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TimeLine2008

2008-04-09T15:59:38Z

Jesjes: /* April */

{{Timeline Years}}
[[Category: Redbrick History]]

== January ==

Christmas Cake & exams, not much happens here.

== February ==

* Thursday 7th - EGM Held to fill vacant admin position. There were no candidates. The committee asked to modify the constitution to reduce the size of Helpdesk from 3 to 2. This was not passed.

* Saturday 16th - minerva.redbrick.dcu.ie goes live as login.redbrick.dcu.ie

* Monday 25th - Techweek begins with the Video Editing Tutorial by Allen Dixon. Later that day there is a launch party in the old bar, which was epic win.

* Tuesday 26th - Install Fest in the seminar room, followed by Filmsoc's showing of DieHard 4pointless.

* Wednesday 27th - Techweek continues in the seminar room with talks from demonware, Sean Hand, and Colm MacCarthaigh.

* Wednesday 27th - Murphy takes over from Deathray as www.redbrick.dcu.ie. Horrid hash bangs no longer required in php :)

* Thursday 28th - Web Design & Photoshop workshops, followed by Q-Zar and beers.

==March==

* 4th - Amy deemed to be resigned for missing lots of committee meetings. She won't be replaced until the AGM.

* 7th - Deadling for socs awards. Redbrick submits nomination for Most Improved Society. The competition will be: College View, FotoSoc, Flashback, Juggle Soc & St Vincent de Paul. Redbrick also submits a nomination for Tech Week, which will be competing against Ross O'Carrol Kelly, Arts Week, Fame the musical, Debate's DCU Open, European Business Weekend, Jugglesoc's Unicycle to Galway, MPS's Shag pad, and the Andorra Trip.

* 11th - Follow up workshop to the Linux Install Fest held.

==April==
* 1st - Redbrick annual table quiz is held. Western Digital Passport 160GB external hard drives are given to the winners. gamblitis wins the raffle of an EEE PC.

*3rd - AGM

Chairperson:

Robby O'Reilly (robby) was elected with 16 votes. Kat Farrell
(angelkat) received 14 votes.

Secretary:

Damien Rathigan (dano) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Treasurer:

Leah Doyle (bambi) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Public Relations Officer:

John Needham (colossus) was elected with 22 votes. Matt Fitzpatrick
(snoogins) received 9 votes. Failchair received one vote :(

Events Officer:

Lotta Mikkonen (attol) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Helpdesk:

Sean Hand (revenant), Seaums Ronan (train) and Gavin Tubritt
(gmblitis) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.

Webmaster:

Andrew Martin (werdz) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

System Administrators:

Andrew Harford (receive), Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Eoghan Cotter
(johan) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2007-04-15T13:15:01Z

Jesjes: /* jesjes */

Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!



==[[User:AngelKat|AngelKat]]==

I wanted AngelEyes1 since its my nick everywhere else, but the dam 8 char rull and all. Drusilla actually picked it, she registered me with AngelKat. Dame her smart ways, I know, Ill make her watch mind numbing soaps so I can be the best hehe ;p

==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]==

Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.

==[[User:atlas|atlas]]==

I originally handed in my student card, and said "Use my first name, please". I got an email later giving me my username as 'James' ( my middle name ). When I asked them to change, I decided to go with something a little cooler. I had been up for hours before that playing Mechwarrior somethingorother, and the Atlas mech was my favourite. I also, occasionally, feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit

==[[User:cain|cain]]==

I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Firstborn son of Adam, built the first city on earth and he's remembered for allegedly killing his brother Abel though the evidence is, to put it mildly, unconvincing and God was clearly biased against him. When I joined Redbrick, Cain was gone so I got Caine, which was the spelling of the name in an RPG I played at the time. Dropped the 'e' in my second year.

==[[User:calyx|calyx]]==
Misread the name of a song. In a perfect world, I would have been calx.

==[[User:cambo|cambo]]==

An abbreviation of sorts on my surname (campbell)... original eh?

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.

Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.

==[[User:coconut|coconut]]==

On Clubs and Socs day 2005 I was put on the spot while joining Redbrick. It went a little something like this.

