[Gllug] LCN Dec

[Dean]

Welcome to the London Community News.
Details are for the month of December 2001.

Due to this being the month of December some of the groups are still
looking around and planning venues so keep and eye on the home pages if a
group is mentioned with no meeting date.

The User Groups:
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London Perl Mongers
Home Page: http://london.pm.org
Meetings: http://london.pm.org/meetings/
Contact Email: dave at dave.org.uk
 
London PM are a group who are dedicated to the encouragement of all things
Perl-like in London. This months meeting is a bit special as we toast Dave
Cross for all the hard work he's putting in to the running of London PM and
announce the new shiny leader who is going to allow Dave to have a life
again. The new leader may be a stuffed toy... Come along to find out more.

This months social meeting is being held on the 13th of December in the
Three Cups. A map and directions can be found on the London PM web page.

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Lonix
Home Page: http://www.lonix.org.uk/
Contact Email: info at lonix.org.uk
 
The aim of Lonix is quite straightforward although it comprises of
many points. The overall aim is to unite many Linux individuals in and
around London. Below is a list of aims, but you as a member may not
agree to all of them. (Hopefully at least one!)
 
Meet like minded individuals to share ideas and discuss opinions.
To provide a Linux force in London to persuade the industry to opt
for a more Linux friendly approach to their services and products.
To assist users with problems, providing advice and physical help, do Linux
advocacy and drink too much.

Date Wed 5 Dec 2001
Time 6.00pm onwards
Place Red Lion Pub, 14 Kingley Street, WC1 (Tel 020 7734 4985)
Nearest Tube Oxford Circus/Piccadilly Circus
Contact Tushar Joshi
Contact Number: 0208 992 7008/07980 224 772
E-mail: E-mail

Kicking off the Christmas spirit with a Lonix meeting in the Red Lion pub.
We'll be meeting upstairs, food will be decided on the day but will most
likely be somewhere nearby. After closing time, we'll migrate over to
'Nothing But Blues' on the same road to enjoy some live music.

Note that this blurb is from Lonix itself and I (Dean) in no way encourage
the playing of blues music. Also for those of you who are bored go and look
at the new lovely brown site.

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GLLUG
Home Page: http://gllug.linux.co.uk/
 
Greater London Linux User Group's (GLLUG) purpose is to bring together
London's Linux users so they can share experiences and expertise (or
revel in their inexperience and quest for expertise), to chat about
the state of the (Linux) world, that sort of thing.
 
We try to arrange meets so that there is space for users to set up
their equipment, so you are welcome to bring your kit along, either to
go through the problems you are having or just to show off what you
are up to.
 
There are no formalities to attending a GLLUG meeting, no subscription
or entry fees, you can just turn up on the day. We welcome and
encourage new and inexperienced users, young and old.
 
Due to the high turnout GLLUG meetings are less frequent than the
other user groups, you can get notification of the next meeting either
on the home page or through this mail but the next meet will probably not
be until November. The mailing list however will stay as busy as
usual.

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SAGE-WISE
Home Page: http://www.sage-wise.org/
Map: http://www.sage-wise.org/lecture/directions.html
 
SAGE-WISE is the System Administrators Guild for Wales, Ireland,
Scotland and England, hence the "-WISE" suffix. Our aim is to form a
professional association for system administrators in the UK and
Ireland.
 
But what is a system administrator?
 
Professional system administrators, however, often look after large
numbers of computers and networks - they are the people who keep the
systems running, repair faulty discs, install and debug new software,
upgrade existing systems, and generally take care of the computing
resources needed for their users to perform their tasks effectively. A
shorter definition is "A system administrator is one who manages
computers not solely for his or her own use". If you know the joys and
frustrations of this then feel free to come and visit one of our
meetings.

This months SAGE-WISE meeting is on Tuesday 11th December 2001
and the details are:

Speaker: No speaker this month - it's a Christmas Social
Date: Tuesday 11th December 2001
Time: 19:30
Place: Shakespeare's Head, Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, London WC

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SLLUG http://www.sllug.org.uk/
 
The South London Linux Users' Group is a regional LUG that may be of
interest to people that can't make the Central London ones or want to join
another mailing list dedicated to Linux.
 
No details of the December meet yet so keep an eye on the SLLUG announce list
for details. http://feeler.sllug.org.uk/pipermail/sllug-announce/ 
 
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FreeBSD UKUG http://www.freebsd-uk.eu.org/
The FreeBSD UKUG is a users' group based in the UK for UK FreeBSD UNIX
Users. This months meeting is being held in Cambridge on 5th December 
at around 19:00.

A map can be found here:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=CB11DU&Z=1

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LonBUG (http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug.html)
A new (To me anyway) user group for the community of Free, Open and NetBSD.

A group of individuals who share an interest in Net, Free and Open BSD's.
We meet monthly for a few beers and to chat, share opinions, tales of 
battle with lusers etc...

I have no details about the meeting this month so if your interested in
attending keep an eye on http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug/news.html)

Outside London Events:
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Die LinuxBierWanderung (Linux Beer Hike http://www.sxlbw.x31.com/)

Next years LBW will be at the start of the year, 30/01/2001 to 05/02/2001
in New Zealand so get your requests in for holiday time early.

Details about the event itself can be found here:
http://www.sxlbw.x31.com/details.html

I went to last years and it was great fun.

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Congress of the Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/congress/)

Papers are being solicited for the eighteenth annual Congress of the
Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held in Berlin, Germany,
from December 27th through 29th. The congress is intended to
promote the technical, social and political interchange of ideas
among hackers, security professionals, artists, nerds and other lifeforms,
watching how technology affects society.

Unlike earlier incarnations, this years congress will not only
address the German speaking population. One of the goals is to have at least the main
track of the conference held in English and translated to German or held
in German and translated to English.

The page with more details is at http://www.ccc.de/congress/ and chunks of
it are in English.

Other Stuff:
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Event Calendar:
Alasdair Kergon has come up with an essential resource for events all
around the country and then some. Still an essential stopping point.
 
If you have anything you'd like to get added then you can speak to him
at agk at ukuug.org.
 
http://www.oxlug.org/majorevents.html

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Community Recognition Special:
A special mention goes out this month to one of the most dedicated members
of the community I've ever been fortunate enough to meet in London. Pete 
Humble, the Secretary of SAGE-WISE tragically passed away at the end of 
November.

For anyone that has ever attended a SAGE-WISE meeting you will probably
remember Pete as the smiling guy that came over and introduced himself and
everyone else. Pete was one of the most welcoming people you could hope to
meet and served as an excellent advocate for the group by his simply
attending.

Pete will be missed.

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Community Recognition:
In this section I'd like to include people or companies that have
contributed or helped one or more of the user groups in some way. A
lot of people quietly contribute time, money or effort and get no
recognition for it. This month I'd like to thank:

Computer Film Company & Framestore (www.framestore.co.uk)
These two very generous companies allowed GLLUG to use one of their
private cinema's for a GLLUG technical event. Not only this they have also
provided other resources for the meetings such as spare monitors and
numerous other bits of kit.

Conix
Thanks to Conix for providing a place for London PM to hold a technical
meeting. And thanks to the person who provided the projector despite what
MBM said about it :)

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Any comments (Good or bad), suggestions of groups to add or ideas for
recognition of services to London Community groups are welcome at
dean.wilson3 at virgin.net

Thanks to the organizers of these events for sending me the details. Any
typos or spelling mistakes are probably mine. 

Enjoy your Christmas parties.
    Dean
-- 
Profanity is the one language all programmers understand
   --- Anon

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