Bumping again for the mentor sign-up! If you are an incoming Y3 and above student/recently graduated alumni, please do consider joining the mentor team and sharing your knowledge and experiences with incoming freshies! We would love to have you!

Sign up here by 31 July 2024, 2359! More details in this document.

Hey everyone! We’re NUS Hackers and we will be having our Welcome Tea this coming friday at UTown!

We would love to tell you more about our events and what it means to be a part of our community of hackers and builders.

If you’re already a part of our community, we still welcome you to come down to have a chat (and have some food on us 😉)

🗓 Friday, 16 August
🕖 7pm to 8pm SGT
📍 UTown Auditorium 2, NUS
🍕 Sign up for food here!
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NUS student


See you there 👋

No prior programming experience is needed to attend our events, we have beginner friendly events too! Come down to find out what's most relevant to you :)

We're still here! Come talk to us 👋

If you can't make it, we'll be having our Welcome Tea on Friday from 7-8pm @ UTown Audi 2 with free 🍕🍕

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WELCOME TEA STARTING IN 15 MINUTES! 🙏

@ UTown Audi 2

Hello all! We will be kickstarting our weekly events for the semester! Here are the events for the coming week ⭐

Wednesday
OpenHack 🆕

Thursday
Hackerschool: Introduction to Electronic Music Production

Friday
Friday Hacks
Talk 1: Security-as-code: Building our way to better security outcomes
Talk 2: Continuations: Five minutes to learn, a lifetime to understand

We are launching a new weekly initiative this semester, called OpenHack 🎁

We love open source, and we want to make it easier for those of you who want to contribute — with the help of the rest of the community and the project maintainers themselves.

This week, we will be inviting down maintainers of open source projects based in NUS, namely NUSMods, Lominus, and CourseRekt.

🗓 Wednesday, 21 Aug, 2pm to 4pm
📍 COM3-01-21, Seminar Room 12

Please fill up this form if you are planning to come. Some programming experience is expected.

We think this is a great chance to get some of you more familiar with open source, upskill yourselves, and contribute to something useful. Hope to see you there!

Hackerschool: Introduction to Electronic Music Production

🗓 Thursday, 22 Aug, 6:30pm to 9pm
📍 COM3-01-21, Seminar Room 12
🧁 Refreshments will be served!

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Join us in this exciting collaboration with NUS Electronic Music Lab! In this workshop, you will learn:

- A high-level overview about the tech involved in music production (MIDI + VSTs)
- Basic music theory (scales, chords, bass lines, melody)
- Beat making/patterns
- Basic effects and how to use them

Participants will work on a short 8-bar segment in BandLab, that can then be combined into a short song that everyone can listen to!

Speaker profile:
NUS Electronic Music Lab (EML) is a unique music arts group that focuses on original music composition, production, and performance through digital software and electronic audio technology. We feature a diverse range of musicians, and provide opportunities for our members to expand their networks and showcase their work. Find out more on our website!

See you there 👋

Friday Hacks #259 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 23 Aug, 7pm to 8pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-21, Seminar Room 12
🍕 Food and🧋Drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here!

Talk 1: Security-as-code: Building our way to better security outcomes
Despite our best efforts, we can’t hack our way to better security if we don’t solve problems at their root causes. However, long compliance checklists isn’t the way forward either. How can we apply software engineering to solve security problems? This talk will discuss various security products such as access control tooling, secure-by-default application components, and guardrails for developers. If you’re interested in both software engineering and security and wanted to learn how to use both, this is the talk for you!

🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤
Eugene Lim is building and hacking for good at Open Government Products where he solves cybersecurity problems with engineering solutions such as infrastructure as code, chaos testing, and GitOps.

Friday Hacks #259 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 23 Aug, 8pm to 9pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-21, Seminar Room 12
🍕 Food and🧋Drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here!

Talk 2: Continuations: Five minutes to learn, a lifetime to understand
The title assumes that the audience has five minutes. We will then go from there. An interactive talk which will be a lot of fun!

🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤
Olivier Danvy is interested in all aspects of programming languages, including programming and proving. A long time ago, he introduced shift and reset to a (then) completely unsuspecting world.

Ready to dive into the dirty work of spreading hacker culture?

Join the NUS Hackers Coreteam, and be part of the team that is empowered to make some of the most impactful hacking-related events in NUS and Singapore happen!

Click here to learn more about what we do, and for the application form! Sign ups close on 26th August.

Some common questions about joining:

What kind of candidates you are looking for?
We are looking for candidates that have an understanding of what hacking is, and are passionate about spreading hacking culture. We do not require candidates to have hacking experience/projects/skills, as long as they fulfil the condition above.

Do I need to have prior programming experience before joining?
No, we've had members whose first programming experience was in CS1010, and that's fine.

Do I need to be an SoC student to join?
No, we have coreteam members who are not from SoC! As long as you are an NUS student, you are more than welcome to apply!

Hi all! Quick update on the venue for our events this week.

They’ll all be held at COM3-01-21, Seminar Room 12. Let us know if you have any questions!