There is a questionnaire about software use and development online at
http://www.postgrad.isipartnership.net/~aschofield/FOSSsurvey.htm
It's being carried out by Andrew Schofield, webmaster of the
Linux Society and User Group based at the University of Salford,
as part of his PhD studies. It's one page, doesn't seem to need
scripts, cookies or CSS and if you provide your email address,
you'll be sent a copy of the results when it's completed.
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MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask
Hello Anglia Linux Users,
I am the coordinator for UK OpenMute Tour, a tour about cultural uses of
Free and Open Source Software. I sent an invite to your list earlier in
the year, but the date was postponed, as a few members of the list
expressed an interest I am sending it again with the new date for two
days of workshop at Norwich Arts Centre, December 1st-2nd.
Anthony Iles
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OPENMUTE TOUR ANNOUNCE
USERLAND : FREE LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WORKING FOR YOU!
OpenMute is an online collaborative software tool initiative, and the
latest in a cadre of projects by Mute Magazine. OpenMute provides 'free
as in beer' web space, tools and services to the non-profit and creative
sectors.
The OpenMute tour is a varied set of two-day workshops with an aim to
familiarise audiences, practitioners and interested parties with the
current concepts and practices of Free Open Source Software (or FOSS) as
well as practical hands-on help building a website or creating a
community project using the OpenMute toolset.
The workshops are geared towards teaching people 'you' how to use the
OpenMute FOSS software for your cultural or community needs, and these
workshops are geared towards a novice to intermediate user of these systems
Price : £20 / £10 concessions
Date : 1st-2nd December
Duration : Two Days
Times : 10-4pm artist's talk after first day of workshop 4.30pm.
Venue : Norwich Arts Centre, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG
Booking : 01603 660352
All workshop participants please register for your free floss web site
http://openmute.org
Full details for the UK tour
http://3d.openmute.org/modules/wakka/UserLand
***1st DECEMBER 4.30PM ARTIST TALK BY RICHARD WRIGHT OF MONGREL ON FREE
AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND CULTURAL PRACTICE***
ALL WELCOME / NO ADMISSION CHARGE
About Mongrel
Mongrel is a mixed bunch of people, machines and intelligence's working
to celebrate the methods of a motley culture. We make socially engaged
culture, which sometimes means making art, sometimes software, sometimes
setting up workshops, or helping other mongrels to set things up.
We do this by employing any and all technological advantage that we can
lay our hands on. Some of us have dedicated ourselves to learning
technological methods of engagement, which means we pride ourselves on
our ability to programme, engineer and build our own software, while
others of us have dedicated ourselves to learning how to work with people.
http://www.mongrelx.org/
1/12/05 4.30-5.30pm
Norwich Arts Centre, St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG
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The monthly "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday,
10th November.
It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City
Gate. We'll be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people
there earlier.
Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer
has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with
biscuits, if you're lucky).
Directions to the Reindeer can be found at:
http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html
Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some
pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from:
http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/
Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for.
We're /normally/ just to the left of the main entrance, though last time
we ended up at the far end of the pub beside the pool table.
J.
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101 things you can't have too much of : 41 - Tea.