It's been fantastic to meet so many new people at our events over Freshers' Week!

If you haven't had a chance to go to any of our events so far, why not come along to some this week; read on for our calendar! We always have several events each week during term-time, so there's always something to look forward to.

Now that lectures and praticals are starting, I'd like to wish everybody the best of luck for this academic year!

CoffeeScript - 12:30pm, Wed 09/10 - Glasshouse

Our weekly social on Hes East; enjoy some lunch and have a good chat.

Talk - "Behind the scenes of GOV.UK" by Michael Walker - 18:30pm, Thu 10/10 - The Lakehouse (RCH/248)

GOV.UK is the single website for government to communicate with the public. But how do over 3000 government publishers distribute information to over 60 million users? Behind the scenes GOV.UK is a Ruby on Rails powered, microservice-using, highly-available, distributed publishing system. Come along to learn about just how big GOV.UK is, what it looks like behind the scenes, some neat public APIs you can use, and why GOV.UK developers talk about badgers, seals, and spaniels.

Note: At the request of the speaker, this talk will not be recorded.

Board Games and Cake - 7pm, Fri 11/10 - The Pod

One of HackSoc's oldest traditions, where we play many board games and eat plenty of cake! Members are encouraged to bring their own board games and cake if they enjoy the events.

Make sure you're in HackSoc's Slack workspace! We have over 100 members, and it's free to join the conversation, so sign up now!

If you'd like to become a member of the society, simply sign up here! If you aren't sure yet, we'd love you to come along to any of our events and chat to us. If you have any questions, get in touch over social media or Slack!

Have a great week,

Aaron 🤖