Preceded by an Exim conference, and FOSDEM starts the day after in Brussels: Sat 26 - Sun 27 Feb, www.fosdem.org (free). The 2nd Gentoo UK meeting takes place in Manchester on Sat 12th March. http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/2005/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Announcement: UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Perl 6 Workshop Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, 24th & 25th February 2005 UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - announces the final programme for their upcoming Winter Conference. This will take place at the Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th February 2005. Earlybird registration closes on Monday 31st January. On Thursday morning, Allison Randal, president of the Perl Foundation and project manager for Perl 6, will deliver a Perl 6 Workshop. The theme of the main conference is "Security and Networks". This begins on Thursday afternoon with a keynote by Wietse Venema, author of TCP Wrappers and the Postfix MTA. The conference also includes speakers from the OpenBSD and FreeBSD projects; Oracle; Hewlett-Packard; University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; and many more. This conference is a must-attend event for system and network administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. See the conference web site for full details and up-to-date information: http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/