Term 3 Week 6 Newsletter

Mon 31 May 2021 Newsletter

We're halfway there, only 10 million more exams to go! In other news, it's time for this week's newsletter!

It’s lovely weather outside and that means one thing only - it’s time for another newsletter!

WASD Summer

As many of you may already be aware CompSoc runs WASD (Warwick’s Awesome Speedruns and Demos) - an annual charity speedrunning event that has taken place annually since 2016. This year, we are starting a sister event: WASD Summer, which will take place remotely on the 13th and 14th of August 2021.

When and Where

WASD Summer will take place on the 13th and 14th of August, and will be streamed live to the WASD Twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/warwickspeedrun

Signups

The event is open to anyone, student or otherwise. The only requirements are that you are able to run a game reasonably quickly, and can support a stream of your event. If you are interested, signups opened today and you can now signup over at https://warwickspeed.run/signup

Want to learn more?

To find out more about the event, or find the VODs from our previous events, check out the WASD website: https://warwickspeed.run or check out the WASD Discord server here: https://warwickspeed.run/discord

We still need you!

Thank you so much to those of you who have completed our questionnaire so far about UWCS and inclusivity within the society (and the Computer Science department if you have had any interaction with them). We’ve already started to take a look at and reflect on the responses, and if you haven’t already, please do consider taking a couple of minutes to complete the questions.

Whether you are a graduate or student, or whether you've been to our events - regularly or one off - or not at all, we want to hear from you. All responses to this survey are completely confidential and will only be seen by the current exec, and no personally identifiable information is collected.

If there is anything else you want to mention to us, if you have any queries, or just want to chat to one of us one-on-one, feel free to drop any one of the exec an email or DM on Discord. In particular, you can contect Ella, our Women’s Officer and Equal Opportunities Officer, me (Josh), our Welfare Officer, or Amelie, our President. You can find our contact details below. Thank you again for taking the time to complete this!

Questionnaire link: https://go.uwcs.uk/inclusivity_questionnaire/

Ella: @SH4D0W_R1D3R#7857 on Discord, womens-officer@uwcs.co.uk for email

Josh: @Koala#2585 on Discord, welfare@uwcs.co.uk for email (the secretary email is also fine!)

Amelie: @distributive law#0001 on Discord, president@uwcs.co.uk for email

Summer LAN

Summer LAN/BFL/whatever we call it is a thing and will be happening during Week 10! That's 28th June to 2nd July for those of you who want dates.

For those who are unfamiliar, LAN stands for Local Area Network - we’d normally gather in a large room in the Library (or so I’m informed), bring our computers and have a fun time chatting, getting to know others, and generally some video games too! We also try to get some board games along, and there’s no obligation to stay for the whole time! Due to the current pandemonia situation, we will be holding Summer LAN virtually in our Discord server. While there will be lots of time for gaming, feel free to just come and chat. We might even watch a movie together or do a quiz!

Make sure to mark those dates in your calendar ahead of a fun & pizza filled week! We'll be announcing events running that week soon (TM) so keep an eye out for more info...

Merch!

In case you missed it, we’re hoping to do a merch order in the coming weeks! We are looking into offering the following for everyone to choose from:

Because of ongoing exams, we now plan to open orders in a couple of weeks once the majority of the exec have finished for the year. However, do not fear, you can use this time to think up a world in which you own CompSoc merch!

This week in UWCS

Here’s our schedule for this week!

The following image may feel close to your heart and mind:

Image credit: https://twitter.com/salisbot/status/1379876646740713475

Hope you all have a fabulous week!

Josh (he/they)

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