As of the AGM in Hilary term this year, Compsoc has been unable to elect a committee due to lack of candidates, and so formal operation of the society has been suspended.

This means that unless someone steps up, there will not be a presence at this year's Freshers' Fair, and not much chance of a termcard or any other events next academic year. It also means that we can't realistically accept any new members.

We are no longer registered with the University Clubs' committee and, amongst other things, this means that we are no longer called Oxford University Computer Society but just Oxford Computer Society.

It's not yet clear for how long the society can remain in this state, neither fully operational nor having been dissolved, but it would not make sense for it to stay this way for more than a couple of terms.

I would like to once again urge any student of Oxford University who has an interest in the continued existence of the society to get in touch as soon as possible so that an interim committee who can provide a Freshers' Fair presence and one or two events for next term can be formed. Hopefully we would then hold an EGM next term to elect a normal committee.

Note that for the time being, the services provided by the Compsoc network remain unaltered. However, if the society is not restarted within a few terms it is very likely that some, if not all services, would have to be withdrawn. The currently acting sysadmins can be contacted at the usual address. It is highly desirable that a new committee be able to co-opt a new Systems Administration Coordinator (SAC) as soon as possible, in order to ensure that the network remains viable.

For any general questions, please feel free to email committee@ox.compsoc.net which is currently composed of some members who are best placed to assist in the reformation of the committee proper (recently-ex committee members).

The committee are starting work on the termcard for Michaelmas Term 2009. All suggestions welcome to committee@ox.compsoc.net.

The committee email address has once again been joe-jobbed. If you have recived spam email from us, please check the headers (as described on the joe-job page) as we are unable to help deal with spam that did not pass through our network.

The new committee for 2009-10 has been elected. See committee for details.

Please note that the earlier announced talk by Peter Molyneux has had to be rescheduled for next term - more details will be available after Easter.

IPv6 access to salami and stanley remains possible via machinename.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net Note that this is still a beta service, not especially stable This website is now visible at http://www.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net

The SysAdmin Team have a new GPG key for support purposes. You can download a copy of the public key from here or from any of the usual keyservers. Its ID is F073BBB2AA6130E5.

Due to a vulnerability in Debian's OpenSSL implementation, the RSA and DSA host keys for salami, and the DSA key for stanley, have changed. Fingerprints of the new keys are available at compsoc-ssh-keys.asc, signed by Michael Howe's GPG key.

The committee email address has once again been joe-jobbed. If you have recived spam email from us, please check the headers (as described on the joe-job page) as we are unable to help deal with spam that did not pass through our network.

The CompSoc servers are now IPv6 enabled. This service is still being tested, and is not stable, but the servers are now available at name.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net (ie salami.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net and stanley.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net). The website is also available at http://stanley.ipv6.ox.compsoc.net.