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title: Week 5 EGM | UKIEPC | Intro to Linux | Pycon
banner: IntroLinux.png
date: 2016-10-17 16:44:26
author: oskar
tags:
  - EGM
  - UKIEPC
  - Linux
  - Pycon
---

Dear Redbrick Crew,

My name is Oskar and I'm your new bad-boy secretary.
My first action as secretary is to inform you of all the events and goings
on happening in Redbrick. Let’s hit it.

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## EGM:
Redbrick held its EGM on Wednesday, electing a new committee and coming to
the conclusion that pineapple on pizza is a-okay.
The new additions to the committee are as follows:
- Admin - Cormac Smartt (pints)
- First year rep - George Burac (georgey)
- Helpdesk - Tom Doyle (greenday)
- Helpdesk - Dylan McDonald (grace)
- Public Relations Officer - Senan Kelly (sentriz)
- Secretary - Oskar McDermott (oskar)
- Webmaster - Cian Butler (butlerx)

## UKIEPC:
- When: Actual event Saturday 29th October 11am – 4pm
- Registration: 26th October
- Where: Hosted in DCU School of Computing
- More information here:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/event/ukireland-intercollegiate-programming-competition-ukiepc

The UKIEPC is the UK & Ireland Intercollegiate Programming Competition run
in the DCU School of Computing, sponsored by Arista, in which
undergraduate students are given five hours to solve ten problems of
varying difficulties.
Prizes for top 3 Irish UKIEPC teams are:

1. Trip to Bath to compete in the NWERC programming competition
2. €300 Amazon voucher
3. €150 Amazon voucher
It’s free and apparently there’s t-shirts and pizzas (not sure about
whether or not they’re with pineapple) given to the entrants so I would
definitely recommend coming.

## Intro to Linux:
- When: Wednesday 19th, 3-4pm.
- Where: LG25
- More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1787222271546156/

Have you ever wondered how to install Linux but not lose your precious
Windows or Mac OS?

Have you ever wanted something you were not afraid to break?
Come to our new helpdesk team’s first ever workshop!

## PyCon Ireland 2016:
- When: Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th November.
- Where: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin
- More information here: http://python.ie/pycon-2016/

Python Ireland’s two day convention is back and this year features talks
on Data Science Tools, Machine Learning, Data Visualisation and Cleaning
Data on top of loads of python tutorials and workshops.

Finally, on Wednesday Startup Europe are hosting an event in DCU in their
series of attending European universities to showcase the commitment
universities have towards entrepreneurship and innovation. It’s taking
place Wednesday 19th October in HG22 at 6:30pm.
More information can be found here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/join-us-startup-europes-sec2u-event-dublin-city-university-

Also check out our social media pages to keep up to date with the day to
day goings on of Redbrick.
Twitter: @RedbrickDCU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcuredbrick
Snapchat: RedbrickDCU
Google Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/redbrickCalendar

That’s it from me this week. I’ll see you next week when I stuff another
one of these newsletters down your chute.
I hope you have a fantastic week.

 Oskar McDermott (oskar) // Redbrick Secretary 2016/17