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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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Week 2 - Clubs and Socs day | Freshers party | Google talks
by Gillian Morrison 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hello Everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed the first week back! I know getting used to those early mornings is tough, but a whole host of awesome Redbrick events to look forward to might make it a little bit easier eh? In this weeks announce: - Clubs and Socs days - Freshers party - Google talks ==================== Clubs and Socs days ==================== So we've an exciting week this week with Clubs and Socs! Please pop on over to us to renew your membership! We'd love to see you back for another year! :) Date: Monday till Wednesday (that's the 29th to the 1st) Time: 9-4 on each of the three days Location: We're stand number 15 in the Venue! ============= Freshers Ball ============= For anyone that has been to our famous freshers ball before you'll know that this is an event not to be missed! With the committee on hand to chat to, and all our new members to welcome into the Redbrick family, this promises to be a great night! Please come along and bring your friends too! As the old saying goes, the more the merrier!! :) Date: Thursday the 2nd Time: 5:30pm onwards Location: The Nubar (located in the Hub!) ============ 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: to be confirmed Talk 2: 2pm " Systems at Scale: Tales from Google SRE" with Andrew Widdowson from MountainView Location: to be confirmed Talk 3: 3pm: Q&A session with Conor Flynn a STEP intern from the PSSD program. Location: to be confirmed Well that's all for this email! We're looking forward to seeing everyone at all our events! Have a great week everyone! Gillian Morrison Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15

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Week 1 - Welcome Back | Events | Clubs & Socs | Updates
by Richard Walsh 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Good Morning from 136.206.15.0/24 Welcome back to our members who are heading into their first day of term! To those of you who have just completed 4th year and will (hopefully) be joining us this year as associate members, we hope you have a less than rubbish Monday. To our dedicated associates we welcome you back to join us for what will hopefully be a great year. Now that pleasantries are out of the way; down to business. = Events = Clubs & Socs Days = Updates =Events= =When: Weekly =Where: Various locations around DCU ----------------------------------------------------- The Committee have been planning long and hard over the summer to try and line up some interesting events. We've also come up with a prospective weekly schedule. - Monday: Screening of DefCon/ CCC talks in the Mezz. - Tuesday: Associate Talks - Wednesday: Rotating Helpdesk/Admin talks. - Thursday: Weekly Events: Talks, Parties & Other interesting things. - Friday: Chill out in nuBar and the occasional trip into Town for InterPints. Next Thursday sees our Fresher's Session in nuBar. We've got a few big events to kick off the year: Google: 1. University Open House in Google's Barrow St Offices <https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Barrow+St,+Dublin,+Co.+Dublin/@53.3398795,…> . When: October 3rd 2pm-6:30pm 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. --->SIGN UP HERE TO ATTEND <https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1NBWChHk4bsnGclhLqC1VqGXdyh4of…><--- (must be done by 26/9/2014) 2. Google Hangout - Engineering@Google. When: Tuesday October 7th 5pm - 6pm 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. 3. 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. 1pm: "Perspectives on Studying Computer Science" - John Looney (valen) 2pm " Systems at Scale: Tales from Google SRE" with Andrew Widdowson from MountainView 3pm: Q&A session with Conor Flynn (conor_f) a STEP intern from the PSSD program. Intercom: Intercom are a growing force in CRM; with Engineers and designers coming from some of the biggest companies in the world to work with them, they're bound to be doing something right. Some of the Redbrick committee have gone to see their "Inside Intercom" talks, and now we're bringing them to us. We have two Associate members confirmed thus far; moju and singer, they'll coming in to talk about how Intercom runs and their times at the company thus far. To get a feel for the kind of company it is check out their blog here: http://insideintercom.io/ Associates: So far we've had a huge response from our associate members, who are keen to share their knowledge and interests with the rest of the society. Confirmed so far are talks from: - Cian Synnott (pooka) - Find some of his tech writing here: emauton.org - Diarmaid McManus (elephant) - Ciarán McNally (mak) - Richard Dalton (d_fens) - Matthew Barrington (moju) - David Scanlan (singer) With many more who haven't been adequately 'persuaded' yet. This is just a taster of what we've got lined up for the year, along with the annual Christmas party, Quiz, Tech Week and Super Secret Trip, we hope you'll enjoy the year. =Clubs&Socs Days= =When: Sept 29th-Oct 1st It's that time of the year when we herald in a new gen of members.(Gen20 by my count) As usual there'll be Redbrick committee members floating around the Venue, Giving out goodies and chatting about the year to come to all and sundry. Anyone can come by and renew their membership over those 3 days. =Updates= =When: Sept-Nov --------------------------- Over the next few months the admins, helped by esteemed rootholders, will be undertaking updates of the whole Redbrick Network. We will of course endeavour to give everyone plenty of notice of member impacting updates. Minimising downtime is one of our biggest priorities, so we'll endeavour to make any necessary downtime as quick and painless and restore services as soon as possible. That's all until next week. We hope to see as many of you as possible at events throughout the year, On behalf of Redbrick Committee, Richard Walsh Chair - Redbrick e: chair(a)redbrick.dcu.ie m: +353 857196403

