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 '''Welcome to Redbrick!'''
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 == What is Redbrick? ==
-This article is also found [[Articles_about_RedBrick|here]].
+"What is Redbrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the DCU Networking Society for years. Redbrick is such a diverse society that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come up with a concise explanation as to what Redbrick is.
-"What is Redbrick?" - this is the age-old query which has plagued the DCU Networking Society for years. Redbrick is such a diverse society that a million monkeys working on a million typewriters for a million years might reproduce the works of Shakespeare, but they'll never come up with a concise explanation as to what Redbrick is.
+Simply put, Redbrick is a rather big social society with a slant on computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including games nights,game jams, pub nights, talks from tech companies and tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design.
-Simply put, Redbrick is a rather big social society with a slant on computers and technology. We host a plethora of techy events designed to entertain and educate anyone and everyone, including cinema trips, pub nights and tutorials and workshops on programming, web design and graphic design. Expect to see the return of the annual RedBrick Freshers' Ball (booze! booze! booze!) and the table quiz; last year, the quiz saw members having prizes practically thrown at them, with Sega Mega Drives, portable hard drives, Lucky Charms cereal and plenty of spot prizes being won. We also raffled off a brand new Eee PC laptop.
+Expect to see our annual CS Ball, hosted with our siblings in UCD and TUD, our massive Christmas Party in Nubar usually hosted with our friends in Karting Society and our wonderful end-of-year pub quiz.
-At the start of 2009, over twenty Brickies went to Finland - birthplace of the Linux kernel - to mess about in massive technology museums, employ stealth and cunning in a battle to snow each other into our cabins and feast on reindeer and mead in a Viking restaurant (all while being quite drunk).
+Most years we aim to organise a trip to FOSDEM, the world's largest open source tech conference in Brussels, where many talks are attended and many more pints are drank.
-Redbrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members: IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on your mind and meeting new people),webspace (host your own website with massive amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie), where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected to the Internet.
+Redbrick isn't just about events though; we are lucky enough to own our own servers on which we host the services used daily by our members: IRC (Internet Relay Chat - our most popular service, as it's great for putting off assignments until the last minute, waffling about whatever's on your mind and meeting new people), webspace (host your own website with massive amounts of storage space), forums/message boards, the photo gallery and your own @redbrick.dcu.ie e-mail address. We also have our own wiki site (wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie), where all members can create/edit/vandalise pages on whatever you feel like. You can access all of these services from any computer connected to the Internet.
-Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and Redbrick - as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from Trinity, DIT, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs events and in the IRC channel.
+Networking societies are to be found all over the country, and Redbrick - as part of the Intersocs network - is often found mingling with other nerds from Trinity, DIT,TUD, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick, both at Intersocs events and in the IRC channel.
 So, if you want to make new friends, talk about anything that's on your mind, or just get twisted because you have nothing better to do with your time, RedBrick has something to offer you.
 == Redbrick's servers ==
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 For more information on the machines, please see the [[Redbrick_Hardware|inventory]].
-== Chat ==
+== Discord ==
-One of the most common ways for Redbrick members to stay in touch is through Chat, or [[IRC]] (Internet Relay Chat). IRC basically lets you chat with a lot of different people at the same time.
+One of the most common ways for Redbrick members to stay in touch is through our [https://discord.redbrick.dcu.ie Discord server], this server is host to a variety of channels for both casual discussion, official announcements from our committee and the [https://discord.com/channels/568403963595063307/568810176640188460 #helpdesk] channel for posing any questions or requesting help from our [[Helpdesk|Helpdesks]].
-To begin using chat, simply type 'chat' into your terminal. There are lots of different chatrooms, or "channels" on Redbrick, the default one being #lobby. There is also a WebChat client available, so you can talk to your friends on Redbrick through your browser. [http://webchat.redbrick.dcu.ie  webchat.redbrick.dcu.ie]
-You can get more info about chat and its different commands and features by visiting the [[IRC]] page.
 == E-mail ==
 When you join Redbrick, you get your own email account, your address being <username>@redbrick.dcu.ie.
-By default, your mail will be forwarded to your DCU account, so that you won't miss any mails. To turn this off, type "noforward" in your terminal.
+Redbrick has a variety of different ways in which you can read and send mail. By typing "email" in your terminal, you can use the Mutt client to check your mail, but there is also a client available if you'd prefer to read email in your browser. It is called Squirrelmail. This can be accessed by pointing your browser at [http://webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie].
-Redbrick has a variety of different ways in which you can read and send mail. By typing "email" in your terminal, you can use the Mutt client to check your mail, but there is also a client available if you'd prefer to read email in your browser. It is called Squirrelmail. This can be accessed by pointing your browser at [http://webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie webmail.redbrick.dcu.ie].
+You may also set up a third party mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird, details for how to do this can be found [[Setting_up_Mail_Clients|here]].
 == Newsgroups ==