The web site is at http://www.alug.org.uk/ and now has:
# Jobs listing linked to meeting areas
# Meeting details for 2004 (Norwich, Syleham, K.Lynn in Jan and Feb.
More Norwich entries to come.)
# Venue listing: new map and pages for each local area.
# Stuman sneakily asking for a job in the contrib area's member's
directory
# Dave Briggs moves his blog
# Visitors from HUDLUG and France sign the visitor book
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There's going to be an IRC discussion on "Software Patents in Europe" this
Monday at 6pm, to kick off a week of free online events organised by Uninet
as part of its 4th international virtual conference on unix:
http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2003/english/prog.html
All welcome to #linux on the Uninet IRC network,
http://www.uninet.edu/uninet/servers.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Brand"
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:34 AM
Subject: Umeet conference on swpats
> Hello,
>
> Uninet Project (http://www.uninet.edu) is announcing its 2003 edition of
> the Umeet Conference
(http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2003/english/pres.html)
> This year, the organizing comittee wants to start the event by a bof
session
> dedicated to Software Patents in EU. Feel free to join this bof session,
> which will take place on Monday, December 15th at 18:00 UTC. Umeet
> conferences are given online through the IRC network of Uninet
> (http://www.uninet.edu/uninet/servers.html). The bof and conferences
will
> take place in the #linux channel.
>
> For those new to IRC, you need an IRC client (such as xchat, chatzilla,
> ircII) which has to be told to connect to one of the servers listed on
the
> previously given web page and you have to join the #linux channel
(usually
> by issuing a /join #linux command). If you need help or assistance, feel
> free to ask. Some web gateways to IRC servers are also available for
users
> sitting behind restrictive firewalls or networks
(http://irc.fr.uninet.edu/
> is one of these gateways).
>
> gb
>
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Norwich area monthly evening meet takes place as usual on the second
thursday of the month: 11th december 2003 from 8pm in the bar of
the Forum, Norwich.
Full details, directions etc. on the ALUG website
http://www.alug.org.uk
Syd
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 2003-12-03 10:06:19 +0000
From: chris williams <webboss(a)ntlworld.com>
Subject: Linux Ham headcount
Hi All,
Would you mind asking around your lugs to see if you have and Radio
Amateurs in your groups. If you could you ask any "Linux Hams" you find
lurking to drop a very quick mail to :-
linuxham(a)485design.co.uk
At this stage Im doing a quick headcount using an email countbot to see
roughly how many are about, but if there is enough interest a couple of
members from our group plan to put together a UK based Linux-Ham
resource site etc...
We (Shropshire LUG) recently did a "Linux Awareness Day" at Telford
Radio Rally - a national event kind of like a computer fair on steriods
for radio amateurs. Quite a good event - several thousand visitors all
of whom had to walk past our display to get to the bargains - lots of
interest - kept 6 of us on the display stand busy all day with demos
and
chat :)
Judging from the number of visitors we spoke to who indicated they used
linux already there should be potentially quite a few. Our lug has
about
half a dozen out of our 60ish membership that are radio amateurs
(around
10%). I will be interested to see if this is a national thing or if we
are just a strange bunch of anoraks here in shropshire ;)
cheers all...
Chris W (g7/m3nbp)
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Christopher J Williams
LugMaster for Shropshire - http://www.shropshire.lug.org
Details of the King's Lynn and Debian-UK meetings have been added to
the web site. A 2004 meetings index page has been created. The site
design has changed a little, which hopefully will reduce the number of
layout problems. Thanks to Stuart Hammond for suggesting some of the
changes on IRC last night and helping to test them.
The page at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/ has changed to be a more
useful geographic guide to our area. The side bar link list of other
LUGs has been replaced with links to the new pages in /venues/ too.
The front page and "join ALUG now" page have been heavily edited.
North and South Edges
I've not created a page for North Norfolk, because I don't have any
links to put on the page, nor any clear idea of what town to link it
to. Can someone from North Norfolk tell me, please?
For Colchester, I don't even know whether there are still any ALUGgers
there. Can you please make yourselves known to me or the main list,
please? Can anyone remember how to contact the university there?
For Ipswich, I've made a page, but there is no meeting planned and the
last one was quite a while ago. I've put a link to the "how to make
ALUG meet" page. Please can Ipswich people interested in meeting there
make themselves known to the main list? Three come to mind
immediately, so there should be enough people out of the 300 who will
get this message...
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Probably it won't affect any ALUGgers, but ElGamal sign+encrypt keys
in GnuPG (ones with G in the --list-keys output) have been found to be
insecure. See
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2003q4/000276.html for
more information.
For more information about GnuPG and signed or encrypted email, ask at
a meeting.
A hardy band of trailblazers restarted the King's Lynn meetings last
Tuesday evening. Brett, Kaz, James, Pete and MJR were there and Chris
sent his apologies. Many exotic and strange ways to configure disks,
some sort of electrical modelling software (was it called spice?) and
differentiation were discussed, while some beer was quaffed.
It was a small but encouraging meeting after nearly a year's gap. I
hope the others there enjoyed it as much as I did. I think the next
meeting will be Tuesday 16 December at the same time (7pm) in the same
place (Hogshead, High St). I'll prepare some better directions for car
drivers (Lynn's roads are fiendish, so maybe photos) and probably a
slightly silly christmas quiz. If 10 people agree to come far enough
in advance, we should be able to get a free buffet, so please email me
now.
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David is particularly interested in any events to do with Martlesham
Heath. Do we have current ALUG subscribers who could help him with
this?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 2003-11-18 12:00:14 +0000
From: David Tannenbaum <david.tannenbaum(a)worc.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Collecting history of FLOSS in UK
Dear Lugmasters,
I am a doctoral student in Economic & Social History, and am writing
my dissertation on the history of free software. I am currently
compiling a short history of free software use and development in the
UK, particularly in higher education, for a separate project that will
be published online. The report will go on the website, which has a
policy of putting an open license on all documentation, and that
anyone can contact them to discuss alternative licensing if they need
it.
Could folks suggest events or areas of interest that I should include?
I am particularly interested in free software use and development in
higher education, but would like to include everything that's
important. I'm interested in history going back as far as the 1950s.
David Tannenbaum
University of Oxford
Economic & Social History
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Attendees:
Keith (sorry I didn't catch the surname)
Brett Parker
Mark Ray
Syd Handcock
Tony Anson
Jonathan McDowell
Paul Corner
BigJohn Woodard (host)
Young David (BJ's son who made the tea and played Frozen Bubble)
Nice to see familiar faces, a new face and a face that hasn't left the
confines of Norwich for an ALUG meeting before. Sorry about the lack of beer
my fault I will make sure I have the bar keys next time.
Various discussions were held about web hosting, firewalls, software patents,
the DMCA and its European equivalents, how to circum navigate CD copy
protection, hi-fi vinyl turntables and how to stop vibration affecting them
also the reason why there was *NO* beer.
Some kit was in evidence with a partial install of Mandrake 9.2 being made
(just to test the hardware).
Future meetings were also mentioned with another showing of Revolution OS
being requested, so it was decided that it could be screened at the next
meeting at Syleham, on the large TV owned by the Syleham and Wingfield Sports
and Social Club. Their permission will be sought and it will be scheduled for
the last Sunday in Feburary next year, the 29th. This will be a normal Sunday
meeting too so feel free to come with or without kit as per usual.
Cheers,
BJ
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