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

23 Sep '15

Hey Everyone Welcome back to all of our members returning to college. To all our graduands who have just finished 4th year, congratulations! Congratulations on entering the rank of esteemed associate members. To all our dedicated associates, welcome back to our 20th year! The wisdom that was to come with age still hasn't materialized. We've got lots planned for the year; and we hope you'll join us. Order of business for the first announce back: - Clubs & Socs Days - Intro to Redbrick - "Bug Bounties: Cad é an scéal?" - Sign Up for Google OpenHouse - EGM - Pycon 2015 ================================== Clubs & Socs +Date: Mon&Tue 28/09 & 29/09/2015. +Time: All Day. +Location: The Venue ( The Hub ). ================================== It's the time of the year when we indoctr... *welcome* a new members. This year sees us herald in Gen21. (although we need to check with shadow) As usual there'll be Redbrick committee members floating around the Venue, they'll have goodies and will answer questions about the year to come. Anyone can come by and renew their membership or sign up over the 2 days. And as usual; if you can't make it down there are plenty of other ways to renew. ============================ Intro to Redbrick +Date: Wed 30/09/2015. +Time: 2pm +Location: TBC ============================ The Helpdesk team will be taking a whistle stop tour of Redbrick services. The Committee shall also be introducing themselves to the new members and outlining the plans for the coming year, as well as taking suggestions. (inb4 resign) Members and associates are welcome to come along, if you have friends who'd like to join, bring them along on the night if they didn't make it to C&S days! ============================= "Bug Bounties - Cad é an scéal?" +Speaker: Ciarán McNally (https://securit.ie) +Date: Tuesday 06/10/15. +Time: 17:00 +Location: TBC ============================== One of Redbrick's favourite InfoSec specialists is back to chat about Bug Bounties. What are they? Why should you do them? Bug bounties provide an excellent opportunity to sharpen your Pentesting skills. This talk will give tips and insight into getting started with Bug Bounties. Ciaran will share creative but effective attack methodologies, real-world examples and tooling advice. For more info on Ciarán's consultancy check out https://securit.ie =================================== Register for Google OpenHouse 2015 +Date: Friday 09/10/2015. +Time: 9am +Location: https://goo.gl/IMXW6q =================================== Event: https://events.withgoogle.com/google-tech-ireland-open-house-2015/ Redbrick went along to the Google Openhouse event last year, it was a huge success. We met other computing societies and likeminded people and learned a lot about Engineering at Google as well as learning CV tips and about the various bursaries and programs Google Run. The Open House is aimed at 1st and 2nd Years primarily. The Event itself is on Friday 6/11/2015 from 14:00 - 19:00. It will be held in Gordon House on Barrow St. http://min.ie/KVdSLW9i ============================== EGM +When: Wednesday 17/10/15. +Time: 2pm +Where: Room TBC. ============================== It's that time of year again where we look to expand our ranks of the committee. You'll have a say in the day to day running of the society. Committee positions available +Secretary +Events officer +First Year Rep If you want any information on the role or have questions email committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie =========================================== PyCon +Date: Sat&Sun 24/10 - 25/10/2015. +Location: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin +Website: https://python.ie/pycon-2015/ +Tickets: €40 (preliminary) ============================================ PyCon is the largest annual gathering of the Irish Python community. The conference will bring together Irish talent and world class leaders in the Python community for a fun, informative and friendly event. Saturday and Sunday will consist of talks, tutorials, workshops, open-spaces and sprints. We are hoping to organise a group to attend PyCon, so please get in touch with the committee if you're interested in attending. You can email events(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or get in touch on IRC. That's all for now folks. We hope to see as many of you as possible at events throughout the year. Don't forget to keep an eye on our social media pages and our Calendar: - Twitter: @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU - Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar On behalf of the Committee 2015/'16 Richard Walsh koffee@redbrick SysAdmin

