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Redbrick's 25th Anniversary
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<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2022</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>What better way to start off the year than receiving new servers!</li>
<br>
<li>Pizzas are back! After a semester long drought of no pizzas for in person events, we
were finally given permission to have them.<br></li>
<br>
<li>The server room was given a fresh look with some shelves bought from Ikea.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2021</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick held an AGM and elected many important positions.
The new members are as follows:<br>
Chairperson: Cian Kehoe<Br>
Vice-Chairperson: Cliodhna Harrison<br>
Secretary: Denis Flore<br>
Treasurer: Maciej Swierad<br>
Public Relations Officer: Ethan Clarke<br>
Graphic Design Officer: Grace Angulu<br>
Events Officer: Amy Collins<br>
Events Officer: Andreea Teodora Rete<br>
Web Developer: Rahul Mahajan<br>
Helpdesk: Aidan Smith<br>
Helpdesk: Conor Joyce<br>
Ordinary Members: Ryan Mc Quillan, Jamie McGuinness<br>
SysAdmins: James Hackett, Malachy Byrne, Hamzah Zahoor<br></li>
<br>
<li>A good few months later, Hamzah and Jamie resigned. Both of them spent a great deal of
effort making sure the soc was able to run smoothly. Their services will definitely be
missed.</li>
<br>
<li>In person events restarted, a lot of in person talks were held, with no pizzas. New
committe members were elected,
Leo was elected as the ordinary member, and Lia was elected as the first year rep.</li>
</ul>
</p>
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<div class="content">
<h2>2020</h2>
<p>
</p>
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<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2019</h2>
<p>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2018</h2>
<p>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2017</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>butlerx put the new website live and waited to see if anyone noticed.</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick goes to FOSDEM. People get drunk and sleep during the talks. amazingly nothing
happened.</li>
<br>
<li>git.redbrick.dcu.ie launched
users got vhosts rather then that terrible ~ url</li>
<br>
<li>mastodon.redbrick.dcu.ie went live</li>
<br>
<li>The second annual Engineering & Computing Ball brought to you by the best of friends,
EngSoc
and Redbrick, went off
without a hitch.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2016</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick goes to FOSDEM. People get drunk and sleep during the talks. #thinkpadgate16</li>
<li>The new committee was elected and greenday started to fill in the wiki of what happened.
<br>...
<br>...
<br>...
<br>And Greenday promptly forgot to update anything else...
</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2015</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>A redbrick member known as thegirl started her war on devoxel after he said too much on IRC.(tbh
no
one really remembers
why it wasnt anything good anyway)
<br>Eventually, thegirl and devoxel resolved their differences after devoxel agreed to
publicly
let thegirl plaster makeup
all over his face. (or so devoxel thinks - thegirl)
</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick held an EGM and elected many important positions.
The new members are as follows:<br>
Secretary: cac<br>
Public Relations Officer: induxi0n<br>
Events Organiser: thegirl<br>
First Yr. Rep: ginger</li>
<br>
<li>Space gave his first redbrick talk!! And WAS NOT LATE!! butlerx almost lost 100 euro
betting
that Space would be late,
Space was 4 minutes early!</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2014</h2>
<p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2013</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Pygmalion goes down for successful upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04.</li>
<br>
<li>EGM happens in QG21.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2012</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick goes to Brussels for FOSDEM. Four days of booze, and two days of talks ensue for the
intrepid Brickies. Lessons
learned include: dilligaf + Jack Daniels = bad; and everyone should carry CAT5e cable at all
times
in case of broken
taxi doors.</li>
<br>
<li>Science Hack Day Dublin takes place in the Venue. Many interesting projects are
developed
and
demonstrated over the two
days. Much pizza is consumed. The primary services machine for the event looses 2 disks
approximately 5 hours into the
event causing a temporary interruption while services are migrated to another system.</li>
<br>
<li>Chairperson<br>
David Larkan (tziegler) and James Reilly (fun) ran. fun was elected by secret ballot.<br><br>
Secretary<br>
Niall (gamma) and Robert Devereux (kylar) ran. kylar was elected by secret ballot.<br><br>
Treasurer<br>
Mary Dennehy (Cindella) and Richard Walsh (koffee) ran. koffee was elected by secret
ballot.<br><br>
Events Officer<br><br>
Public Relations Officer<br>
Andrew Boylan (Fructus) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.<br><br>
Helpdesk
Niall (gamma), Craig Duff (duff) and Eimear Tyrell (beimear) ran. duff and beimear were elected
by
secret ballot.<br><br>
System Administrators<br>
Shane Stacey (isaac702), Vadim Clyne-Kelly (VadimCK) and Craig Gavagan Mac Entee (creadak) ran.
