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