2021

• Redbrick held an AGM and elected many important positions. The new members are as follows:
  Chairperson: Cian Kehoe
  Vice-Chairperson: Cliodhna Harrison
  Secretary: Denis Flore
  Treasurer: Maciej Swierad
  Public Relations Officer: Ethan Clarke
  Graphic Design Officer: Grace Angulu
  Events Officer: Amy Collins
  Events Officer: Andreea Teodora Rete
  Web Developer: Rahul Mahajan
  Helpdesk: Aidan Smith
  Helpdesk: Conor Joyce
  Ordinary Members: Ryan Mc Quillan, Jamie McGuinness
  SysAdmins: James Hackett, Malachy Byrne, Hamzah Zahoor
  


• 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.


• 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.

2019

2017

• butlerx put the new website live and waited to see if anyone noticed.


• Redbrick goes to FOSDEM. People get drunk and sleep during the talks. amazingly nothing happened.


• git.redbrick.dcu.ie launched users got vhosts rather then that terrible ~ url


• mastodon.redbrick.dcu.ie went live


• The second annual Engineering & Computing Ball brought to you by the best of friends, EngSoc and Redbrick, went off without a hitch.

2015

• 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)
  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)


• Redbrick held an EGM and elected many important positions. The new members are as follows:
  Secretary: cac
  Public Relations Officer: induxi0n
  Events Organiser: thegirl
  First Yr. Rep: ginger


• 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!

2013

• Pygmalion goes down for successful upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04.


• EGM happens in QG21.

2011

• Redbrick holds its Annual AGM in CG05. A new committee is elected.
  Chairperson:
  David Larkan (tziegler) and Carri Fuery (carri) ran. David Larkan was elected by a secret ballot.
  
  Secretary:
  Lotta Mikkonen (attol) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.
  
  Treasurer:
  Nina Hanzlikova (geekity) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.
  
  Events Officer:
  Ciaran McNally(mak) and Meabh Landers (timelady) ran. Ciaran McNally was elected by a secret ballot.
  
  PRO:
  Meabh Landers(timelady) was the only candidate and was elected by a show of hands.
  
  Admins:
  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.
  
  Webmaster:
  Vadim Clyne-Kelly (vadimck) and Dan Fox (maiden) ran. Vadim Clyne-Kelly was elected by a secret ballot.
  
  Helpdesk:
  Shane Stacey (isaac702) and Eimear Tyrrell (beimear) ran. Both were elected.


• 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.

2009

• 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.


• Murphy is re-installed with Solaris. Tests with OpenBSD had mainly proven that it was good at crashing a lot


• RedBrick Twitter is launched to tell people about stuff.


• AGM is held.
  Chairperson:
  Andrew Martin (werdz) and Lotta Mikkonen (attol) ran. attol was elected.
  
  Secretary:
  Emma Gallagher (emma) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.
  
  Treasurer:
  Sean Hand (revenant) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.
  
  Events Officer:
  Carri Fuery (carri) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.
  
  Public Relations Officer:
  Daniel Fox (maiden) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.
  
  Helpdesk:
  Diarmaid McManus (elephant), Gautam Wadhwa (gw), Daniel Fox (maiden), Austin Halpin (haus) and Gavin Tubritt (gmblitis) all ran. elephant, gw and haus were elected.
  
  System Administrators:
  Eoghan Cotter (johan), Seamus Ronan (train), Alan Breathnach (sonic), David Laighean in (coconut) and Diarmaid McManus (elephant) ran. johan, sonic and coconut were elected.
  
  Webmaster:
  Kat Farrell (Angelkat) was the only candidate and was elected by a majority show of hands.

2007

• 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!!


• AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.
  Chairperson: Andrew Harford (receive)
  
  Secretary: Kevin Fox (undone)
  
  Treasurer: Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)
  
  Events: Kat Farrell (angelkat)
  
  Public Relations Officer: Damian Rhatigan (dano)
  
  System Administrators: Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Andrew Martin (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)
  
  Webmaster: Richard Dalton (d_fens)
  
  Education Officers: Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoghan Cotter (johan)
  
  Lots of competition with receive, jesjes, and tnkrbell running for chair.


• 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.


• 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.

2005

• Redbrick E.G.M
  Location: QG15 Time: 6:30 Admin Test Results
  ryaner 57%
  halenger 51%
  atlas 50%
  Only Halenger ran and he was elected
  
  Helpdesk Test Result: igy 65%
  Only Igy ran and he was elected
  
  And finally only aeris ran for secretary so in a shocking turn of events she too was elected. ;)


• First Redbrick Football session (7.30pm, Albert College Park). Attendees: amz, art_wolf, david, emperor, huskerdu, kpodesta, magluby, shadow, singer, singer2 ("Peter"), tibor.


• 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.

2003

• Redbrick gets donated two Alpha servers. One from HEAnet and the other from DCU CSD.


• Cain leaves Redbrick and many tears are shed.


• AGM.
  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.

2001

• Shadow starts his posting logs now that nntp-cache shows the username of the person that posted in the headers.
  
  First issue of Students' Union semesterly magazine SUAS published.


• 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.


• 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)

1999

• 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.


• Spinal resigns from committee around now.


• The fifth generation of brickies arrive in DCU. The first Redbrick booklet for newbies is made.


• New degree in the Faculty of Humanities (aka the Henry Gratten) called Multimedia, kinda like CS with computers ;o)


• 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.

1997

• The Third generation of brickies arrives in DCU.
  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.


• 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.


• 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".