[Gllug] FW: Events in Oxford Monday evening: Novell; Thawte web of trust

[Alasdair G Kergon]

There are two OxLUG events on Monday 19th January (tomorrow) that a few 
of you might be interested in attending:
  Thawte web of trust notarization 
  A talk by Matt Asay from Novell.
(The talk will be more formal than at Lonix last Thursday evening, but
there'll still be time for discussion.)


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* Thawte web of trust notarization event *
* 8pm                                    *
* Lamb and Flag                          *
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For those who haven't seen it, the Thawte web of trust is an attempt to
set up a vaguely PGP-like web of trust, but for S/MIME certificates. It
is run by Thawte, but the advantage is that S/MIME is compatible with
Outlook, Netscape and Mozilla. They can also be used with recent
versions of mutt. More details at:

http://www.thawte.com/html/COMMUNITY/personal/index.html (general overview)
http://www.thawte.com/html/COMMUNITY/wot/index.html (web of trust scheme)
                                                                                
There will be several Thawte notaries in attendance, and paperwork will
be done there. Therefore you'll need a Thawte account beforehand; get one
by going to:

https://www.thawte.com/cgi/enroll/personal/step1.exe

To get notarised, you will need two forms of ID. At least one needs a
photo, and at least one needs to carry the 'national identity number'
that you gave Thawte when you signed up. You will also need a photocopy
of these, one for each notary to keep. This makes for a minimum of 3,
but I would strongly recommend more as notarising (and being notarised)
by others will boost the number of 'trust points' you are allocated, and
can allocate to others.

It is expected that the business can be over in time for those who wish
to attend the 8.30 talk, but equally notarization will continue past that
point for a short while if you can't make it for 8pm.

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* Matt Asay, Novell                                                *
* 8.30pm                                                           *
* Comlab (and afterwards in the Lamb and Flag)                     *
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Matt Asay, Director of Novell's Linux Business Office and Open Source
Review Board (based in Utah) is visiting Oxford on Monday and will
discuss how Novell sees itself fitting into the Open Source community,
SUSE & Ximian, the GNU General Public License etc.

If you would like to go for a meal with Matt beforehand at about
6.30pm, please email info at oxlug.org in advance. The venue for the meal
has not yet been decided.

  Matt Asay has been involved with Linux for the past few years both
  professionally and academically. Asay is part of Novell's Linux Business
  Office and chairs the company's Open Source Review Board, and is
  responsible for laying the strategic and business foundation for
  Novell's use of open source software. Asay also plays the role of OSS
  evangelist for Novell, both within and outside the company.

  Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux
  software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway
  business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School,
  spending two of his three years studying software licensing and
  innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under
  Professor Larry Lessig. Before Lineo and Stanford, Asay worked in the
  investment arm of Mitsui & Co., where he co-managed Mitsui's investment
  in Cobalt (a successful Linux-based microserver startup that was
  acquired by Sun Microsystems).


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* Locations *
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Comlab: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html
        (entrance from the door by the car park)
Lamb and Flag: http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?Lamb_And_Flag


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* Future events *
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  Sunday 1st February 2004 - Dick Morrell
    A talk on Linux Device Creation and also consolidation of Linux
    vendors and the muddled path ahead.

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High Availability & Reliability - UKUUG Winter Conference 2004
Weds 25-Thurs 26 Feb 2004 in Bournemouth

A very strong programme this year, featuring a half-day tutorial and
16 speakers (including 6 experts from overseas).

  Lars Marowsky-Bree (SUSE Labs, Germany)
  Alan Robertson (IBM Linux Technology Centre, USA)

  Matt Asay (Novell, USA); David Axmark (MySQL, Sweden);
  Mark Baker & Matthew Grove - Grid Monitoring;
  Matthew Bloch - User Mode Linux; Peter Breuer (Madrid) - NetRAID;
  Tim Chown - IPv6; Julian Field - MailScanner; Tony Finch (Cambridge);
  Niall Mansfield - Combatting Sobig worms; Stephen Mayo (HP);
  Richard Moore (IBM); Philipp Reisner - DRBD;
  Steve Whitehouse - Cluster Filesystems

For full details, see:
  http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/

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FOSDEM: Sat 21 - Sun 22 Feb, Brussels.

Featuring Tim O'Reilly, Hans Reiser, Jonathan Corbet, Jon 'Maddog' Hall.
Watch the programme unfold at http://www.fosdem.org/
Free (donation requested).  Always great fun.

Mailing list for co-ordinating travel & accommodation options from the UK:
  http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/fosdem
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