Forum
HVAC update: now doing
New mice at end of year?
Listed it on the docs.
OIT contact email review.
Consensus: back for more edits.
“Small black router”
Moving to second floor for glorious wifi, and probably also in SC360.
Names for the second floor?
“COSI Down”
“Old COSI”
“SAT Dungeon” / “Dungeon” (currently has consensus)
“Western Front”
Lightning Talks
Brief introduction to talks.cslabs.clarkson.edu and how/who/when can lightning talks do.
A viewing of Wat, by Destroy All Software, guided by Benjamin Lannon. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Jared Dunbar showed management’s cacti instance, which provides network traffic monitoring.
Graham Northup showed off the Senpai Simulator 2016, a quick little hack in pygame demonstrating interfacing with gamepads.
Michael Fulton gave an excellent presentation about esoteric programming languages.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BQ4hpB2oooFwDFcahUVp3aCkts9aPdH2ooO6rhnTiCQ/edit?usp=sharing
Covered esolangs:
Chicken
Shakespeare Programming Language
Chef
Beeswax
Programming Language
Derpcode
Brainfuck
Verbose
TrumpScript
Befunge
HVAC history story from Kyle.
See a COSI member to hear the full story.
Summary: some idiots sleep-deprived COSInauts destroyed university property, to no one’s happiness.
Project Updates
Rust Workshop continues this Sunday at 14-16.
Contact richarcm@clarkson.edu if interested. Topics covered will include resource management and polymorphism.
Management still looking for contributors.
Contact dunbarj@clarkson.edu if interested. Especially if you can, or want to learn how to, sling HTML or Python.
COSI Robotics projects beginning now!
Contact fultonms@clarkson.edu if interested. There are projects ideas hot and ready to go!
Announcements
IgniteCS.
Google-funded grants for college students to teach local students (esp HS) computer science things. Deadline in 4 days. Hustle if you’re interested, email jnm@clarkson.edu cc lannonbr@clarkson.edu
Git Workshop Thursday (TOMORROW!) at 17.
Contact lannonbr@clarkson.edu if you have questions.
Siege Technologies is coming back next week to give talks at the meeting (3rd year in a row!) and provide FREE PIZZA.
Next Thursday, GE is giving a talk. They’re hiring CS majors!
Career fair next week. Every COSI member should
Clutter.
Don’t leave your shit in the labs, especially shit you scrounged from the OIT recycling/trash heap.
Want an account on the COSI lab machines so you can have persistent, safe storage?
Talk to a lab director, northug@clarkson.edu, dunbarj@clarkson.edu, or richarcm@clarkson.edu and mention the AOL Keywords (TM) “LDAP Account”.
Rouslan (COSI alum) gave practice interviews.
Rouslan is a tough interviewer, so it should have been good practice. Some feedback will be on the list soon. Everyone should heed it.