April's talk will be about KDE - "the leading desktop environment
for Linux/Unix". It will cover what an advanced user and a basic developer
ought to know.
David has five years of KDE development experience and is employed
by MandrakeSoft. He is maintainer of Konqueror (the file manager) and also
works on the KDE libraries, the KOffice framework and KWord.
Usual time and place: 6.30pm, Comlab, entrance from Parks Road.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html
** There will be a short meeting afterwards to discuss plans for LinuxDay **
Alasdair
--
agk(a)oxlug.org
OxLUG is getting involved with a nationwide Installfest, which is an event
designed to introduce Linux to a larger number of people than would
normally have access to it.
The official website for the day is http://www.linuxday.org.uk/. We hope
to attract a significant number of people to come along to the all day
event, the details of which follow:
* If you can help out with the event, see the bottom of this mail.
Venue: 22nd Oxford Scout HQ
Location:
Meadow Lane
Donnington
Oxford
OX4 4BJ
A map can be found at
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=OX44BJ&Z=1. There should be
ample car parking.
The event with be running from 10am until approximately 6pm and will
hopefully feature regular talks and demonstrations as well as the core
activity of helping people install and configure linux (whether as a new
install or to help with existing installations).
We will have a range of distributions available on CDROM and networked
machines, and will discuss your requirements in order to choose the most
appropriate distribution. The event is being sponsored by MandrakeSoft,
and there will be free CDs available to take away.
If you would like to come along to get help with your system, whether the
computer is new or old, and whether or not you have Linux already
installed on it the best way is to register using the form at
http://www.linuxday.org.uk/requestinstall.htm. This way we have a better
chance of anticipating popularity. If you have any particular queries
about the event or what you'd like to get out of it, please email
oxlug-events(a)lists.compsoc.net.
If you don't manage to register, then do come along on the day anyway.
Also, you are welcome to come along to the event, as a business or home
user, without a system to install to find out why Linux might benefit you.
***
We still need people to volunteer to help out, in one of several ways:
- Marketing - getting in touch with the local press etc, and formulating
marketing materia (ie improve on this mail :)
- Organisation - coming along on the day to help set up/clear up.
- Demonstrations/installing/talks - most important bit of the event, to
help people install linux! Also we need people to give demonstrations of
unusual or exciting uses for Linux - if you're running it on any unusual
hardware or doing anything unusual let us know. Demonstrations would be
a bonus! Also, to give informal talks about basic aspects of running linux.
Questions/offers of help should be addressed to
oxlug-events(a)lists.compsoc.net.
There will be a short planning meeting after the event this Sunday (which
is David Faure from MandrakeSoft on KDE, BTW - separate announcement will
follow shortly).
--
Dominic Hargreaves | http://dom.magd.ox.ac.uk/
You can get my PGP key from my web site.
Thursday 22nd March 7.30: BCS: Security & Encryption
- see below
Sunday 1st April 6.30: OxLUG: KDE, David Faure
Sunday 6th May 6.30: OxLUG: SmoothWall, Richard Morrell
- more details of these later.
Alasdair
--
agk(a)oxlug.org
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From: "BCS Oxon Events" <events(a)bcsoxon.org>
Subject: BCS Oxon Branch Meeting ** Its This Thursday 7:30pm ** Topic - Security & Encryption
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:46:20 -0000
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Dear Mr Kergon,
I am dropping you a short reminder that the March BCS Oxfordshire Branch
meeting is on this coming Thursday (22 March 2001) at 7:30pm.
Are you interested in Security & Encryption and want to know more about how
encryption is made to work? What are the main issues behind some of our
current encryption technology?
We are very pleased to have Dr Michael Ganley (Head of Consultancy) from
Zaxus Ltd (formally Racal) to speak about Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) and
Cryptography.
Michael is an accomplished speaker in the subject of cryptography. The basis
of this months talk is from a talk originally given at The World Conference
on Computer Security, Compsec 2000 in November last year.
He will be describing how digital signatures work and comparing the various
technologies, including Elliptic Curve Cryptography which has a number of
advantages its competitors - particularly when working with smart cards.
We will be handing out CPD certificates at the end of the presentation. If
you haven't already done so, it would be a great time to start your CPD
records.
Please look at the web site http://www.bcsoxon.org/calendar/march2001.html
for a brief description about this presentation.
We will be holding the meeting at the Wolfson Building, South Parks Road,
Oxford. Please use the link below to see a local map.
http://www.bcsoxon.org/location.html
or if you require more information please email mailto:events@bcsoxon.org
We look forward to seeing you there,
Neill Lawson-Smith
Branch Chairman
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