Keeper of Membership (I forget who it was): "Okay, and pick a username." 
Me: "What... now?!" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Right now?!?" 
KoM: "Yes." 
Me: "Errr.." *looks down at the free chocolate being given away - notices the wrappers and ingredients* "Em.. coconut?" 
KoM: "kk lol" 
Me: "I'll change it later." 

That last part was, evidently, a lie.

==[[User:colmmacc|colmmacc]]==
I was assigned the username colmmacc for the purposes of my first ever internet account (and job), colmmacc@clubi.ie , way back when in 1995/6 (I think). Ever since, I've used it for all my accounts and it works at every domain on which I hold an account. Despite the huge coincidence, my username is fact not just a mere contracted concatonation of my real name "Colm MacCarthaigh", but is fact an acronym. It stands for "Colm's On-Line Memetic Mechanism [for] Accessing Complicated Computers".

==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]==
It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers!

==[[User:david|david]]==
The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life.

==[[User:doc|DoC]]==
It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember.

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==
Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways...

==[[User:dregin|dregin]]==
The lead guitarist with the Backyard Babys' name is dregen[sic]. I took it and stuck an x on the end for a few years as a forum alias but then knocked off the x. tada!!

==[[User:drusilla|drusilla]]==
My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool

==[[User:elmer|elmer]]==
My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd

==[[User:exzantia|exzantia]]==
As many, many people have pointed out, my name seems like a random string of letters, and it kinda is... When I was signing up for a Yahoo mail account in '98 everything I tried was already taken. I was not having under-scores or numbers so I decided to come up with something that would always be available! I thus far have succeeded.

==[[User:fatwa|fatwa]]==

In first year, whilst learning to program, my friend Andrew wrote a program that printed out "That's a fatwa on you, mein freund".
I thought it was funny and it must have stuck in my head for redbrick registering. Also, it's short for "fat wanker".

==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]==

Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)

==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]==
My nick came from a combination of thinking gizmo was a pretty cool name due to that little flurry critter in Gremlins and also cns putting me on the spot on Clubs And Socs day when I first joined so that I couldn't think of anything else. Strange, but true.

==[[User:gavin|gavin]]==
I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh !

==[[User:gmblitis|gmblitis]]==
Would've been gamblitis but for those dam restrictions!so the idea came in the first place came from my unhealthy obsession with horses and cards!

==[[User:hauk|hauk]]==
Well, I got put on the spot when I first went to play UT in secondary school(We used to play it on the old shitty computers they had, at lunch time). So Dalamar from #intersocs, who was in my school, started to lose the plot with player12, and shouted at player12 to change his/her name. So I tried to think of a good name. And at the time I was reading Stormblade from the Dragonlance series, and Hauk was a ranger in that book. So I eh "temporarily" used the name.. It wasn't meant to stick! But I like it now ^_^

==[[User:hurl|hurl]]==
My second name is Hurrell and people cant pronouce it so I went by hurl. Turns out Hurrell was originally Hurl, you know, in the old country, so its my family name. No, I dont have a vomit fetish, but I'm always open to new experiences :P

==[[User:ian|ian]]==

Its my name JACKASS!

==[[User:jesjes|jesjes]]==
My name is Jessica. And people from home call me Jesi, and at some stage during sixth year I decided I liked Jess much more. So when I got THE INTERNETS, I just called myself jesjes. It stuck.

==[[User:keloe|keloe]]==

I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe.

==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]==

Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.

==[[User:lil_cain|lil_cain]]==

Wanted lil_cian, as he is the smaller Cian, it was mistyped.

==[[User:lithium|lithium]]==

Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.

==[[User:macbain|macbain]]==
He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl.

==[[User:marvin|marvin]]==
There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin).

==[[User:mo|mo]]==
Due to my considerable soccer talent, I was nicknamed "mo" after Mo Johnston, the scottish football hero.

==[[User:MoJu|MoJu]]==
It's in a similar vein to HoJu(Homer Junior) from the Simpsons. Given to me by a someone on a forum after they saw a picture of me and thought I was someone named Mordeth. So they suggested Mordeth Junior which was then condensed to MoJu. I then adopted it as my second online nick.

