[Wylug-announce] ShefLUG - March Meeting - Owen le Blanc gives a Lecture about Free Software

[Richard Ibbotson]

           Sheffield Linux Users Group  (ShefLUG)

        Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

                Saturday 4th March 2006

Our next meeting will on the 4th of March.  Dr Owen le Blanc will give 
a talk about how Free software has enabled Manchester Computing 
Centre to do a lot of things that it wouldn't have been able to do 
with proprietary software.  Owen is a brilliant public speaker. You 
should try to get to this session if you can.  More about Owen at...

                http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk

After Owen has once again done his stuff Bob Holland who is a 
chartered engineer and well known to most of us as an open source 
advocate through his various events organised through Digital South 
Yorkshire will talk about the wireless networking project that has 
been built around the Dinnington Area Regeneration Trust.  Mostly 
based around the Debian and Ubuntu distributions.  This should be a 
fascinating insight into one man's experiences with wireless 
technology which can be either very reliable or fraught with all 
sorts of unpleasant bugs.

The venue for this meeting will be the Sheffield Hallam University.
Room 943 in the Owen Building (Level 9) City Campus is now booked for 
the 4th March for the period of 13.00 until 17.00.  To get to 
level 9 you have to walk in through the front door at SHU and find 
the lift on level 5.  Take the lift to level 9.  The venue is just 
across the road from Sheffield Midland station.  For info about the 
venue have a look at...

      http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/

     You should also keep an eye on our meetings page at...

           http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html

For information about buses telephone 01709 515151.  For train 
information please call 0845 748 4950.  We hope that you can come 
along to this event.  Keep checking in on this page until the 2nd of 
March to make sure that you have the latest info.

At the end of the proceedings on the evening of the 4th of March at 
about 17.00 we will most likely wander across the road to the East 
Ocean Seafood Restaurant at Matilda Street in Sheffield for dinner.  
You can get some Japanese, Cantonese or Thai food here.  They do some 
excellent Bento boxes.



-- 
Richard
www.sheflug.co.uk
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