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[Tushar Joshi]

Hi ,

Date:  Wed 11 Jun 2003 
Time:  6pm onwards
Place: Los Locos, 24/26 Russell Street, Covent Garden, WC2
Map: http://www.los-locos.co.uk 
Tube:  Covent Garden 
Phone: 07980 224772


- Lonix Meeting 11th June
- Linux for Business 2003
- Tim O'Reilly talk Monday 23 June, City University

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Lonix Meeting Wednesday 11th June
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Another meeting this month in the usual Latin bar in Covent
Garden. The drink variety is spanish/south,central american
and the food is a variety of TexMex platters. We'll be staying
here till about 9.00pm before moving off to a restaurant
very nearby for some cusine before returning to Los Locos 
for more talk and to catch up with latecomers. Lonix
polo shirts will again be on sale here (since last month
someone forgot to bring them along!). 

All discussions Linux/Unix related will continue in the bar.
All levels of linux users welcome from beginners to 
advanced.

Directions to Los Locos as follows:

Walk into Covent Garden from the station, when you get to the
square, go around the square clockwise (i.e take a left)
and take the first exit out of the square on your left. 
Keep walking straight until you come to Los Locos 
on your left. Confusing?

Hope to see you on Wednesday!


Tushar

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Linux for Business 2003
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Unlike other Linux events, 'Linux for Business' has been 
specifically put together for those who need to investigate
the business implications of moving toward a Linux and 
Open Source / Free Software solution as well as the 
available technical alternatives.

Packed with case studies, given by IT Directors who are
in the process of transforming their businesses, 
speakers include:

****Keynote Speaker****
Dr Martin Armitage, Senior Vice President & Head of Global
Infrastructure Organisation (GIO), Unilever.

Paul Martin, IT Director, Nottingham City Council.

Gareth Lloyd, IT Director, Hill House Hammond.

Paul Friday, Head of IS, West Yorkshire Police.

Also speaking will be leading experts in the field of 
Linux and Open Source.

Registering for the conference will provide you with:

* unlimited access to all conference sessions;
* unlimited access to the 'Linux for Business' exhibition;
* full conference documentation including copies of all speaker notes;
* refreshments, lunch and evening reception.

Limited exhibition space is also still available.

For further information or to register on-line please visit:
http://www.netproject.com/conference/lfb

or email: julia at netproject.com

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Tim O'Reilly talk Monday 23 June, City University
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On June 23rd, at 7pm, the UK Unix Users' Group and      
O'Reilly UK present Tim O'Reilly, speaking at City      
University in London. Full details are available at
  http://www.ukuug.org/events/TimOReilly/       
                                              
The computer industry has gone through a sea change in the  
past few years. The killer applications of the web era
turned out not to be PC-based software packages like the web
browser, but web hosted applications like google, mapquest
and amazon.com. These applications are built on top of Linux                                                                                
and Apache, yet they are themselves fiercely proprietary.                                                                                   
But what would most developers do with their source code?
These massive systems are valuable for their data as much as
for their programs. And by opening up XML web services APIs
to that data, the most innovative of these sites are
creating new opportunities for hackers to "scratch their own
itch." One of the greatest challenges for open source in the
next few years is to understand and adapt to the paradigm
shift implicit in network computing, and to shed the legacy
thinking of the desktop era.

  http://www.ukuug.org/events/TimOReilly/

Online registration is free, but required for entry
http://www.ukuug.org/events/TimOReilly/registration


UKUUG is grateful to O'Reilly UK for organising Tim's visit,
to the Department of Computing, at City University for
providing accomodation and to David Dodson of the ACM
British Chapter for local organisation.



Tushar Joshi


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