Monday 3 October 2022

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General

  • Thanks to everyone who submitted headshots for the website!
    • Message in #web-committee if you'd like to add/change your headshot
  • Sign up for CSC Committees Coffee Chats
    • Plan is to do sign-ups every week (so you can opt out of weeks when you're busy)
    • Deadline for this week: Tuesday, October 4 - 11:55 pm ET

Termcom/Syscom

  • Had our first meeting last week
    • *almost* finalized termcom membership
  • Nullsleep is *half* down
    • Sorry about office status indicator + music
    • We’re fixing it
  • Organizing committee members have been added to the Progcom Unix group
    • Except those who aren’t CSC members for the term (sign up please!)
      • 19 of you - Ext affairs 5, Design 5, Events 4, Bot 1, Marketing 2, Rep 1, Photographer 1
      • You can check if you’re a member by searching for your name at https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/about/members/
    • Gitea syncs via these groups for {web,sys,term}com, kudos to merenber for helping me tackle this
  • Goals this term:
    • CSC online membership
      • WUSA store API + webform workflow
        • Auth via UW ADFS (Microsoft UW email login)
        • Check a box to agree to MUA if signing up for first time
        • Enter WUSA store receipt details
        • Get automatically registered/renewed through CEO API
      • Will possibly eliminate cash in CSC office/MUA binder/WatCard checking at some point
    • UW-wide self-hosted FOSS password manager
      • Accessible to all UW students, staff, faculty, everyone!
    • CEO revamp
      • If you would like to try your hand at a termcom Python issue let raymo know!
    • new mirror projects
      • Mirror disks have been upgraded and we’ll be expanding projects in the near future

Events💖

  • Events that have concluded:
    • BOT & Google Collab
    • CSC First-Year Orientation (inaugurated many first-years into CSC)
    • Bootcamp
  • Project Program Kick-off on Wednesday went really well! Lots of interest and applicants
    • Huge Kudos to Adele, Zhehai, Carolyn, Siting, Peter and Joseph!!!!
    • Mentor and Mentee applications have gone out and are due Oct 7
    • Hoping to collab with LCS again in future events
  • CSC Circles has gotten >140 applicants 🎉
  • Meeting with Ext. Affairs Update
    • Establishing better roles when it comes to communicating with companies
  • Meeting with Marketing & Design on Wednesday at 8
  • Coming-up:
    • October Code Party!
      • Oct 5 6:00-8:00PM - at STC 0060
    • CSC Circles Kick-off!
      • Oct 6 starting 4:30 pm - at MC 1084
    • Rico AMA, Afterhours, Prof Talks, and Karaoke coming after Reading Week!🎉
    • HS outreach event
      • Who would be interested in participating?

Marketing

  • Campus tour video
  • Posted another (NOT) 73 Questions
  • Marketing requests done
    • Project Program
    • BOT
  • Coming soon: another episode of (NOT) 73 questions
    • IG quiz about CSC history
    • Newsletter

External Affairs

  • Helped with reaching out to LCS, got a pretty cool connection going there
  • Talked to some companies about a potential event for November 👩‍💻
  • Reached out to some local high schools to organize an event with the CSC 📚
  • Currently attempting to gain sponsorships for November Code Party or EOT 🤑

Photography

  • BOT photos
  • First Year Orientation
    • ^will be made available for everyone after recap post is posted
  • Headshot sign-ups

Design

  • Finished 🥳:
    • Project Program kickoff
    • Project Program mentee/mentor apps
    • CSC circles kickoff
    • Elections
    • BOT
    • Bootcamp mentee apps
    • Bootcamp mentor apps
    • F22 Orientation
  • In Progress:
    • BOT IG post
    • Code Party
  • To do:
    • CS class profile mailing list
    • Rico ama post (due oct 9 not sure if we can make it 😥
    • Project program icon (same ^
    • Csc banner

Community Representatives (Reps) 😎

  • What we did:
    • First general meeting nearly 2 weeks ago, first initiative meetings one week ago
    • Swag: currently researching different kinds of merch, prepared to release + sell this term, with consideration of the amazing $2k budget
    • Class profile: team is reviewing the 2022 class profile survey-creating process to prepare for the 2023 class profile, web committee is working hard to finish up the 2022 class profile
    • Internship repo: created 2023 internship repo + shared access with all reps
    • Office team: brainstorming ideas to draw more external attention + bigger sense of community to our office
  • What we plan to do:
    • Swag: finalizing merch item ideas for the term
    • Class profile: continue reviewing survey-creation process
    • Internship repo: create an internship opportunities submission form for anyone to fill out, researching opportunities
    • Office team: keep brainstorming + solidifying office activity ideas

CodeyBot Developers (Discord)

  • Onboarded new members
  • Everyone finished setting up their bots locally and made PRs
  • To be released
    • Infrastructure improvements
    • Larger profile picture image for user profile
    • Fixed word pluralization
    • Updated info command to contain more relevant information
  • Plans
    • Opt-in role for being pinged when office opens
    • Unit tests
    • Slashify commands
    • Uptime command
    • More games
    • More infrastructure improvements
    • Let us know any suggestions you have for Codey!

Web Committee

  • What we’ve been doing:
    • Have been working hard on the Class Profile
      • Finishing up all of the different graph types
      • Working on front page/menus
    • Working on online memberships with Syscom.
    • Housekeeping the website (events, news)
  • What we plan to do:
    • Finish up class profile
    • Update website with everyone's photo
    • More improvements to the website, such as an office status indicator.
    • Office library management software