Veritas Planning Meeting 0.03

We're having a focused planning meeting to decide on a Spring 2009 event! Please join us at 5:30pm on Monday, 12/1, in one of the S rooms on Parnassus.

Web Server Down 11/28, 10pm - 11/29, 10am

UPDATE (2008-11-39, 9:48am): The server upgrade is complete, and service to stuffy.hopto.org (and related websites) is restored.

The CCF web server will be down for a server upgrade from 11/28, 10pm - 11/29, 10am. We will be upgrading the server software from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 to take advantage of the many refinements and polish included in this latest release of the Fedora open source powerhouse.

New Website Address: sfcampus.org

We have a new website address! With the UCSF web server transition complete, we decided to register an official domain name for CCF. Our private server allows us greater flexibility in web hosting, and sfcampus.org as our shorter domain name will hopefully be more memorable than http://rco.ucsf.edu/indep.php/ccf. But if you forget it, you can still visit our old address to see the new one!

Veritas: 2nd planning meeting

Planning for a Veritas event at UCSF is just getting underway. We'll be having our 2nd planning meeting, and you are all more than welcome to join us. I see Veritas as a wonderful way for our fellowships to connect through planning and outreach.

Our planning meeting is this Monday (8/25) at 7pm, David's place. We'll be focusing on speaker selection, topic/question refinement, and creative venue brainstorming. Please let me know if you're interested in coming or keeping updated on Veritas.

Blessings,
David

Where Did Our Website Go?

The UCSF server for registered campus organizations (including ours) was recently decommissioned, and the Office of Student Life (OSL) server arose in its stead. In the process however our website has been temporarily dismantled, and we are looking for a new host that will allow us to use our customized website. We do not yet have access to edit our CCF OSL page, but when we do, we'll provide information on finding our new site. And of course we'll keep you updated here.

Veritas Forum Coming to UCSF

Veritas Forum is a national event-oriented organization focused on creating events on campuses addressing the tough questions regarding life and faith. Our neighboring universities recently hosted Francis Collins and Tim Keller during campus events designed to engage their student bodies on theistic evolution ("biologos") and the reason for God in the face of seemingly perpetual doubt. And now Veristas is coming to UCSF!

Our campus is uniquely positioned as a graduate health sciences campus to focus on the demanding scientific or philosophical questions that crop up regarding our faith. We as a student community have the opportunity to design a topic that we feel would engage the community, invite a speaker who could communicate the issues and its relevance to Jesus in our lives, and create an atmosphere for open and honest discussion with our friends and colleagues.

As an event for the campus, Veritas would be best planned by the campus fellowships. If you or interested members of your fellowships would like to attend our first planning meeting, on July 14, 7pm, please let us know, and we would be happy to get you more information and answer any of your questions.