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Pygmalion - Update Tuesday 16th September
by Redbrick Admins 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi everyone, We'll be doing an update on Pygmalion on Tuesday 16th September 7pm. Please be aware that the server will be available from 6:45 p.m. We estimate this update will only take 30 mins. We hope to have restored Pygmalion's service completely by 7:30 p.m. Regards, Richard Walsh (koffee) Redbrick Admin

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Server downtime - Friday 2pm
by twister 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hi, Due to security updates we are going to reboot servers tomorrow Friday 30th around 2pm. Please save all your work and shutdown your redbrick VM. All services (including IRC) will be unavailable for a few minutes. Apologies for the service interruption. Regards, Redbrick admins

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Update: Proposed SLC Constitution
by Richard Walsh 01 May '14

01 May '14

Afternoon everyone, I'd like to take a few moments to outline the situation regarding the new constitution that has been enacted by the SLC/OSL. As a lot of you are aware, there has been a proposal to put in place a unified constitution for all societies. The template is attached. The point that most people have picked up on is point 3.3.1 Associate Members shall pay an annual membership fee to the Society. The > amount of this fee is determined by the OSL as 10 times the ordinary > membership fee. This measure was in no way intended to be punitive or inhibitory towards DCU Clubs or Societies. The idea behind the common constitution was to level the playing field and to ensure that annual capitation funds that are allocated to all clubs and societies are evenly distributed; to support clubs and societies to support the activities they run for current students. Following this announcement I arranged a call with Una Redmond (Manager of the Office of Student Life) on Monday morning (28/4/'14) During this call Ms. Redmond outlined the rationale behind this fee structure. Ms.Redmond was also aware of the unique membership breakdown that Redbrick has and the role of our associates in the society. To this end there are ongoing talks to amend and consult with societies on an individual basis with a view to giving societies an opportunity to put a proposal to the SLC for a lower associate membership fee based on the particular circumstances. If you would like to talk to me on a one-to-one basis please feel free I'd love to get feedback from everyone on this matter. Richard Walsh Chair - Redbrick e:chair@redbrick.dcu.ie m:+353 857196403

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Accenture code-a-thon || Quiz || Capture the flag
by Gillian Morrison 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of an announce last week. We have a lot of cool stuff to tell you about this week! In this weeks announce: - Accenture Code-a-thon - Quiz - Introductory Web Security Capture the Flag - Hoodie Order Update == Accenture Code-a-thon == What: Code-a-thon When: 12th April, 9 a.m. Where: 1 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 http://bit.ly/1jLE8VT With a prize of €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 <http://consultingoncampus.com/general/code-a-thon> == Quiz == What: Annual Redbrick Quiz When: Thursday 17th April, 7pm Where: NuBar, DCU Entry per person: €3 ( €12 for a table of 4) Raffle Tickets: €1 or a strip for €3 It's time for our annual table quiz. Teams of 4 will battle it out in the ultimate test of their general knowledge, in order to try and win one of our absolutely fantastic prizes. As always, there will be some great spot prizes and a raffle prize up for grabs too! This is definitely going to be a brilliant night so be sure to come along! Prizes include: Smart Watches for first prize Chromecasts for second prize An Assortment of Jellies for third prize Raffle Prize: Android Smartphone == Introductory Web Security Capture the Flag == d_fens and maK are planning on running an introductory web security capture the flag during the week. Mail mak(a)redbrick.dcu.ie to be notified of the event details when they are finalised. It will take place online and you can do it from anywhere over a few days. This will be the very basics and the solutions will be published at the end. Hack the planet etc. == Hoodie Order Update == The hoodies have been ordered and are due to arrive at some point in the next two weeks. We will email everyone who has ordered a hoodie when they arrive and will organise a time for collection. Well thats all for this week's announce. If you need to get in contact with us feel free! Our email address is: committee(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Regards, Gillian Morrison (socks) Computer Applications Redbrick Secretary 14/15

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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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