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Redbrick turns 20!
by Lorcan Boyle 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Hi Guys First of all I'd like to welcome everyone back after what I hope was a great summer! So as many of you may or may not know Redbrick will be turning 20 this year! Myself and the committee would like to make a it a pretty big party for such a great milestone but that cant be achieved without the help of all our members. We have set the date for April 9th 2016. In the coming weeks we will be looking at venues, thinking of ideas for the party and setting up a webpage with all details. This is were the help from you guys would be greatly appreciated in a couple of ways. SPREAD THE WORD! We can only let so many people know via email and social media so we're bound to miss a few. So if you guys could spread the word to any old Redbrick members you can think of. Once we have the website up and running I'd ask that you share it where ever you can think of. The more the merrier :D MEMORIES! Since this is Redbricks 20th year we of course want to remember the earlier years so if anyone has any old photo, videos,posters or anything else they want to share please bring it on the night or email it to us or even send it in. IDEAS! So far we've come up with music in a function room somewhere in town with beer and brickies. Do people want to do more? Does any one have ideas of a venue? Send any and all ideas to us we want to make this an awesome event. Lastly we have no idea how much this party will cost or how much money we will get granted by the SU. If any members would like to donate money to us it would be greatly appreciated by us all. Paypal: accounts(a)redbrick.dcu.ie C: BOFIIE2D a/c name: DCU Redbrick Society IBAN: IE59BOFI90675027999600 BIC: BOFIIE2D a/c number: 27999600 sort code: 90 - 67 - 50 Kind Regards ----------------------------------- Lorcan Boyle (zergless) Redbrick Chairperson Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3 Mob - +353-858242504

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Re: [Announce-RedBrick] Scheduled Downtime 0900 IST - 08/08/2015
by Redbrick Admins 08 Aug '15

08 Aug '15

We are re-scheduling downtime for 1130 IST today. This is to allow an admin to be on site in DCU should the need arise. Apologies for the inconvenience. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Scheduled Downtime 0900 IST - 08/08/2015
by Redbrick Admins 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Evening All, We'll be doing some maintenance on production servers on Saturday morning. Azazel will be offline for up to 15minutes. Services will still be running during this time. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Summer Drinks 4/7/15
by Lorcan Boyle 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Morning all I'm organising some food and drinks for the evening of 4/7/15 . Well be heading to The Mercantile. Right now I'm looking for numbers so we can book an area. If you can reply to this email or ping me on IRC and let me know if your interested and well get the ball rolling. Kind Regards ----------------------------------- Lorcan Boyle (zergless) Redbrick Chair 15/16 Computer Applications - Software Engineering Year 3 Mob - +353-858242504

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[Admins] VM Downtime 21st May
by Redbrick Admins 21 May '15

21 May '15

Afternoon All, We'll be doing some re-routing on the VM network on the 21st of May. We're hoping to undertake the maintenance at 11a.m. The maintenance will take 20mins with a rollback window of a further 20mins should the maintenance not be successful. Should the maintenance not be successful we will attempt it again at 7pm that evening with the same timeframe. The VMs will be inaccessible during these times Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Announce Week 23: Hoodies | #HackDCU | Planning 2015/16
by Richard Walsh 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Afternoon Everyone, With the college year coming to an end we'll start to see the new committee planning for the coming year, so if you want to give feedback on the year just gone or suggestions for the coming year don't hesitate to get in touch. Without further ado, the announce: + Hoodies + #HackDCU + Planning for 2015/2016 ===================== What: Hoodies When: Thursday 16th April ( or about 6 months ago ) Where: On your torso soon ===================== For those of you who may not have kept up to date: Hoodies were promised by someone for end of semester 1. Hoodies will hopefully be here at the end of semester two. The provisional order was placed on Monday for those who have paid. The order will be processed on +Thursday 16th April+ So if you have ordered and not yet paid and would like your hoodie, you can pay via PayPal to accounts(a)redbrick.dcu.ie please include your username and hoodies in the payment info. =================================== What: #HackDCU When: Fri 17th - Sun 19th April Where: DCU Innovation Campus, Ballymun Rd. ( here: -> http://bit.ly/1FPYN2t ) =================================== In collaboration with ESoc, MPS, EngSoc and the DCU Ryan Academy, Redbrick are involved in the upcoming #HackDCU event. The aim is to hack together some hardware or software that would make a DCU student's life easier on or off campus. The event is designed to team up developers, designers, engineers with someone with an interest in business to show why the world needs their hack. To be in with a chance of winning a grand prize of €1000 sign up here: http://bit.ly/1DDtqZF ( eventbrite ticketing ) ============================== What: Planning for 2015/2016 When: All Summer Where: At various pubs/eateries in Dublin ============================== Newmittee are taking over the reins over the next few weeks. Oldmittee, Newmittee and YOU should get together over the summer and plan what you want the future of Redbrick to be. With talks of Hands on Helpdesk and Admin talks, Virtualization and Website redesign, now is the perfect chance to get involved. We'll look into hosting a day in DCU over the summer in the nuBar when the weather is fine where we can sit and plan over a pint and some BBQ. And that's that for another week. To everyone doing projects, one backup is never enough. To everyone doing exams, don't worry they won't ask that. To everyone else... get back to work. Happy Tuesday, Richard Walsh koffee@redbrick Chair/SysAdmin

