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

Week 9 || EGM || Christmas Party || HelpDesk & Admin Talks
by TeaPott 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =HelpDesk :Drop-in Help Session= =Admin Training: Exam Prep= =3rd/ 4th Year Project Services= =EGM= =Christmas Party!= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =HelpDesk :Drop-in Help Session= Date: Tuesday 26th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 This week our helpdesk team are holding a drop in session. If you have any questions about Redbrick services, or you missed any of the talks, come along and ask and we'll be happy to help. There will be pizza! =Admin Training: Exam Prep= Date: Thursday 28th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 If you think you might be interested in running for either Webmaster or Admin in our next EGM, or perhaps you would just like to learn more about how these services are maintained, you can come along to this talk and any questions you have will be answered. There will of course be pizza! =3rd and 4th Year Project Services= Making a web application for your Third or Fourth Year Project and need somewhere to host it? Redbrick provide free Virtual Private Servers (VPS) with port 80 and 443 publicly accessible from the internet for all members. More info can be found on our wiki http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Rbvm or by contacting admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. =EGM= Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in week 11.. The date and time are currently unconfirmed. The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Christmas Party!= This year's Christmas Party will be in week 11 on the same day as the EGM (date and time, as of yet unconfirmed). So come along to our EGM, fill up on some pizza and then join us and several other societies for a great big party! As usual Santa will make an appearance with a big sack of goodies for everyone! =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: 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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Week 8 || HelpDesk Talk || Admin Training || EGM
by TeaPott 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= =Admin Training= =EGM= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= Date: Tuesday 19th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 In this talk our Helpdesk team will be introducing you to our development server Pygmalion. They will be walking you through the selection of compilers and interpreters available on our systems (javac, gcc, python). If you're a code junkie or an aspiring developer, this is not something to be missed! We especially recommend this talk to anyone who has just started programming. =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 21st November Time: 6pm Location: L128 We'll be finishing off our install of the LAMP stack and taking you through setting up PHP and MYSQL. Then we'll have a beginners look at Shell scripting. As usual there will be pizza. =EGM= Due to several positions on the committee becoming available we will be holding an EGM in the coming weeks. The date and time are currently unconfirmed. The positions that will be available are: -Systems Administrator -Webmaster -Events Officer -Secretary If you think you would be interested in running for any of the above positions you can contact us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator or our Webmaster you will have to sit an exam. Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: 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 7 || Web Development Talk || Linux InstallFest
by TeaPott 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Web Development Talk= =Linux InstallFest= =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =Admin Exam= =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= =Admin Training= =Web Development Talk= Date: Tuesday 12th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 This week instead of our helpdesk talk we will be having our very own Maximilian Hoffmann (tsov). Max is currently working for Terminal4 while finishing his final year, and he'll be showing us how to create a good looking website easily. We will be going from the very basics upwards, so if you have no experience don't worry! There may be a sneaky surprise as well at the talk, so bring along your friends. We will be covering a number of topics during the workshop, including: - HTML5 and CSS3 - The box model - Cross browser compatibility - Introduction to Bootstrap There will of course be pizza! =Linux InstallFest= Date: Thursday 14th November Time: 5pm Location: L101 If you would like to install Linux on your own personal machine, join us next week when our Helpdesk and Admin teams 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 please bring a USB stick that's at least 2GB in size. We will be offering copies of OpenSUSE, MInt and Ubuntu with both Dual Boot and VM options available. =Irish Cancer Society Fundraiser= Website: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/katia_valadeaus_event/ Some members of Redbrick who have been affected by cancer are working together to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The members will be dying their hair, getting their legs waxed (ouch!) and getting cancer related tattoos. If you would like to donate, you can contact lithium(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . =Trip Away: 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! =Admin Exam= If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . =HelpDesk : Developing on Redbrick= Date: Tuesday 19th November Time: 5pm Location: LG26 In this talk our Helpdesk team will be introducing you to our development server Pygmalion. They will be walking you through the selection of compilers and interpreters available on our systems (javac, gcc, python). If you're a code junkie or an aspiring developer, this is not something to be missed! We especially recommend this talk to any first years who have just started programming. =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 21st November Time: 6pm Location: L128 We'll be finishing off our install of the LAMP stack and taking you through setting up PHP and MYSQL, we will also show you some cool tricks! Then we'll have a beginners look at Shell scripting! As usual there will be pizza. 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 6 || Helpdesk Talk || Admin Training || InterPints || InstallFest
by Jessica Anne Mc Gowan 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi all, Here are the topics of this week's announce: =Helpdesk Talk= =Admin Training= =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= =Linux InstallFest= =Trip Away: FOSDEM= =Helpdesk Talk= Date: Tuesday 5th November Time: 6pm Location: LG25 This weeks talk is about hosting Wordpress on your own Redbrick site! Always great to know how to do this, a lot of people use their Redbrick sites as personal blogs. Be sure to come along, especially if you have any questions. There will of course be pizza! =Admin Training= Date: Thursday 7th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 This week our admins will be introducing you to Virtual Machines and our web services. You will also learn how to use a LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL and PHP) setup as a backend for websites. As always there will be pizza afterwards! =NUIG CompuSoc InterPints= Date: Friday 8th November Time: 10pm 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! =Linux InstallFest= Date: Thursday 14th November Time: 6pm Location: L128 If you would like to install Linux on your own personal machine, join us next week when our Helpdesk and Admin teams 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 please bring a USB stick that's at least 2GB in size. We will be offering copies of OpenSUSE, MInt and Ubuntu with both Dual Boot and VM options available. =Trip Away: 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! =Admin Exam= If you are interested in becoming a Redbrick System Administrator please email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie . Previous exams can be found at: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams . 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 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3 Redbrick Secretary 2013/14

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