All
were elected by a
show of hands.<br><br>
Webmaster<br>
Ciaran McNally (maK), Ian Duffy (Duffy) and Max Hoffmann (tsov) ran. maK was elected be a show
of
hands.</li>
<br>
<li>Pygmalion, the new development server is opened for member useage. Craig Mac Entee
(creadak)
steps down as System
Administrator.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2011</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick holds its Annual AGM in CG05. A new committee is elected.<br>
Chairperson:<br>
David Larkan (tziegler) and Carri Fuery (carri) ran. David Larkan was elected by a secret
ballot.<br><br>
Secretary:<br>
Lotta Mikkonen (attol) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.<br><br>
Treasurer:<br>
Nina Hanzlikova (geekity) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.<br><br>
Events Officer:<br>
Ciaran McNally(mak) and Meabh Landers (timelady) ran. Ciaran McNally was elected by a secret
ballot.<br><br>
PRO:<br>
Meabh Landers(timelady) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.<br><br>
Admins:<br>
James Reilly (fun), Austin Halpin (haus), Craig Gavagan Mac Entee (creadak), Paul Bunbury
(bunbun)
and Shane Stacey (isaac702) ran. James Reilly, Austin Halpin and Paul Bunbury were elected by a
secret ballot.<br><br>
Webmaster:<br>
Vadim Clyne-Kelly (vadimck) and Dan Fox (maiden) ran. Vadim Clyne-Kelly was elected by a secret
ballot.<br><br>
Helpdesk:<br>
Shane Stacey (isaac702) and Eimear Tyrrell (beimear) ran. Both were elected.</li>
<br>
<li>Clubs and Societies days. The 17th generation of Redbrick members join. Registrations
and
Renewals are processed using a
barcode scanner found in the server room. 117 new members join.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2010</h2>
<p>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2009</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Cynic is re-installed with debian so that it can temporarily host mysql (disk issues on deathray
had
caused it to be
temporarily moved to severus, which hadn't been much better.</li>
<br>
<li>Murphy is re-installed with Solaris. Tests with OpenBSD had mainly proven that it was
good
at crashing a lot</li>
<br>
<li>RedBrick Twitter is launched to tell people about stuff.</li>
<br>
<li>AGM is held.<br>
Chairperson:<br>
Andrew Martin (werdz) and Lotta Mikkonen (attol) ran. attol was elected.<br><br>
Secretary:<br>
Emma Gallagher (emma) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of
hands.<br><br>
Treasurer:<br>
Sean Hand (revenant) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Events Officer:<br>
Carri Fuery (carri) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Public Relations Officer:<br>
Daniel Fox (maiden) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Helpdesk:<br>
Diarmaid McManus (elephant), Gautam Wadhwa (gw), Daniel Fox (maiden), Austin Halpin (haus) and
Gavin Tubritt (gmblitis) all ran. elephant, gw and haus were elected.<br><br>
System Administrators:<br>
Eoghan Cotter (johan), Seamus Ronan (train), Alan Breathnach (sonic), David Laighean in
(coconut)
and
Diarmaid McManus (elephant) ran. johan, sonic and coconut were elected.<br><br>
Webmaster:<br>
Kat Farrell (Angelkat) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2008</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>minerva.redbrick.dcu.ie goes live as login.redbrick.dcu.ie</li>
<br>
<li>GM
Chairperson:<br>
Robert O'Reilly (robby) was elected with 16 votes. Kat Farrell
(angelkat) received 14 votes.<br><br>
Secretary:<br>
Damien Rathigan (dano) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Treasurer:<br>
Leah Doyle (bambi) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Public Relations Officer:<br>
John Needham (colossus) was elected with 22 votes. Matt Fitzpatrick
(snoogins) received 9 votes. Failchair received one vote :(<br><br>
Events Officer:<br>
Lotta Mikkonen (attol) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
Helpdesk:<br>
Sean Hand (revenant), Seaums Ronan (train) and Gavin Tubritt
(gmblitis) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.<br><br>
Webmaster:<br>
Andrew Martin (werdz) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.<br><br>
System Administrators:<br>
Andrew Harford (receive), Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Eoghan Cotter
(johan) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick wins Best Website at the Clubs and Socs Awards, which were held in the Helix on
Thursday
10th of April.
