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[Announce-gamesoc] Semester 2 at GamesSoc

by David Connolly

DCU Games Society - Semester 2 Email highlights: - Positions of PRO and Events manager up for election - Lab Gaming progress update - New time slot for Console Nights - Console Tournament - Bring Your Own PC LAN Event update Hey guys, Right just a nice email to let you know where things are going with the society in general because we've been getting lots of questions from our members and lots of stuff has been happening lately so it's probably about time we filled you in a bit. Firstly are the 2 new committee poistions available. Our current Events Manager is sailing around the world in search of albino elephants and won't be back until next year. Being the Events Manager basically involves helping to book rooms for our events, picking up projectors and TV from the Audio Visual Dept. and sorting out LAN Night arrangements when we have them. Now the thing is everyone on the committee helps run the Console Nights and most of us run the LAN nights as many of you know. The booking of rooms is taken care of so far for the semester so the Events Manager is basically just a formal title for another committee member needed on the committee to help out with these general responsibilies. You'll have to email some places off campus if we wish to run events there and sometimes book rooms, but mainly helping out while we have events. If you feel you are up to this then definately drop us a mail back or come talk to us during one of our events. Secondly is the position of PRO (Public Relations Officer). This role can be undertaken similar to above if you wish (ie. helping out with general running of things. Many hands making light work and such) but mainly that's not required. That would only be an ideal situation :o) We need a PRO that will design posters to promote the society, get them printed up, and place them around campus before events and such. We already have lots of high quality templates left for us by god himself, John Mellerick, which can be used. The designing takes only a little time and the printing looks after itself once they are sent into Xerox. Then all you need to do is hang them around campus. Also, the PRO needs to submit pictures and brief articles/descriptions to An Tarbh and such magazines about our upcoming events and reviews of previois ones to promote the society. This is rather a simple task to undertake once someone has the commitment and time to put into it. Also experience in poster design is most definately preferable. Some basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop or (shudder) Paint Shop Pro would be looked upon favourably and if you knew how to do vector art in Adobe Illustrator we would bribe you to take up this position :-D Our past PROs have had nasty disappearing accidents as well, a lot like the drummers from Spinal Tap, so we are keen to get one that we can keep for a while and will do some good work for us :o) Email us with your experience and what you feel you could do, maybe even with a link to some sample work youve done somewhere to boost your chances. Another Lab Gaming update: Lots of work has been going on behind the scenes to finally get lab gaming in operation. CSD have given us the proper go ahead to do it and we are currently talking with them about how to put it into action. If you check the forums you will see the discussion relating to it and how we are trying to find ways to implement gaming in the labs before we can go any further. Thanks to all those who replied to the email asking for help as well, it really contributed. Console nights will resume this semester next week on Monday 23rd. The usual time slot is 6:30pm until 9pm every Monday (apart from the first Monday where because of a booking conflict its 8pm - 10pm). The nights take place, as usual, in the Seminar Room upstairs (beside SU Reception) in The Hub. All members are welcome as well as those wishing to join on the night. Console Nights promise to be a lot better this semester with the usualy multiplayer Halo turning up (always a favourite) but now 8 player Mario Kart: Double Dash. We have 2 gamcubes and 2 ethernet adapters with a slick crossover cable just aching to be used. With the popularity of our Console Nights so far we are also going to be running a Console Tournament. Details on this will follow later but be assured there will be some rather decent prizes and quality games for the tournament. Keep your eye on the boards and website for that one. The committee is just flying around the place getting things in motion for the Bring Your Own PC LAN event in April and hopefully this will go ahead. Just thought I'd mention that we are busting a gut to get it under way and hopefully it will keep you all nice and excited thinking about the prospect of a weekend of gaming for 60 players on campus is DCU. That's about it for now, if you have any questions please email the committee on games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or preferably stick them on the web forums at http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/forums which is our main place for contacting members and letting you know of up to the minute updates on events etc. Sign up and get reading :o) Theres also some good gaming related discussion up there too. Sorry for the hugely long email by the way, - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society

