hacker [n.]
- (RFC 1392) a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
- (apocryphal) someone who makes furniture with an axe.
HackSoc is the University of York's Computer Science society. We run a healthy mix of academic and social events (see the calendar on the main page), including weekly social events in our Discord server. If any of our events sound interesting to you, great! Feel free to just turn up to anything that catches your eye. If you'd like regular updates on what's happening in HackSoc, don't forget to sign up to our mailing list or follow us on Twitter!
Look out for our posters in the Computer Science department.
We're available through email, IRC, and Twitter! We also have a mailing list which we use for announcements, such as our weekly email.
- Email (Society Account)
- hack@yusu.org
- Email (Mailing List)
- Subscribe
- Discord
- Join our Discord
- IRC
- #hacksoc on irc.libera.chat
- @HackSoc
Committee
The HackSoc committee consists of a Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer who must all be students, furthermore, there is a Press and Publicity Officer, Social Events Officer, Academic Events Officer, Infrastructure Officer, and 3 Ordinary Officers.
- Chair
- Aaron Heald, second year computer science undergraduate
- Secretary
- Will Hall, second year computer science undergraduate
- Treasurer
- Ren Herring, second year computer science undergraduate
- Social Events Officer
- Iris McBride, third year computer science undergraduate
- Academic Events Officer
- vacant
- Infrastructure Officers (position jointly held)
- Ashley Bryan, second year computer science undergraduate
- Aaron Heald, second year computer science undergraduate
- Will Hall, second year computer science undergraduate
- Ren Herring, second year computer science undergraduate
- Evelyn Gravett, second year computer science undergraduate
- Ordinary Officer
- Katelyn Burberry, first year computer science undergraduate
- Brownie officer
- atlie
- Mario and Doom officer
- Jess
- filmbro
- Clara