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

Week 8 AGM Results | Societies Awards | Accenture Events (EURO 1, 000 Prize) | Quiz
by Richard Walsh 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi Everyone, This past week saw the society elect a new committee and fend off some stiff competition to claim a place at the upcoming BICS awards. - AGM Results - Societies Awards - Accenture Events - Quiz ================ What: AGM Results ================ Your incoming committee are: - Chair: Richard Walsh (koffee) - Sec: Gillian Morrisson (socks) - Treasurer: Kirill Slowka (macspayn) - Webmaster: Rob Devereux (kylar) - PRO: Andrew Boylan (Fructus) - Events: Seán Healy (space) - Helpdesk: Cian Butler (butlerx) - Admins: Emmanuel Caillé (Twister), Laura Browne (meep), Lorcan Boyle (zergless) A huge thanks to the outgoing committee who did great work over the year and to everyone who came to the AGM. Congratulations to all those elected, we hope to see great things from you in the coming year. ================== What: Societies Awards ================== DCU held it's annual Societies Awards this past Thursday and we're proud to announce that Redbrick won the award for the best Communications and Marketing for the event. In addition to the society win Vadim won an individual award for contribution to society life. This means that the society are going to the BICS awards in Belfast on the 10th of April to represent the university. Follow us on Twitter - @RedbrickDCU and Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick to keep up to date with things as they happen. Hopefully this is a sign of bigger and better things to come from the society over the next few years. ================================================================ What: Accenture Events Code-a-thon & "Tech Vision" Talk When: 1. Code-a-thon: 12th April 9a.m. 2. Tech Vision: 8th April 6:30p.m. Where: 1. Code-a-thon:1 Grand Canal Square,Grand Canal Harbour,Dublin 2 http://bit.ly/1jLE8VT 2. Tech Vision: QG22, Business Building, DCU ================================================================= After a successful talk from Accenture during Tech Week we've been invited to not one, but two Accenture events in the coming weeks. 1. Code-a-thon: With a prize of EURO 1,000 up for grabs contestants have 12 hours to create a mobile app either using native: iOS, Android or Windows Phone libraries, or using a framework like PhoneGap. You will be provided with a functional spec on the day, along with a starter pack and plenty of food and drinks to keep you creating all day. You can sign up here: http://consultingoncampus.com/general/code-a-thon 2. Tech Vision Talk: In association with the DCU Student Business Consulting Society we're hosting Derek Lande (Manager of IT Strategy Consulting @ Accenture) to talk about what emergent technologies hold the most potential to transform businesses over the next 3 years. You can register your attendance here: http://consultingoncampus.com/dcu/uatevent08-04 And last, but by no means least =================================== What: Annual Redbrick Quiz When: Thursday 17th April , 7pm Where: nuBar, DCU Cost:Entry per person: EURO 3 ( EURO 12 for a table of 4) Raffle Tickets: EURO 1 or EURO 3 for a strip of tickets ==================================== It's that time of year again, where teams of 4 will pit their general knowledge against one another in an effort to win one of our fantastic prizes. As always we have spot prizes and a raffle prize up for grabs too... but we're not telling you what any of them are yet, we're mysterious like that. That's our lot for another week, As always if you want to drop us a line feel free to email us: committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Regards, Richard Walsh SysAdmin '13/'14 <committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie>

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Week 7 - AGM | Hoodies | Quiz
by Richard Walsh 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hello Again Everyone. We're in the last leg of semester two, some of the regular fixtures in the Redbrick calendar are on the horizon. This week: - AGM - Hoodies - Upcoming Quiz ============================================== Event: AGM Venue: CG01 (Henry Grattan - Near Restaurant & Reception) Time: 2pm Onwards. ============================================== It's time for us to bid adieu to this years committee and welcome our new committee.- As always all positions are open for nominations, some of them requiring candidates to sit exams before their nominations are valid. The full list of positions are as follows: - Chair - Secretary - Treasurer - Webmaster * - Helpdesk x2 (Education officers) * - Public Relations Officer - Events Officer - Systems Administrator (SysAdmins x 3) * * Candidates wishing to apply for these positions must sit a competency exam before the AGM. To express an interest in sitting the exam please email the current officers at their respective email addresses. webmaster(a)redbrick.dcu.ie helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie And aside from the usual business of elections there will also be a Chair's and Treasurer's report and pizza to digest. ============================================== Event: Hoodies Venue: http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies Time: Closing date Thursday 27th March. ============================================== This years hoodie order sees the addition of a Charcoal Grey Hoodie & Zippie option. (NOTE: These do NOT have the red accents that the black selection have ) The prices for either colour are: - Hoodie: EURO 28 - Zippy: EURO 30 *The closing date for hoodies this year is this Thursday 27th March* To place a hoodie order you can sign up here : http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies To pay for these hoodies you can pay: - via paypal - payments can be made to accounts(a)redbrick.dcu.ie adding " $username - hoodie payment" in the payment description. - via cash in person to a member of committee. - If you think you can meet with a member of committee on campus or to arrange something. To confirm either send an email to committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and we'll sort something out for you. And as we all know... Semester 2 means the Annual Redbrick Table Quiz. Committee have already been amassing prizes, and this year there are some seriously great prizes up for grabs. More details including prices, dates and times will be coming in next week's announce. Until then, we hope to see lots of you at the AGM on Wednesday and again at the Society Awards Ball on Thursday, have a great week. Richard Walsh koffee@redbrick SysAdmin

