Heya, Here's Redbrick's news for this week! Oh and reminder only 3 weeks to go to tech week :) ==26C3 Viewing== The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual event that takes place in Berlin right after Christmas. It is held by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Germany. This years iteration (26C3) made headlines by having GSM cracked or LegicPrime security subverted. Talks of the conference were recorded and the best ones will be shown at DCU! :-) Tobi will also introduce you to German hacker culture and answer your questions about the CCC. The Public Viewing will take place on Wednesday, 2009-02-17 in LG26 (School of Computing) from 4.30pm, followed by traditional post talk drinks. ==Limerick Trip== We will be going to Limerick on Friday the 26th of February and will be coming back on Sunday the 28th. We will be attending a talk by Matt Zimmerman, the technical leader of the Ubunti project on the Saturday. Skynet (Limerick's networking society) will then be bringing us out so we can experience University of Limerick's nightlife. To sign up for this event follow this link and click on the sign up link at the bottom of the page : https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/events/signup/?eventid=11 == Hoodies == If you'd like to order one then bring €25 and remember to tell us what size you'd like and if you'd like your username on the arm. The final date for placing your order is this Thursday as we will be placing the orders on Friday. Times we will have a table set up in the Hub to place orders : Monday : 1 - 2pm Tuesday : 12 - 1pm Wednesday : 1 - 2pm Thursday : 1 - 2pm We will also be taking orders at our talk on Wednesday and you can grab a random committee member and place your order at any time as well. == Google == Redbrick met with Google last week and were given some useful links to Google projects that may be of interest to our members. Google's Code University has tutorials on topics such as C++, Java, Python, Ajax and algorithms. http://code.google.com/edu/ Summer of Code is a programme where students are paid to work on open source projects. The 2010 programme has been launched and you can apply through the following link http://socghop.appspot.com/ == Botwars - Galway Trip == This was rescheduled to the weekend of Techweek ( Week 5 - March 12th - 14th). We're still working out the final details but if you're provisionally interested you can email committee@redbrick.dcu.ie and we'll keep you posted on updates. All all for this week till next time, Emma :) -- Redbrick - Secretary 2009/2010 If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice? Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate :)