[Cs-club-l] Meeting Notes 10/22

Hi Everyone,

Here are some of the things that we talked about during yesterday's meeting.

Alec won the Super Smash Bro Tournament during Saturday's LAN Party.
The Club will now be selling sodas (for $.50) and Rockstars (for $2 each).
There is a new T-shirt design idea. The CS club is a rocket ship shooting laser beams at asteroids.

The next club meeting will take place on Monday, November 5 @2 in Darwin 25.


CS Club Events:
There will be a LAN Party/Magic Night on Saturday, 11/17 @6:00PM in the Darwin basement.
There will be a cost of $5 that includes pizza and soda.
There will also be Steam access, LOL, Starcraft 2, TF2 and many more games. Please feel free to bring your own mouses and keyboards.

Here are some of the future WICS events:

WICS Events:
The !(Hack_A_Thon) will take place on Saturday, 11/10 @12:00-8:00PM in the Darwin basement.
A Vertigo Talk will take place on Friday, 11/30 @ lunch time.


I hope to see you all at the next club meeting,

Maddy Heit
Secretary of WICS and Computer Science

[Cs-club-l] REMINDER: Meeting 10/22

Hi All,

I hope that everyone who showed up to the LAN Party last night had fun. I would like to remind everyone that tomorrow there is a meeting @2:00PM in Darwin 25. 

See you there,

Maddy Heit

Secretary of Computer Science and WICS

[Cs-club-l] LAN PARTY 10/20

Hi Everyone,

I just want to let everyone know that we will be having a LAN Party on Saturday 10/20.
It starts at 6pm and we will be having Super Smash Bros Competition.

There is a cost of $5 but it includes pizza and soda.

There will be Steam access, LOL, Starcraft 2, TF2, Age of Empires and many more games. Feel free to bring  any consoles and games.

I hope to see you all there!

Maddy Heit
Secretary of Computer Science and WICS

[Cs-club-l] Meeting Notes 10/8

Hi Everyone,

I hope that you all had a great weekend. 

Guest Speaker:

Today we had a guest speaker, Kevin Zack, come to the club to talk about getting a school team together for a program called Arliss. The idea is to build a come-back rover that will be launched out of a rocket at 12,000 feet and needs to get back to a GPS location. He is hoping it would be a collaboration between the CS, ES and Physics clubs. The CS Club would be in charge of getting it to come back to a certain GPS location.

Since the club seems to have enough interest, he is going to see if he can get money to put this together.
This is aimed at Sophomores and Juniors since next semester will be the planning stage and then the semester after that will be the building.

If you want more information you can email Kevin:

KZack@universe.sonoma.edu

T-shirts:
Since we don't know if we can put a Seawolf on the shirts due to copyright infringement, we talked about having the shirts just say "Computer Science Club" on the front with "Space Rays will Flip Your Bits" on the back.

Unless someone wants design something to put on the shirt, that's all it will have.
The colors will be blue/navy and white.

AwesomeTimes:

There are limited Mac addresses, so if you paid and don't have the password find Kristi, Matt, Tim or Will and they will give it to you.

CS Club Events:

Saturday, October 20 - @6pm - 10pm there is going to be a LAN Party as well as a SSB Tournament (Super Smash Bros). There will be both Melee and Brawl.

                                    There is a cost of $5 but it includes pizza and soda. 

                                    There will be Steam access, LOL, Starcraft 2, TF2, Age of Empires and many more games. Feel free to bring  any consoles and games.

                                    

 Monday, October 22 - @ 2pm there is going to be a meeting in Darwin 25 

WICS Events:

Saturday, November 3 - !(Hack_A_Thon) (Pronounced Not Hack-a-thon) Estimated time is 12pm-8pm but is subject to change.

                                     This will be an all day event where anyone can come with a programming project they would like to work on and try to have something from it by the end of the day. Even if you don't have an idea, come anyway and see 

if you can help someone else with their idea. It will be a great opportunity to work with others, learn something new, and work on something you've always wanted to do.

