What is SOCR?

SOCR: Student Operated Computer Resources, is run by student volunteers. Involvement is open to all University of Windsor students, not just CS majors. Although SOCR is run by students, we would also like to encourage faculty and staff to get involved too.

Getting involved with SOCR is easy. All that you need to do is start participating at SOCR meetings and activities. Please check the main page for when are where they are held. SOCR is always looking for eager volunteers to help out. Come and join the SOCR community.

There are many ways in which you can get involved. SOCR always has a few projects that are open for people to get involved with. Please check out the projects page for more information. And remember, if you have a suitable project of your own that you would like to get started but need some extra help, SOCR is always open to new ideas.

SOCR by-elections

Attention Students: Are you interested in Computing and Computer Resources? Student Oriented Computing Resources is looking for an entirely new executive team! Positions available are: President (must be a 3rd or 4th year student), Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Chief of Public Relations. Please send your name, email, and a 75 word description of yourself to socr@uwindsor.ca. The deadline for applications is Thursday November 10th, at 12AM.

There will be one week of campaigning and then the week of elections.

Posted by: terrym

Election voting postponed

Hi folks:
Sorry to inform you, but due to scheduling conflicts, and the inability to guarantee a consistent electoral staff manning the voting booth for the course of the day, we will have to extend the campaigning period until the beginning of the Intersession semester.

We regret the inconvenience, and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, etc. please do not hesitate to send them our way.

Posted by: terrym

Elections

Hi folks:
Welcome to the electoral campaign period for next year's SOCR board. We're looking at some fine people who are looking to run the organization soon enough, and I want to introduce them all to you.

• President:
• Omar Shahid

Omar has organized and run events for various student groups on campus, during which he demonstrated a strong management skill set. He is extremely interested in making SOCR an active student group, as he feels that it will improve the University's digital presence.

• Chief Executive Officer:
• Matt Renaud

Matt, going into his second year of Computer Science, is a student with an avid interest in open source software and system administration. He has shown an avid interest in getting SOCR off the ground, as both a service and a student group. He is also an honour roll student, and has been named an Outstanding Scholar for his excellent grades and work ethic. He feels that the organization will flourish under his leadership.

• Bilal Shafi

A third year sociology major, Bilal has extensive experience running businesses as the CEO, to which he hopes to bring his experience managing Connex Inc., Shafi Imports Inc., and Geoponics Inc. to SOCR. He also maintains an extensive network with other student groups on campus at the University of Windsor. He intends to use his organizational and time management skills to complete his duties with full effort and efficiency to achieve maximum potential.

• Chief Financial Officer:
• Mohammad Akbar

As the former CFO, Mohammad has experience working with the SOCR financials and budgeting. He has an avid interest in maintaining and keeping this organization alive, and his enthusiasm shows in his work.

• Chief of Public Relations
• Conrad Lukawski

Conrad is going into his second year of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. He is an avid follower of student politics and ethics, as well as the technical side of things. Enthusiastic about SOCR's future, he hopes that he can engender the same energy in the student body as the CPR. Skilled on the technical side of things, he also hopes to provide a better platform and service here on SOCR's web portal.

There you have them. These are the candidates for next year's SOCR board of executives. If you have any questions, comments, queries, criticisms, complaints, please send them to us (don't forget to remove the "n0spam" from our address) and we will hopefully be quick to respond. The actual voting will occur Wednesday, April 13th, from early to late (approximately 8am to 7pm) in the CAW Commons. Come fill out a ballot and do your part to see that SOCR goes in the direction you want it to.

Just a note: the celebratory meeting, post elections, will occur Friday, April 15th, at a convenient time for all those elected. Watch this space, and the next meeting announcement space above, for times and location, both of which will be set prior to the actual meeting. All are welcome!

Posted by: terrym

UWSA Annual General Meeting and call for nominations

Hey folks:
The UWSA's Annual General Meeting is coming up -- specifically, it will be Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 4pm in either the CAW commons or the Ambassador Auditorium on the second floor of the CAW. If enough students attend the Annual General Meeting, and we manage to establish quorum (approximately 240 students), the student body at large can make policy and decisions for the UWSA. As there have been some funding issues between SOCR and the UWSA recently, we can rectify those issues at the AGW with enough student support. So, please come out to the AGW on April 8th and show your support!

Also, a notice: SOCR is holding an open nomination period for all positions on SOCR running from Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 (today) to next Tuesday, April 5th, 2011. An election will be held on the following Wednesday, April 13, after electoral speeches. Time and location are still TBA, so watch this space for news.

