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OpenStreetMap/OpenGuides event this Sunday
by Dominic Hargreaves 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Hopefully a few of you will have heard of one or more of these projects before. The idea is to collect as much freely editable/distributable information about Oxford (in this case), both mapping and detailed georeferenced wiki-style information about venues, points of interest and so on. You can find out more about these projects at http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://openguides.org/ but if you fancy coming along to play with GPSes, get more information/demos of the software we use, or just come along to chat and drink coffee, come along this Sunday. Full details are available from http://upcoming.org/event/131996 Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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FW: Jon Masters (Red Hat), LinuxWorld Expo
by Alasdair G Kergon 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

[OxLUG people are welcome to come to this Compsoc talk.] [If you've been to OxLUG meetings in the Comlab before, note that you need to use a different entrance, and the car park is no longer usable.] From: Will Thompson <president(a)ox.compsoc.net> On Monday, we have Jon Masters from Red Hat talking about the modular nature of the Linux kernel; in particular, how this helps make porting the kernel to new platforms easy. This should be an accessible talk, despite the subject matter, so don't feel put off if you're unfamiliar with kernel programming and so on. Venue: Comlab, room 051 Date: Monday 23rd October Time: 20.00 http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Computing_Laboratory has some information about Comlab (in case you're not familiar with it). There is a door into the basement to the left of the door into the main reception, which we will be using. Also, some of you might be interested to know that LinuxWorld Expo is in London on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th next week. (In fact, this is why Jon is able to speak to us next week despite living in the US!) I know that a few Compsoccers are going along. It's fairly enterprise-focused (although there is an area of non-corporate stands), but should be fun. Entry is _free_ if you register on the Expo website[0] by midnight _today_, so act quickly! You don't have to go to both days, or all of either day. [0] http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/ (Yay, I've just noticed that the Tux Games people will be there.) wjt -- Will Thompson, Oxford University Computer Society President <http://www.ox.compsoc.net/>

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Linux 2006 Conference and Tutorials, Brighton, 29 June - 2 July
by Alasdair G Kergon 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linux 2006 Conference & Tutorials, Brighton, Thur 29th June - Sun 2nd July ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full details at http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2006/ * Early-bird discount is available only until Thursday 8th June * The event begins with a choice of tutorials on Thursday. Then the twin-track 3-day conference runs from Friday to Sunday. Tutorials on Thursday 29th June ------------------------------- Full-day: Building and Maintaining Software Packages with RPM - Jos Vos Morning: Optimising MySQL Databases - Mark Leith (MySQL) Afternoon: Using SystemTap and kdump to diagnose kernel-related problems - Richard Moore (IBM) Introductory talks: Saturday 1st July ------------------------------------- This section of the conference is aimed at people who are relatively new to linux and is free of charge. Lunch is included if you register on the website before Thursday 15th June. Programme so far: * An introduction to Networking - Antony Stone * Getting Started with Apache - Jim Kissel (OSM Ltd.) * Securing Linux - Nils Magnus * What are all these distributions and how should I choose one? - Stuart Yeates (OSS Watch) * Creating DVD videos on Linux and Unix systems - Ben Hutchings Further talks to be confirmed - watch the website. Provisional Conference Programme: Friday 30th June - Sunday 2nd July -------------------------------------------------------------------- Advocacy * Towards an All-Party Parliamentary Open Source Group - Leslie Fletcher * State of Play: Free Software, ready or not? - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton * Introduction to the politics of Linux - Andrew Nicolson (S'hampton Inst) * Advocating Linux - Jono Bacon (OpenAdvantage/LUGRadio) Case Studies * Apache at The Register: Building a Large Website from mod_rewrite and mod_include - Aaron Crane * 30 million and counting: An insight into a enterprise level open source systems - Neil McGovern (Fotopic.net) * How does OSS stack up? - Mark Taylor & Duncan Gibb (Sirius Corporation) * The State of Open Source in Higher and Further Education - Stuart Yeates * OpenStreetMap: The First Year - Steve Coast * Linux at Home - John Pinner (Clockwork Software Systems) * User Controlled Virtual Curtains - Torsten Spindler (ETH Zurich) Clustering and Virtualisation * Linux HA v2: One CRM to rule them all - Lars Marowsky-Bree (SuSE Labs) * How Hardware Supported Virtualization in Xen works - Mats Petersson (AMD) * A low-cost Linux based graphics cluster for cultural visualisation in virtual environments - Aidan Delaney (University of Brighton) Desktop and Applications * Desktop Linux Innovation at Novell - Ted Haeger (Novell) * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop: Under the Hood - Ted Haeger (Novell) * (Free)NX - Remote Desktop Access, Present and Future - Fabian Franz * OpenOffice.org beyond 2.0... - Michael Meeks (Novell) * Kubuntu Dapper and KDE 4: The GNU/Linux Desktop - Jonathan Riddell (Canonical) * MySQL Roadmap - Mark Leith (MySQL) * Settling on decent Python Web Technologies - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Grid * ROOT and PROOF - Ruediger Berlich (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) * The Interactive Europen Grid project (int.eu.grid) - Marcus Hardt Kernel * Porting uCLinux on a Coldfire processor: Writing Frame Buffer Drivers - Craig Duffy & Edwin Langley (Bristol UWE) * Flash memories and MTD Subsystem under Linux Networking and Internet Software Group - C-DAC, Pune University * The Linux Error Detection and Correction subsystem (EDAC) - Tim Small Platforms * Hardware hacking on a budget; the Amstrad E3 - Jonathan McDowell Productivity * Sed: more than just s/foo/bar/ - Tethys The programme is subject to change - check website for up-to-date information. If you book on or before Thursday 8th June you can take advantage of the Early Bird rates e.g. 65 pounds for the 3-day conference instead of 100. or just 25 pounds for students. (If you're not already a UKUUG member, you'll need to add the membership fee to this - details on website.) Conference rates also include a ticket for the Conference Dinner on Friday evening (subject to capacity), sponsored by The Positive Internet Company, and a copy of the conference CD sponsored by Novell. There are also still opportunities for sponsors and exhibitors: contact office(a)ukuug.org for details. Web: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2006/ Email: office(a)ukuug.org Tel: +44 1763 273 475 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Event sponsored by Novell, The Positive Internet Company and IBM | --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Pub Meeting on Sunday 4th June - Lamb & Flag, 8pm
by Mark Robson 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi all Just to let any lurkers know that the pub meet is still on, in the absence of talk etc. The venue will be (as always) the Lamb & Flag on St. Giles. The time will be 8pm. Be there or be ... somewhere else. Cheers Mark