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[Announce Week 6] Hoodies | AGM
by Richard Walsh 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hey all, Welcome to Week 6, with the end of term looming we've two big items to talk about this week. -- AGM -- Hoodies == AGM == == Where: CG01 (Henry Grattan Building ) == When: 2pm Wednesday 26th March. It's that time of year again; our AGM to elect the committee for the coming year will be happening on Wednesday 26th of March at 2pm in CG01. As usual the full list of committee positions is up for election, they are: - 3 Systems Administrators (SysAdmins) - Webmaster - 2 Helpdesk - Public Relations Officer - Events Officer - Treasurer - Secretary - Chairperson Any current member is eligible for nomination for any of these positions. There are three positions which require an aspiring candidate to sit an examination. These are: - Helpdesk - SysAdmin - Webmaster If you wish to run for any of these positions please email helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie, webmaster(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie respectively. And as usual there will be a plethora of pizza on hand provided by the ever fantastic Firehouse Pizza. == Hoodies == == Where: The Hub == When: Wed 19th March 12pm to 3pm & Thurs 20th March 11a.m. to 2p.m. == How Much: EURO 28 - Hoodies & EURO 30 Zippy As is now an annual tradition we'll be putting in an order for hoodies and zippies at the end of this month. This year we're doing something a little different. We've got a choice of colour, this year we've got a choice of slate grey or black in either hoodie or zippie. You can register your interest for a hoodie at http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies. Money will be collected this week in The Hub on Wednesday from 12 to 3 and Thursday from 11 to 2. Note: Your hoodie / zippie will not be ordered until money is received. If you would like to pay by paypal, contact committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie. Well that's all for now, Once again a huge thanks to all of our speakers who came along for TechWeek. A huge congratulations to all of our members and associates who spoke, it was a fantastic week and definitely something that Redbrick should be proud of. We'd love to know what you thought of the week, send committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie an email and let us know. We hope everyone has a fantastic St.Patrick's Day, On behalf of Redbrick Committee: Richard Walsh Redbrick SysAdmin '13/'14

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Week 4 || Tech Week 2014!
by Triona Barrow 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Hey all, It's finally Tech Week! A lot of effort has gone into this years events, and we hope that you'll all come and enjoy. Don't forget, you don't have be a Redbrick member to come along - if you know of anyone who's interested in any of our talks be sure to bring them along. This weeks announce will be dealing with all of the events we'll be putting on - you can also check out http://techweek.dcu.ie for the timetable! One important note also, to take part in the coding competition you must sign up first - use this link to book your place: http://bit.ly/1lt8w6Q = Monday = 12:00pm - Old Bar Tech Week: Activate 3:00pm - LG26 3D Modelling - Blender for Beginners with David Larkan (tziegler) 5:00pm - Old Bar Web Development 101 with Maximilian Hoffmann (tsov) = Tuesday = 1:00pm - Old Bar Intro to Mobile Development (iOS and Android) with Daniel Malone (ashaman) & Robert Lis (fofxo) 3:00pm - Old Bar Awesome Raspberry Pi Projects 5:00pm - Old Bar "How Hackers Changed the World" Screening = Wednesday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Virtualisation with Niall O'Connell from Openet 3:00pm - L101 Coding Competition with Openet 5:00pm - NuBar Coding Competition Results = Thursday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Accenture Tech Talk 3:00pm - Old Bar Building AWS Cloudfront with Amazon 4:00pm - Old Bar Test Driven Development with Amazon 5:00pm - Old Bar How does your Broadband Actually Work? with Colin Whittaker (grimnar) 6:00pm - NuBar Meet with Amazon Engineers and Recruitment = Friday = 2:00pm - Old Bar Web Security Attactics with Ciaran McNally (maK) 2:30pm - Old Bar Log Analysis & Intrusion Detection with Richard Dalton (d_fens) 3:00pm - Old Bar Challenges in Malware Reverse Engineering with Symantec 4:00pm - Old Bar E-Crime, Cyber Espionage and War with Symantec Wow, what a week! See you guys there. Techy regards, Tríona Barrow (polka) Redbrick PRO 2013/14 Connect with Redbrick and keep up to date with all of our news and events: Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167418566612957/ Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/RedBrickDCU

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