October 2013 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Week 5 || EGM Results || Helpdesk Talk || DUCSS Web Summit || RMS
by TeaPott 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi all, Here are the topics for this weeks announce: =Results of EGM= =Helpdesk Talk= =DUCSS Web Summit= =Common Room Cards= =RMS Talk= =Linux InstallFest= =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= =FOSDEM= Please note that there wont be any Admin Training on this week due to it being Halloween. =Results of EGM= I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new additions to Redbrick Committee, as elected by you at the EGM last week. Treasurer: Lorcan Boyle (zergless) PRO: Triona Barrow (polka) Webmaster: Robert Devereux (kylar) First Year Rep: Sean Healy (space) We know that they'll work hard to make this a great year for Redbrick! =Helpdesk Talk= Date: Tuesday 29th October Time: 6pm Location: LG25 Notes from last week's talk: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~newb/slides/helpdesk/ This week our wonderful Helpdesk team will be introducing you to your webspaces. You'll learn about file uploading, setting permissions and the basics you need to know to get cracking on some web development. You will also be introduced to Screen and the strange world that is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and of course, there will be pizza! =DUCSS Web Summit= Date:Tuesday 29th October Time: 5pm Location: Café En Seine, Dawson Street Website: http://ducss.ie/events/event/summit/ Ever wanted to go to the Dublin Web Summit but never been able to get your hands on a ticket? The Dublin University Computer Science Society (DUCSS) is bringing a little bit of the Web Summit to students next Tuesday with some great speakers and companies coming to the awesome surroundings of Dublin's Cafe En Seine. Tickets are FREE and can be acquired at the link above. =Common Room Cards= Date: Tuesday 29th October Time: 12-2pm Location: N109 Anyone who has not received a common room key card can get one between 12 and 2 on Tuesday in the common room. Please make sure you know your Student Number when collecting your card. Just to let you know, Redbrick's common room representatives are now: Andrew Boylan (Fructus) Triona Barrow (polka) Lorcan Boyle (zergless) If you need to get in touch with them you can email: commonroom(a)lists.redbrick.dcu.ie . Please put 'Redbrick' in the subject as this address is used by both Redbrick and Engineering Soc. =RMS Talk= Date: Friday 1st November Time: 5.30pm Location: LB08 (Lloyd Building basement), Trinity College Dublin Website: https://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/news/2013/10/rms-the-second-coming-of-st-ignucius/ Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/650257418347949 The lovely people of NetSoc in Trinity have invited us along to a talk by the one and only Richard Matthew Stallman! For those of you who don't know who he is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman . He is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project and is known for writing the GCC compiler and the text editor Emacs. Not only is the above article essential reading for any computer scientist, but you have the opportunity to see the man himself in person! Well worth going to! =Linux InstallFest= Date: Tuesday 5th November Time: 6pm Location: TBC If you would like to install Linux on your own personal machine, join us next week when our Helpdesk and Admin team will help you to do so. We will provide installation discs to those who attend and if your laptop doesn't have a cd drive we will hopefully have some USB's to install Linux from as well. =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= Date: Friday 8th November Time: TBC Location: Mac Turcaill's Pub, Townsend Street NUIG's CompuSoc will be in town next week for a few pints and hope to meet up with some of us lovely 'Brickies. It should be a great night and a good chance to meet some fellow nerds for a bit of craic! =FOSDEM= Dates: 31st January - 2nd February 2014 Location: ULB Campus Solbosh,Brussels, Belgium Website: https://fosdem.org/2014/ As you might be aware, a few years ago Redbrick went on the grand voyage to Brussels to attend FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developer European Meeting). This year the committee would really love to treat you and go again. The only issue is that we would have to leave Ireland on the final day of winter exams. This could pose a problem for some people, so we would love if you could email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with any alternatives that you can think of! Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Announce Week 4 || Helpdesk Talk || EGM || Admin Training || Account Renewals
by TeaPott 20 Oct '13