Hopefully I will see you all at the LAN Party!

Maddy Heit

Secretary of Computer Science and WICS

[Cs-club-l] Meeting Reminder and Rockets

Hey everyone!

Just reminding you we have a meeting on Monday, 10/8 at 2pm in Darwin 25.

But this won't be just any meeting.

Kevin Zack from Arliss will be talking about getting the CS, ES and Physics clubs together to build a come-back rover that will be launched out of a rocket at 12,00 feet that needs to get back to a GPS location. If that sounds like something you're interested in please come to the meeting so Kevin knows there is interest. It sounds like a really awesome opportunity for the clubs and it would be great if as many as you can come as possible.

Hope to see you there!

Kristi Yost
CS Club President

[Cs-club-l] Short-term job opportunity - Apple Consultant

Hi again everyone,

Dr. James Fouche sent out this request today. If you have experience with both Mountain Lion and iOS6 integration and want to help out send him an email.

Thanks,
Matt

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Fouche <james.fouche@sonoma.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:01 PM
Subject: Apple Consultant

Hi -- I am a professor in the school of education seeking a student to
assist me in setting up a new MacBook Air laptop.  I am a longtime mac
user but I am retiring soon and cannot get assistance from SSU IT
dept.  This person should be very familiar with Apple products and
systems -- e.g. newer OS X versions and iPhone and iCloud etc. Someone
who can set things up and help me deal with iTunes and Apps would be
ideal. Technical knowledge and communication skills are important.  I
will pay this person a mutually agreed to fee for services. Any
suggestions you have are appreciated.

Jim Fouché, Ph.D.

[Cs-club-l] Second position still available: CS students needed to help program a geospatial web-based tool for NASA-funded research

Hello fellow CS Students,

Dr. Clark sent an email today informing me of a second position for this project is still available. This is a great opportunity to get some experience, work under a NASA funded grant, and will look great on a resume. Also it is an on campus job.

Have a great day and good luck!
Matt
CS Club Vice President

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Computer Science <csclubevents@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Subject: [Cs-club-l] Another NASA Position on Campus - CS students needed to help program a geospatial web-based tool for NASA-funded research
To: CS Club Email List <Cs-club-l@lists.sonoma.edu>

Hi fellow CS Students,

Dr. Clark sent me this email today. This is a different position than the one sent out from Dr. Cominsky last week. This is a great opportunity, and would look great on a resume. 

Good Luck!

Matt

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The Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA) in the Geography Dept. has a new NASA research grant to update the functionality of its "geoweb" tool used for collecting land-cover reference data from Google Earth.  The tool is called the Virtual Interpretation of Earth Web-Interface Tool (VIEW-IT), described in this publication, http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/3/601

Some parts of VIEW-IT were developed by past SSU CS undergraduates David Turover and Joseph Muller a couple of years ago.  

We are in need of one to two motivated and talented CS students that want paid work experience ($12/hr) to continue development of VIEW-IT.  A main goal is to make the system more robust and accessible for global crowd-sourcing of reference data needed in mapping land-cover from satellite and other remotely-sensed imagery.   Fig 1 in the publication explains the full suite of skills that are needed (JavaScript, PhP, SQL, CGI, maybe some python scripting).   Funding starts on October 1 and work could continue into next semester and the summer of 2013.

More background on the scope of the NASA grant funding this research can be found here:

http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/stars/ 

Please contact Dr. Matthew Clark (aka "Mateo") by email if interested (matthew.clark@sonoma.edu).

Matthew L. Clark, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA)
Department of Geography and Global Studies
Sonoma State University, California USA
Ph: 707-664-2558; Fax: 707-664-3332

[Cs-club-l] Reminder

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to remind everyone that the CS Club will be hosting the presentation of "What's In My Computer" tomorrow in Darwin 25 @3.

Will will bring in pieces of Hardware to show and to touch. He will be taking apart and putting back computer hardware. 

Hopefully I will see you all there!

Maddy Heit

Secretary of Computer Science and WICS