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Announce Week 6 | Associate talks | Helpdesk talk | Halloween Ball | FOSDEM
by socks 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hey everyone! I hope everybody enjoyed the long weekend and is ready for a spooktacular week full of events! In this weeks announce: - Associate talks: pooka@Redbrick - Helpdesk talk: HowTo@Redbrick - Wordpress 101 - Halloween Ball@Redbrick - FOSDEM =============== pooka@Redbrick =============== + When: Tuesday 28th October at 6pm + Where: C123 + Description: Cian (pooka@redbrick) is a former Redbrick admin, and works as a programmer for Hosted Graphite. He has previously worked for Google, Amazon, and several Irish ISPs. This talk focuses on technical designs in large-scale software environments, and patterns which we have found work well. These can be relatively difficult to get exposure to. It is not an exhaustive treatment, but we hope to give the you an appreciation of the kinds of constraints and opportunities we have at scale; some tools for approaching design; and a better idea of the kinds of systems engineers engage with at large scale. This promises to be a really interesting talk not to be missed! so please come along and bring your friends! As always, there will be pizza! ============================== HowTo@Redbrick - Wordpress 101 ============================== + When: Wednesday 29th October at 3pm + Where: LG26 + Description: This week our Helpdesk team will be going through how to install and manage Wordpress on Redbrick. Please come along as our helpdesk team will be passing on some invaluable information. ======================== Halloween Ball@Redbrick ======================== + When:Thursday 30th October 6.30pm + Where: The Nubar + Description: Scarier than finding Mak just put a rootkit on your server... Redbrick is hoping to bring back the Hallowe'en ball. -> Fancy Dress -> Spot Prizes -> Gruesome games. This year we will be holding a Halloween ball for all of you fancy dress lovers. There will be spot prizes on the night for best dressed and winners of the Halloween games along with some tasty platters. So get the costumes out and lets have some fun! ======== FOSDEM ======== So for those who dont know, we're looking at going to the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM for short). It is to be held in Brussels on the 31st of January and the 1st of February. FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. It is a really cool event with devrooms, lectures, lightning talks and cool opensource stuff. For those interested please take a look at the link below! We are still taking signups for those that want to go, so if you would like to go as part of Redbrick please let us know as soon as possible. It will be a fantastic experience! The website: https://fosdem.org/2015/ Don't forget to keep an eye on our various social media soapboxes: - Twitter @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Till next week! Regards Gillian Morrison(socks) Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15 Message 1 of 12 Message 1 of 13

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20 Oct '14

Hey Everyone! Welcome to the week 5 Announce! We have lots of awesome things happening this week and we hope to see you at as many events as possible! Just to note: Unfortunately we dont know the rooms for the events just yet but we will be sending an email with the locations out tomorrow morning! Sorry for any inconvenience caused! In this weeks announce: - Screen@Redbrick: Hackers - Associate Talks - Admin Talk: An overview - EGM and admin training - Fosdem - Social Night ========================== Screen@Redbrick: Hackers ========================== + When: Monday 20th October at 6pm + Where: Room To be confirmed. + Description: A young boy is arrested by the U.S. Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus. This promises to keep you on the edge of your seat and will definitely be worth a watch! Please come along on Monday! We'd love to see you there! ================================ Associate Talks: Lotta Mikkonen ================================ + When: Tuesday at 6.30pm + Where: Room to be confirmed. + Description: This week we have the lovely Lotta Mikkonen (attol) coming in to talk to us about interview techniques and 3/4 project presentation. This talk will be great for everybody especially those of you with intra interviews and projects coming up! You should definitely come along as she'll be passing on some invaluable tips on acing those interviews! ========================= Admin Talk - An overview ========================= + When: Wednesday 22nd at (SEan time??) + Where: Room To be confirmed. + Description: This week we will be having the first of our admin talks! It will be given by our very own Lorcan Boyle (Zergless). His talk will be an intro to Linux command line. He will be giving helpful hints and tips as well as some cool commands to help you get the most out of our servers! This promises to be a really interesting talk and we hope to see you all there. As always, there will be pizza! ======================= EGM and Admin training ======================= + When: Wednesday (time to be confirmed) + Where: Room to be confirmed. + Description: This years EGM is happening on Wednesday! We will be discussing our plans for the year as well as electing new members to the committee. The positions that you can run for are: PRO For those of you that passed the exams you can run for the following: Helpdesk Admin Webmaster We hope to see as many of you at the EGM as possible! ======== Fosdem ======== So, we're looking at going to the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (Fosdem for short). It is to be held in Brussels on the 31st of January and the 1st of February. FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. It is a really cool event with devrooms, lectures, lightning talks and cool opensource stuff. For those interested please take a look at the link below! We are trying to gauge interest, so if you would like to go as part of Redbrick please let us know as soon as possible. It will be a fantastic experience! The website: https://fosdem.org/2015/ =============== Social Night =============== + When: Thursday at 6 + Where: The nuBar + Description: After a long week full of hard work we think everyone deserves the opportunity to come down to the nuBar for some well earned drinks and a bitta banter. We'd love to see you all there! Well thats all for this week! Don't forget to keep an eye on our various social media soapboxes: - Twitter @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Till next week! Regards Gillian Morrison(socks) Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15