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Post-AGM Announce - Results
by Richard Walsh 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Evening all, Firstly I'd like to thank all the committee, members and associates for making this a great year. On April 1st we had our AGM and as follows are the results of the elections for the new committee of 2015/2016. Chair - Lorcan Boyle (zergless) Secretary - Christine Smart (smarties) Treasurer - Gillian Morrison (socks) PRO - James Nolan (jaffa) Events - Kirils Sloka (macspayn) Webmaster - Sean Healy (space) Helpdesk - Cian Butler (butlerx) Cormac Smartt (pints) Admins - Wojciech Bednarzak (voy) Terry Bolt (tbolt) Richie Walsh (koffee) I'd like to thank those who served us on committee this past year, most notably Niall Gaffney (gamma) and Robert Devereux (kylar) who are soon to leave DCU and rejoin as associate members after years of serving Redbrick on committee. I hope you'll join me in congratulating and welcoming our new committee members for the coming year. Le Meas, Richard Walsh koffee@redbrick SysAdmin

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AGM Update
by Richard Walsh 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Evening All, Just a quick update about the AGM. Venue: QG21 (Business Building) Time: Wednesday April 1st at 2:30pm Elections will be held after committee reports on the year. Regards, Richard Walsh koffee@redbrick Chair/SysAdmin

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Announce Week 14 | Helpdesk Talks | Redbrick Lives | TechWeek
by Richard Walsh 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Hey guys! Hope every one had a great Christmas! Redbrick is back for semester two! In this weeks announce: + Helpdesk@Redbrick: Customizing Redbrick + Online + Techweek ======================================= Helpdesk@Redbrick: Customizing Redbrick ======================================= Where: LG25 When: 25th of February at 2:30pm Description: In this talk the helpdesk team, gamma and butlerx, will be going through how to tailor your Redbrick user experience. They will cover how to set-up config files to customize your Redbrick account. They'll be talking about ways to modify how you use your vim, irssi, weechat and ssh config files to suit you. ====== !LIVE! ====== When: always Where: everywhere Description: Redbrick is pleased to announce that we are back online. ssh and web spaces are both back working again! Some services are still being rebuilt and reconfigured, but we're thankfully up to date. This means we can start work on bigger plans we have for the service infrastructure as a whole. ============ TechWeek DCU ============ When: 9-13th march Description: We're gearing up for #TechWeekDCU 2015. This year's theme is: "The Tech Behind Everday Life". We've got some of the biggest names in Technology from around the world coming to DCU, as well as some familiar faces from Redbrick stepping up and sharing their "Tales of Fail!" There will be lecture-style talks, interactive sessions the in labs, coding competitions and plenty of opportunity for networking ;) We'll give a more detailed schedule in the weeks to come, but trust us when we say, you won't want to miss this! Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1406341353002463/?ref=br_tf That's that ladies and gents, lets make semester two a good one. Don't forget to keep an eye on our social media pages: - Twitter @RedbrickDCU - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick - Snapchat: RedbrickDCU On behalf of socks and the committee koffee Chair - Redbrick e: chair(a)redbrick.dcu.ie ~ what is this 'decaf' of which you speak? *squints*

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