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Linux Advocacy / opensuse desktop - Fri 21st April 2pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Part of their UK LUG tour: I saw this in London last night and it was first class. Well worth the effort of going out to Wheatley, especially if you haven't seen Xgl, beagle and the slab before. And as well as the T-shirts given out, one lucky person went away with a big smile on his face. Building the Next Generation Linux Desktop" - Ted Haeger, Novell USA. Linux Advocacy - Jono Bacon, OpenAdvantage and LugRadio. http://www.brookescomputingsociety.org/ http://www.jonobacon.org/uklugtour/uklugtour-flyer.png 2pm, Friday 21st April Note the Venue is Brookes, Wheatley campus. Room: Turing 216. For public transport, bus U1: http://www.brookesbus.net/ Contact Daniel Lewis <03101417(a)brookes.ac.uk> if you need any more info.

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.uk Dispute Resolution Service - Tues 7 March, 5.15pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

The .uk Dispute Resolution Service - and why a vampire threatened to suck Mike's eye out with a Dyson. Edward Philips - Company Solicitor, Nominet 7th March, 5.15pm Latner Room, St Peter's College http://www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk/Seminar.html

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FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 25 - Sun 26 Feb 2006
by Alasdair G Kergon 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

The purpose of this email is to invite you to attend the 6th FOSDEM on the weekend of 25th and 26th of February 2006 in Brussels. Previous events were hugely successful with more than 3000 developers coming from all over the world to attend talks given by famous figures of the Free Software and Open Source community. See http://www.fosdem.org/ for more information. This year's speakers include: Alex Russell, Project Leader of the Dojo Toolkit Axel Hecht, Member of Mozilla Europe's Board of Directors. Crispin Cowan, Architect of the AppArmor Project David Roundy, Lead Developer of the Darcs Project Geert Bevin, Lead Developer of RIFE Greg Stein, One of the Early Designers of the Subversion Project Ian Pratt, Leader and Chief Architect of the Xen Project Jan Janak, Core Team Member of SER (The SIP Express Router) Jason Huggins, Original Author and Core Team Member of Selenium Jean-Marc Valin, Main Author and Maintainer of Speex Jeff Waugh, The Challenge of the GNU/Linux Desktop Jon Haslam, DTrace Project Jon Trowbridge, Maintainer of Beagle Julian Seward, valgrind Founder and Project Lead Mark Spencer, Founder of Asterisk Massimiliano Pala, OpenCA Project Manager and Chief Designer Michael Meeks, OpenOffice.org Richard M Stallman, Leader of the FSF Tomasz Kojm, Original Author and Project Leader of ClamAV Uriel M. Pereira, Plan 9 Hacker And many others who will be giving talks and tutorials... Several Free or Open Source Software projects have decided to hold a meeting during FOSDEM. It is a great occasion to meet core developers in the following developers' rooms: Ada, Calibre, GNU Classpath, Debian, Embedded softwares, Gentoo, GNOME, GNUStep, Jabber, KDE, Linux on Laptops, Mozilla, Opengroupware, openSUSE, Tcl/Tk, X.org. All those rooms have an internal schedule, including talks and presentations from lead developers. Don't miss other FOSDEM initiatives like the Key Signing Party, or the LPI exams. FOSDEM's goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest developments in the Free and Open Source arena and to promote the development and the benefits of Free and Open Source solutions. The speakers mainly talk about technologies and make technical speeches. The event is totally free. This is a non-commercial event organised by people from the community. So we would like to thank our sponsors who have understood this and helped us making FOSDEM possible to happen this year again in the same spirit. Those include: O'Reilly, Google, Argon7, Canonical, ESCAUX, GNU/Linux Magazine France, Linux Magazine, Misc, Nokia, Novell, SUN Microsystems, Think Wize, Freshmeat.net, Linux Magazin, Sourceforge.net and all of our donators without who organizing such an event wouldn't be possible. We encourage you to support FOSDEM if you appreciate the event and want it to continue in the same spirit. More information about the FOSDEM 2006 support operation at: http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/support/ We hope to see you there. The FOSDEM team pr(a)fosdem.org

