Dick Morrell (co-author and founder of the SmoothWall project) is scheduled to speak about Linux device creation and also consolidation of Linux vendors and the muddled path ahead.

6.30pm, Comlab: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html (entrance from the door by the car park)

[N.B. A last-minute postponement of this talk might prove necessary: please check the website or this mailing list on Sunday afternoon. We'll still hold a meeting in Comlab at 6.30pm regardless.]

************************************************************** 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.

Mailing list for co-ordinating travel & accommodation options from the UK: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/fosdem **************************************************************