20 Oct '13

Hi everyone, Here are the main topics of this week's announce, we have a great week in store for you all! =Helpdesk Talks= =EGM= =Admin Training= =Account Renewals= =Common Room Cards= =Helpdesk Talks= Date: Tuesday 22nd October Time: 6pm Location: LG25 Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/344629342347578/ Helpdesk will be hosting a talk entitled 'First Steps with Linux' where they will go through the basics of Linux, answer your questions and provide pizza! Please ensure you know your log in details for your Redbrick account. For all new members this should have been emailed to you, if this isn't the case or you have forgotten your details email admin-requests(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with your Redbrick username and student number. =EGM= Date: Wednesday 23rd October Time: 2pm Location: QG21 Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1464830243742048/ During this meeting we will hold elections for the following positions: System Administrator Webmaster Treasurer Public Relations Officer First Year Rep If you are interested in running for either Webmaster or Systems Administrator you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams The dates for these exams will be advertised shortly, please get in touch with us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie by Monday night (21ist October) if you would like to sit either exam. Any questions on individual exams can be directed to admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or webmaster(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 24th October Time: 6pm Location: LG25 Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1425827064307380/ For those of you who go to Tuesday's Helpdesk talk and feel you'd like to delve a little deeper, or for those who like a challenge, come to our first Admin Training session of the year! We'll look at the Linux Shell, some invaluable commands and how to use them, error diagnosis and if that isn't enough we'll hopefully introduce you to your very own Redbrick Virtual Machines. All of that tasty knowledge plus even tastier pizza to be provided this Thursday 24th at 6pm. =Account Renewals= If you wish to continue to be a Redbrick member (why wouldn't you?) you must renew your account by Friday the 1st of November. Accounts not renewed by this time will be deactivated. If you wish to renew online, you can do so here: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/joining . =Common Room Cards= We are currently awaiting our second batch of key cards for the Common Room. When we get them, an email with a date, time and place to pick up a card will be sent out. Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events: Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Week 3 ||Common Room Cards || InterSocs Party || EGM
by TeaPott 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hi everyone! On behalf of the committee I would like to thank everyone who came along to our Intro talk and to the Freshers' Ball! I'm sure you'll agree that a great night was had by all! Here are the topics for this week's announce: ==Common Room Cards== ==GamesSoc InterSocs Freshers Party== ==EGM== ==Common Room Cards== Anyone who didn't get a card last week for N109 can get one tomorrow between 12 and 2pm in the Common Room. You can get to the Common Room via the entrance to The School of Engineering (the first door after the tunnel as you walk from the Henry Grattan building towards the library). You then walk straight towards the double doors and up the stairs. Take the first door on your left. Turn right and pass the vending machines, through more doors and N109 should be on your left. ==GamesSoc InterSocs Freshers Party== Date: Tuesday 15th October Time: 7pm Location: Matt Weldon's Pub GamesSoc have kindly invited all Redbrick members as well as all members of AMS and PokemonSoc to their InterSocs Freshers Party which will be taking place in The Slipper on Tuesday the 15th October. It will be a great chance for members of different societies to get to know each other as well as a grand excuse for pints! ==EGM== Date: Wednesday 23rd October (Week 4) Time: 2pm Location: QG21 During this meeting we will hold elections for the following positions: System Administrator Webmaster Treasurer Public Relations Officer First Year Rep If you are interested in running for either Webmaster or Systems Administrator you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams The dates for these exams will be advertised shortly, please get in touch with us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie if you would like to sit either exam. Any questions on individual exams can be directed to admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or webmaster(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Hope you have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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Redbrick Week 2 || Welcome Back!
by TeaPott 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Hi everyone! Welcome back to what will hopefully be another great year with Redbrick! We hope you've had a great summer and are enjoying college so far! ==System Maintenance== ==Clubs and Socs Days== ==Common Room Cards== ==.NET Rocks== ==Intro to Redbrick & Fresher's Ball== ==GamesSoc Freshers Party== ==EGM== ==System Maintenance== The Admins will be doing some maintenance to non-critical systems over the course of the weekend. We don't foresee there being any impact on users; that being said we apologise in advance for any disruption that may be caused in preparations for the coming year. As a precaution we would request that users backup any data they have and do not start any important processes over the weekend. ==Clubs and Socs Days== Date: Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th October Time: 10am - 4pm Location: The Hub Members of our committee will be in the Hub next week to take signups from new members and to renew current members' accounts. Current members should note that accounts will remain active until the 1st of November, so please renew your account before then. Make sure to keep an eye out for us in the Hub and feel free to come over for a chat and maybe even some sweets! ==Common Room Cards== As many of you may have noticed, all cards for the Redbrick and EngSoc common room N109 have been deactivated. These cards need to be handed back to the common room committee as soon as possible so that new cards can be distributed. New cards will hopefully be distributed late next week or early in week three. In the meantime you can return old cards to either Fructus (Andrew Boylan) or myself if you happen to meet us, or any of our LOVELY committee members. ==.NET Rocks== Date: Tuesday 8th October Time: 1-6pm Location: The Helix Website: bit.ly/1f6kRe0 The presenters of the .NET Rocks podcast, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell will be in DCU on Tuesday to record an edition of their podcast and to give talks throughout the day. As well as this, our old friend Josh Holmes (who some may remember from 1st year DICE events) will be back in the country to talk about some Web Development. So if you want to listen to a whole host of really enthusiastic and talented Developers you should get on down to .NET Rocks. Sign up at the link in the information above ^^^ ==Intro to Redbrick & Fresher's Ball== Date: Thursday 10th October Time: 6pm onwards Location: LG25 followed by The Slipper (Matt Weldons) Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/400433043416230/ It's that time of the year again! We'll be hosting our annual 'Intro to Redbrick' talk this year in LG25 where we will introduce our members, both old and new, to Redbrick's many services. The talk will include an overview of our services as well as a welcome for new members and an explanation of what we're all about. Afterwards we will be heading up to the Slipper for fun, pints and food. This is a great opportunity to get to know all of our members and we hope that both our new and past members will come along and enjoy themselves! ==GamesSoc Freshers Party== Date: Tuesday 15th October Time: TBC Location: The Slipper (Matt Weldons) GamesSoc have kindly invited all Redbrick members as well as many other societies to their Freshers Party which will be taking place in The Slipper on Tuesday the 15th October. It will be a great chance for members of different societies to get to know each other as well as a grand excuse for pints! ==EGM== Date: TBC (Week 4) Time: TBC Location: TBC During this meeting we will hold elections for the following positions: System Administrator Webmaster Treasurer Public Relations Officer First Year Rep If you are interested in running for either Webmaster or Systems Administrator you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams The dates for these exams will be advertised shortly. If you have any questions about anything mentioned in this week's announce, please feel free to email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Have a great week! Regards, Jessica Anne McGowan (TeaPott) Redbrick Secretary 2013/14 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3

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