February 2014 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

DCU TECH WEEK 2014 TIMETABLE IS LIVE
by Ciaran McNally 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

It's that time of year again ladies and gentlemen, Login, Lights on, Dial up and Link in, A technological cyber-cyclone of bits an bytes is headed your way! Brace your keyboards and restrain your iThings as Tech Week bursts through the walls of DCU flooding your networks. TechWeek Timetable - http://techweek.dcu.ie/ DCU President Brian MacCraith will be powering on this exciting week as DCU embraces a celebration of all things Technology. There will be inspiring talks covering a world wide web of topics delivered by the best in the Tech Industry. Companies such as Amazon, Openet and Symantec will be providing an excellent opportunity for students to get a real feel for the places they can go in the tech field. We have a coding competition run by Openet with uber prizes up to EURO 1000. Last year 5 students also got job offers as a result this event, it's not to be missed! Amazon will be blessing us with their expert insightful talks and will also be providing an opportunity to meet and greet with the experts in an informal environment, were students can ask questions and exchange their CVs :) Symantec will be delivering some very high-caliber talks, giving students an insider view of what its like to work on a Malware threat response team within Symantec. We have a large array of other inspirational talks spanning 3D Modelling, Web/Mobile Development, Security and Raspberry pi projects. Hopefully covering all the bases and filling you with technical lust for the hacker culture within which we live. I hope you are as excited as we are! Watch the events unfold at #TechWeekDCU Lets GO! https://www.facebook.com/events/280542745437765/

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Week 3: Openet Coding Competition - 2, 000 euro worth of cash prizes
by Richard Walsh 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Techweek is coming up and with that in mind the kind people at Openet are coming to do a prep session ahead of the Openet Coding Competition during TechWeek. With a prize fund of €2,000 up for grabs with a €1,000 1st prize it's definitely worth checking out. Last year saw Redbrick's very own Craig Duff walked away with one of the three great prizes on offer. This year to maximise your chances you should come along to the preparation workshop. Details: Date: Wednesday 26th February Time: 2PM Onwards Location: LG25 The Workshop will be hosted by some of the Openet team that are organising the competition, they will go over the questions and solutions from last year's competition as well as tell all those interested what to expect in the competition the following week. With last year's winner Ross Andreucetti and some of the markers for the competition going to be in attendance we think you'd be mad to miss this. Sign up for the competition here: http://techweek.dcu.ie/openet_coding_competition.html And to keep up to date with all of the TechWeek news check us out on: Twitter: twitter.com/RedbrickDCU Timetable: http://techweek.dcu.ie/ Regards, Richard Walsh Enterprise Computing Redbrick SysAdmin

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Week 1 - Openet Talk || Tech Week || Coding Competition
by Vadim Clyne-Kelly 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and that your exams all went swimmingly! This week we have a couple of things to announce to get the semester started. -- Openet Talk - 1pm - XG22 -- Tech Week - Week 4 (3rd - 7th March) -- Coding Competition - 5th March == Openet Talk == Openet are coming to DCU this Wednesday the 12th of February to talk as part of DCU Career's Service talk series. They have invited all member of Redbrick along to the event. They will be talking about the technologies used at Openet, "How DCU prepared me for my Job today" - Ross Andreucetti and also a brief run through of some of the problems that were presented at last year's programming competition - more below. Openet are looking for graduate hires and will be there to talk to anyone interested before and after the talk. The talk will take place in XG22 at 1pm. == Tech Week == Tech Week is back again this year with lots of techy goodness planned. We have something tech for everyone with topics such as 3D Modelling, Web Development, "Impact of Social Media", Top Raspberry Pi Projects, Web Security, Coding Competition all making an appearance throughout the week with more to be confirmed soon! Tech Week will be running from the 3rd to the 7th of March (Week 4). More information to follow soon! == Coding Competition == The Openet Coding competition is back again this year with cash prizes for the first three places! There will be a run through of the previous year's questions this Wednesday at the Openet talk and also a week before the competition. Sign ups and more details to follow soon. If you have any questions or queries don't hesitate to email us at committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. Regards, Vadim Clyne-Kelly Redbrick Chairperson 2013/2014 --- Keep Up To Date with all of our news and events! Homepage: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU

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