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

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"