October 2018 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Stripe Open Day!
by branch＠redbrick.dcu.ie 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hi everyone it's me, branch, back again with a little bit of info for you all! Just wanted to let everyone know that Stripe are holding an event for university students on November 14th. Students from DCU, Trinity, UCD & DIT will all be there at the event. The event is primarily for penultimate, final year, Masters and PhD students who are studying computing with a view to entering a graduate role. You can apply to attend at this link: https://stripe.events/dublinuniversity18 (https://stripe.events/dublinuniversity18) If you already have your internship/graduate positions nailed down, that's okay! You're still more than welcome to register to attend the event, this is also a great opportunity to get to know more about software development and it's community, as you'll get to talk with Stripe engineers one on one over some pizza and other refreshments! Make sure you apply as soon as possible, as space is limited! Nevan Oman Crowe (branch) Redbrick Secretary 2018-2019 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick (https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick) Instagram: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie) The announce-redbrick list is used to inform Redbrick users of important system/society events. If you have any questions, please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:committee@redbrick.dcu.ie)

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Redbrick Week 6 | Linux Install Fest | Fosdem Signups | Hackerclub
by branch＠redbrick.dcu.ie 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hello again everyone! It's me again branch your secretary, I hope you all enjoyed last week and our great talk from our friends at Mastercard and our weekly Hackerclub event. Just a few bits of info for everyone. There will be a planned restart of the IRC this weekend to load config changes, We just want to apologize to anyone that might be affected by this restart. For anyone who went to our talk with Mastercard last week they are looking for feedback (good and bad) and they'd love to know what anyone who was lucky enough to grab a pi is planning on doing with them, If you have any feedback please just send it right along to us on committee. This week is still set to be jam packed with stuff for all you brickies to come along and enjoy, especially seen as we have another great talk coming from our Helpdesk this week on Linux. Keep reading to find out more! TL;DR - Linux Install Fest - Wednesday @3pm LG26 - Fosdem Signups - Hackerclub Thursday @4pm L101 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Install Fest - Wednesday @3pm LG26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two weeks ago, you had your introduction to Linux - now it's time to take the plunge and install it! From Dual-Booting to Virtual Machines, our trusty Helpdesk team will be covering it all! Make sure you along to Redbrick's Linux Installfest this Wednesday to get your Linux kick! We'll guide you through the installation and help you enjoy the real power of running Linux. We will be using Ubuntu 18.04. hope to see you'd all there! https://www.facebook.com/events/326270458168327/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/326270458168327/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fosdem Signups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yep it's back our trip to Belgium and to FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting - a mouthful I know) is here again. This year we want to have as many brickies come along with us as possible, so we've opened up our signups for anyone who wants to join us. It was an amazing event last year, my first time going and despite not being able to remember some parts of it, I had an unbelievable time learned loads and I came away so much better for it. I hope to see loads of you come along this year and experience some overseas fun with Redbrick! So if you think going off to Belgium for a few days to experience Brussels and to take part in one of the largest software engineering meetups in Europe sounds fun sign up with the Typeform down below. SIGNUP HERE (https://fosdem.redbrick.dcu.ie) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hackerclub ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you finding programming hard? Little bit stuck or at a point where you’re too afraid to ask questions? Never fear! Hackerclub is back and better than ever! Come along down to L101 Thursday at 5pm to find out what it’s all about and maybe learn a few new things about tackling those pesky programming problems! https://www.facebook.com/events/253181345369210/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/253181345369210/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nevan Oman Crowe (branch) Redbrick Secretary 2018-2019 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick (https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick) Instagram: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie) The announce-redbrick list is used to inform Redbrick users of important system/society events. If you have any questions, please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:committee@redbrick.dcu.ie)

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Redbrick Week 5 | Mastercard Talks | Hackerclub
by branch＠redbrick.dcu.ie 21 Oct '18

21 Oct '18

Hello again everyone, It's me again branch your Secretary, back from Germany, what a big week last week was. Just want to say a little thanks to our hardworking Chair mctactsic for taking on my work while I was away, danke schöne James. Hope you all enjoyed last week and our great talk from our Helpdesk team. It might not look like a lot this week but it's still jam packed with great interesting things. Come along to everything if you can and see what we have to offer, we have something for everyone! TL;DR - Mastercard Tech Talks - Wednesday @3pm CG86 - Hackerclub Thursday @5pm L101 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mastercard Tech Talks - Wednesday @3pm CG86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday the 24th of October Redbrick are fortunate enough to be hosting Mastercard for a session of really great lightning talks. The subject of these riveting talks include : Augmented Reality, Computer Visualisation, Blockchain, Scalable Infrastructure and Payments Security. So loads for everyone to sink their teeth into. The new shorter format is sure to keep these "tech talks" interesting, educational and concise. Be sure to join us at CG86 (a.k.a "The Pitt") for informative talks, free food, prizes and the chance to walk home with your very own iPad courtesy of Mastercard. Come along and see what these great talks have to offer, meet some great industry professionals and maybe learn some great new things https://www.facebook.com/events/331369104294746/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/331369104294746/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hackerclub ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you finding programming hard? Little bit stuck or at a point where you’re too afraid to ask questions? Never fear! Hackerclub is back and better than ever! Come along down to L101 Thursday at 5pm to find out what it’s all about and maybe learn a few new things about tackling those pesky programming problems! https://www.facebook.com/events/442473026277313/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/442473026277313/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nevan Oman Crowe (branch) Redbrick Secretary 2018-2019 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick (https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick) Instagram: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie) The announce-redbrick list is used to inform Redbrick users of important system/society events. If you have any questions, please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:committee@redbrick.dcu.ie) To unsubscribe, please contact admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:admins@redbrick.dcu.ie) with your Redbrick username.

