September 2009 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Welcome Back || Renew & Rejoin || EGM 2009 || Freshers Ball || Downtime
by Emma G 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi Everyone, Welcome back to college! I'm Emma the secretary for the coming year. I'll be sending your announce mails once a week and keep you up to date on what's happening on Redbrick :) ==Renew & Rejoin== So just a reminder to people to renew your accounts for the coming year - Continuing students membership is €4 and associates/alumni membership is €6. Also don't forget to drop by on Clubs and Socs day to get your FREE goodie bag with amazing stuff inside!!! You can also pay online via the paypal link on the website: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/joining/ ==EGM 2009== On the 14th of October we'll be having our EGM in QG13 at 2.30pm, where we'll be electing our new First Year Rep. So you have to come along to see who he/she's gonna be :) Refreshments will also be provided. ==Freshers Ball== This year we're having our Freshers Ball on 12th of October at 8pm in the Slipper (Matt Weldons, Ballymun Road. There's a map on the homepage > http://redbrick.dcu.ie) . The theme is RED so dig deep in your wardrobes and be creative! There will be drink promotions and €3 drinks. Currently any music requests can be sent to either myself or carri(a)redbrick.dcu.ie for those who have particular songs they love to "boogie on down to"! Remember it's FREE to all members, so even if you're just curious as to how nerdy any of the present members look, you can come on down and have a looksie :) ==Downtime== RedBrick's network will be inaccessible from 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. This is to facilitate an upgrade of one of our switches. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen problems with DCU security, we were unable to do this last weekend when DCU's internet connection was also down. The disruption shouldn't last any longer than one hour. It shouldn't be necessary to reboot any machines, but we recommend that you save any files you've been working on, just in case. If you have any questions, please e-mail admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie So that's all for now. Until next week, Emma :) -- Redbrick - Secretary 2009/2010 If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice? Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate :).

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Downtime
by David 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hello everyone, As a result of ISS/CSD downtime, RedBrick will be inaccessible from outside DCU on Saturday the 26th (tomorrow) between 6pm and 10pm. There is also a risk of more disruption between 8am and 12pm on Sunday the 27th. This is to upgrade DCU's internet bandwidth to 10 GBPS, much to the envy of practically everyone. We'll be using the opportunity to carry out work in the server room. We are currently working on: upgrading our switch, moving secondary services to deathray, installing new web-chat and web-boards interfaces and fixing the wiki images. Sorry for the disruption. If you have any questions, please e-mail admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie David

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Survey/Downtime/OSS BarCamp
by Lotta Mikkonen 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, 1. Survey: Hope everyone is enjoying the last of the summer. We're back to college soon and have been working on a few ideas for the upcoming year. We were hoping to get some feedback from our members so that we can work on things that our membership want. We would appreciate it if you could take the time to fill in a short survey for us. This can be found at www.redbrick.dcu.ie/survey . By responding you're in with the chance to win a mystery prize. You will only be able to open this survey once so please make sure you finish it in one sitting. If you have any questions or suggestions at any point during the year please do not hesitate to contact us. 2. OSS BarCamp: OSS BarCamp is back. This will be held on Saturday 19th September. There will be a series of talks on open source software followed by a barbeque and discounted drinks in Solas. More details can be found in the following link : http://www.ossbarcamp.com/ 3. And now a word from our lovely admins: There will be extended (several hours) downtime on Saturday the 19th of September affecting the following services: Email, NNTP (Boards) and Mailman Mailing lists. This is to facilitate the move from Carbon to our new services machine Morpheus for these services. No other services will be affected by this move. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this upgrade work. Downtime is on the same day as the OSS BarCamp so if you get stuck for things to do you know where to go! 4. RedBrick Collage : If you have any old RedBrick related pictures, posters, plane tickets, *ANYTHING* that you think could help us make a new collage could you please send/email them to us? We're hoping to get as much stuff on to it as possible. That's all for now! Make sure to check out the website over the coming weeks for more information on our plans for 09/10. Attol

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