Hi all, 

Good morning, and a warm welcome to all our new and returning members!

This week we'll be at Freshers' Fair before we get started with the term's events next week. The committee will be on the stall, but if you're interested in catching freshers' flu early helping sign up new members and explaining the society to freshers then feel free to email us.

Next week we'll be hosting a welcome drinks + snacks session on Wednesday evening to welcome new freshers to the society, before our first Geek Night of the term on the Saturday, and our first talk in second week. This term we have talks from Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Facebook, Palantir, and Metaswitch scheduled, along with a G-Research coding challenge.

Have a great week!

Thomas and the rest of the committee

Events

Introduction to Oxford University Computer Society

7pm Wednesday 1st Week • Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science

CompSoc is one of the oldest computer societies at any British university, and this year we're looking forward to welcoming our 40th intake of freshers! We welcome anyone passionate about computers, programming, or anything geeky and we're always happy to point beginners in the right direction. Regardless of whether you're a fresher or an existing member we'd love to welcome you to our society.

We're holding a drinks + pizza reception to give you the chance to meet the committee and existing members before our first talk in week 2. The event is open to everyone and we'll have membership forms available if you're interested in joining (£3 for an annual membership, or £5 for life).

Sponsor Notices

Bloomberg CodeCon Qualifiers - 13th October 2017

CodeCon is coming to your university on the 13th of October!

CodeCon is a live programming contest developed in-house at Bloomberg.

Push your programming and problem solving skills to the limit against the clock to win the title of Bloomberg CodeCon champion against your peers across the UK and Europe!

Your school's top winners will be invited to our Bloomberg CodeCon Global Finals in our London office in January 2018 for a chance to win an amazing prize and compete against the best students from Europe and the US!

Please make sure you register with your university email address and bring your laptop.

The event will take place at:

Said Business School Seminar Room A Park End Street OX1 1HP

• Kick-off at 6.30pm, come early to get a seat!
• Food and refreshments will be provided!
• To sign up, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/ydd45ygr

We look forward to seeing you there.

Bloomberg CodeCon Team

Entrepreneur First Student Partner opportunity

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.

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, Twitter, or visit our website for more information about the society.