Why should I donate?
Providing talks and other media files is not cheap. Our expenses include speaker, recording, transportation and hotel fees. We also need to maintain the servers that are used to host the files, and purchase new servers to keep up with the demand that our popular media files place on our servers.
How do I renew my membership?
Note: For the Fall 2020 term, you do not need to pay the $2 fee to renew your membership. We have extended the memberships of all members who had already paid their fee for Fall 2020 by one term, as we did for Spring 2020.
If you are already a member of the CSC and want to renew your membership, you can do so by coming in person to our office, or you may pay online. When renewing online you must pay more than the usual $2.00 to cover PayPal fees. A one-term renewal via PayPal comes out to $2.37.
How do I donate?
The Computer Science club accepts almost all forms of donation. The easiest and most convenient way to donate is by PayPal, by clicking the button below.
You can also support us through purchase of CSC branded goods from Zazzle. You may see inferior immitations, but we encourage everyone to purchase only 100% authentic CSC goods.
We also accept cheques, hardware, clothes, goats, and pretty much anything else that would be useful to us. Our mailing address is:
Computer Science Club Math & Computer 3036/3037 University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada
Be sure to make cheques payable to 'Computer Science Club'.
Our office phone number is (519) 888-4567 x33870.
Mathematics Endowment Fund
The Mathematics Endowment Fund has provided funding for a variety of projects, events, and hardware:
- A new disk shelf (24 disks x 2TB) for the NetApp filers donated by CSCF and MFCF, to be used to improve home directories
- Ginkgo, a server to improve CSC web hosting services
- Drives for Potassium-Benzoate, the server that runs mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- Potassium-Benzoate, the server that runs mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup, a server used for high performance computing
- Sodium-Benzoate, the server that previously ran mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
- A gigabit switch for the MathSoc offices (including ours)
- Academic talks
- Linux CDs for first-year students
- Caffeine, our primary server
- Various books for the CSC library
The Computer Science club graciously thanks the Mathematics Endowment Fund for their financial support.
MathSoc Capital Improvements Fund
The MathSoc Capital Improvements Fund has provided funding of new office hardware:
- Strombola and Bit-Shifter hardware upgrade (new motherboard, CPU and RAM)
- 2x 8-port 10Gbps SFP+ network cards for the Math Student Orgs routers/switches
- Natural-Flavours hardware upgrade (new motherboard, CPU and RAM)
Student Life Endowment Fund
The Student Life Endowment Fund has provided funding of new hardware:
- Biloba, a server to improve CSC web hosting services