Hi, We're coming up to Freshers' week and I'd like to give you some important dates: 21st September 2011, 11am - 3pm: Societies Fayre, Kings Playing Field Marquee (the big white tent, should be easy enough to find); Come along and get signed up for the next year. Membership fee is only £3. You may also be able to pre-order hoodies, which will cost approx. £30. More details on the hoddies will be available as soon as I can organise them which is very much in progress. 28th September 2011, 1pm - 4pm: AUCS Helpdesk, Meston 205 (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/information/floorplan/show_room?room=205); First years can attend this session and receive help in installing the required course software including the Java Development Kit and BlueJ. 28th September 2011, 6pm - late: AUCS open(/dev/night), MacRobert 106 (first floor, last computer lab on the right); Our weekly meeting, every Wednesday, and this is the first one. There will be a short introduction from the President, and possibly a talk from someone from the Rowett Institute about Linux and FOSS (free and open source software). This is also a great opportunity for you to meet others studying your course and put forward any ideas you have for anything you'd like to see the society do. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Hope to see you at these events, Iain. -- Iain Learmonth President Aberdeen University Computing Science Society AUSA Butchart Center University Road AB24 3UT e: iain@xxxxxxxxxxxx t: +447869532714