Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)

Location:
Soda Hall, rm 320

Description:

After the Google infosession. We'll break out the ice cream after Google's pizza.
One hour long.

Agenda

• Chatting, wassup
• Server status
  • Jeremy set up the server. Now running on dual RAID.
  • Mail services up. Are people getting mail?
  • You have an alias!
  • Can someone write a cron job back-up script that backs up DB and website?
• Historian: photos are up! (thanks to Fu and Bryce)
• Secretary
  • All notes online! :D
  • General meeting notes?
• Alumni rel update (Peng)
  • Interviews
  • Mailing list
  • Incentives
• Ind rel update (Chris)
  • Fu ~ chevron?
  • Steve ~ Lockheed: resume book only
  • Steve ~ Tellme thinks we're HKN.
  • Chris ~ Yahoo?
  • Chris ~ should we beg Dana? Why is HKN getting all of the infosessions?
  • Chris ~ any resume books checked off for candidates?
• Stud rel update - any event dates? (Alex L)
  • Video game tournament
  • AUWICSEE/HKN/IEEE contact?
  • CSUA workshop dates/times?
  • TeleBEARS tabling times ~ Oct 17
  • Where are the shirts in the office?
  • Factset donut run
  • PHP workshop (Chris, Bryce)
  • Need help?
• Dept Rel
  • EECS Student Calendar project
  • User testing of CS website
    • Asked Collin for prizes
  • Faculty-student dinner meeting
  • Interview questions database {opt}
• Candidate affairs
  • It's been three weeks: anything to report?
  • Targetting graduate students
  • New requirements --- were candidates informed?
  • Contact candidates with specific interests?
  • Need to work with Activities Director, Student Rel on planning events.
  • GM2 topics (everyone)
  • Post bios and photos online: have each officer interview one or two candidates, and post a little bio about the candidate online, and have each candidate post a little bio about the officer online.
• Publicity
  • Python back-to-back flyer
  • Ind rel brochure (Jen+Chris)
  • Website theme improvements (Jen+vice presidents+candidates) {opt}
    • e.g. icon
    • HKN is revamping their website
    • and our website might not look too friendly for industry, faculty people
    • Should we evaluate our website's effectiveness?
• Website and Project Planning
  • Critiques. is it too hard to use? (everyone)
  • Tour of officers pages
• Office
  • Moving plans (Fu?)
    • Begin by Craigslisting all the crap we don't need? Like that printer?
  • We need a desktop computer. (by Chris Willmore, Peng, ...)
    • I have a Pentium III I can donate (Steve)
    • Or, if anyone else has a spare computer.
    • How many ethernet ports do we have available to us?
  • Where are the shirts?
  • What is the room combination?
• T-shirt
  • Let's just get it for alums, officers, members/candidates pay, and if there is sufficient interest from other people, we can take pre-sign-ups and then print it (rather than print 200 shirts that nobody wants).

Location:
Soda Hall, rm 310

Description:
Python is the hottest scripting language now. We could debate the merits of Perl and the many facets of Ruby, but, let's face it. Big companies like Google, ILM, and Pixar use Python in their pipelines. We'll give you a gentle introduction to Python.

Presented by:

• Aaron Steele, software developer and analyst for the Digital MVZ project
• Mike Hoisie, CSUA
• Steven Chan, UPE

Details about Mike Hoisie's file-sharing example

Simpleshare by Michael Hoisie and Barath Raghavan

To use this program, copy the files you want to share in the same
directory as simpleshare.py.

Essentially, this program starts an HTTP server on the local machine,
and registers the HTTP addresses of the files in opendht (an online
distributed hash table service) through the XML RPC interface (more
information at opendht.org).

Lets say you run `python simpleshare.py file.txt`. First, it generates
the MD5 hash of file.txt. Lets call this H. Next, it stores the tuple
(H, 'file.txt http://locahost:8181/file.txt') in opendht. When clients
look up the MD5 hash of the file, they will see the filename, as well
as the URL of the file.

Then, it starts an HTTP server in the local directory which serves the
files.

#!/usr/bin/python
# usage: ./simpleshare.py
import sys, socket,os, SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib, sha, SimpleHTTPServer, SocketServer
d=xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://opendht.raghavan.org:5851/')
u='http://'+socket.gethostname()+':8181/'
for f in sys.argv[1:]:
k=sha.new(open(f,'rb').read())
print 'Sharing: ', f, ": ", k.hexdigest()
d.put(xmlrpclib.Binary(k.digest()), xmlrpclib.Binary(f+' '+(u+f)),9999,"")
SocketServer.TCPServer(("",8181), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()

Simpleget.py looks in opendht for the data given the MD5 hash. It
should return the file name, and the URL of the file. Then, it
downloads the file through urllib2, and writes it to disk.

#!/usr/bin/python
# usage: ./simpleget.py
import sys, os, SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib, sha, binascii, urllib2
d=xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://planetlab13.millennium.berkeley.edu:5851/')
k=xmlrpclib.Binary(binascii.unhexlify(sys.argv[1]))
v, p = d.get(k,1,xmlrpclib.Binary(""),"")
open(v[0].data.split()[0],'wb').write(urllib2.urlopen(v[0].data.split()[1]).read())
Files from the presentation attached.

Location:
Soda Hall, rm 306

Description:
The Python programming language plays critical roles in not just computer science, but animated films, bioinformatics, and websites. Language visionary Guido van Rossum will weave his tale on how he crafted Python fifteen years ago, and how he continues to maintain it today. Mr. van Rossum will reminisce about the early days and the not-so-early days of his language. (Even the future might be mentioned!) There will be plenty of opportunity for audience interaction. There will also be a dinner with Guido after his talk. Seating is very limited, so please RSVP if you are interested.