About

So at the behest of quite a few members complaining that UCC isn't a friendly place for non-techies, this year we are going to be trying to create a much more helpful atmosphere for incoming freshers (and current members as well). The first major step on this is the Fresher Guide. In years past the guide has been rather 'Wall of Text-y' and had a tendency to contain a lot of information that wouldn't help most freshers.

What you can do

WRITE! Look up a copy of the Fresher Guide on UCCs website and if there is something that doesn't seem helpful or could be better in your mind, then rewrite the section. I don;t care if we end up having 6 rewrites of the same part, I want to see what language the club thinks we should be using!

EDIT! Calling all Grammar Nazis... We don't wanna look like uneducated peons (such as myself) so we need people to go through with a fine tooth comb and tell us all the nitty gritty things that are wrong with our sentence structure and EVERYTHING.

NEW IDEAS Think there is a way of showing information that we haven't thought of? MENTION IT. This guide should be reasonably simple and easy to get information out of so if theres an idea you have, we'd love to hear it.

Layout

It has been suggested that we have two introductory documents. One being the Fresher Guide, which would be a pretty short basics document and a UCC Manual. If we have time, this is a great idea so what lies below is the layout ideas of BOTH documents, if however we run out of time we may just merge information.

FRESHER GUIDE Section 1: Welcome

• Presidents Welcome (DONE)
• About The UCC (The selling points)

Section 2: Finding Us

• Finding UCC
• Map/Photos

Section 3: Your account and Dispense

• Setting Up Your Account
• Dispense 101

Section 4: Events, Projects and other cool stuff

• LOOK AT ALL THE REASON YOU SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER!! (try to have this as the centrefold)

Section 5: Communication via Keyboard

• Communication (Mailing Lists, Redirecting UCC Email, IRC, Facebook, Website, etc)
• MAY NEED TWO PAGES

Section 6: More about UCC

• For the hardcore readers

BackPage

• GETTING HELP (This is here for ease of access)

PRESIDENT'S SPEECH 2013

• HELLO TINY FRESHER
  • AS YOUR PRESIDENT, IT IS MY JOB TO POINT OUT THAT YOU ARE TINY AND USELESS. HOWEVER, WITH TIME AND CARE, YOU MAY MATURE TO THE POINT THAT YOU MAY BE CONSIDERED A SECOND YEAR, IF YOU CONTINUE TO DO WELL, YOU MAY EVEN BE CALLED HUMAN.
  TO SURVIVE FIRST YEAR YOU WILL NEED TO JOIN UCC. WE HAVE CHEAP DRINKS. AND INTERNET. AND GAMES. REMEMBER, BRIBES ARE ALWAYS ACCEPTABLE. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE DANGER, ANY WHO DIE ARE FED TO THE SERVERS TO FEED FUTURE GENERATIONS.
  • PRESIDENT 2012

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Revised President's speech

President’s Speech 2.013x10^3

Hey everyone!!! I'm your president for 2012 - Ryan!! But everyone calls me "Rye-Rye" (we all give each other silly names like that - it's just one of the fun, socialable things we do :P)

We're a super fun club to be in but we're also a bit nerdy XD lol. Don't think we're weird or anything butヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ

We’re all super into video games (my favourite is the one where you play as Zelda (*^▽*)). Also there are some people who can do SUPER amazing stuff with computers (idk much about that tho XD)

Remember, the most important thing about our club is to HAVE FUN!!! We also have clubs near us like UWAnime (omg so kawaii desu right XD) so if you’re into things like Bleach and Naruto (Sasuke x Sakura 4 LIEF!!) they’re super cool and you should definitely check them out!

We also have a facebook page so you should totally like it and share it with all your friends. You should also subscribe to my youtube channels if you wants updates and stuff in the future. I also post some other personal stuff – anime AMV’s (One Piece and stuff), songs (I write and compose too!!) and other totes cool stuff like that. Don’t forget to like and comment!!

Anyway, I’ll wrap this up by saying UCC is totally the coolest club at UWA and we absolutely love any new members! ~Arigatou Gozaimasu!!!~

Getting things done

• Walk into clubroom
• Scream and flail arms about until somebody helps you

Basic Layout

• Map + Directions
  • This must be simple as possible
• Reasons to actually go to UCC
  • Make UCC seem really really good. Better than it is.
• Events and Projects
  • Events first. Quick descriptions and dates only. Make them seem worth going to.
• How to sort out your fresher shit.
  • List of people to ask, list of things they need to do
• Optional Things
  • List of things that are worth doing, eg. learning to use the machine or whatever, and who to ask about them.

Rye-Rye's shit

Shit I actually care about

1. Dispense Machine. Why?

• Food. Food and drinks. That is good.

Put in:

• How to get your account (i.e. get a committee member to do everything)
• How to put it on a card
• How to do all those other things
• That, or put in to ask a comittee member to do everything
• How to put money onto account

2. Games We have computers. The computers have vidja. That is good.

Important things:

• You need an account to get onto a computer
• Which computers have access to vidja
• Rules about using them (don't be dicks etc.)

