[Preston] FW: [Wylug-announce] Jeremy Allison - Samba Presentation

[preston.lug at neutral.org.uk]

Forwarded info about Sheffield LUG.

Saturday 9th October, starts at 2pm in Sheffield.

I will be driving there (from North Manchester), so if anyone wants a lift,
please collar me at the next Preston meeting (Wednesday 6th October) or drop
me an Email.

You should book your own ticket(s) ASAP.

Steve Taylor



-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-announce-admin at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-announce-admin at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Ibbotson
Sent: 25 September 2004 22:01
To: WYLUG Announce list
Subject: [Wylug-announce] Jeremy Allison - Samba Presentation

  


           Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)

        Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.


Our next meeting will take place on the afternoon of the 9th of October at
the St Georges Lecture Theatre 3, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street.
There is seating for about 175 people.  
Coffee and tea is served at 13.30 and the presentation begins at 14.00.
Finish at about 16.00 or whenever everyone stops asking questions.

Jeremy Allison will give a talk about Samba internals and what we expect to
see in the new release of Samba which we think will be released some time
next year.

If you have an interest in software production and you know very little of
Open Source and Free software then this is a great opportunity to 
find out something about it.   Samba is the file sharing software which 
allows seamless integration of heterogeneous networks thus making Unix and
Windows work together as though they are just one network or computer.  It
is one of the showcase projects of the Open Source era.  
Jeremy is one of the two programmers who between them wrote most of the code
in Samba. The other is Andrew Tridgell who created Samba and its predecessor
which was a client for the DEC Pathworks protocol.  Jeremy and Andrew began
working together in 1993.  Jeremy has worked for Cygnus and VA Linux and in
more recent times Hewlett-Packard and others.  With the Samba project he
handles release engineering and co-ordinates development efforts and also
acts as a corporate liaison to companies which use Samba code commercially.
He's a good speaker and he knows what he is talking about.

            For more information have a look at..

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

Entrance will be through an online booking form.   Cost of the 
presentation for participating individuals is nothing.  We would just 
like to know who is coming along so that we don't over book the room.   
To book for this event please go to..

http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/eventsbookingform.html?eventid=40

Hopefully you will be able to come along.  We look forward to meeting you on
the day.



Richard

www.sheflug.co.uk