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15 Oct '18

Hi there brickies, Redbrick Chair mctastic here! Your ever busy Secretary and usual writer of the weekly announce, branch is off in Germany for the weekend! So I'm afraid your stuck with me to tell you all about what Redbrick is getting up to this week! Before that, however, I want to extend my congratulations to those who were elected onto the Redbrick committee at our EGM last Thursday! Your brand new committee members are: Eamon Crawford (eamon_c) - Vice Chair Theo Coyne Morgan (depp) - GDO Jack Liston (chill ) - Second Events Officer Maciej Swierad (wolfer) - First Year Rep Daniel Christie (sun) & Cian Kehoe (cianky) - Ordinary Members Connor Mulready (mulreac) - Helpdesk Congratulations to all our new committee members! I'm looking forward to an undoubtedly successful and great year with you guys! So... what do we have in store for you this week? TL;DR - Accenture Analytics Graduate Programme Talk - Monday @ 6pm CG86 - Intro To Linux - Wednesday @ 3pm LG25 - Hackerclub - Thursday @ 4pm L101 - UKIEPC - Register your team now before Thursday 18th October: https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/ukiepc-2018 (https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/ukiepc-2018) - FOSDEM - Signup link: https://fosdem.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://fosdem.redbrick.dcu.ie) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accenture Analytics Graduate Programme Talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you a logical thinker with an aptitude for problem solving? Do you want to use Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning & Applied Intelligence to deliver value realization for clients? If you are interested in finding out more about the Accenture Analytics graduate programme then come along to our Analytics evening in DCU. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/accenture-analytics-graduate-programme-talk-tic… (https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/accenture-analytics-graduate-programme-talk-tic…) https://www.facebook.com/events/710213876003101/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/710213876003101/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro To Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet your new home! The surroundings of Linux can be quite intimidating at first, once you open up a terminal like your lecturer told you to, it feels as if you're abstracted away form this new environment! Sure, you can `cd` & `ls` your way around the terminal for the next while, but eventually, you're going to need a bit more than that. On Wednesday you'll receive a brief Intro to Linux courtesy of Redbrick's very own Helpdesk! We will be (hopefully) covering something new for everyone here!! Make sure you come along to LG25 on Wednesday at 15:00 to learn you some Linux and eat you some pizza ! https://www.facebook.com/events/2196757460598738/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/2196757460598738/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HackerClub ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you finding programming hard? Little bit stuck or at a point where you’re too afraid to ask questions? Never fear! HackerClub is back and better than ever! Come along down to L101 Thursday at 4pm to find out what it’s all about and maybe learn a few new things about tackling those pesky programming problems! https://www.facebook.com/events/252014042065001/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/252014042065001/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UKIEPC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year Redbrick will be hosting a Hub in DCU for UKIEPC. Prizes and food on the day will be graciously sponsored by Mastercard, and trust us, you won't want to miss out on what's on offer! If you want to compete on the day, make sure to register for the competition at https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/ukiepc-2018 (https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/ukiepc-2018) before this coming Thursday! For more information on Redbrick's UKIEPC Hub or UKIEPC in general, check out https://ukiepc.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://ukiepc.redbrick.dcu.ie) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSDEM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Redbrick are bound for Brussels once again this February! FOSDEM is taking place on the 2nd & 3rd of February, 2019. For those not in the know, FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting. Basically, it's a huge meetup of developer's from across the world, taking place on the ULB Solbosch campus in Brussels. Redbrick have made it tradition to fly out each year for some time now. If you're at all interested in coming along in 2019, please make your interest know at https://fosdem.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://fosdem.redbrick.dcu.ie) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a good week peoples, James McDermott (~mctastic). Redbrick Chair 2018-19.

