks and discuss computing, technology, and just about any other topic you can imagine. They are nearly every week and open to all. We would love to see some new faces, so please do pop along.
Tech Talks are hour long lectures on technical topic in the field of computing, that are accessible to anyone with an interest, but don't require any prior knowledge. They are both interesting, and a great chance to learn something new.
Learn to Code will be running on Thursday evenings, from 19:30-21:30, in Room 379 of the Department of Computer Science, starting in Week 2. For the first few sessions, we will be covering programming in Python. How things proceed after that will depend on what there is interest for - the survey indicated a fair amount of interest in Java and Web Development, so depending on numbers and interest, we may do some sessions on those in later weeks. Sessions are aimed at complete beginners, so no prior experience is necessarily. We're hoping to be able to use the computers in Room 379, so hopefully you won't need to bring anything with you - an update will be posted in plenty of time if this changes.