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8 Jun 2002

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Today's Topics:
1. New Linux supplier to businesses based in the UK (John Hully)
   2. Fwd: Association For Free Software (AFFS) becomes associate of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) (MJ Ray)
   3. alug, hello and install day (dave.griffiths)
   4. Fw: Eurolinux UK patent consultation alert (Ricardo Campos)
   5. Linux Install Day 2002 -- UEA, 9th June, 2pm (MJ Ray)
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Message: 1
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
From: "John Hully" john.hully@briggs-hully.co.uk
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:01:34 +0100
Reply-To: "John Hully" john.hully@briggs-hully.co.uk
Subject: [Alug Announce] New Linux supplier to businesses based in the UK
Hello,
I'm following the instructions on http://www.lug.org.uk/contacts.html to
contact the UK LUG community in order to inform them that
http://www.linuxforsale.com is opening for business, and will soon have
an online store.
The site is aimed at the business community primarily, but everyone is
invited to visit.
Regards,
John
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Message: 2
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:03:34 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: Association For Free Software (AFFS) becomes associate of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe)
Yay!
Subject: Association For Free Software (AFFS) becomes associate of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe)
From: "Georg C. F. Greve" greve@fsfeurope.org
Reply-To: greve@fsfeurope.org
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:44:50 +0200
[for immediate release]
London/Hamburg, May 22nd 2002
"Association For Free Software (AFFS) becomes associate of the
     Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe)"
The FSF Europe proudly announces that the UK based "Association For
Free Software" (AFFS) is now an associate organisation of the "Free
Software Foundation Europe" (FSF Europe).
AFFS has joined with the FSF Europe to actively support its
activities, to work for Free Software in Europe and to facilitate
cooperation with organisations in other countries.
The AFFS currently focuses on the preparation of PR material to
inform the public and to lobby politicians in the UK. Part of this
effort is drafting an introduction to Free Software for
non-specialists and to prepare demo versions of the Debian GNU/Linux
operating system for live demonstrations.
Through various liaisons the AFFS is actively involved in bringing
the benefits of Free Software especially to schools, other educational
institutions, politicians and - of course - the public in the UK, to
help create a critical mass of people using Free Software.
Members of the AFFS also engage themselves in attending fairs,
exhibitions and relevant public and non-public meetings of UK
governmental institutions.  The aim is to provide a recognised point
of contact in the UK for information about Free Software. This is
achieved by simultaneously establishing links with the press, MEPs,
MPs and local politicians throughout the UK.
"Although the AFFS is based in the UK, it fully recognises and
appreciates that Free Software is a world wide effort to bring the
benefits of the information age to everyone on this planet. This
requires international cooperation and coordination. The association
with the FSF Europe is probably the most important step yet for the
AFFS to achieve this goal."  said Dr. Marc Eberhard, a committee
member and one of the founders of the AFFS.
"Experience indicates that it is crucial for the adoption and
understanding of Free Software within a country to have the community
of that country organise itself in competent local organisations."
said Georg Greve, President of the FSF Europe. "Therefore we were very
happy to see the UK community taking the big step forward with the
creation of the AFFS and we gladly welcomed them in our network of
associate organisations. This brings UK people, press and politics the
chance to interface with Free Software and the FSF in a more immediate
way than ever before."
About the Association for Free Software:
The Association for Free Software is a non-profit association with the
primary goal of promoting the adoption of Free Software in the UK.
More information: http://www.affs.org.uk
Contact: AFFS
         c/o Luminas Ltd 
         7 Webster Close
         Norwich NR5 9DF
         UK
Phone:   0709 2312239
About the Free Software Foundation Europe:
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable
non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free
Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate
in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and
redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition -
allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness
for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and
giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are
central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the
European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the
United States.
More information: http://fsfeurope.org/
Contact:
   Georg C. F. Greve greve@gnu.org
   Tel: +49-40-23809080
   Fax: +49-40-23809081
Further press contact information is available at http://fsfeurope.org/press/.
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Message: 3
From: "dave.griffiths" griffy.uk@btopenworld.com
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 22:26:36 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] alug, hello and install day
Hello to all.
I'm Dave Griffiths, I'm 28 and currently living in Marham, near Kings Lynn
in Norfolk. I currently use winXP on my home computer but have meddled with
linux, with little or no success in  the past (Redhat, Mandrake and
currently Suse 7.2)
I have been onto IRC and chatted in #alug and #brits, probably upsetting a
few people but learning also. I am intending to go to the Install day at UEA
in june, and I'll bring along my pc if thats ok. Edward has convinced me to
ditch suse and try debian, so any help on the day will be more than welcome
!
Current PC spec:
Asus A7V socket A motherboard
Athlon 1.2 @1.4 t-bird cpu
384mb 133 ram
17" compaq monitor
40,30,17 gig ide drives
Nvidia geforce3 vid card
Hercules Gametheatre XP soundcard
Suse does seem to install ok with everything but the soundcard running fine.
The soundcard runs on a different driver, and the volume is so low its
practically impossible to hear unless plugged into my hi-fi. The only other
problems are more my doing through lack of knowledge than the software
itself, unlike windows !
I normally use my pc for internet use, gaming, and home/office use with a
printer, scanner and digital camera. I am looking to use linux for more of
the same, but intend to start learning something useful with my pc, maybe
html, perl, c++ or something else, suggestions for a newbie most welcome.
Although a total linux newbie, I started out with computers at the age of 7
with a vic-20, progressing to spectrum, atari, amiga, dx2-66 pc all the way
to my present machine which i built myself. I often help others at work etc
with building and upgrading their home pc's and solving the many windows
problems they encounter ! I look forward to learning more in the future.
Dave Griffiths
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Message: 4
From: "Ricardo Campos" corez23@linuxmail.org
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:37:43 +0000
Subject: [Alug Announce] Fw: Eurolinux UK patent consultation alert
This should be of interest to some people.
----- Original Message -----
From: FFII/Eurolinux: Holger Blasum blasum@ffii.org
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:43:46 GMT
To: corez23@linuxmail.org
Subject: Eurolinux UK patent consultation alert
Hello Ricardo Campos
Recently you signed the European petition against software patents
(http://petition.eurolinux.org/). Thanks for your support!
We would like to remind you that the UK Patent Office is asking for
public comments on the European Commissions proposal for a directive
on the "patentability of computer-implementable inventions".   You can
find some more background information at
http://www.linux.org.uk/
    http://swpat.ffii.org/players/uk/
The specific questions that the UKPO asks are at
http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/notices/misc/softpat.htm
However, in addition to these questions you may also wish to comment
on whether you agree to the UKPO's interpretation of the first
consultation round, whether you think the admission of patents
on "software with a technical effect" will be useful etc.
Another hint:
Only the last 3 pages of the 22-page Commission document at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/com02-92en.pdf
are the actual proposal, for a more detailed critique see
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/
You may want to state whether you allow, encourage or forbid the UKPO from
publishing your statement on their website.
You can send an additional copy to
petition@eurolinux.org
so as to have your statement published on the petition page.  Moreover you
can send your drafts to petition@eurolinux.org to ask for our comments.
The official deadline is today (07 June 2002, though if you send sth
on the weekend it will also arrive by the next working day on Monday), 
nonetheless maybe keep it short and simple (e.g. citing examples 
where your company is affected).
I apologize this comes very short-termed; if you want to support Eurolinux
to do these things (maybe from an UK viewpoint) more long-term in
future you are welcome to write to petition@eurolinux.org or to me.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or to join the European
software patents mailing list
(http://www.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents/)
Also pls do not hesitate to send any critique or comments to 
petition@eurolinux.org (there will be a confirmation message which 
hopefully won't deter you).
If you like surveys ;-), please tick
[ ] I have already written to the UKPO
[ ] I will write to the UKPO
[ ] I will not write to the UKPO this time
[ ] I don't like being "alerted", don't spam me again
Kind regards,
Holger Blasum, FFII (a Eurolinux member organisation)
(Alan Cox and Hartmut Pilch also had endorsed a draft version of this letter.)
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Message: 5
From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 22:50:45 +0100
Subject: [Alug Announce] Linux Install Day 2002 -- UEA, 9th June, 2pm