==[[User:montoya|montoya]]==

The name is that of a character from the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. The specific character is Inigo Montoya, a Spanish swordsman out for revenge against a 6-fingered man who killed Inigo's father.

==[[User:moridin|moridin]]==

The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo.

==[[User:nit|niT]]==
Originally my name was a combination of many words that described me, and was dreamt up whilst I was at college in Aylesbury. It all started when I got a demo copy of Diablo from my cousin in Singapore, and us lads built our first LAN at my mate Dave's house. We also played Carmegeddon, the Star Wars game and Quake 2 (of which my mate Dave had a 600mhz processor and TWO 3dfx cards linked up in parallell - he was our God). It was necessary for me to have a character name in Diablo so I chose Nitsuj Buaya Chen, the latter two meaning 'Crocadile man that snaps up ladies' (in Singapore slang) and monkey (as my star sign is golden monkey). I later joined a CS clan called Black Legion and people naturally shortened my name down to nit. At that time I also had a friend who was called 'kippy' in real life and online, so I started using nit in real life too. Later I joined a 'talker' called theManor which was a twin site to the LambdaMoo, there was a guy there who set it all up and went by the nick 'beN', he and girlfriend sadly died in a car accident and so manor spods paid tribute but capitalising the final letter of their nick, hence why I use niT.

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)

==[[User:ornat|ornat]]==

You'd have to ask my parents that question. Ornat is my real name, and unlike popular belief, no, I am not a guy!

==[[User:p|p]]==

Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial.

==[[User:phaxx|phaxx]]==

Originally from the character Lord Fax in the book [http://www.google.com/search?q=dragonriders+of+pern Dragonriders Of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey. I used Lord_Fax in [http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm MS Comic Chat] for a while. I saw somebody using a 'ph' instead of an 'f', and thought, in that usual 13-year-old way, OMGZ COOL, and promptly became LordPhaxx.
I was LordPhaxx for a few years, until until around 16 when I met a bunch of other Irish nerds one afternoon. [[User:jerry|jerry]] was among them, and commented, "With a name like LordPhaxx, I expected you to be taller."

So er, I dropped the pretentious 'Lord', and I've been 'phaxx' ever since.

See, nothing to do with fax machines! :)

==[[User:receive|receive]]==

It was Michelle Smith (swallow) that dragged me along to sign up during first year, so I'd handed over my 4euro before I'd begun to think of a username, so I turned and said "Shit, Michelle, what will I pick?" and she suggested "receive" because it went so well with swallow. Stupidly I agreed, and it stuck (after we found a spell checker to check how to spell it that is), so i never changed it to anything better. Ironically, i never have been at the receiving end of swallows abilities.

==[[User:r0b|r0b]]==
Rob is my name *shock* *gasp* rob was taken so used r0b instead. Amazing story tbh

==[[User:robby|robby]]==

its short for robert...thats cool no?

==[[User:sandman|sandman]]==

I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.

==[[User:scraib|scraib]]==

I'm from Kilkenny and 'ScrÃ¡ib' is the Irish for 'Cat-Scratch'! 'Tis a very GAA name, but to be honest I could never play hurling so I picked it really cause it sounded cool...

==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]==

It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.

==[[User:singer|singer]]==

I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".

==[[User:spanner|spanner]]==

In fact eeh! picked it out during the hay days of eeh gift grub and in fairness now sometimes im a bit of a spanner.

==[[User:spock|spock]]==

I chose spock because I had no idea that it would follow me around for at least the next 10 years.
I didn't even know what Redbrick was when I was joining, and when I had a membership form thrust
in my face by Hyper on Freshers day 1996, we had three preferences for username. I put down "spock" as my first preference. It wasn't taken, and that is how I didn't end up with the username "data", or "benji".

==[[User:svan|svan]]==

Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.

==[[User:Taurus|Taurus]]==

It is my star sign, so I just went with that. Sounds cool enough. :-)

==[[User:thedara|thedara]]==

My nick was given to me years before redbrick on irc (irc.phishy.net) I was the first person some americans had met called Dara and they
found that interesting for some reason or other and hence I became thedara.
On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names
hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org

==[[User:tnkrbell|tnkrbell]]==

As a kid my dad used to always call me Belle.When I got older and after many trips to Disney I took a loving to the mischiefious tinkerbell from Peter Pan. Tinkerbell though was too long so JesJes decided on tnkrbell instead.

