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oxlug.org mailing lists moved to mailman 3
by Dominic Hargreaves 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

Hi all As part of an upgrade to the current stable Debian release, the OxLUG mailing lists have been moved from mailman 2 to mailman 3. Mailman 3 is a complete rewrite and so the interface is quite different, but the functionality is mostly the same. The new web interface is at http://lists.oxlug.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/ and the user manual is https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html. If you want to log in and manage your subscription, you'll need to sign up for an account to set a password - your old list password is no longer applicable. You'll also need to do this to browse the private archives from the new interface. The public list archives (covering posts from 2002 onwards) are still at https://lists.oxlug.org/archives/ and are separate from the mailman system, using lurker. Let me know if anything looks amiss. Cheers Dominic

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OpenTech 2015 - Saturday 13th June 2015, London
by Alasdair G Kergon 18 May '15

18 May '15

Hi everyone, With less than a month until OpenTech 2015, we're really excited by this year's schedule. As you'll see it's a fantastic, diverse line up of talks by a whole range of people working on issues and projects that really matter. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/schedule Highlights include: - Privacy: RIPA2 and Snowdenia - Being female on the Internet - Selling ideas - The Open Rights Group at 10 years old - Open Health Care - Privacy: health - 3 Digital Services - Data and policy - The election: what happened? - The election: what's next? All this and much, much more. Tickets are GBP 5 on the door, but to make sure you get in on the day, you can pre-register here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/ We're already about half booked and tickets are selling fast, so don't miss out. And don't forget to remind your friends - OpenTech is as much about the people attending, as the speakers. For those who've not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost (thanks Open Data Institute for sponsoring us again!), one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and democracy. You are guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking talks leading to lively conversations with friends. Besides the sessions, there'll be plenty of time to talk in the bar which will be open until 10pm. _Switch off, sit back and enjoy the show_ As ever, while there is technically some wifi in the building, as soon as we all show up, there will no longer be any working wifi in the building. So listen to the speakers (or your mates in the bar) rather than compulsively refreshing twitter errors, wondering if you should have gone to a different session based on the tweets sent over 3G. __Wish you'd offered a talk?___ As always, we have kept a couple of talk slots in reserve, so if there are any hot new or breaking issues you'd like to offer, that you wouldn't have offered last month, email opentech(a)opentech.org.uk and we can chat. If you would like to help make the day as successful as previous OpenTechs, we're also looking for a few more volunteers to help out, email opentech(a)opentech.org.uk. Oh, and did we mention? You can pre-register your tickets here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/registration More soon, Your friendly opentech organisers http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/

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TONIGHT: Lamb and Flag - Tuesday 8th July, 7.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/25/2513/Lamb_and_Flag/Oxford A quick reminder that OxLUG is meeting informally tonight in the Lamb and Flag, following a recent poll: http://lists.oxlug.org/archives/message/20140613.150112.4330ba6a.en.html#ox… Do come along if you can! Alasdair

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oxlug.org unavailability on Tuesday 18th February
by Dominic Hargreaves 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Dear all, Last Tuesday the oxlug.org domain expired, and as a consequence email sent to oxlug.org addresses would not have been delivered for a period that day. The problem was noticed by me in the afternoon and swiftly remedied by our hosting provider, at around 4.30pm (give or take DNS caching delays). Steps are now being taken to ensure this doesn't happen again, which will involve some changes to the way that oxlug.org is hosted; but this shouldn't have any noticable effects. Meanwhile I wanted to apologise for the inconvenience caused especially for those with @oxlug.org email addresses. Dominic.

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@oxlug.org mail forwarding failure
by Dominic Hargreaves 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Dear all, There appears to be a misconfiguration affecting all @oxlug.org mail forwarding; the mail servers for the domain are rejecting mail with a 'relaying denied' message. This appears to have been ongoing since at least 10pm last night but may have started earlier. I have contacted our ISP to request that they investigate and restore service, and will provide an update when I hear anything. Sorry for the inconvenience. Best wishes, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Re: [OxLUG Announce] Meetings
by greenmoon 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Is there a meeting tonight?

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Meetings
by Kevin Carmody 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hello All, Following some time without meetings, and the subsequent recent conversation on the main mailing list, I've booked the evening of Sunday the 17th of October at the Lamb and Flag. We've got the side room, which the lady I spoke to assured me is fine for anything from five to twenty odd people. This is intended as both a social to talk Linux and also to discuss what, if we want to, we can do with our LUG. Now, I've not organised anything like this before (and I'll admit I'm a little nervous as such), so I'm open to any ideas and suggestions as to what we should do. I'm sure we'd all be especially interested if anyone would like to do a talk on anything Linux or Open Source related. I hope that as many as possible can make it. I know that traveling into Oxford can be difficult for some of you, but if we can raise a new level of enthusiasm then we can look at doing other evenings in other parts of the county. I'm pretty sure that is everything. Erm, I think this needs to be approved now? Cheers, Kevin

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JISC Software sustainability workshop, London, 7th July 2010
by Dominic Hargreaves 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

