Difference between revisions of "New Member Orientation"

Latest revision as of 15:31, 9 November 2024

How do I get started?

To get started you can come to check out a Thursday night meeting (6pm) or come visit the room (2225 Kohrman Hall) or check out our office hours. Someone should be there to help you get signed up or just tell you about club and the atmosphere.

You don't have to know if you want to join when you come in, everyone is welcome to come to meetings or visit the room until they've made a decision!

Things to Know

Information about our primary chat service, Riot, can be found here

Please ask us any questions you may have. We're more than happy to help when we get a moment!

To make the most of your time we advise you to hit some milestones

Get a Linux distro running on your primary machine or as a virtual machine.
Write a bot for our chat service.
Participate in a game jam.
Contribute a new page to the wiki.
Make something! Get us excited about a project that you're interested in, and we'll come together to make it happen.
Get free digitalocean credit from the github student developer pack!
Get hired somewhere awesome.

What else should I do?

Talk to other members, and help those in need.

Keep in mind, that we're all students and volunteers. Tell us how to help you, if there are resources that aren't any good, or aren't making sense, you can tell us so we can make things better.

It's our goal to build an environment that helps you to grow. We can help get you up and running, but we need your feedback to make sure everyone is getting the most out of the club.

Closing Remarks

Computer club is dynamic and history has shown that we make more than we document. There are a ton of services, resources, and opportunities which are hidden or not as obvious. The club has been around for almost 40 years now, so you can count that much has already been done. Click around the homepage and the wiki, or best of all ask veteran members and you'll be amazed by what we have already done.

Read through the wiki, and our blog aggregator, Planet Yakko to get an idea of what our other members have been up to.

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 == How do I get started? ==
-#Get comfortable with IRC (see: [[Getting Started on IRC]]). It's how all of us stay connected, beyond meetings. There are about 120 cclub members on the server, so someone will almost always be around.
+To get started you can come to check out a Thursday night meeting (6pm) or come visit the room (2225 Kohrman Hall) or check out our [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=Y2NsdWJ3bXVAZ21haWwuY29t&ctz=America/New_York| office hours]. Someone should be there to help you get signed up or just tell you about club and the atmosphere.
-#Get comfortable using yakko and tmux (see: [[Getting Familiar with Yakko]]). Yakko isn't just for IRC. Once you're connected to irc, you're already running a great environment for development and testing. You don't have permissions to mess up anything beyond your own personal files, so feel free to experiment.
+You don't have to know if you want to join when you come in, everyone is welcome to come to meetings or visit the room until they've made a decision!
+== Things to Know ==
-==== I still don't feel like I know whats going on ====
+Information about our primary chat service, Riot, can be found [[Riot|here]]
-Breaking the system is generally how you learn where the boundaries are. So EXPERIMENT. You're not going to damage your yakko account or the server so don't worry. Just hit the [[Beginners]] and [[Getting Started on IRC]] pages and work up from there. If something you read on here doesn't make sense, it's because '''WE are not''' being clear. If something ever doesn't make sense, it's our fault, not yours. So engage an officer and let them know that you're having a problem.
-'''To make the most of your time We advise you to hit some Milestones'''
+'''Please''' ask us any questions you may have. We're more than happy to help when we get a moment!
-# Get a Linux distro running on your primary machine. Dual boot, or primary recommended. (But a Virtual Machine is better than nothing.)
+'''To make the most of your time we advise you to hit some milestones'''
-# Configure weechat the way you like it. Add some scripts with the /script command. If you find something good, add it to the wiki.
-# Participate in a [[CTF : Cyber Security Competitions|CTF]].
+# Get a [[Installing_Linux|Linux]] distro running on your primary machine or as a virtual machine.
-# Hit the bountyboard and gain card swipe access by contributing your own special skills.
+# Write a bot for our [[Riot|chat service]].
+# Participate in a [[CCAW JAM|game jam]].
 # Contribute a new page to the wiki.
-# Participate in a [[About Hackathons|hackathon]]
+# Make something! Get us excited about a project that you're interested in, and we'll come together to make it happen.
-# Get hired somewhere awesome.
+# Get free digitalocean credit from the [https://education.github.com/pack github student developer] pack!
+# Get hired somewhere awesome.
-Once you are familiar with IRC a bit, check out these community guides to supplement your knowledge
-* [https://cclub.cs.wmich.edu/wiki/Geekboy_Bots Bots]
-* [https://ccowmu.org/~cokezero/irchelp/ Yakko IRC Community Manual]
-* [https://ccowmu.org/~cokezero/ircscripts/ Basic scripting for IRC clients]
-== Cyber Security ==
-Check out these links for an idea of what to expect from ctfs and something to get you started thinking about cyber security.
-Update: 2015: We're working on creating a more cohesive lab.
-*[http://www.pico.com pico] - Wide range of ctf areas covered at a beginner level, which unlock progressively harder levels.
-*[http://www.overthewire.org overthewire] - Beginner to advanced. Start with "Bandit" challenges. Great for learning linux.
-*[[Pentester Bootcamp]] - focused on hacking webservers / using exploits. You can access these internally on the DDWRT network by visiting the respective hostname. EG: Get on ddwrt, go to web100. A pd
+== What else should I do? ==
-== What Else should I do? ==
+Talk to other members, and help those in need.
-Talk to each other, and help those who need help.
+Keep in mind, that we're all students and volunteers. Tell us how to help you, if there are resources that aren't any good, or aren't making sense, you can tell us so we can make things better.
-Keep in mind, that we're all students and volunteers. I need you to tell me how to help you, if there are resources that aren't any good, or aren't making sense, you have to tell the us so we can make things better or nothing is going to change and we both lose.
+It's our goal to build an environment that helps you to grow. We can help get you up and running, but we need your feedback to make sure everyone is getting the most out of the club.
-Its our goal to build an environment that helps you to grow. We'll get you up and running, but we need your help and feedback to make sure everyone is getting the most out of club.
+== Closing Remarks ==
-'''Closing remarks?'''
+Computer club is dynamic and history has shown that we make more than we document. There are a ton of services, resources, and opportunities which are hidden or not as obvious. The club has been around for almost 40 years now, so you can count that much has already been done. Click around the homepage and the wiki, or best of all ask veteran members and you'll be amazed by what we have already done.
-Cclub is dynamic and history has shown that we make more than we document. There are a ton of services / resources / and opportunities which are hidden or nonobvious.
-Click around the homepage and the wiki and best of all ask veteran members "does x exist?" and you'll be amazed with what we actually do.
 Read through the wiki, and our blog aggregator, [https://cclub.cs.wmich.edu/planet/ Planet Yakko] to get an idea of what our other members have been up to.
-Make something else! Get us excited about a project that you're interested and we'll come together and make it happen.
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