Hey, ==Hoodies== We are back on track with these! We've found another company to do these for us. The quote we received was €25 per hoodie, making them cheaper than the original price we had received from other companies. The hoodies are black with the logo on the chest, large logo on the back and the option to get your username embroidered on the arm. The logos are embroidered. We will start taking payment for these in week 1. You can pay with Paypal (remember to say what size hoodie you would like and what you would like on the sleeve) or you can give your order details and payment to a committee member at designated times. We will start taking orders at the first talk of the semester which will be "Real World Low level optimisation" presented by Colm McCarthaigh (colmmacc) on the 11th of February in QG22 (We'll send full details about this again in week 1's announce email). ===Notice of Planned Downtime=== We'll be unavailable next Tuesday from 6am till 8am (if anyone's crazy enough to be awake at that hour) due to ISS downtime. On the weekend of the 5/6/7th February the Redbrick Admin team will be moving all user files from their current location on Minerva to a new direct attached storage array that has been purchased with funds from the SPC (http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Worf). Redbrick will be offline for a few hours during this period as we move over user files and other data. While the exact time depends on when Estates and Security agree to let us in to the hub, it will likely start on Friday evening or Saturday morning. Updates will be posted to a temporary homepage and the redbrick twitter feed (@RedbrickDCU). All services (including logins and web hosting) will be affected by the outage. Once the new array is in place, there should be a huge improvement in file I/O speed, so things like website access, reading your mail, and using your redbrick account for development, etc, should be far faster. Talks ==Bletchley== A quick reminder that we'll be meeting up outside Starbucks at 6am. Starbucks is located upstairs in the foodhall in the departure area. Remember to read the baggage restrictions I emailed to everyone. My contact details are also in the other email so make sure to read it carefully! ==Techweek== Techweek is planned for week 5 this year so pencil this into your diaries. This is our biggest event of the year. A week of techy talks and events. There is bound to be something of interest for everyone! We'll be keeping you up to date with all the latest news on this. Five weeks to go! See you all next week! Lotta Redbrick Chairperson 09/10