Office Staff

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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"