UK Linux User Groups

Start: 28/07/2010 - 7:30pm End: 28/07/2010 - 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Meeting At:

Moon Under Water
53-55 Lichfield St
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 1EQ‎

Eat, Drink and talk Linux

Our next meeting will be in the The Discovery Museum on Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. It will begin at 12:00 (noon), to end two or three hours later, on Saturday 7th of August, 2010 which follows our regular pattern of the first Saturday each month. You can find us either in the classroom on the ground floor, or the training suite on the first floor. We don't usually find out until we get there. We'll normally update this site as soon as we know, so if you have mobile internet you can find out here. Otherwise, ask a member of staff when you arrive!
Brian Ronald

date:  Sat, 2010-07-31 10:00

The July meeting is now cancelled due to a projected lack of attendance. Our next meeting may be on Saturday 25th September.

Our next meeting is on Saturday 31st July from 10am to 2pm at

Triangles Community Centre,
Poulton Close,
Dover,
Kent,
CT17 0HR

This is the last one till September as we traditionally skip an August meeting.

Our next meeting is on Saturday 31st July from 10am to 2pm at

Triangles Community Centre,
Poulton Close,
Dover,
Kent,
CT17 0HR

This is the last one till September as we traditionally skip an August meeting.

Our next meeting is on Saturday 31st July from 10am to 2pm at

Triangles Community Centre,
Poulton Close,
Dover,
Kent,
CT17 0HR

This is the last one till September as we traditionally skip an August meeting.

Start: 14/07/2010 - 7:30pm End: 14/07/2010 - 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Meeting At:

Moon Under Water
53-55 Lichfield St
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 1EQ‎

Eat, Drink and talk Linux

The this months talk will be about the Android kernel and will be
given by Sunny Aujla .

He will be talking about the history, a view of android in mainstream
linux, the Google changes, and the future of the Android kernel.

This month we have another change of venue, we are back at UCL! Ron
Gaston has kindly booked room 1.02 in the Malet Place Engineering
Building which if I remember correctly you have to enter through the
Roberts building.


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UCL Campus map

If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930.
At the end of the talk we usually visit the pub (Jeremy Bentham?) for
a few drinks, general chat and socialising.

We will be meeting again at the 'The Point 4's terraced cafe/bar, next to the National College for the Blind in Venn's Lane, not far from the centre of Hereford. With free wifi and their own good sized car park nearby, and food and drink available, its a great place for our meetings !

For our June meeting we will be discussing ideas and suggestions for Software Freedom Day which will be held 18th September this year.

So please come along and talk Linux and Open Source ! We're a friendly, welcoming group of both sexes and all ages

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date:  Sat, 2010-06-26 10:00

Hi all
In just two and a half weeks we have our KLUG meeting in Ashford from 10am to
2pm. Location details below

'Ashford Youth Theatre' is directly opposite the Ashford Train Station
(domestic not the Eurostar International one).

For SATNAV users the address should be;

Dover Place
Ashford
Kent
TN23 1EZ

There is meter parking at the station and next to the Theatre, which
maybe a little cheaper.

As usual we need ideas/suggestions/offers of TechTalks to be done. This location
is great for a bring a box meet if anyone wants help installing/fixing
a Linux distro.

Please reply if you intend on coming, spread the word and invite all.

Start: 16/06/2010 - 7:30pm End: 16/06/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Target Shooting

A chance to try your hand at target shooting with air rifles and pistols on a Olympic class 10m range (as used by Team GB and the Paralympic Team)

Cost about £3 - £6 (depends on how many people turn up!)

West Midlands Regional Shooting Centre
Aldersley Leisure Village
Aldersley Road
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV6 9NW

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Date: Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

Map:

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The next talk is titled "Typesetting with Free Software Tools" and
will be given by Tethys.