20 years, 7 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Lab Gaming Update

by Mark Boyle

FYI, I just had a meeting with Paul Smith (CSD) about lab gaming. He's still very interested in getting it up and running and has no problem with the idea per se. Wednesday afternoon/evening in C206 look most likely. However he's not sure how we're going to implement it. Technically its very difficult and the two people most likely to help us are both working on new images to go on the machines for the start of semester 2. I've left a copy of HL with him and he's going to get someone to look at it and see how it installs, etc. He's going to get back to me as soon as he can but we're not sure about a timeframe. He does understand that we'd like to get it up and running as soon as possible. I'll let you know as soon as I have any further news. Mark. PS For anyone interested, here's what we're looking at. Maybe someone can suggest a better solution? * Install/uninstall each time Obvious problems with this and also they want to be sure that the uninstaller rolls back properly and doesn't degrade the machines over time. * Create a image that will be used each time and removed at the end They are afraid that if anything went wrong with the re-imaging process at the end of the night, they'd have a lab full of dead machines on Thursday morning. * Install in a folder that only a local account can access Higher cost of management, workstation only accounts can't be traced to students, etc. Also they don't want to be seen to install games on machines when they're taking such a tough stand on lab gaming. * Run it across the network Could be slower, might not work properly, etc. * Move it to a different lab With the exception of C204, none of the other labs are managed by CSD so we'd need to talk to Business School or CA about this.

20 years, 8 months

[Announce-gamesoc] LAN on the 12th

by DCU Games Society

Lo folks, Quick mail to tell ye all to come to the LAN yis bitches! Sign up will be via e-mail this time coz we all got far too many projects n are over worked neways... Give us your student number, name and forum nick if you have one when you send the mail and we will take payment on the night. If you dont turn up however we will promptly break ur legs and set zyox on you, your ears will bleed after all the moaning ;) So its Friday the 12th (yes this friday!) and the usual 9pm-8am. So CU@LAN -Niall McDonagh aka cr33ch DCU Games Soc Ents Officer

20 years, 9 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Friday's LAN Night

by David Connolly

Sorry to mass mail members about this but, For those of you attending the LAN Gaming Night tonight in Wired here is a map to the cafe: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~zyox/pictures/WiredMap.jpg Night starts at 9pm and finishes at 8am next morning. Please don't turn up any later than 11pm. You are free to leave any time you wish during the night :-) By the way our policy on spectators/friends you bring along is strict for tonight. Very strict :o) You must have arranged it with one of the cmte beforehand. Should be a really good night guys, see you there :-) - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society

20 years, 9 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Friday's LAN Night

by David Connolly

Hi guys, Just another quick email (and a rather short notice one, apologies) to let you know that we are having the 2nd last LAN Gaming Night of this semster on Friday. This will be a very special event because it co-incides with the Oblivion Counter-Stike League 2, being held that night. With this happening we have at least 10 participants from 2 Irish Counter-Strike clans coming on the night to play from the net cafe. Because of this we expect places to sell out quite fast for this event in particular. It promises to be a really good night for those of you who like a bit of Counter-Strike ;-) So basically, the signup for the event will start tomorrow at 1pm and will only run until 2pm. Please do note that. Because we already have the 10 people coming from Clan AddictioN and Alert.cs quite a few members have asked for places to be kept. The usual policy does however stand and they must be there at 1pm to pay for a place which means the remaining places will only be a few and should sell out in no time. Price is 5eur per member for the night. Table will be in the Street in Henry Grattan building. - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society ps. Console night will be on this Wednesday and apologies to those who missed last weeks one due to the cancelation :o)

20 years, 9 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Console Night Cancelled

by David Connolly

Tomorrow's Console night is cancelled (Wednesday 19th) due to the Societies Ball. Will resume again next week. - Games Soc

20 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Tonight's LAN Night

by David Connolly

Ok guys, LAN Night starts at 9pm. Go here http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~zyox/pictures/WiredMap.jpg for a map of how to get there with the nice landmarks pointed out to help you. Follow the blue line if you're getting a bus from DCU. There are still roughly 11 places left. If you still want to attend don't bother signing up, just turn up about 9pm or 9:30pm but this does not obviously guarantee you a place. But don't get too scared, I'm pretty sure you'll get one if you turn up but I just can't guarantee. Any questions just reply here (http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?s=8afd532e2128df1b868b3baa794…) before this evening or mail me on zyox(a)redbrick.dcu.ie if it's urgent. - Dave