==[[User:undone|undone]] ==

Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word.

==[[User:werdz|werdz]]==

A long time ago in a net cafe far, far away, a sexy asian friend by the name of quank said "Hey Andrew, stop using the name andrew in CS. Use werdna instead. It's andrew only backwards!" - That lasted about five minutes until people got bored trying to pronounce it ("OMG! WERDNA! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!") and just started shouting werdz instead ("OMG! WERDZ! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!"). And that's my life story up until this point.

==[[User:wilburt|wilburt]]==

Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes)

User:Jesjes

2007-02-02T14:57:26Z

Jesjes:

*PRO for Redbrick, 2005 - 2006
*Sec for Redbrick, 2006 - 2007

Known for taking many incriminating pictures at events.

User:Jesjes

2007-02-02T14:57:01Z

Jesjes:

PRO for Redbrick, 2005 - 2006
Sec for Redbrick, 2006 - 2007

Known for taking many incriminating pictures at events.

Tech Week

2006-12-13T20:22:56Z

Jesjes:

The aim is to produce something akin to Arts Week but about the more Technical side of things. It was also to show the student body that Technology could be fun as well practical. We wanted to show that Technology was not just about PC's and laptops and education but also about gaming, art, debating issues, funky gadgets and toys, the media and of course about running around Stephens Green trying to locate someone to win a prize.

The Week long events have been very successful and well received among staff and students alike. We would take this opportunity again to thank all the individuals that took part over the last two years. We tried to ensure a fun, varied and somewhat educational week.

If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to have in Tech Week 2007 be sure to go to [http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Tech_Week_Suggestions Tech Week Suggestions]

Tech Week Suggestions

2006-12-13T20:07:02Z

Jesjes:

Redbrick want your ideas for '''Tech Week''', an event we hold each year in the
second semester. If you're unsure of what Tech Week is, it's a week
dedicated to Technology in DCU. We have talks, workshops, and seminars.

This year will be the third year of Tech Week and we'd like it to be
better than ever, and we need your help! We run it for you and everyone
interested in Techonology... so we're asking for your suggestions. Are
there any speakers, or specific talks you might like to hear or attend in
DCU? Let us know!

==How this works==
You make a suggestion to us.
We consider it.
If there is a lot of interest we do our best to get someone to give a talk/workshop/tutorial on the subject.
We promote it around campus, and you can attend it!!

==How to make a suggestion!==
Either you can add one on this page, or you can mail us! ents@redbrick!

==Suggestions so far!==
Home Recording(Pro Tools, music, songwriters...) from Colin Boylan on Wed, December 13, 2006

Redbrick should like... fly to the moon... or something. yeah.

TimeLine2006

2006-12-13T19:55:37Z

Jesjes: /* November */

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

28th - 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.

==February==

3rd - The Redbrick Wiki was defaced by spammers. The wiki was temporarily taken down.

6th - The Redbrick Wiki was restored.

25th - Short meetup in DCU to exchange old photos/posters/junk for potential anniversary collage/book. (singer, venus, kpodesta, drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene)

==March==

(27th - 4th) Week 4 - Techweek. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/events/posters/2005-2006/techweek.jpg Poster]

4th - [http://wavehunt.redbrick.dcu.ie Wavehunt 2] - [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~jesjes/WaveHunt2006RedbricksTechWeek/ Pictures]

11th - Collage of old posters & photos made in DCU by drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene, shadow, kpodesta.

16th - Redbrick 10th birthday party. Bojangles nightclub, Harcourt st.

18th - Singer implements the newsgroups reorganisation (this had been proposed over a year ago, but was left unimplemented after there was no real feedback or suggestions). Surrounding the 10th birthday event there was some discussion on the boards about what could encourage new members on to redbrick, and the question of a newsgroups cleanup was again revisited, and singer acted on it! Boards were deleted & renamed!

