Hey everyone, apologies for the late announce this week. We have a lot to get through so let's get going: ==Polka's Resignation== ==Hoodie Order== ==Open Day Plans== ==Programming Tutorials== ==Admin Training== ==Carbon Has Retired== ==Events Officer EGM== ==Polka's Resignation== Our Events Officer Triona Barrow (polka) has had to resign from her position on the committee. Her work on the committee, both as last year's First Year Rep and in the past few months as Events Officer has been greatly appreciated and we will miss working with her. We will be electing a new Events Officer will be elected in two weeks time at our EGM, details below. ==Hoodie Order== We will be placing this years hoodie order in a few weeks time.The hoodies will cost be 25 euro each. If you would like a redbrick hoodie, you can add your order to the list at this link: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~vadimck/hoodies/ Adding your order to the list merely records your interest and order details for reference. Your hoodie selection will only be placed in the final order if you have paid the 25 euro to the committee on or before the 28th of November. We will be accepting payments on the following dates: Monday 12th November, Wednesday 21st of November and finally Wednesday the 28th of November. Note that payments will not be accepted after the 28th of November. If you wish to pay for your order but will not be able to pay on these dates contact us at committee@redbrick.dcu.ie ==Open Day Plans== This year Dcu School of Computing have asked Redbrick to make some presentations during the Open Days on the 16th and 17th of November. We plan to hang our banners and show off what we have to offer to prospective students. If you have any work which you have done in the past that you are particularly proud of and would like us to show off, now's your chance. Send it on to us and we'll consider using it during our presentations making sure to give credit where it's due of course. Also we would like to know what some of your favourite things about redbrick are, as these will be the things that we highlight on the Open Days. Send us an email with your work/suggestions/favourite things about redbrick to committee@redbrick.dcu.ie . ==Programming Tutorials== Date: Monday 12th November. Time: 5pm Venue: To be confirmed. Due to an increasing demand from our members, we are planning to run weekly programming tutorials. During these tutorial sessions you will be able to bring along any problems you are having with your code/coding concepts and we'll do our best to help you out. Whether you're getting a compiler error that you don't recognise, you're having trouble with some coding concepts or a logic error in your code is driving you crazy sometimes a fresh set of eyes is all you need. These tutors helping out at the tutorials are students and as such may not be able to answer all of your problems. Also it should be noted that they will not be able to give you the answers to any assignments/labs you have that you are being graded on. If you are having trouble with an assignment or lab we will try to help you understand the problem and how you should go about solving it rather than giving you the answer. If the tutorials go well and are popular among members we may even try and get in some people who are in the business as guest tutors or to give talks about specific languages. If you have any questions regarding the tutorials, send an email to helpdesk@redbrick.dcu.ie . ==Admin Training== There will be no Admin Training this week but it will resume next week so keep on practicing what we covered last week. I have attached the slides from last week below for those who wanted them. ==Carbon Has Retired== As some of you may already know the admin team took Carbon offline permanently over the weekend during the period of scheduled downtime. Carbon was serving as our primary programming/development server and was also serving as a secondary login server. It has now retired and has been replaced with our new server Pygmalion which is now up and running. ==Events Officer EGM== Date: Wednesday the 21st of November Time: 3pm Venue: To be confirmed. We will be holding an EGM in two weeks time to elect our new Events Officer. If you are interested in running for the position and want to know more about the the role and it's responsibilities get in touch with any member of the committee and we'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. That's all for this week, as always if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at committee@redbrick.dcu.ie. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13