3. How to get there

• Use ground level maps god damn guys
  • Also, what to do if it's shut
    • Also put in stuff about surrounding clubs
      • i.e. UniGames/Unisfa and how they are cool guys who fly around and fight all the bad guys
        • UDS/UWAnime and how they are not buff and not a cool

4. Cool things to do

• Using the music stuff
• Using that putty thing to use dispense
• CONNECTING TO THE UCC WIRELESS - THAT SHIT BE IMPORTANT

5. Holy fuck did you know that facebook was a thing and that people can use facebook to join the UCC facebook group holy shit guys

6. Events that I actually cared about

• The camp (especially about how freshers can go for free)
• The Lans

Other than those nothing else sounded that interesting

Jono's contribution

=== MUSIC AT UCC: ROBOTNIK ===

• We have an integrated music system with thousands of songs added by our users.

• The music system commonly known as robotnik is frequently playing music in the clubroom and can be controlled by any member.

• Any member can access robotnik from a web browser on one of the clubroom machines by simply putting robotnik/ into the address bar.

• Most of the music is located in the space directory and is usually listed by artist but may consist of separate folders created by members. *

• In the top right is the current song playing and the music controls.
• Just below this is the current playlist.

• To add to the playlist, click add button next to any song file or just click the title to immediately play the song.

• Keep in mind that there is a certain etiquette to the music playlist.
• It is considered very rude to replace the currently playing music with something else of your own choice.
• If you find the music is too loud it should be ok to turn it down a bit.
• Just remember that even if the music is not to your taste, it is to the person who put it on.
• There is a method to add any of your own music to the robotnik library using a program called WinSCP and you can also control the music from a terminal.

• Ask any committee, door, or coke member to assist you with this.

Making an account and logging into computers

Making an account and logging into the computers.

• You will need to find a committee member to do this
• Think of a username and password
• (Also, it may be beneficial think of a TLA, a Three Letter Acronym. This will be used to identify you in all written club communications.
• This is not necessary but it makes life easier for you and many others)
• Once the committee member has set up your account they will likely guide you through how to access the terminal on any machine.
• If not, then they have failed you, sorry. Try again or here's how to do it in written form.
• Find program called PuTTY and open it
• Type “yourusername”@motsugo into the Host Name section and hit enter if using a clubroom machine
• If at home or somewhere outside the clubroom, type "motsugo.ucc.asn.au"
• This will open a terminal which will ask you for your login username and then your password
• Don't worry about the characters not showing up when typing your password

• Congratulations, you have logged into motsugo.

Rewritten Fresher Guide

President's Welcome

Needs work still Congratulations! and thank-you for joining UCC (or at least picking up one of our fresher guides). Please start your membership by locating our clubroom filled with computers (most of which can play games), create your account (giving you access to our computers, more reliable than the university machines) and then discover our internet-connected coke and snack machines (along with complimentary $5 credit).

Once you've settled in, remember to attend our fresher welcome and "Learn to Linux [TM]" at the end of the first week (free pizza will be provided), followed by a LAN party the next Friday. Our club AGM is in

Welcome to Uni, and welcome to the UCC. Enjoy your time at the UCC, and we hope to see you around the clubroom.

John Hodge [TPG] UCC President 2012

Step 2: Getting an Account

Your UCC account is one of the most important things you can have as a member. It lets you log into any of our clubroom machines, as well as granting you access to our user servers, wireless network and online drink and snack machines.

* Once you're in the clubroom, ask a committee or wheel member to set up your account. Make sure you have your membership sticker ready (it's probably on your student card).

Now that you have an account, you can use it to log into any of our clubroom machines. If you want to log onto one of our servers, you'll need to use the ssh program (described later in this very guide). If you're having trouble, just ask someone in the clubroom --- we don't bite!

Accessing the UCC wireless network can be a bit tricky (particularly on Windows machines). See http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/Wifi if you're having any trouble.

Step 4: Communication Channels

Mailing Lists

The UCC mailing lists are the best way of getting in touch with other UCCans. Many of our members are not able to be around the clubroom due to work commitments, or because they are no longer in Perth. Yet still these members retain a partially active interest in the club through its mailing lists. UCC hosts numerous mailing lists, for all manner of topics, browsable via the web interface listed below. The UCC has a number of lists that you might be interested in:

• ucc-announce – all new members are automatically subscribed to this list
• ucc – the general discussion list, most of UCC's discussion takes place on this list, as well as announcements for informal events like parties and trips to the pub (when you're old enough). Most UCCans are subscribed to this list, subscribe now.
• committee – the open committee list, anyone interested in committee matters can sign up to this mailing list. The committee also has a private list for sensitive matters: committee-only.
• tech – the list for discussing the UCC's hardware and computers. General computer discussion should take place on the ucc list instead.

You can subscribe to mailing lists from our very retro interface at http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo

IRC

Without a doubt, the easiest way to waste time in or out of UCC is chatting on our Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server. It's also a great way to get help with problems you're having at UCC, with computers generally, or with Uni life.

You can connect with an IRC client to irc.ucc.asn.au:6667 and join the channel #ucc, or with a web browser go to http://irc.ucc.asn.au

Facebook

Join UCC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/universitycomputerclub/