   [1]ALUG 

June 9th

   [ [2]ContribIndex | [3]CitingPages | [4]MainSite | [5]FindPage ]

   On the 9th of June we will be doing a [6]LinuxInstallDay2002, that
   means you get to bring your computer along and the team of highly
   trained Linux experts (aka press-ganged monkeys) will attempt to
   install Linux on your computer for you. If you do wish to have an
   install done then please subscribe to the mailing list and say so,
   then at least we will get an idea of numbers and any strange hardware
   you may have and can be prepared for it. (Note you don't have to tell
   the list, It may make the install easier though)

   The meeting will be at UEA Norwich in Constable Terrace main common
   room at 2:00pm, hosted by David Casal (and others at UEA?)

   We should have a fair amount of kit there if you want to come along
   and take a look at what GNU/Linux is and what it does before you make
   any commmitment to getting it installed. Hopefully there will be some
   Demo CDs available to try, too.

Discussion

   If you want to talk about this, please [10]use the mailing list.

                                         [11]Back to this section's index

                                  [12]Map 

     * Destinations
         1. [13]Join ALUG
         2. [14]FAQ
         3. [15]Meetings
     * Local LUGs
         1. [16]Peterborough
         2. [17]Cambridge
     * Recent Donors
         1. [18]Martyn Drake
         2. [19]Luminas
         3. [20]O'Reilly
         4. [21]Mandrake
         5. [22]SuSE

   You may think I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one

   [23]UK LUGs 

References

   1. http://www.alug.org.uk/
   2. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/
   3. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?refs=June%209th
   4. http://www.alug.org.uk/
   5. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?FindPage
   6. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002
  10. http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main
  11. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/
  12. http://www.alug.org.uk/
  13. http://www.alug.org.uk/background/contacts.html
  14. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?AlugFaq
  15. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?AlugMeetings
  16. http://www.peterboro.lug.org.uk/
  17. http://www.cam-lug.org.uk/
  18. http://www.drake.org.uk/
  19. http://www.luminas.co.uk/
  20. http://www.oreilly.com/
  21. http://www.linuxmandrake.com/
  22. http://www.suse.com/
  23. http://www.lug.org.uk/
-- 
MJR

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