Warm greetings, We would like to welcome all new members to DCU's Architecture Society.. umm, I mean Networking Society. Some of you might only be starting in DCU now, so we have a few events this week in which you might be interested in to make your life easier. TL;DR - Setting up your development environment (Wed @ 16:00) - EGM with First Year Rep election (Wed @ 17:00) - RB Webspace setup (Thu @ 16:00) - Competitive Programming Practice (Thu @ 17:00) - Renew if you haven't. - Hacktoberfest is on! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting Up a Development Enviroment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting off in programmer-land is hard. You hear all the weird words. IDEs, editors, compilers, interpreters, git... But what do they do, and how can they make you more productive? We will go through a basic setup, covering what you should have to get you working on any project in no time. The event will kick off on Wednesday at 16:00 in LG25. https://www.facebook.com/events/627151514340123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EGM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is just a friendly reminder we are holding our Extraordinary General Meeting. We have one position to fill - First Year Representative, responsible for transpiling first year's needs to committee action items. In case that is not interesting enough, there will be pizza, as well as networking with our Associate members afterwards. We will start after the Dev Env talk at 17:00 on Wednesday. https://www.facebook.com/events/757253674461724 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Webspace Setup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use this one weird trick to have your files on the web!!!!1 Did you know you have your own webspace on Redbrick? Our webmaster will show you how to upload any* file to your website so you can show your friends how awesome you are. Join us on Thursday at 16:00 in LG25. https://www.facebook.com/events/152571942006133 * T&C apply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Competitive Programming Practice Evening ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up for some challenge? Programming Competitions run all year round and are a brilliant way to brush up on your algorithms and improve your technical interview skillz. We will run a practice session, teaching you the way around online judging systems, what STDIN and STDOUT is, as well as few hardball questions for those who feel up to it. Join us on Thursday at 17:00 after the webspace talk in LG25. https://www.facebook.com/events/1801483303480200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership Renewal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a friendly ping that you should renew your membership if you haven't already. You can find all relevant information on the website: https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/joining. Please email or send a carrier pigeon to admins@redbrick.dcu.ie with your username and PayPal transaction ID after making a payment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hacktoberfest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hacktoberfest is on! The annual month-long event to promote contributing to open source projects. If you make 4 pull requests to open source repo you will get a sweet t-shirt from DigitalOcean & Github. All of Redbrick's repos (https://github.com/redbrick) are eligible, so make sure you check it out and contribute! We've tagged some issues with the 'Hacktoberfest' label to get you started. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Should I mention renewals?" Wojtek Bednarzak (voy) Redbrick Secretary 2017-2018 s o c i a l m e d i a Twitter: @RedbrickDCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Snapchat: RedbrickDCU Events: https://events.redbrick.dcu.ie