20 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Lan Night on Friday -- Final few places

by David Connolly

Hey guys, Final day for signup for the Lan this coming Friday (7th November) will take place today from roughly 12pm-4pm in the street in the henry grattan building. We have several places left so if any of you missed your chance to sign up please do now. :) Price is only 5eur for the full night of gaming. Sign up tomorrow and get free ear licks!!!!1 ;-) - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society

20 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Wired LAN Night #2 Signup

by DCU Games Society

Guys, Nearly half of our places for the LAN night have been sold. The table will be running again tomorrow in The Street in the Henry Grattan building (beside AIB) if you wish to pay for a place. We expect them to sell out tomorrow or the next day so the table will be in operation from 2pm-5pm. Thanks :o) - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society ----- Original Message ----- From: DCU Games Society To: announce-gamesoc(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 10:21 PM Subject: [Announce-gamesoc] Wired LAN Night #2 Members, Our second Wired LAN Night is taking place this Friday (November 7th) in Wired. Basically the same setup as last time and those of you who didn't get the chance to come last can now. The lan will run from 9pm on Friday, through the night, until 8am on Saturday morning. Members can turn up any time after 9pm but before 10:30pm at the latest. You are free to leave any time during the night if you so desire (for the weaklings ;-)) This promises to be a quality LAN for Games Soc especially with the prospect of a DCU Counter Strike team emerging soon, this would be the ideal night to come along and show us what you got going for yourself CS-wise. Of course we won't just be limited to CS. There will, undoubtedly, be plenty of Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat, C&C Generals, Halo, Multi Theft Auto, and anything else we find that's playable on the machines :) We will operate the same signup system as before, 5eur per head for DCU Games Soc members and 12eur for non-members (ie. if you want to bring a friend). We fill at 25 players so sign up real soon if you wish to go. A table shall be set up in The Street in the Henry Grattan Building (beside AIB Bank) on Monday (tomorrow) between 1pm and 5pm if you wish to sign up. We ask for cash up front, no exceptions. You pay on the spot and you guarantee a place on the night :o) Just a friendly reminder that the last signup only took 4 hours for us to fill the event. So get cracking if you want to be sure to get a place. If you have any questions send us an email at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or (preferably) bring it up on our forums (at http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/forums). Hope to see you guys at the lan :-) - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Announce-gamesoc mailing list Announce-gamesoc(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie http://lists.redbrick.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/announce-gamesoc

20 years, 10 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Wired LAN Night #2

by DCU Games Society

Members, Our second Wired LAN Night is taking place this Friday (November 7th) in Wired. Basically the same setup as last time and those of you who didn't get the chance to come last can now. The lan will run from 9pm on Friday, through the night, until 8am on Saturday morning. Members can turn up any time after 9pm but before 10:30pm at the latest. You are free to leave any time during the night if you so desire (for the weaklings ;-)) This promises to be a quality LAN for Games Soc especially with the prospect of a DCU Counter Strike team emerging soon, this would be the ideal night to come along and show us what you got going for yourself CS-wise. Of course we won't just be limited to CS. There will, undoubtedly, be plenty of Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat, C&C Generals, Halo, Multi Theft Auto, and anything else we find that's playable on the machines :) We will operate the same signup system as before, 5eur per head for DCU Games Soc members and 12eur for non-members (ie. if you want to bring a friend). We fill at 25 players so sign up real soon if you wish to go. A table shall be set up in The Street in the Henry Grattan Building (beside AIB Bank) on Monday (tomorrow) between 1pm and 5pm if you wish to sign up. We ask for cash up front, no exceptions. You pay on the spot and you guarantee a place on the night :o) Just a friendly reminder that the last signup only took 4 hours for us to fill the event. So get cracking if you want to be sure to get a place. If you have any questions send us an email at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or (preferably) bring it up on our forums (at http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/forums). Hope to see you guys at the lan :-) - David Connolly Chairperson, DCU Games Society

20 years, 10 months

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