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The UTAS Computing Society

Our second tech talk for semester 2, 2008 on Strategy Gaming Concepts, presented by Alex Berry is now available online.

The talk was certainly one of our best-attended so far, but if you missed it, it’s well worth checking out. Aplogies for the low video quality, and the audio is slightly lacking in certain places, but it’s otherwise reasonably good.

Video is available for online streaming via Google Video: you can download the video for watching offline (or on your iPod) from the page.

–Chris

Remeber: TUCS LAN on the 30th of August in the usual location on the bottom floor of the Law Building.

30th August
Law room 131
1100 Saturday -> Sunday
$10

Our LAN Page has some possibly useful information including a map of the LAN’s location if you’ve not been before.

As part of the TUCS Point Scheme those who attend (and pay up) will earn points towards a chance to win an iPod (or bacon). We will also be running a few team games throughout the LAN for further points.

(Aside: I’m hoping that that this time we will be able to get some Team Fortress 2 going so ensure that your Steam is updated and offline-ready. You know how finnicky it can be.)

- Michael Ford

Hello all,

For the benefit of all of you who didn’t show up, or showed up late to
the TUCS Tech Talks yesterday:

The FANTASTIC new TUCS POINTS SCHEME!!!!

NEW! AMAZING! INCREDIBLE!!!!!!

How does it work?

1) Every TUCS Member gets a membership sticker to go on the back of
their student ID card.
2) TUCS Members show up to TUCS Events
3) The TUCS Executive issue TUCS POINTS SCHEME Points.

It’s INCREDIBLE!

At the end of Semester 2, TUCS POINTS SCHEME Points will be converted
into tickets for the TUCS POINTS SCHEME raffle. There will be prizes
issued to people contained in the first three people joined:

1st Prize: Someting AMAZING donated by our INCREDIBLE Sponsors.
2nd Prize: There is no second prize.
3rd Prize: Bacon. Mmm. We like bacon.

The person with the most points will be awarded the <insert NAMING
RIGHTS SPONSOR HERE> TUCS POINTS SCHEME Perpetual Trophy.

Bonus points will be issued to members who participate in and help out
with events (instead of merely attending)… WOW!

So… Come to our events for this semester, and get your TUCS POINTS
SCHEME Points.

Thanks,

– The TUCS Executive

P.S. This message is available in slightly more coherent form at:
http://www.tucs.org.au/membership/tucs-points-scheme/

(Semester 2 2008)

• August 30th
• September 27th
• November 15th (Post Exams)

For more information on LANs see the LAN page.

TUCS Had our Semester 2 launch today, including a barbecue and two short tech talks.

The two talks given by Chris are now available to view or download on Google Video:

• TUCS Semester 2 Introduction including TUCS Points Scheme announcement.
• You’re Doing it Wrong!

Unfortunately, Jon did not record his presentation on Pretty Things for the Lazy, but slides will be available in the near future.

As part of our launch weekend, TUCS held its first tech talk, which, incidentally was delivered by me.  The topic was Introductory Python.

I recorded the talk, with a screen dump, which is now available to view in your browser, thanks to Google Video, the video follow at the bottom of this post.  You can also download the video.

Also available is a Flickr Stream from the talk.

As per the e-mail sent out to the University this week, there is a possibility of the TUCS server undergoing an outage on Friday, April 9:00AM for up to three hours.

Please ensure that you are doing nothing important on your shell accounts/etc at this time, and apologies in advance for the outage.

–Chris

You may have noticed some changes happening in IDS. At our AGM in March, we changed our name to the TUU Computing Society, or TUCS. We’re having several launch events next week to help kick off the new society… we hope you can join us:

Friday, May 2, 1 PM.
TUCS Tech Talk: Introductory Python
Speaker: Chris Neugebauer
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 4, Centenary Building

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how to program in Python, a powerful, general purpose programming language, which is easy to learn, makes it easy to solve all sorts of practical problems, with an emphasis on making programming fun.

http://www.tucs.org.au/events/tech-talks/#python

In coming weeks we will be hosting more tech talks, so stay tuned.

Friday, May 2: 2 PM
TUCS Launch BBQ
Venue: Grassy Knoll outside the Centenary Building
Cost: Free for Members

We’re having a barbecue for members of TUCS. Bring your friends, they can sign up for $10 for student membership, $15 for staff.

Saturday, May 3: 10AM
TUCS LAN
Venue: Law 133
Cost: $10 for members

LAN runs from 10AM on Saturday until Sunday morning. A barbecue lunch will be provided.

Hope we can see you at the Launch.

– The TUCS Executive

Welcome to the new website for The UTAS Computing Society. We hope you find it useful and informative.