[committee] Collaboration with UCC

[Felix von Perger]

Hi CSSC,

Hope all is going well, and hope you get your clubroom back soon.

I'd like to propose a few options for collaboration, over the winter 
break and next semester, since UCC and CSSC are both computer clubs and 
probably there is a reasonable proportion of members with similar interests.

Firstly, we're organising a couple of events ourselves over the break, 
primarily UCC Camp 2019, two nights from 12-14th July at Camp 
Leschenaultia - see the Facebook event at
https://www.facebook.com/events/1946484708796218/

Essentially the camp is a social event but with a heavy focus on 
interesting tech stuff and creating an environment for people to work 
collaboratively on computer-related projects, including pitch sessions 
and some hands-on computer networking tutorials. We're also encouraging 
students to run talks/workshops on topics they think are worth sharing - 
so far we have talks about getting started with Software Defined Radio 
(SDR) and DNS Tunnelling with iodine. In short, it's going to be a fun 
and interesting weekend, and tickets are available to students for only 
$70 (until 16th June).

If you would please be able to share the event and details with your 
members, that would be fantastic.

Regarding other events - on the 17th June (2-6pm) we are running a "Tech 
Fixup", which will involve a range of server administration tasks to be 
performed on our server infrastructure (in the UCC clubroom). The intent 
is for people who are interested in systems administration to get some 
hands-on experience and at the same time engage with the more technical 
side of the club. Let me know if that sounds interesting and I'll keep 
you up to date.

Another interesting opportunity has come up relatively recently - David 
Glance has been organising an Ethical Hacking group at UWA, with the 
intention to compete in various online competitions against other 
universities. Completely coincidentally, next semester we are hoping to 
organise an event for people to compete in an online Capture-The-Flag 
competition (CTF) of some sort next semester (unsure which one, but it 
will probably be a 24-48h event held in the Cameron Hall Loft). If 
you're interested in collaborating we could work on getting 
grants/sponsors for food/drink/etc during the event, and also promoting 
the event.

Next semester we'll also be running a series of tech talks and workshops 
focusing on various interesting things, including an "intro to sysadmin" 
course, among others. Again, it would be great if you could help by 
sharing these events with your members (let me know if you're interested 
and I'll keep you informed).

Lastly, we'd be very keen to organise a "Computer Club Quiz Night" - 
since CSSC already runs something like that I was thinking we could 
simply work together on organising it this year. Sometime around 
August-September would probably be best, if you're interested. For this 
we could also contact some of the several other computer clubs on campus 
and see if they would be keen - including Data Science Club, Coders for 
Causes, Robogals, etc.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Felix von Perger
President of the University Computer Club (UCC)