Sunday 4th January, from 6.30pm onwards in the Lamb and Flag on St. Giles. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?Lamb_And_Flag
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Monday 19th Jan, evening (1st week of term)
Matt Asay, Director of Novell's Linux Business Office and Open Source Review Board, responsible for laying the strategic foundation for Novell's use of open source software.
"I would like to talk a bit about open source, generally, how Novell sees itself fitting into that community, and then turn the time over to the LUG to hammer me with questions."
************************************************************** Sunday 1st February 2004 - Dick Morrell A talk on Linux Device Creation and also consolidation of Linux vendors and the muddled path ahead.
************************************************************** High Availability & Reliability - UKUUG Winter Conference 2004 Weds 25-Thurs 26 Feb 2004 in Bournemouth
A very strong programme this year, featuring a half-day tutorial and 16 speakers (including 6 experts from overseas).
Lars Marowsky-Bree (SUSE Labs, Germany) Alan Robertson (IBM Linux Technology Centre, USA)
Matt Asay (Novell, USA); David Axmark (MySQL, Sweden); Mark Baker & Matthew Grove - Grid Monitoring; Matthew Bloch - User Mode Linux; Peter Breuer (Madrid) - NetRAID; Tim Chown - IPv6; Julian Field - MailScanner; Tony Finch (Cambridge); Niall Mansfield - Combatting Sobig worms; Stephen Mayo (HP); Richard Moore (IBM); Philipp Reisner - DRBD; Steve Whitehouse - Cluster Filesystems
For full details, see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/
************************************************************** FOSDEM: Sat 21 - Sun 22 Feb, Brussels.
Featuring Tim O'Reilly, Hans Reiser, Jonathan Corbet, Jon 'Maddog' Hall. Watch the programme unfold at http://www.fosdem.org/ Free (donation requested). Always great fun.
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