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Redbrick | UKIEPC at DCU!
by branch＠redbrick.dcu.ie 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hey everyone I'm back again with a long email with some more info on the happenings of UKIEPC this year, Redbrick are hosting a Hub in DCU for UKIEPC this year, and we are happy to announce that you can now register to take part! We are hosting the only hub in Ireland this year. The deadline to register is Thursday 18th October you can register on the DCU Site for UKIEPC here: https://ukiepc.redbrick.dcu.ie/#register (https://ukiepc.redbrick.dcu.ie/#register) For those that don't know UKIEPC is it's the UK & Ireland Subregional Contest for NWERC (the Northwestern Europe European Regional Contest), of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ICPC. UKIEPC is a practice competition, held annually that began in 2013. It was set up to help universities pick teams to travel to NWERC but doesn't automatically select the team. The event itself is organised in a distributed manner. It is physically hosted at several universities around the UK and Ireland. The same problem set is used at all sites. All the scores are gathered electronically, and the results can be viewed against other local teams, and all the teams across the UK and Ireland. It may sound like a lot to take in and daunting task for some if you're relatively new to programming but the contest is suitable for programmers of almost all skill levels, from beginner to expert. The problem set has both very easy and very difficult problems which are marked individually for both the UK & Ireland. If you want a cheeky look at some of the previous year questions and solutions all the previous year's problem sets and solutions are available on the UKIEPC site! Redbrick is currently working to secure sponsorship and some great prizes for the event. You can check the website to find out as soon as we have any more info on our prizes. We'd love to have as many of you as possible take part. Have a look at the website and consider registering for what's set to be a great event in our Redbrick calendar, And you don't know you might learn a few new things about programming or make some new friends. Hope to see you all there! Nevan Oman Crowe (branch) Redbrick Secretary 2018-2019 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick (https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick) Instagram: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie) The announce-redbrick list is used to inform Redbrick users of important system/society events. If you have any questions, please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:committee@redbrick.dcu.ie) To unsubscribe, please contact admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:admins@redbrick.dcu.ie) with your Redbrick username.

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Redbrick Week 3 | Microsoft Talk | Hackerclub | EGM | UKIEPC
by branch＠redbrick.dcu.ie 07 Oct '18

07 Oct '18

Hello again everyone, especially all our new brickies. It's branch your Secretary here. Hope you all enjoyed our introduction last week and also hope that all your classes are going well.This week there's lots more in store for everyone! Come along to everything if you can and see what we have to offer, especially our EGM where we'll be electing new committee members! TL;DR - Microsoft Talk - Why (almost) everything is worse at Scale. And why that’s Good. Wednesday @3pm LG25 - Hackerclub Thursday @4pm L101 - EGM Thursday @6:30pm L101 - UKIEPC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Talk - Why (almost) everything is worse at Scale. And why that’s Good ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To solve problems that affect billions of people, you need to think about them in a different way. This talk will follow how we use the scale of Microsoft to empower the lives of all of our users, including how the scale affects how we go about solving issues, testing for it and how we monitor for issues. Eoin O'Brien has been a software engineer in Microsoft Office for over 2 years currently driving knowledge from insights on the One Microsoft Enterprise Acceleration team. Eoin has worked on services, data processing and publicly facing websites, including working on both the consumer and enterprise side of Office, driving growth and adoption. Come along and see what this great talk has to offer, meet some great industry professionals and maybe learn something new! https://www.facebook.com/events/329208467843184/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/329208467843184/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hackerclub ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you finding programming hard? Little bit stuck or at a point where you’re too afraid to ask questions? Never fear! Hackerclub is back and better than ever! Come along down to L101 Thursday at 4pm to find out what it’s all about and maybe learn a few new things about tackling those pesky programming problems! https://www.facebook.com/events/442473026277313/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/442473026277313/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EGM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of our huge events this week, It's our EGM. It's coming up this Thursday @6:30 in L101 just after hackerclub. Please come along and maybe run for a position, vote or have just have some craic! Here are all the positions available: - First-year rep - Graphics Officer - Vice Chair - Second Events Officer - Second Helpdesk Officer - Two Ordinary Members Talk to any of the committee members beforehand if you have any questions! https://www.facebook.com/events/1798124463599298/ (https://www.facebook.com/events/1798124463599298/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UKIEPC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year Redbrick will be hosting a Hub in DCU for UKIEPC, at the moment it's all getting set up and we will have further emails and more information about it during the week. Just keep watching those emails! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nevan Oman Crowe (branch) Redbrick Secretary 2018-2019 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick (https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick) Instagram: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie (https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie) The announce-redbrick list is used to inform Redbrick users of important system/society events. If you have any questions, please email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:committee@redbrick.dcu.ie) To unsubscribe, please contact admins(a)redbrick.dcu.ie (mailto:admins@redbrick.dcu.ie) with your Redbrick username.

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Redbrick Renew Membership
by Thomas Doyle 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello all, It's that time of the year again that memberships are now due. Please follow the following link to renew your membership. https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/joining/ If you believe this is in error please contact the committee as soon as possible. Regards, Tom & the admin team -- Tom Doyle greenday Redbrick sysadmin 2017-2019 RAG GraphicsDesignOfficer 2018-2019 -- __ Séanadh Ríomhphoist/_ Email Disclaimer__ ** Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml> <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/seanadh-riomhphoist.shtml>* _ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://www4.dcu.ie/iss/email-disclaimer.shtml> _ *_

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