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Emergency Downtime - Security Patching
by Redbrick Admins 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

All, We will be undertaking emergency downtime later this morning to mitigate any possible vulnerabilities to the recent SSL v3.0 (the exploit that must not be named) issues. We apologise for the short notice. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Redbrick Bank Account Details
by Redbrick Admins 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

All, Apologies for the mass of emails: It has been brought to our attention that there was a missing section to the IBAN number that was in the original renewal mail. The CORRECT IBAN IS: IE59BOFI90675027999600 Apologies for the inconvenience, A second email has been sent to those who have yet to renew. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Announce Week 4 | screen@rb: 5th Estate | Associate Talks | Helpdesk Talk | Intercom@Redbrick
by socks 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Good afternoon Everyone, First of all, we'd like to apologise for the late announce! It shouldn't happen again! The evenings are getting shorter as we head into week 4. This week we're filling this shortening evenings with some great events. It's all about quality, not quantity. Without further ado the agenda for the week is as follows: - Screen@Redbrick - Associate Talks - Helpdesk Talks - Intercom@Redbrick ====================== = Screen@Redbrick = ====================== We've had to postpone this as we have admin exams at 6pm. So we're going to reschedule for next week and change up the movie to the cheesy 1995 classic "Hackers" Sorry for the inconvenience, we'll make sure you guys get all of next week's details sooner. We're still ironing out a few bugs on this end. ================================ = Associate Talks: elephant = ================================ Topic: "Spammers Hate Him! One weird trick for staying secure online" When: Tuesday 14th October at 18:00 Where: C115 Social media accounts are valuable to scammers and spammers, who want to make a quick buck off your reputation. Here’s a few tips to help make your accounts harder to abuse so hold on to your tinfoil hats kids Diarmaid MacManus will be talking to us about how to stay secure online, some of the tips and tricks he's learned from his time in application security with various multinationals. If you don't leave this talk paranoid we'll be surprised! ==================== = Helpdesk Talks = ==================== Topic: How to get up and running with Redbrick. Where: LG25 When: Wednesday 15th October 15:00 Cian Butler will be guiding you through your first steps using Redbrick services. He'll be walking through how to use your webspace, logging into IRC and how to run programmes on our development servers. With the rest of the committee on hand to help out we should have you up and running in no time. ================== = Intercom@Redbrick = ================== This week we see another company come to pay us a visit; this week it's Intercom. Intercom has only recently had its 3rd birthday, yet it's making huge a serious impact on how companies deal with their customers. Intercom have had developers, engineers and business join them from companies as big as Amazon and Google. Come along on Thursday and see how Intercom do what they do, and what it's like to work for them. We've got: Brian White and Brian Long (make sure to call him Robin) coming to talk about running Intercom. Matthew Barrington will be fanboying to the extreme about his time with Intercom. This should be a great evening, for anyone that may have been at the inside intercom meetings throughout the year you know how interesting and enthusiastic the Intercomrades are; for those who haven't you should definitely come along and witness it first hand. Don't forget to keep an eye on our various social media soapboxes: - Twitter @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Thats all for now folks! Till next week! Regards Gillian Morrison(socks) Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15 Message 1 of 5

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Webmaster Exam
by Robert Devereux 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hey all, As there's been a lot of interest from you talented folks in the position of webmaster I've decided to resign and will be running for one of the open admin positions at the EGM on the 22nd. The more talented and enthusiastic folks we have on committee the better! As such I'll be holding the webmaster exam some time next week! Please email me by 5pm on Monday to register your interest in taking the exam. The exam will probably be Tuesday/Thursday next week. Your friendly neighbourhood webmaster, Rob.

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Down Time - Sunday 12/10/2014 3pm
by Lorcan Boyle 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi Guys There will be downtime this Sunday for scheduled maintenance at 3pm. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience. Kinda Regards The Admins

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Hangouts on Air Room change
by socks 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hey Everyone! Just to let everyone know that the room for the 'Hangout on Air' has changed. It will now be held in HG10. Dont forget it starts at 5 so try and be there a little early to get a good seat!! Looking forward to seeing you all there!! Regards Gillian Morrison(socks) Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15

