UK Linux User Groups

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

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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

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/

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.)


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