WVU Student Chapter of the ACM

Happiness is an Engineering Driven Culture

UNIX/Mac programmer, author, and google employee, Mark Dalrymple, came down from Pittsburgh last week to speak at our general meeting. His talk was phenomenal -- covered topics from the fabled Google 20% time to things he wished he would have payed attention to early on. Most importantly, to put all of our code in version control if it grows larger than 100 lines!!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 by abutcher

LOUD Platform LOUD Fest drew in a few guests but not really that many. If anyone is interested in checking out the development portal, please see the link below:

LOUD Platform Project

The development portal tells you anything you need to know to get LOUD running at home and also has guides for setting up LCSEE Repositories as well as for making your first Debian package. Highly recommended.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 by abutcher

WVU ACM Listserv We have a listserv! The club had one back in 2007, I think, but it has since been closed, so I opened one up with the college.

Details and what you need to know:
- Firstly, the address is wvu_acm@listserv.wvu.edu (case insensitive)
- Before you sign up, please realize that the list is completely open (in the free way) to ALL members of the list. This means that anyone on the list can post to the list, but don't fret! There are multiple ways to get mail from the listserv; you can sign up for a daily digest if you you'd rather not be spammed with tons of emails. But, that's not the vision I have for the list and I hope everyone keeps it clean. I don't want to have to moderate it like a big dictator. I will primarily be using the list for meeting announcements and followup material.
- Also, the list is archived online if you'd rather not get the emails at all and just check it there...
- The subscriber list is hidden, so you're completely safe. Go ahead, sigh it out.
- Dr. Menzies and I have ultimate control of the list. So, if we don't like the configuration it's simple to change.
So, I encourage you to sign up and please be responsible.

To sign up, go to this link: http://listserv.wvu.edu & simply create an account, find the list (hint: at the bottom), and then subscribe (note: you have to confirm the subscription).

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 by abutcher