Redbrick Chairperson Andrew Harford wins a First Five award for Best Individual.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2007</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>DCU RAG WEEK - Redbrick raises €283 for charity through phaxx getting hair straightened and
receive
getting his curled.
Phaxx and receive after that afternoon headed off to the RAG week chapel to join together in
holy
matrimoney!!</li>
<br>
<li>AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.<br>
Chairperson: Andrew Harford (receive)<br><br>
Secretary: Kevin Fox (undone)<br><br>
Treasurer: Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)<br><br>
Events: Kat Farrell (angelkat)<br><br>
Public Relations Officer: Damian Rhatigan (dano)<br><br>
System Administrators: Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Andrew Martin (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke
(drag0n)<br><br>
Webmaster: Richard Dalton (d_fens)<br><br>
Education Officers: Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoghan Cotter
(johan)<br><br>
Lots of competition with receive, jesjes, and tnkrbell running for chair.</li>
<br>
<li>New, yet-to-be-named (later named Minerva) Encom server arrives. Contains an 'assload'
of
storage - 8x500GB disks. Also
has 6GB RAM and 2 dual-core Xeons. For some reason came with Ubuntu feisty desktop installed by
default, and has lots of
pretty blue lights.</li>
<br>
<li>Some time in October as well, lil_cain also got rid of his long flowing locks and shaved
his
head. He also removes all
traces of his manly beard, which causes widespread confusion as no-one has ever seen his face
before. Shortly
afterwards, undone follows suit and also gets a hair cut. Revenant talks about doing the same,
but
constantly chickens
out.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline left">
<div class="content">
<h2>2006</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>David Murphy (drjolt) tragically died. David was a Redbrick founder, former committee member and
a
system administrator
and he will be missed by all of Redbrick.</li>
<br>
<li>AGM held in QG13 at 7pm. All positions filled except for one admin. The new committee
are:<br>
Chairperson: Charlie Von Metzradt (phaxx)<br><br>
Secretary: Jessica Ní Chonchúbhair (jesjes)<br><br>
Treasurer: Andrew Harford (receive)<br><br>
Events: Kat Farrell (angelkat)<br><br>
Public Relations Officer: Padraig O'Connor (landa2)<br><br>
System Administrators: Eoghan Gaffney (atlas) & Sarunas Vancevicius (svan)<br><br>
Webmaster: John Doyle (art_wolf)<br><br>
Education Officers: Simon Kilroy (gizmo), Kevin Fox (undone) & Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)</li>
<br>
<li>The 12th generation of brickies join at C&S days. MoJu is the first gen12 to appear in
chat
(he managed to get in weeks
before the accounts were created), and seems to already be spending an obsssive length of time
online.</li>
<br>
<li>There was a lengthy discussion on the newsgroups (redbrick.babble) about "Redbrick 2.0",
initiated by cammy (i.e. should
Redbrick combine all it's different web services to make "Redbrick on the web" for our members,
make
things easier to
use ala Bebo, should we get rid of the command line NNTP newsgroups). (Copy of the posting can
be
see on cammy's blog.