29th - Colmmacc announces on the boards that Sun Microsystems are donating a T2000 server to redbrick (http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000), which will arrive in about a month's time.

30th - link logs into wiki as yaac123 and adds this to TimeLine2006 entry to confirm he is fully logged in

31st - wiki brought back online after some more hacking (anonymous editing had been disabled on it, but accounts could be created anonymously, which is how hackers got in).

==April==

11th - AGM held in QG13 at 7pm. All positions filled except for one admin. The new committee are:

'''Chairperson:''' Charlie Von Metzradt (phaxx)

'''Secretary:''' Jessica NÃ ChonchÃºbhair (jesjes)

'''Treasurer:''' Andrew Harford (receive)

'''Events:''' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Padraig O'Connor (landa2)

'''System Administrators:''' Eoghan Gaffney (atlas) & Sarunas Vancevicius (svan)

'''Webmaster:''' John Doyle (art_wolf)

'''Education Officers:''' Simon Kilroy (gizmo), Kevin Fox (undone) & Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

==May==

25th - phaxx orders people to update the scant timeline.

==June==

==July==

==August==
1st - [[Murphy]] (murphy.redbrick.dcu.ie) becomes the new login server

==September==

14th - joe5ie disusered for a period on one week for attempts to tell other users to run forkbombs, defacing the wiki.

23rd - receive notices that there is a timeline and adds stuff at phaxx's request

==October==

3rd & 4th - The 12th generation of brickies join at C&S days. Matthew Barrington (MoJu@Rb) 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.

10th - RedBrick freshers ball is held in the Vaults Night Club. Not many freshers actually turn up, most likely due to the storm conditions that night. Unusual amounts of lesbian activity entertain those that came though. - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers/?g2_page=3m gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers]

11th - EGM is held to elect the third admin position. Werdz, Abolo and Igy pass the test and run for the position. Igy was elected.

23rd - The new dell rack is installed in the server room and [[tolka]] is moved out - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/ gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/]

28th - receive wastes a large amount of time trying to put stuff in to the wiki, and finds himself still there at 4.30am

==November==

There is a lengthy discussion on the newsgroups (redbrick.babble) about "Redbruck 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 ccmmand line NNTP newsgroups). Redbrick web forums were started now as a web alternative to the newsgroups.

*Plans for Tech Week 2007 begin...

TimeLine2006

2006-12-13T19:55:15Z

Jesjes: /* November */

Tech Week Suggestions

2006-12-13T19:52:37Z

Jesjes: /* How this works */

Redbrick want your ideas for '''Tech Week''', an event we hold each year in the
second semester. If you're unsure of what Tech Week is, it's a week
dedicated to Technology in DCU. We have talks, workshops, and seminars.

This year will be the third year of Tech Week and we'd like it to be
better than ever, and we need your help! We run it for you and everyone
interested in Techonology... so we're asking for your suggestions. Are
there any speakers, or specific talks you might like to hear or attend in
DCU? Let us know!

==How this works==
You make a suggestion to us.
We consider it.
If there is a lot of interest we do our best to get someone to give a talk/workshop/tutorial on the subject.
We promote it around campus, and you can attend it!!

==Suggestions so far!==
Home Recording(Pro Tools, music, songwriters...) from Colin Boylan on Wed, December 13, 2006

Redbrick should like... fly to the moon... or something. yeah.

Tech Week Suggestions

2006-12-13T19:51:41Z

Jesjes:

Redbrick want your ideas for '''Tech Week''', an event we hold each year in the
second semester. If you're unsure of what Tech Week is, it's a week
dedicated to Technology in DCU. We have talks, workshops, and seminars.

This year will be the third year of Tech Week and we'd like it to be
better than ever, and we need your help! We run it for you and everyone
interested in Techonology... so we're asking for your suggestions. Are
there any speakers, or specific talks you might like to hear or attend in
DCU? Let us know!

==How this works==
You make a suggestion to us
We consider it.
If there is a lot of interest we do our best to get someone to give a talk/workshop/tutorial on the subject
We promote it around campus, and you can attend it!!

