SOCIS Newsletter! October Edition!

SOCIS Newsletter! October Edition!

Welcome to October SOCIS! I hope everyone is finally nice and settled and are riding through the first wave of assignments and midterms smoothly. If you know someone who would like to be on the mailing list for the newsletter but for some reason don’t know how, please direct them to http://socis.ca and click on the subscribe newsletter button on the right hand side of the webpage. And now onto our upcoming announcements and events!

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SOCIS CTF

Thursday, October 15, 2009

7:00 pm

Johnston Green

Come and join in on the fun with SOCIS on Thursday for some outdoor fun playing Capture the flag. We will meet in the SOCIS lounge for 7pm and go out to Johnston Green for some CTF fun. Don’t forget your running shoes and athletic wear!

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Paintball

Friday, October 23, 2009
Mountain underpass

Price: $5 admission, $25 for 500 paintballs.

People, it's that time of year again when our clothes are too clean and our trigger fingers are itchy. That's right! It's paintball season. We're headed off to The Paintball Arena in Kitchener for a night of Speedball, Zombies, and Capture-the-Flag. Meet us at Mountain underpass at 7pm on October 23rd and we'll bus over to Kitchener.

Admission and equipment rental is $5, and 500 balls are $25. SOCIS will make a bulk purchase of balls so that everyone has some to start, but bring some cash in case you get trigger happy. And if you have your own gun, bring it along.

Hope to see everyone there!

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Trick or Eat

The annual Trick or Eat is fast approaching again!

“Only on one night a year do households expect their dinner hour to be interrupted in order to distribute free and edible items to all who ask. Trick or Eat puts a new spin on Halloween as costumed youth canvass their neighbourhoods collecting food for local social service agencies. At the same time, students raise awareness about local hunger and volunteer opportunities that allow their neighbours to get involved in addressing hunger.”

* Meal Exchange

Stayed tuned on news regarding this from SOCIS closer to the end of the month.

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Special Interest Seminars

Oct. 21

7:00 pm

Reynolds building Room 008 [Mac lab across from the lounge]

Topic: Get to know OS X — It's not as scary as you think

[forum post: Get to know OS X]

This month and next, SOCIS will continue to run CIS-related seminars. These are student-led topics to introduce or re-acquaint you with various technologies that can make your life in CIS much easier. This seminar is intended for beginners and intermediate users of OS X, but anyone who isn't a power user will come away with at least something new.

Get to know the desktop and OS, command line access, network settings, disk image management, and for the coders, an overview of writing, compiling, and running C and JAVA programs in OS X.

We'll also show how to create a project in Xcode [An IDE provided by Apple; sort of like Eclipse].

Future dates are Oct 28, Nov 11, and Nov 25, topics to be announced.

For more details, or if you want to contribute by presenting at a future event, please contact Chad Chabot at vice@socis.ca.

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SOCIS Thursday Meetings

Every Thursday

5:30 pm

Reynolds 219

Do you have a great idea for a SOCIS event but don’t know who to talk to? Come out to the weekly SOCIS meeting and have your voice heard! We are always looking for new and exciting ideas for things do to during our time off the computer so drop by. After meetings we often have a game (or many games) of Mafia, so stick if out and conspire against your friends!

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CISters

Next meeting is Oct. 21

5:00 pm

Reynolds 219

CISters mandate is to encourage women to pursue careers in computing and information sciences. CISters provides a supportive environment and positive female role models to promote computing related careers to CISters members.

They run a number of events each semester, from Exam Stressbuster Game Night, movie/tv nights, and more. You've seen them on campus at our CIS bbq in September.

You can contribute by volunteering your time at events and by giving input at meetings [and becoming members: guys, it's not just for girls].

Upcoming events include GoEng Girl and a presentation from the attendees of the Grace Hopper Conference

The current newsletter can be found at CISters Oct. Newsletter.
Their url is cisters.ca.

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Don’t forget about the basic services that SOCIS provides for you such as 50 cents pop and free printing in the lounge! If you haven’t already come find us in the basement of the Reynolds building! SOCIS also has a Facebook group, so come find us by searching ‘SOCIS Guelph’ in your Facebook search bar.

Thank you very much for reading the SOCIS newsletter and I hope to see you at our future events!

Regards,

SOCIS Executive Team

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