oxlug-announce February 2002

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WorldForge - Thurs 28 Feb, 8.30pm, Comlab
by Alasdair G Kergon 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

OxLUG people are welcome to attend this Compsoc talk tomorrow. ********************************************************** ** ** ** The WorldForge Project: Forging Open Worlds ** ** Thursday 28 February, 20:30 ** ** Comlab ** ** ** ********************************************************** The WorldForge project aims to bring professional quality Open Source software to the games industry, an area still dominated by proprietary technology. The very fast pace of technological progress and the need for creative as well as technical expertise makes this industry very hard to break into. By developing reusable technology and open standards members have built a solid base for anyone seeking to develop Open Source games, but delivering a product while keeping up with the ever changing expectations of the gaming community has proved to be quite a challenge. Al Riddoch, a WorldForge developer, will be coming from Southampton to talk about the project.

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Eric Raymond, London, Weds Feb 27th
by Alasdair G Kergon 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Eric Raymond will speak in London next week. City University, ~6.30pm. The meeting is free, but you must register in advance (online). Details at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/ESR_20020227.shtml Alasdair

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Compsoc's PGP/GPG Keysigning Party
by Dominic Hargreaves 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

Oxford University Computer Society (http://www.ox.compsoc.net/) is holding a PGP keysigning party next Tuesday, the 5th of February at 20:00 in Trinity College. This event is being made open to OxLUG members in the interests of generating a more widespread web of trust. If you would like to take part in the keysigning party, you need to send a copy of your public key to pgp(a)ox.compsoc.net not later than 20:00 on Monday 4th February. You should then attend the event, making sure to bring photographic ID with you. You will also need to bring a paper copy of your own key's ID, fingerprint and size. There is a map locating Trinity College available at: http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/maps/index.plx. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/descriptions/pgp-ht02.shtml contains a full description of how the event will be conducted. If you have any questions, please get in touch (email secretary(a)ox.compsoc.net). Regards, Dom.

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Linux Applications - Sunday 3rd Feb 2002, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

This Sunday's meeting will be more interactive than usual. What's the best mailer or web browser to use? How effective is WINE now? Please come along and share your experience! If you want to demonstrate some software that you reckon other people should know about, please bring it along on a laptop, or set it up on a machine that you can log into over the internet and export the display. If you'd like some software demonstrating, please ask on the mailing list. This is (near enough) OxLUG's Third Birthday. Towards the end, I'd also like to discuss some goals for OxLUG for the year ahead. Another InstallFest? Website changes? List archive searchable/public? What sorts of talks? Anything else? Date: Sunday 3rd February 2002 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Comlab The meeting will (as always), be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag. Comlab entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html ********************************************************************** In a fortnight's time in Brussels, an excellent free conference: Free and Open Source Software Developers' Meeting http://www.fosdem.org/ - Brussels, 16-17 Feb 2002 ********************************************************************** Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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oxlug-announce February 2002