[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

[Cs-club-l] 9/24 Notes

Hi Everyone!!!

Notes:

Sodas will be on sale for 50 cents. Just find and ask an officer if you are interested.

Awesometimes-  Our own router died on Wednesday. It is not that useful and will only work in select rooms. People want to use there devices in the Darwin basement.

Donations start at $1, and will be used to help the router reach the classrooms, as soon as possible. Donations can be given to Tim, Matt, or Kristi.

WICS will be hosting field trips next semester.

T-shirts: Can't use the Seawolf logo. If anyone has a design or anyone else has a design that they can think of, please bring it to the next CS Club event.

Saturday, October 3 - @ 3pm there is a Presention by Will of "What's in My Computer?" in Darwin 25.

                                 Will will be taking apart computers and putting this back together. He will also let students touch and use different pieces of hardware.

                                This is being hosted by the CS Club

Monday, October 8 - @ 2pm there is going to be an other Meeting in Darwin 25

Saturday, October 20 - @6pm there is going to be a LAN Party as well as an SSBM Tourney (Super Smash Bros)

                                   There will be tournaments and it will be a lot of fun!  Please bring $5 for pizza and sodas. There will be Steam access, LOL, TF2, and Age of Empires. Feel free to bring  any console and games.

                                   This is being hosted by the CS Club

 Monday, October 22 - @ 2pm there is going to be an other Meeting in Darwin 25 

These are some of the upcoming WICS Events:

Saturday, November 3 - There is going to be a !(Hack_A_Thon). It is going to be an all day event.

                                    People will be there to help you with problems.

                                   This is being hosted by WICS

Thanks,

Maddy Heit

Secretary of Computer Science and WICS