After being introduced to the wonders of Unix at university,
Tethys was hooked. With the release of Linux a few years later,
he was able to use Unix at home as well, and has never looked
back. He has interests in digital typography, large system
design, and playing with LARTC. His career has alternated
between coding and sysadmin for various companies in various
industries. One of those was in the pre-press department of
a large newspaper group, where an interest in typesetting
became a profession for a while. He is currently at the
coding end of the spectrum, writing software for a small
company using statistical analysis to predict future trends.

We are returning to our previous venue at the University of
Westminster, in the Large Lecture Theatre. If people could arrive for
1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. At the end of the talk we
usually visit the pub for a few drinks, general chat and socialising.

Sean has a sign-in sheet organised on the day for people to sign so he
can get an idea of attendance.

Start: 02/06/2010 - 7:30pm End: 02/06/2010 - 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Meeting At:

Moon Under Water
53-55 Lichfield St
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 1EQ‎

Eat, Drink and talk Linux

Start: 19/05/2010 - 7:30pm End: 19/05/2010 - 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

The Pie Factory
Hurst Lane
Tipton
DY4 9AB

Eat, eat, eat some more and rink and chat

date:  Sat, 2010-05-29 09:30

We hope to see lots of you coming along and we'll be putting up posters in the College and also letting the ICT departments know about it. Hopefully we'll get a bunch of interested students coming along to help swell our ranks.

The meeting will be from 10am to 1pm. Please sign in at reception were there will then be directions to our meeting room.

Currently the talks are David H on general what is open source and myself demoing an install of Lucid onto a desktop and talking briefly about dual booting, wubi and virtualisation options.

If anyone else would like to come forward with talks then that would be great.

I'm also going to grab as many devices as I can find that are running Linux and bring them along for a show and tell type table - if any one else has devices to add to this pile then that would be great.

On the actual day you will need to sign in with reception who will take your car reg and issue you with a pass - without that you won't be able to get through the doors.

If anyone has issues with transport please post to the list as a separate topic and hopefully we'll be able to sort out some car shares.

Medway Campus
Medway Road
Gillingham
Kent
ME7 1FN

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Lecture theatre 1.03 in the Malet Place Engineering Building,
University College London
Map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res
City/Town: London

Linux is Supercomputing - how Linux works on your mobile phone and on
the biggest supercomputers on the planet.

Eng Lim Goh of SGI will be discussing how Linux is used on
supercomputers, and will demonstrate some of the capabilities of the new
SGI Ultraviolet architecture, which is the most scalable Linux
architecture in the world.

Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been CTO of SGI since 2001, and has been voted one
of the Top 10 most influential CTOs.
He oversees Project Ultraviolet and works on solutions to massively
parallel rendering.

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/

Start: 05/05/2010 - 7:30pm End: 05/05/2010 - 11:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT+1

Meeting At:

Moon Under Water
53-55 Lichfield St
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 1EQ‎

Eat, Drink and talk Linux

Our April HLUG meeting will be held in a new location we will be trying for the first time.

The meeting will be held at the recently opened new venue 'The Point 4' near the centre of Hereford, http://www.thepoint4.info, owned and used mainly by the Blind College but open to all. It's a very smart place, with excellent facilities but unknown as yet to many Herefordians.

You can see more pictures of the venue here http://www.thepoint4.co.uk/socialise.html

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Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

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The next talk is titled "Wire Shark and the basics of network traffic monitoring." and will be given by Nahual Marisi and John Sharp.

We have a slight change of venue, we will still be meeting at the University of Westminster (Cavendish Campus), but in Room C1.04. If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. I will try and get some signs made up to direct people to room C1.04 Hopefully there will be a trip to a local pub for social and technical chit-chat.

I feel the "I'm going" email's were unpopular and Sean had a sign-in sheet organised on the day anyway. So I think we should stick people just turning up and signing in. (ie you don't have to email the list or me explicitly stating you are going, unless you really really want us to know.)


Ciaran Mooney

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