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Week 3 | Google Events | Intro to RB | EGM date change
by Richard Walsh 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the week 3 Announce! We hope everybody had a great weekend! We have a fantastic week filled with awesome events ahead. Before we get started there is one small change from last weeks email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE CHANGE: The EGM will be held on the 22nd of this month instead of the 15th ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, without further ado.... In this weeks announce: - Google Week - Introduction to Redbrick - Social Night =========== Google Week =========== So last week some of you made it to the Google University Open House. We heard from some fantastic speakers and got some great tips. For those of you who didnt go, never fear! This week is Google Week!! ++ Hangout on Air - Perspectives on Engineering at Google Hear from Google Engineers, from Dublin and Mountain View. They'll be talking about their path to Google and their career experiences to date. When: Tuesday October 7th from 5 -6pm Location: Q120 ++ Google @ DCU When: Wednesday 8th October Where: QG22 We'll have 3 talks as follows. We can guarantee you these talks are fantastic having heard from two of the speakers on Friday! Time 1.00 - 2.00 A talk given by DCU alum and Redbrick member John Looney. John is a member of the SRE team responsible for Google's Datacentre and he'll be giving us a talk called: "Perspectives on studying Computer Science" Time 2.00 - 3.00 "Systems at Scale: Tales from Google Site Reliability Engineering" This talk will be given by Andrew Widdowson, a Mountain View SRE. Andrew will be talking about how the smallest keystroke can make the biggest impact when dealing with systems at scale. Time: 3.00 - 3.30 Last but certainly not least we will hear from STEP intern Conor Flynn, who is in second year of PSSD here in DCU. He will be discussing his experience at Google and will be happy to answer all your questions! We'd recommend coming along and bringing anyone even a little bit curious as to how Google goes about its daily routine. Bring your friends, bring your mum, heck... even bring your cat!! We've been looking forward to these talks for quite some time and we hope you enjoy them! =================== Introduction to Redbrick =================== When: Wednesday 8th at 4pm Where: QG22 What: This is a great chance for everyone to get to know the committee. In this talk we'll cover a little history of the society, our services and our plans for the year. We will cover: - Who's who in the committee. - What each committee member does. - What Redbrick has to offer - an intro by our Education Officer. - What's planned for the rest of the year. There will also be a Q&A session where you can ask about anything you need help or advice on! And, as if that wasnt enough, there will be pizza! ========== Social Night ========== When: Friday the 10th at 6pm Where: The NuBar What: The first of our weekly social nights. We will be meeting up in the Nubar on a Friday evening for some well earned drinks and a chat! Feel free to pop in and say hello! We'd love to see you there! Well thats it for this week! Don't forget to follow us on twitter and on facebook below. @RedbrickDCU www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Take it aisy, Richard Walsh Chair - Redbrick e: chair(a)redbrick.dcu.ie m: +353 857196403

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Week 2 Announce Freshers Party | Google Talks | Intro to Redbrick | EGM
by Gillian Morrison 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hello Everybody!! To all of you who have already recieved an announce this week apologies! To all the new members of Redbrick; welcome to the society. We look forward to a great year with all of you. In this weeks announce: - Freshers ball - Google talks - Intro to Redbrick - EGM ============= Freshers Ball ============= We will be having hanging out in the Nubar tonight to welcome all the freshers and to catch up with our returning members in the finest Redbrick tradition, PINTS! No doubt some of the associates will be showing up at some point to say hi! There may also be some food and light refreshments kindly supplied by the lovely committee. ============ Google talks ============ For those of you that signed up already don't forget about the awesome Google talks that are set to happen! University Open House in Google's Barrow St Offices. We've been invited to attend the first Google Tech Ireland Open House: Google Engineers will tell us what it's like to work for Google, we'll hear about student focused programmes as well as CV and interviewing tips. If you didn't get a chance to sign up last week don't worry Google have more events in store for us! When: October 3rd Time: 2pm-6:30pm Google Hangout - Engineering@Google. We'll be getting people together and getting in some Firehouse Pizza and refreshments and listening to some Google Engineers from Dublin and abroad talk about their careers in Google thus far. When: Tuesday October 7th Time: 5pm - 6pm Google come to DCU! When: Wednesday October 8th 1pm - 3:30pm We've arranged for 3 talks specially for Redbrick, two of which are from current Redbrick members. Talk 1: 1pm: "Perspectives on Studying Computer Science" - John Looney (valen) Location: QG22 Talk 2: 2pm " Systems at Scale: Tales from Google SRE" with Andrew Widdowson from MountainView Location: QG22 Talk 3: 3pm: Q&A session with Conor Flynn a STEP intern from the PSSD program. Location:QG22 ==================== Intro to Redbrick ==================== The Committee shall be introducing their lovely selves to all of you new members, going through the plans for the year and answering any questions that you may have about the society. All of you renewing members are welcome to come along and show your faces and join in. There will of course be pizza for all in attendance. Date: 8th october Time: 4pm (After the Google talks) Location: QG22 =========== EGM =========== It's that time of year again where we look to expand our ranks here on committee. The items on the Agenda will be as follows: Adoption of the new SLC Constitution Acceptance of the Redbrick Amendments to this constitution. Changing the societies official name from "DCU Networking Society" to "Redbrick" Election of Committee positions PRO System Administrator Education Officer (Helpdesk) First Year Rep AOB As usual, pizza will be provided! Where: TBC When: Wednesday 15th October 2p.m. And for all you social media people that want updates from us you can find us on Twitter @RedbrickDCU Facebook at www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Well thats it for this week! Looking forward to seeing you all this evening! Kind Regards Gillian Morrison Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15

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