[1]) Redbrick web forums were started as a web alternative (parallel?) to the newsgroups.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-timeline right">
<div class="content">
<h2>2005</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick E.G.M<br>
Location: QG15
Time: 6:30
Admin Test Results<br>
ryaner 57%<br>
halenger 51%<br>
atlas 50%<br>
Only Halenger ran and he was elected<br><br>
Helpdesk Test Result:
igy 65%<br>
Only Igy ran and he was elected<br><br>
And finally only aeris ran for secretary so in a shocking turn of events she too was elected. ;)
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<br>
<li>First Redbrick Football session (7.30pm, Albert College Park). Attendees: amz, art_wolf,
david,
emperor, huskerdu,
kpodesta, magluby, shadow, singer, singer2 ("Peter"), tibor.</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick Wiki moved to MediaWiki (the same software as Wikipedia) and moved to the new
address of
http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie. All articles were imported but history was lost.</li>
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<h2>2004</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Services are gradually moved off prodigy and onto deathray.</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick Alt.Rag Ball was held in Isaac Butt's.
Performances from Wolfhead and MC Dice. As always somebody had to
bring
a camera.</li>
<br>
<li>Redbrick got a network upgrade for the server room with the addition of a new 100Mb/s
fibre
link instead of the 10Mb/s
link they had been limited to since moving to the server room. This stopped the lag experienced
during peak usage.</li>
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<h2>2003</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Redbrick gets donated two Alpha servers. One from HEAnet and the other from DCU CSD.</li>
<br>
<li>Cain leaves Redbrick and many tears are shed.</li>
<br>
<li>AGM.<br> Emperor is elected as chair. Purdy and Roro also ran. Cns is elected as secretary.
Dimples is elected as treasurer.
Aeris is elected as PRO. Dramaq is elected as ents officer. Colmmacc, Dizer and Prolix are
elected
as admins. Skyhawk is
elected as webmaster. Cambo, Keloe, and Sunshine are elected to helpdesk. Dr_gonzo also ran. The
AGM
was held at 8pm
(previous years it was 6.30 or 7) apparently because some of the committee were on INTRA or else
because it was the
earliest they could get the room. The post AGM event was in the Turk's Head.</li>
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<h2>2002</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Third and final issue of SU's magazine SUAS published. Design Editor for final issue was
griffin.</li>
<br>
<li>Kamili is elected as chair. Colmmacc also ran and Azrael was also nominated. Montoya is
elected as secretary. Azrael was
also nominated. Marvin is elected as treasurer. Anakin also ran. Angel is elected as ents
officer.
Egg also ran. Del_boy
is elected as PRO. Azrael and Magluby also ran. Pixies, Dizer, and Cns are elected as admins.
Trevj
also ran. Emperor is
elected as webmaster. Nero and Entropy also ran. Cambo, Skyhawk, and Mark are elected to
helpdesk. A
drunk Dec also ran.
There was a close vote in both ents and chair elections and recounts were done. Cns was given an
award for his work on
committee over the year. Some ammendments were passed, including one removing the entry which
said
that founder members
should have free membership for life. Shadow video-ed the AGM. The post AGM bash was held in
Pravda.
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<h2>2001</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Shadow starts his posting logs now that nntp-cache shows the username of the person that posted
in
the headers.<br><br>
First issue of Students' Union semesterly magazine SUAS published.</li>
<br>
<li>A few days of downtime due to a corruption of the /usr disks. Replacement disks from the
soon to be
installed RAID array
are used. It takes a while to get everything (website content, mailing lists, etc..) up and
running
again and some
members become as grouchy as Oscar the Grouch.</li>
<br>
<li>Huh is written by Colmmacc and installed on the system. This program allows users to see
the
last
five ppl that heyed
them. Prior to this users had to just mass hey their friends asking who heyed or hey shadow and
ask
him to check his
logs :o)</li>
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<h2>2000</h2>
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<h2>1999</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>IRC server is set up on redbrick, replacing ITCHY NUTS.
