Hello Everyone! Welcome to the week 3 Announce! We hope everybody had a great weekend! We have a fantastic week filled with awesome events ahead. Before we get started there is one small change from last weeks email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE CHANGE: The EGM will be held on the 22nd of this month instead of the 15th ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, without further ado.... In this weeks announce: - Google Week - Introduction to Redbrick - Social Night =========== Google Week =========== So last week some of you made it to the Google University Open House. We heard from some fantastic speakers and got some great tips. For those of you who didnt go, never fear! This week is Google Week!! ++ Hangout on Air - Perspectives on Engineering at Google Hear from Google Engineers, from Dublin and Mountain View. They'll be talking about their path to Google and their career experiences to date. When: Tuesday October 7th from 5 -6pm Location: Q120 ++ Google @ DCU When: Wednesday 8th October Where: QG22 We'll have 3 talks as follows. We can guarantee you these talks are fantastic having heard from two of the speakers on Friday! Time 1.00 - 2.00 A talk given by DCU alum and Redbrick member John Looney. John is a member of the SRE team responsible for Google's Datacentre and he'll be giving us a talk called: "Perspectives on studying Computer Science" Time 2.00 - 3.00 "Systems at Scale: Tales from Google Site Reliability Engineering" This talk will be given by Andrew Widdowson, a Mountain View SRE. Andrew will be talking about how the smallest keystroke can make the biggest impact when dealing with systems at scale. Time: 3.00 - 3.30 Last but certainly not least we will hear from STEP intern Conor Flynn, who is in second year of PSSD here in DCU. He will be discussing his experience at Google and will be happy to answer all your questions! We'd recommend coming along and bringing anyone even a little bit curious as to how Google goes about its daily routine. Bring your friends, bring your mum, heck... even bring your cat!! We've been looking forward to these talks for quite some time and we hope you enjoy them! =================== Introduction to Redbrick =================== When: Wednesday 8th at 4pm Where: QG22 What: This is a great chance for everyone to get to know the committee. In this talk we'll cover a little history of the society, our services and our plans for the year. We will cover: - Who's who in the committee. - What each committee member does. - What Redbrick has to offer - an intro by our Education Officer. - What's planned for the rest of the year. There will also be a Q&A session where you can ask about anything you need help or advice on! And, as if that wasnt enough, there will be pizza! ========== Social Night ========== When: Friday the 10th at 6pm Where: The NuBar What: The first of our weekly social nights. We will be meeting up in the Nubar on a Friday evening for some well earned drinks and a chat! Feel free to pop in and say hello! We'd love to see you there! Well thats it for this week! Don't forget to follow us on twitter and on facebook below. @RedbrickDCU www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick Take it aisy, Richard Walsh Chair - Redbrick e: chair@redbrick.dcu.ie m: +353 857196403