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Hello all!
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I am <span class="acr">UCC</span>’s newly-elected president for 2021, and I have a few things I’d like to
talk to you about.
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Firstly, to all new members — welcome! I hope you’ll explore what <span class="acr">UCC</span> has to
offer, and don’t hesitate to pop by our clubroom. To members who joined last
year, I invite you to re-engage the club now that we actually have an open
clubroom and can run events normally.
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While the clubroom is great, we also have a thriving online community. If you
haven’t already, please <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;"><a style="color:#1a5fb4;" href="https://discord.gg/aPpvXGy">join the discord</a></b> for idle tech chat, troubleshooting
help, committee conversations, and more.
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Now, I’d like to give you all an idea of what to expect this year from <span class="acr">UCC</span>.
There are some key areas I’d like to push this year with the committee’s help,
and a line up of events that we’re excited for and hope you will be too — if
there’s something you wish we had lined up, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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<h2 style="margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;color:#1a5fb4;font-size:18pt;" id="my-priorities-2021">My priorities for 2021</h2>
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<dl class="org-dl"><dt>Club culture</dt><dd><span class="acr">UCC</span> <i>can</i> offer tremendous value to our members, but is hard for
many students to get into. Every non-essential step between a mild interest in
computing and getting your hands dirty should be removed. Touching <span class="acr">UCC</span>’s
systems should not be seen as “a wheel thing”.</dd>
<dt>Room renovations</dt><dd>We’ve just had our tenancy contract renewed, and the room
is crying out for some <a style="color:#1a5fb4;" href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tender-loving-care">TLC</a>. This year is an ideal time to refresh the <span class="acr">UCC</span> clubroom.</dd>
<dt>Improved presence</dt><dd><span class="acr">UCC</span> has a history of under-promoting events, both with
posters and social media. We can do far better, and in 2021 I’d like to see us
actually do so. It’s early days, but we now have an <a style="color:#1a5fb4;" href="https://www.instagram.com/ucc_uwa/">instagram account</a>.</dd>
<dt>More club collaboration</dt><dd>Late last year we started running more joint events
with more clubs at <span class="acr">UWA</span>, let’s keep this effort going!</dd>
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<h2 style="margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;color:#1a5fb4;font-size:18pt;" id="event-lineup">The event lineup</h2>
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Look forward to a raft of events throughout the year! We’ve already had some
tech talks and an Artemis <span class="acr">LAN</span>, and we don’t plan on slowing down!
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All of the events below will be held in our clubroom in Cameron Hall (above the Tav).
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Coming up in our Tech Talk series we have
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<ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:2px;max-width:84ch;">Wk.4 (this) Tuesday [23rd Mar] 5:30pm. <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">Intro to Linux pt. 2</b> — setting up a server.</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:2px;max-width:84ch;">Wk.5 Tuesday 5:30pm [30th Mar]. <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">Intro to Git, version control</b> — “track changes” on
steroids, for all your files</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:2px;max-width:84ch;">Wk.6 Tuesday 5:30pm [6th Apr]. <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">Intro to Linux pt. 3</b></li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:2px;max-width:84ch;">Wk.8 Tuesday 5:30pm [27th Apr]. <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">Introduction to LaTeX</b> — the prettiest <span class="acr">PDF</span><small>s</small> you’ll see,
and the standard for published work in the mathematical sciences.</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:2px;max-width:84ch;">Wk.9,10,11 <b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">TBD</b></li>
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Have something you’d be interested in hearing, or be willing to give a talk on
yourself? Fantastic! Please let us know on discord (<code style="font-size:11pt;font-family:SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace;;background:#f9f9f9;">@committee</code>) or by emailing
committee@ucc.asn.au.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:0px;color:#1a5fb4;font-size:14pt;" id="vr-night"><span class="acr"><span class="acr">VR</span></span> Night</h3>
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<i>Wk.6 Friday [9th Apr] 3:00pm</i>
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With (once again) free Pizza for Freshers from 2021 and 2020, come by to play
with our Vive! We have <i>super hot</i>, <i>beat saber</i>, <i>keep talking and nobody explodes</i>,
and other non-vive games we’ll be putting on. It should be a blast 🎮.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:0px;color:#1a5fb4;font-size:14pt;" id="build-break-pc">Build and Break a PC</h3>
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<i>Wk.7 Tuesday [20th Apr] 5:00pm</i>
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<span class="acr">UCC</span> likes to keep our hardware up to date. So, every year we rebuild some of our
oldest <span class="acr">PC</span><small>s</small>. Come a long to learn about the internals as we take our old desktops
apart and put together some new ones.
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If you’re curious about building your own computer, if you bring some parts and
we’ll happily help you out while too, if you’re looking for
advice/tips/troubleshooting we’ve got that too!
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Hope to see you around, and have a great 2021!
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<b style="font-weight:500;color:#1a5fb4;">Timothy</b> <br/><i><span class="acr">UCC</span> President</i>
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