This is a repo for anyone to use as a reference for the ways COMPSA does stuff -- whether that be just useful info or the events throughout the year etc.
Also added bonus: we get a chronology of what we do so we can try and/or avoid to repeat history.
To read any of the documents (.md files) simply click on the filename -- GitHub will render the Markdown into HTML to make it nice and pretty
There is a Markdown file for each of the portfolios outlining the different positions compsa may look for.
If you work here -- make sure all the portfolios are present & up-to-date during hiring
Each portfolio has an operations manual which should outline what the portfolio, and any specified volunteer positions -- and any improvements or ammendments are encouraged (make a PR! Look at Usage).
The Association has a two newsletters -- email-format and print-format. The Markdown email-format is converted into HTML using pandoc (see Usage) and then we can send it off to the <3-ly Computing students @ Queen's.
The print-format is made using some graphic design software however if you can find a way to do it in a text format (like using md or tex) that'd be great! (Canva is free, but gimp is free).
They can be categorized as such:
email-format == important updates for computing students & events etc.print-format == funny computing stuff
(contact scribe@compsa.queensu.ca if you wanna add something!)
More info can be found in the internal affairs manual
These outline the motions passed at General Assemblies. (should include minutes of new meeting if GA's are abolished -- for history & transparency)
The Constitution of COMPSA, as a ratified Association under the Alma Mater Society.
All documents in this repo are written in Markdown and then can be converted to virtually any other format using the cli tool pandoc.
Thanks to using pandoc -- we can also include additional syntax like LaTeX and HTML into the Markdown files directly! Essentially allowing us to create richly formatted documents (if needed) without the boilerplate (but with the Open Source)!
In order to create say, a pdf, or html version of your document -- first make sure you've installed pandoc:
Ubuntu
sudo apt install pandoc
MacOS
brew install pandoc
Windows !! Not recommended, download WSL2 (Ubuntu) -- it will be useful beyond this
https://pandoc.org/installing.htmlthen use the command:
pandoc <filename>.md -o <filename>.<format>
of course make sure you're either in the directory with the file or include the
path to <filename>.
for converting to
For editing Markdown, you can use anything you'd like that works (vs-code is a good option, it can render a html-preview & has git integration).
You could also just use GitHub (read below first -- you can do the same the the GitHub gui)
when you want to make a change(s) first create a branch off of main:
# check you're on main
git status
git checkout main
# check that youre up to date
git fetch
git pull
# make new branch
git checkout -b <branch-name>Try to name it something helpful.
Once you've made a specific/related changes you should commit your work to help inform what overall changes were made (through commit messages -- which should also be named helpfully)
Finally, to add these changes to the main branch, push your changes and
create a PR!