Office Staff

The CSC office staff have the following responsibilities:

• Follow the Office Policies.
• Participate in Office Cleanup.
• Keep the office open as much as possible.
• Keep the office clean at all times.
• Shame people for leaving their stuff around.
• Adding new members.
• Updating memberships.
• Answer questions.
• Ensure that the CSC remains an inviting environment.
• Ask new people their names.
• Promote discussions about computer science.
• Make sure the fridge is always full of pop.
• Empty the small recycling bin into the big ones.

The office staff should be aware of:

• The IRC channel: #csc on irc.freenode.net.
• Printing can be done through MathSoc or MC 3016 (not really).
• The office group, homedir, and mailing list.
• The audio group.
• How to use ceo.
• syscom and exec emails.
• How pop works.
• How to use ssh.

How to IRC

Office Staff you should be aware of the IRC channel and should encourage club members to use it.

1. Open up an IRC client, e.g. irssi. Launch irssi in a screen session, which you can return to later.

 $ ssh taurine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
 $ screen irssi

2. In irssi, connect to the freenode network and join our channel.

 /connect irc.freenode.net
 /join #csc

3. Please set your nickname to your Quest ID so we know who you are.

 /nick $YOUR_QUEST_ID

You can register your nickname on the freenode network by messaging NickServ.

 /msg NickServ REGISTER password email 

4. Close your screen session, which you can return to later.

 CTRL-A CTRL-D

5. Return to your screen session. You will have remained connected to the channel.

 $ ssh taurine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca -t "screen -r"