Grimnar made his committee and admin mail publically readable making it possible for people to
read
other member's
passwords and committee business.
Funliam is conceived sometime between Sept 98 and March 99.
Libtut is conceived sometime in the first half of 99.</li>
<br>
<li>Spinal resigns from committee around now.</li>
<br>
<li>The fifth generation of brickies arrive in DCU.
The first Redbrick booklet for newbies is made.</li>
<br>
<li>New degree in the Faculty of Humanities (aka the Henry Gratten) called Multimedia, kinda
like CS
with computers ;o)</li>
<br>
<li>CA degree gets redesigned so that from this year on, when you go into second year you
choose
one of
three different
streams of study.
The number of students in first year of the CA degree doubles to ~300.</li>
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<h2>1998</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Perlhey was originally written by afrodite's brother in TCD. Cthulhu added features like titles,
borders, success
messages etc. when he was in first year (i.e. sometime around now). C-hey was written after perl
hey
this year.</li>
<br>
<li>Also CSD took down rbhouse and so hey became popular as a way of communicating for
freshers
and
older users. hey was
popular before this, but with no chat program, hey was now the only way to communicate with
other
users.</li>
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<h2>1997</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>The Third generation of brickies arrives in DCU.<br>
The BBS has been replaced by flin, a terminal menu system, NNTP newsgroups, ytalk, a wrapper
around
the write command
called "hey" and a chat program. The first news reader after the BBS was tin, apparently slrn
was
more similar to the
BBS news reader than tin. Members complain that new system doesn't have as many options as the
old
one. Members complain
that new redbrick house is more complicated than old one.</li>
<br>
<li>Because tin didn't look like the BBS, plop wrote a newsreader which looked quite a bit
like
BBS,
called 'shite'
(apparently stands for 'shit emulator') this was the default for FLIN users for a while, until
it
was eventually renamed
to 'rbnews' (as it looked not very good loking at the w listing having 30 users using 'shite').
shite eventually
disappeared on the move to mother.</li>
<br>
<li>The chat software was the result of development work done by Pooka and Plop. Pooka spent
some of the
summer beating
sense into a chat server called NUTS (Neil's Unix Talk Server), and he added lots of features
and
generally cleaned up
the code. Plop wrote a curses based client for NUTS, called ITCHY, hence Redbrick's main chat
software was bizarrely
entitled Itchy Nuts - "Imaginatively titled client heralding yapping on Neil's UNIX talk
server".</li>
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<h2>1996</h2>
<p>
<ul>
<li>In October of 1995 a group of friends started the ball rolling on the idea of a computer network
in
DCU, run by students
for the students. Starting out with a battered 386 PC with 8 MB of RAM(dubbed Nurse), bits of
borrowed memory, their own
cash, and a lot of luck, they went about organising the D.C.U Networking society. The initial
build
of the Nurse was
performed on an 800MB hard drive (the first RB disk) in DrJolt's home computer on February 4th,
1996. Once recognised as
a society, they were allowed to setup a temporary home for the server in the Computer
Applications
facility, going
online in the postgrad area on March 5th, 1996 as dcuns.compapp.dcu.ie. Later, the society
received
its own subnet and
subdomain of dcu.ie from the Computer Services Department.</li>
<br>
<li>Having decided to try for an alternative to 'dcuns' as the domain name, 'RedBrick' was
selected,
DrJolt's suggestion
being inspired by the diverse and exciting architecture of DCU (at that time, most permanent
structures in DCU were
built of red brick). They were also able to find physical accomodation (the CA department being
unwilling to extend the
temporary arrangements) in which to store Nurse, under a desk in QG07. Nurse went online as
Nurse.RedBrick.dcu.ie on
April 9th, 1996.</li>
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