==Suggestions so far!==
Home Recording(Pro Tools, music, songwriters...) from Colin Boylan on Wed, December 13, 2006

Redbrick should like... fly to the moon... or something. yeah.

Tech Week

2006-12-13T19:36:12Z

Jesjes:

The aim is to produce something akin to Arts Week but about the more Technical side of things. It was also to show the student body that Technology could be fun as well practical. We wanted to show that Technology was not just about PC's and laptops and education but also about gaming, art, debating issues, funky gadgets and toys, the media and of course about running around Stephens Green trying to locate someone to win a prize.

The Week long events have been very successful and well received among staff and students alike. We would take this opportunity again to thank all the individuals that took part over the last two years. We tried to ensure a fun, varied and somewhat educational week.

If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to have in Tech Week 2007 be sure to go here: http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Tech_Week_Suggestions

Tech Week

2006-12-13T19:34:57Z

Jesjes:

The aim is to produce something akin to Arts Week but about the more Technical side of things. It was also to show the student body that Technology could be fun as well practical. We wanted to show that Technology was not just about PC's and laptops and education but also about gaming, art, debating issues, funky gadgets and toys, the media and of course about running around Stephens Green trying to locate someone to win a prize.

The Week long events have been very successful and well received among staff and students alike. We would take this opportunity again to thank all the individuals that took part over the last two years. We tried to ensure a fun, varied and somewhat educational week.

If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to have in Tech Week 2007 be sure to go [url=http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/Tech_Week_Suggestions]here[/url] and include them!

Tech Week

2006-12-13T19:34:16Z

Jesjes:

Tech Week Suggestions

2006-12-13T19:29:06Z

Jesjes:

Tech Week Suggestions

2006-12-13T19:25:43Z

Jesjes:

User:Jesjes

2006-02-08T18:13:35Z

Jesjes:

'''Jesjes''' is moi.

I am current PRO for Redbrick.

I take a lot of pics and host them on my webspace.

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-02-08T18:10:00Z

Jesjes:

Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!



==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]==

Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.

==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.

Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.

==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]==
It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers!

==[[User:david|david]]==
The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life.

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==
Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways...

==[[User:drusilla|drusilla]]==
My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool

==[[User:elmer|elmer]]==
My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd

==[[User:exzantia|exzantia]]==
As many, many people have pointed out, my name seems like a random string of letters, and it kinda is... When I was signing up for a Yahoo mail account in '98 everything I tried was already taken. I was not having under-scores or numbers so I decided to come up with something that would always be available! I thus far have succeeded.

==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]==

Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)

==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]==
My nick came from a combination of thinking gizmo was a pretty cool name due to that little flurry critter in Gremlins and also cns putting me on the spot on Clubs And Socs day when I first joined so that I couldn't think of anything else. Strange, but true.

==[[User:Jesjes|Jesjes]]==
My name is Jessica. And people from home call me Jesi, and at some stage during sixth year I decided I much prefared Jess. So when I got THE INTERNETS, I just called myself Jesjes. It stuck.

==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]==

Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.

==[[User:lithium|lithium]]==

Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.

==[[User:macbain|macbain]]==
He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl.

==[[User:montoya|montoya]]==

The name is that of a character from the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. The specific character is Inigo Montoya, a Spanish swordsman out for revenge against a 6-fingered man who killed Inigo's father.

==[[User:moridin|moridin]]==

The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo.

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)

==[[User:p|p]]==

Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial.

==[[User:sandman|sandman]]==

I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.

==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]==

It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.

==[[User:singer|singer]]==

I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".

==[[User:spock|spock]]==

I chose spock because I had no idea that it would follow me around for at least the next 10 years.
I didn't even know what Redbrick was when I was joining, and when I had a membership form thrust
in my face by Hyper on Freshers day 1996, we had three preferences for username. I put down "spock" as my first preference. It wasn't taken, and that is how I didn't end up with the username "data", or "benji".

==[[User:svan|svan]]==

Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.

==[[User:thedara|thedara]]==

My nick was given to me years before redbrick on irc (irc.phishy.net) I was the first person some americans had met called Dara and they
found that interesting for some reason or other and hence I became thedara.
On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names
hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org