[Gllug] LCN September

Wed Oct 3 10:07:26 UTC 2001

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

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.

Details of the meeting and a map can be found on the London PM web page.
(Which might currently be down so be patient.)

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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: Wednesday 10th October 2001
Time: 6pm onwards
Place: Southern Junction Sports Bar - 4-6 Glasshouse Street, 020 7852 2780
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Map: Do you really need one!?
Contact: 020 8992 7008 / 07980 224 772

Back at the sports bar this month which is directly at
Piccadilly Circus Station. The place is situated on the left
of Burger King and under the neon lights at Piccadilly Circus.
There are 3 floors in this place. Look for the level which has
the Lonix sign on the door outside. (THIRD FLOOR BAR)

We also have a guest over from Japan this month. Masayuki Ida
Vice President of the Free Software Foundation Japan and long
time free software contributor. He will be doing a short talk
on Free Software while we consume our beer. (They never let you
do that at school!).

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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 9th October 2001 at the usual time
and place (19:30, Eisai Lounge, University College London, map on the
website) and will be focused around a round robin discussion on "What it was
like in the old days", a discussion of past experiences with computers.
Bring along your war-stories and bitter memories and remember what it was
like "in the day".

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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 September 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. No meetings have been announced yet this month but you can look for
details here http://www.freebsd-uk.eu.org/meetings.html

Outside London Events:
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Linux World Ireland
Linux world Ireland (http://www.linuxworld.ie/) this year is being held in
Dublin and is on over the period of Friday 23 November and Saturday the 24
November.

Linux-World is Ireland's only event dedicated to Linux and Open
Source solutions. If you are looking for a better way to manage
and scale your network or a most cost-effective way to run your
company. Linux-World can show you how. Be there to network, learn and
see where Open Source computing comes of age! 

A group of London Linux people from GLLUG and Lonix (Including me so come
and say hi) will be attending so if you fancy a weekend in Dublin keep an
eye on the GLLUG list for travel plans.

			BSDCON Europe

This year sees the first ever BSDCON Europe conference and its lining up to
be an event you need to visit.

The inaugural conference for European BSD users will take place 9-11 November,
2001 at the Thistle Hotel, Brighton, UK. The aim of BSDCon Europe is to provide
a focal point for the many European users and developers of all the BSD 
operating systems. 

The conference format will be similar to BSDCon, with two days of technical 
sessions on the Saturday and Sunday. However, instead of tutorials the first
day of the conference will be used for focus group meetings. The focus groups
can either be training sessions or open-ended "summit" meetings of developers
where the opportunity can be taken to gather together key project members to 
discuss a specific development issue in detail. Conference facilities will be
made available to any group that wishes to arrange a focus group, subject to
availability. 

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.

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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Masayuki Ida (FSF) in London.
Masayuki is visiting London to meet some of the people at FSF-UK and has
kindly agreed to do a short talk about the what the Free Software
Foundation is all about and what its working on. Come and catch the view of
the FSF's work from a different angle.

Masayuki will be giving the talk at this months Lonix (Details above) so
come along and kill two birds with one stone.
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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.

Reading Room (www.readingroom.com)
Thanks to Simon Wilcox and Reading Room for providing a meeting place with
plasma screens for London PM's technical meeting.

Linux Magazine (UK) (www.linux-magazine.co.uk)
Thanks to Linux Magazine for providing lots of complementary issues of the 
magazine at the last GLLUG meeting.

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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.

    Dean  
-- 
Profanity is the one language all programmers understand
   --- Anon

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