[Forwarded on behalf of the organisers] Are you a software developer interested in providing a long-term future for your work? Do you have the time to attend an expenses-paid*, one-day JISC workshop in London on 7 July 2010? If so, please read on to see how you could contribute to development recommendations from the JISC. To register for the workshop, email events(a)software.ac.uk with the subject ‘Workshop registration’. Developers can spend years creating software only to see their efforts lost because their software’s future wasn’t adequately planned. Planning for the long-term future not only conserves development effort, it also helps the funding councils see a better return on their investment. We intend to find the best methods for achieving a long-term future for software. We will refine these methods with help from developers, and publicise them so that the whole development community can benefit. What are the best methods for providing your software with a future? That’s where the workshop comes in. It’s only worth recommending methods that developers will actually use, so we will hold the workshop to meet with developers, ask them for their advice and gain their opinion on our ideas. The outcomes of the workshop will shape both the JISC’s guidance given for software development and the work of the newly formed Software Sustainability Institute. By attending the workshop, you will have a chance to guide software policy and ensure that it reflects the needs of developers. The workshop will run from 10.30-16.00 on 7 July and will take place at Brettenham House (London, WC2E 7EN). The day will start with a few short presentations on sustainable development, but will mainly consist of small groups of developers discussing their ideas and refining our ideas. For more information, visit the workshop website (www.software.ac.uk/SustainingSoftware.html) or contact events(a)software.ac.uk. We are a team of software experts from Curtis+Cartwright (curtiscartwright.co.uk) and the Software Sustainability Institute (software.ac.uk) who have been funded by the JISC to investigate the best methods for preserving software. Our study will lead to recommendations on topics such as how to choose which software to preserve, which sustainability model to adopt and how to develop for a long-term future. More information • Registration email: events(a)software.ac.uk • Questions: matt.shreeve(a)curtiscartwright.co.uk • Workshop website: http://www.software.ac.uk/SustainingSoftware.html • Venue: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/findus/london.aspx • Curtis+Cartwright: http://www.curtiscartwright.co.uk • The Software Sustainability Institute: http://www.software.ac.uk • Software preservation blog: http://softwarepreservation.jiscinvolve.org • *Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed (standard class train tickets or equivalent). The workshop and the accompanying lunch are free. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Ig Nobel UK Tour 2010 - Thurs 11th March (8th Week), 7pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative - and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. What and who: The shows feature Marc Abrahams, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, and Guardian columnist, together with a gaggle of Ig Nobel Prize winners and other improbable researchers. Marc Abrahams will review the past year's improbable research and Ig Nobel Prize winners. Several Ig winners (and/or colleagues) will try to explain what they did and why they did it, and will field questions. Many of the speakers are new to the tour. Some are returning after previous appearances, now armed with surprising new topics. Each show will include a unique combination of individuals. Here are some of the stars of the Oxford event: Elena Bodnar, a physician, is a 2009 Ig Nobel Prize winner in public health, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. Chris McManus wrote the study "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture" for which he later received the 2002 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize. He is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London. On this year's tour he will explain some of the ways left and right get mixed up through honest error, stupid incompetence, and malicious intent to deceive. Dan Meyer, a sword swallower, shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize for the penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects". In 2010 he will present evidence of some of the unexpected physical objects people have swallowed. David Sims, 2008 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner for his study "You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations". Thursday 8th Week (March 11th) 7:00pm - 8:45pm. Doors open 6.30pm. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY STARTING TIME Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford You can turn up on the day, but capacity is limited so PLEASE RESERVE A PLACE IN ADVANCE to be sure of getting in. There's a charge of 3 pounds per person (cash on the door) as a contribution towards the costs of the tour this year. Organised in association with the Oxford University Physics Society. Free reservations (honoured till 6.50pm): https://www.ox.compsoc.net/ignobel/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=347021463456 http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/ig-uk-tour/

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UKUUG Linux 2008 Conference: Manchester, November 8-9
by Alasdair G Kergon 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UKUUG Linux Conference 2008 - Manchester Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th November http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This year's event consists of a twin-track conference over the weekend, preceded by a full-day Python Web Workshop on Friday 7th November. This year, we're offering a discounted conference rate of just 60 pounds for members of UK Linux User Groups provided you book by next Wednesday (29th October). The student rate is 20 pounds. (Separate fees apply for Friday's Python Web Workshop.) Please use the following URL to book online at this discounted rate or contact UKUUG during office hours on 01763 273 475 or office(a)ukuug.org. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/bookinglug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Accessibility and Advocacy * Continuity in development using external developers - John I Davies - iT4C * Marketing Open Source Software - Sandro Groganz - InitMarketing * Desktop Adapted for Dad - Adam Trickett Applications * Home Automation - Steven Goodwin * Ingres CAFE - John Smedley - Ingres Grids and Clusters * Distributed evolutionary algorithms with the Geneva library * Grid and Clouds in the LHC era - Dr. Ruediger Berlich - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * GridSolve: A nice tool for distributed computing - Marcus Hardt - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Cross-Platform Virtual Machines - Paul Knowles - Transitive Kernel * Infrastructure for PCIe endpoint devices * Porting Linux to a new architecture - the right way - Arnd Bergmann - IBM Deutschland Research & Development * Run time power management - it's not just suspend and resume - Matthew Garrett - Red Hat * Supersweet 15 - tales of a filesystems in puberty - Christoph Hellwig - LST e.V. * A Whole Family of Penguins - Kyle McMartin - Red Hat Sysadmin * Organising sysadmin documentation - Jon Dowland - Newcastle University * Python and System Administration - John Pinner - Linux Emporium Web * An introduction to web application security flaws - Jake Edge - LWN.net * Lead into Gold: Catalyst refactoring, optimisation and testing - Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems Limited * Coding in Pyjamas: Apps for Desktop and the Web * FULL-DAY FRIDAY Pure Python Web Workshop: Pyjamas + JSONRPC + Django - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Subject to change - check http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Event sponsored by: Novell Sun IBM Google Transitive InitMarketing | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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