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Warwick Game Design Society - 48 Hour Programming Competition

Fri 08 Feb 2008

Warwick Game Design are holding a game programming competition at this coming weekend. Details of the event are available at: http://www.warwickgamedesign.co.uk/events/3831

Annual General Meeting - Tonight

Wed 06 Feb 2008

The Society will hold its Annual General Meeting tonight where the new Exec will be elected. Feel free to come and ask questions after which voting will take place. Members can continue to nominate themselves for positions. If you want more information then email exec@uwcs.co.uk.

IBM Extreme Blue Internship Application Deadline Extended

Tue 05 Feb 2008

Extreme Blue is IBM's summer internship programme which combines top undergraduate technical and business talent to develop and commercialise emerging technologies from IBM's internal portfolios. The internship programme runs at IBM Hursley, near Winchester and the interns work in small project teams of 4 that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors from various disciplines and divisions. As an Extreme Blue student, you'll face the challenge of making a real impact in …

Society AGM

Mon 04 Feb 2008

The Society will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 6th February to elect next year's Exec.

Special General Meeting

Mon 28 Jan 2008

The Exec will be holding a special general meeting for members on Wednesday 30th January (details are in the events page). The meeting is being held to discuss the future direction of the Society and to plan the Exec structure for the next academic year. Contributions from all members are welcome including views on splitting the Society, changing its focus to be more academic/game oriented or other issues which affect membership.

Guest Lecture: How we built the world's fastest web server (and what we did next)

Sun 20 Jan 2008

Zeus Technology is a Cambridge-based software company, working mainly in application traffic management. This technical talk from two members of the development team will cover some of the design and implementation challenges encountered during the company's history. Migrating to The Graduate afterwards.

IBM Extreme Blue Internship

Sun 20 Jan 2008

Extreme Blue is IBM's summer internship programme which combines top undergraduate technical and business talent to develop and commercialise emerging technologies from IBMâ€™s internal portfolios. The internship programme runs at IBM Hursley, near Winchester and the interns work in small project teams of 4 that include business and technical students, along with IBM mentors from various disciplines and divisions. As an Extreme Blue student, you'll face the challenge of making a real impact i…

Happy New Year

Wed 09 Jan 2008

Welcome back after the Christmas break. For any refreshers, just a reminder of compsoc's events: We have pub socials on Mondays, WUGLUG on Wednesdays and Gaming on Fridays. If you have not been before, don't worry, we don't bite. Don't forget to sign up to the LAN in week 2!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The Compsoc Exec.

Week 9

Mon 26 Nov 2007

In addition to our usual weekly events, we have two specialities this week:

Email Problems

Sun 30 Sep 2007

Some users are experiencing problems with emails being delivered to our servers. Our servers' settings are correct, but these settings may take a while to propagate to other servers that we do not control.

Welcome Freshers!

Sun 30 Sep 2007

Hello.
Welcome Freshers to the greatest society at this university. We offer many exciting events including trips to major companies as well as the general social activities of go-karting, bowling, paintballing and many others. We hold weekly gaming sessions as well as going to the pub. For the more academically minded, there is a free software project that anyone can contribute to, a GNU/Linux user group and many programming competitions throughout the year. Join today and receive an a…

Tech Notices

Wed 11 Jul 2007

Historically the Computing Society has run a "blog":http://uwcs.livejournal.com/ that contains information about planned downtime, updates to society servers etc. This is being revived and should be used to convey any future information about such issues. Thank you for listening.

Molotov/Codd Migration

Tue 10 Jul 2007

The migration of molotov to codd is now complete. All user accounts and services have been restored. Unfortunately the migration took a lot longer the anticipated, due to unforeseen circumstances. We sincerely apologies for the delay and any inconveniences caused.

Server Migration (cotd.)

Fri 06 Jul 2007

Earlier today, Codd (the replacement for Molotov) was brought on-line. Our plan was to migrate all data and services across during the course of the afternoon. Unfortunately, while moving user accounts from Molotov, the /etc/passwd file got removed, thus preventing the use of sudo to fix the situation and also any subsequent attempts to log in to the machine. This cannot be resolved till we can gain physical access to Codd - on Monday.

Server Migration

Fri 06 Jul 2007

The Computing Society main server, codd, has been brought online today. Migration is an on-going process, and services will continue to be brought back up this afternoon. If you have identified any problems that you wish to report please email techteam@uwcs.co.uk or ask in #tech on irc.uwcs.co.uk.

BBQ location MOVED due to bad weather

Sun 24 Jun 2007

Unfortunately its been raining heavily this morning rendering the chances of running an effective BBQ in a field nill. It is also likely to continue raining, sometimes heavily, during the day. Consequently we are moving the BBQ to Bucko's house in coventry where we can very easily move to the warm indoors during rainy spells. People on campus will be able to get a lift from Tesco at 12.30. Otherwise there is a "map":http://www.bucko.me.uk/images/maptocrosbie.png, which can be used f…

BFL

Fri 22 Jun 2007

The BFL marches steadily closer, and there are a few things to announce before it all kicks off.

PAINTBALL!!!!

Tue 12 Jun 2007

Dear all, since some interest was registered in the "Paintball Event":/society/events/details/775 on our website, Compsoc, in coordination with the "Paintball Society":http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/portal/organisation/4204/, will be holding a social on 23rd June. This takes place between 8am - 5pm at the National Paintball Fields in Birmingham. We need a big crowd to turn up with fire in their bellies, to defend the land of the free and home of the brave! Or something. I…

BFL Signups

Sat 02 Jun 2007

As I'm sure many of you are aware, as we approach the end of term 3 we also approach the busiest event in the Compsoc calendar: the BFL / Mega LAN, a 5 day LAN running from Monday 25th June to Friday 29th. This is our most oversubscribed event of the year, and so I am giving you fair warning that signups will be opening at 12:00pm midday on Sunday 3rd June for members and 12:00pm midday on Sunday 10th June for guests. For fellow freshers, be amply warned that the BFL fills up pretty sharpish,…

End of Term Paintball Event

Sun 20 May 2007

The Society is looking at organising an end of term Paintballing event in conjunction with PaintballSoc. At the moment we are looking at how much interest we get from members before confirming it but initial reaction has been positive. Before we can decide how to run the event we need members to decide if they want to do a full day or a half day at the event.