Positions available:

• President (must be a 3rd or 4th year student)
• Chief Executive Officer
• Chief Financial Officer
• Secretary
• Chief of Public Relations

To submit your candidacy, email us (remove the "n0spam" from the mail link) with your name, the position you intend to run for, and a brief (200-250 words) description of why you should be considered for the position. This description will be posted on the SOCR website during the campaign period.

Posted by: terrym

Hello folks

Just to let all you folks know, there are going to be a few changes coming up, among them is a new site design at some point in the nearer future, some organizational changes reflected in a newly updated constitution and operating policy documentation -- the constitution will be posted first, the operating policies hopefully will be up by May -- in addition to several new services.

Posted by: terrym

Hello World from Socr: the Empire Strikes Back!

We are proud to announce the latest incarnation of Socr. After an epic battle against the dark forces of security and administration, Socr's web services are alive and performing well again. We have a lot planned for this year, and many of you would probably have already noticed that there exists another instantiation of the aformentioned copyrighted works... *ahem*... in the title of this post. Similarly, the battle wages on as Socr and team navigate the series of tubes full of development and software to come come for all the eager students and faculty at the University of Windsor. Please stay tuned.

Posted by: andrewsd

No more student signups

No sign of harddrives. Disabled student signups. Email socr@uwindsor.ca for inquiries.

Posted by: vic

New Software!

SOCR now has the SWI-Prolog (5.6.3) logic programming enviroment, enjoy :)

Check out the other software on the server (in compilation).

Posted by: vic

100% on /backup

Boy do we really need the new harddrives in asap or what?

Well anyways, you have been notified. No more daily backups. I'll try and clean the drive out over the weekends so we can alteast have the weekly and monthly ones going.

Posted by: vic

Upgrades

Well I'm usually the bearer of bad news so I thought that it was time enough to spread some joy around :)

The upgrades have been qualified and the order for the parts is pending. Check out : Upgrades

Posted by: vic

SOCR General Meeting

The SOCR general meeting is this coming thursday 5-7 Ambassador Board Room all welcome (as usual) ;)

Posted by: hutchic

100% Disk Usage on /home @ 1340 hrs

Well cheers to everyone who uploaded their briliant home videos, backed up their photo collections and are sharing their warez :)

SSH is disabled for the next 24 hours till we can clear some stuff up... no, the picture of your dog will not be removed so relax.

Update (Wed, November 2 : 1310) - Alright, we have a delay in operations, looks like it's going to be another 24-36 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience and if you really need something critical done, email vic@socr.bla bla you know the rest...

Update (Wed, November 3 : 1015) - Ok, we are up and running again, when you log on please do a "du -skh" and see that you are not using excessive space for the time being. cheers!

Posted by: vic

Counter Strike Source

SOCR is pleased to invite you to join the counter strike source server at 137.207.26.30 or click on the following link [Play].



Happy fragging :)

Posted by: hutchic

/home partition failure

The home filesystem experienced a partition corruption late evening on may 5th and had to be restored from the latest backup (may-4 ; 5 am)

Users may experience some data loss as the backups are not comprehensive.
Generally personal video files, large picture collections and the such are not backed up.

Posted by: vic

General Elections 2005

It is time for elections. Currently, SOCR is accepting nominations for different positions, which are:

• President
• Vice President Administration
• Vice President Online Operations
• Vice President of Operating Policy
• General Executive

Important Dates

Nominations Due: Friday, 18 March, 2005
Approx Election Date: Friday, 25 March, 2005
Posted by: admin

Account Suspensions

When signing up for an account users agree to the University of Windsor Acceptable use policy.

A number of accounts found with copyrighted material in their home directories have been suspended

Any users still wishing to apeal their suspension are asked to write to SOCR Support and explain themselves pursuant to article ten subsections one through three of the SOCR constitution
Posted by: hartfie

Get Involved

So you're interested in SOCR Projects, GREAT! This is the starting point for finding out information on projects. The best way you can get involved with SOCR is right here. They can be a lot of fun, and a great learning experience. SOCR tries to keep a very open policy, allowing anyone to get involved on a very wide variety of projects.

Quick FAQ:

Who can join a project? - Anyone.
Who can start a project? - Anyone.
How can I get involved? - Get in touch with the project contact person, or attend a SOCR meeting.
How would I start a project? - Draft a quick sketch of what it is, and present it at a SOCR meeting. Please inform Support to schedule this

Posted by: leavoy