Hello everyone,

The quiz is being held this Thursday (16th April) in the Old Bar. Sign-ups start at 7pm. I apologise for the short notice. There were some scheduling difficulties.

There will be a full bar available. Teams will consist of four people. Entry will be four euros per person. Don’t worry if you don’t have a team ready you can still show up and we can make up teams on the day.

Prizes! We have lots! We have four of each of these for the three winning teams.

1st Prize : 250gb Maxtor USB harddrive. The absence of power leads and its small size mean it’s very portable. Portable data \o/

2nd Prize :  Sega Megadrives with 15 inbuilt games including Sonic and Goldenaxe. There is also a slot for cartridges. It is region-free and comes with two controllers. Retro goodness!

3rd Prize : Red 4gb USB sticks and boxes of Lucky Charms (yes, the cereal). Marshmallows in cereal. Oh the ingenuity of it all.

Last Place : You’ll have to endure another year with us as you’ll get your following year’s membership for free.

The raffle will cost two euros per ticket or five euros for a strip. The prize is a brand new Acer Aspire One netbook. It is blue and very pretty. The specs in this link are the same but it has 1gb of RAM.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001BZ922U/ref=nosim/?tag=checkcost-21

We will have spot prizes on the night as well.

The bar will be open until 11 so you can stick around and mock the losing teams over a pint.

Please bring a student ID if you are a current student or a passport or a driver’s license if you are an associate as the bar is *VERY* strict on this. We will need to sign in associates so this is why ID is needed.

If you have any questions you can email me or harass me on IRC.

See you then!

Attol

https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/events/signup/?eventid=5

Hey, for those of you interested in going to Q-Zar you can sign-up here to guarantee your discounted rate. The first 20 applicants will receive a special rate of 4.40 euros. We will be meeting in the Hub at 7pm.

Afterwards we will be heading to the Woolshed to enjoy a few post match drinks.

Hope to see you there!

Attol

Hey hey,

To those of you who missed the RedBrick in the bar session last Tuesday : you missed a good night! Elephant and I were auctioned off to cook for someone, Elephant will wear a dress to college on this coming Tuesday, Moju lost his eyebrows and our SU president got naked. The SVP annual slave auction was as fun as ever. We’ll be at the Old Bar every Tuesday from 8. We’ll be wearing our RedBrick hoodies or we’ll have a sign. Come say hi!

Christmas! We have the upstairs of the Slipper booked for our Xmas nerdfest. Socs that are taking part this year are RedBrick, Games, Comics, Strange Things(scifi), books and Art. It’s a night to celebrate nerdiness and party together one more time before the holidays. 3euro Fosters and Cashel’s cider. There’ll be a raffle, prizes for the most appropriately dressed(fancy dress and geeky t-shirts encouraged!) and a prize for the most inappropriately dressed individual. We’ll have a very special guest along too.

Ice-Skating! We have 30 tickets for our members to go ice-skating on Thursday 4th of December. We’ll be going to 7up on ice at the RDS in Ballsbridge and afterwards we’ll head to the Woolshed for a bit of warmth and a few drinks. Getting there from DCU is easy: get a 4 or a 4a from the Ballymun Road entrance. They’ll provide the skates and everything. All you need to do is sign-up is click the following link:

https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/events/signup/?eventid=4

For further information email events@redbrick.dcu.ie

Lotta

Its week 9 in DCU, two events happening this week. Tomorrow Tuesday 1st April redbricks annual table quiz will be held in the old bar as usual. So obviously redbrick are opening the old bar on 3euro Tuesday YAY. Registration for the quiz will start at half six, and quiz to start promptly at seven. Entry into the quiz cost 4euro. The writers of the quiz this year include emperor, lil_cian, undone and receive.(Now you know who to go bug for answers.) Our host this year will be none other then Alfa, students union president. Where raffling of an EEE PC.

Also this Thursday the AGM will be held. Come along and have your say in who will look after the running of redbrick next year. Positions up for grabs.

Chairperson.
Secretary
Treasurer
Public relations officer
Events Officer
3 Education Officer (An exam must be sat passedbefore a person is eligible to run for this position).
3 Admins(An exam must be sat and passed before a person is eligible to run for this position.)

Hope to see as many of you there as possible.

kat

We have all been so busy of late organizing tech week, admins playing with serverz and our daily task of going to college that the blog is not that up to date. I haven’t even had time to write a half decent post. So due to the fact I can’t sleep and its around 3 in the morning I kinda don’t have an excuse now, dang.

So its week four, which means Tech Week. If your new to DCU, or haven”t been able to get involved before basically, <robbed> Tech Week has been run by various societies throughout DCU since 2004. Aimed at promoting the use and awareness of technologies, both current and upcoming, it has always been a huge success with events ranging from debates about Bebo and Myspace to Photoshop tutorials to in-depth industry talks given by leading games companies. Due to the wide range of events should mean that no matter where your interests lie, there should be something to catch your attention </robbed>.

This Monday we held a launch party for the week. Cheese and wine reception I hear you query? That would have been nice for a few minutes I guess, but RedBrick kinda went out on this one, we reopened the old bar, had food of course, Futurisum played and we had none other then DJ Brian \o/. A third of all the money collected will be going to DCU’s RAG week fund.

The install fest I can honestly say went better then any of us thought it would. We where expecting maybe five people tbh, then we walk into the seminar room to find the coaches full of people. First thought that crossed our mind was “Oh fuck we need more CDs!”. So after the frantic burning, and receive’s epic quest to find fully functional tables everything ran smoothly. When it came time for the boring part of sitting there and waiting for ubuntu to install we had pizza LOTS and I mean LOTS of pizza, I is still fulls.

Tomorrow should be a very interesting day, DemonWare are back again (Hope they bring more T-Shirts!). Then Gamessoc are doing a demonstration on how to build a PC, then we finish of the day with a talk from Colm MacCarthaigh, a redbrick associate giving a talk on, well redbrick

For a full list of details for whats going on and any random pictures taken, Visit techweek.dcu.ie .

Kat