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FW: "Beyond 3G" - Thurs 23rd Feb, 8.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Looks like this week's compsoc talk will be of wider interest. Beyond 3G technologies Date/Time: Thursday 23 Feb 20:30 Place: Denis Sciama Lecture Theatre, Denys Wilkinson Building (on Banbury Rd & Keble Rd) ------------------------------------------------ John Beer, an ICT Expert to the European Commission for grand funding and evaluator for Venture Capital organisations as well as the editor of "The View", will talk on Future ICT technologies, specifically the future impacts on mobile operators and handset manufacturers design.

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2006 Ig Nobel UK Tour - Oxford, Fri 10th March (8th Week)
by Alasdair G Kergon 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The 2006 Ig Nobel Tour First it'll make you laugh, then it'll make you think. Featuring Marc Abrahams, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes, together with a gaggle of Ig Nobel Prize winners and other great scientists, musicians and other thinkers. Includes the Great Intelligence Debate - each debater explains why he or she is the smartest person in Britain - and a performance of the mini-opera The Count of Infinity. Date: Friday 10th March Start time: 7.45pm Venue: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, part of the Physics Department By Clarendon Lab on Parks Road at the corner with Keble Road. http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/conference/travel.htm Tickets: Free. You can turn up on the night, but capacity is limited so please reserve a place in advance to be sure of getting in. Such reservations will be honoured until 7.35pm. https://www.ox.compsoc.net/ignobel/ http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/2006-ig-uk-tour/

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FW: UKUUG Spring Conference 2006 - Durham, 21-23 March
by Alasdair G Kergon 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

[The date in the previous message should have said Wednesday 8 Feb as in the subject line.] ----- Forwarded message from Ray Miller <ray.miller(a)ukuug.org> ----- I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference, which will take place in Durham from Tuesday 21st to Thursday 23rd March 2006: http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/ This is the UK's only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number of professionals from sites of all shapes and sizes. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. The conference itself will be preceded by a full-day tutorial on "Managing Samba 3.0", with core Samba developer Gerald Carter joining us from the US. Delegates then have a choice of two workshops on the first morning of the main conference: "LDAP in depth", or "Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter". The main conference stream will focus on systems administration: the nuts and bolts of running large computer installations. The keynote will be given by James Youngman, now of Google Inc, who will be giving us the low down on how Google's systems are put together. This year, for the first time, we have almost an entire stream dedicated to a BSD MiniCon, and are pleased to welcome Dru Lavigne who will be joining us from Canada, as well as a number of speakers from the UK BSD community. We hope you will be able to join us in Durham for what is set to be one of our biggest and best conferences of recent years. -- Ray Miller, UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group http://www.ukuug.org

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