[Scottish] This months meeting, and other stories

[Ben Thorp]

This months meeting will be on Thursday 31st March, starting at 7.30pm in
Livingstone Tower, followed by open discussion over light ales in the
Counting House (as normal) ;)

This month Andrew Calverley (aka MrLithic) will be doing a talk on Social
Engineering (ie the process in which evil crackers get all your sensitive
information by pretending to be something they're not)

Following their last-minute cancellation last month, the Penguin Factory
guys are hoping to make their visit in May, although this has not yet been
confirmed. Also unconfirmed, but planned, is a talk on VoIP under Linux,
including Asterisk, the open-source PBX/VoIP software, which (if all goes
to plan) will be performed live using VoIP.......


Lastly, but definitely worth a mention. Some of us are, or have been,
listeners of LUGRadio, the fortnightly radio show put out by some guys from
Wolverhampton. They have decided to run a one-day conference (LUGRadio
Live!) in June (25th June to be precise) in Wolverhampton. Dissatisfied
with the over-corporate-ness of the existing Expos, they are hoping to make
this the premier Linux event in the UK for Linux users, not just
businessmen. The event is running at very low cost (£5 a ticket), but has a
good range of speakers. See http://www.lugradio.org/live/2005/ for
up-to-date details, but the current line up includes:

Bill Thompson           Bill Thompson is a technology critic and essayist
who works with the BBC.
Colin Watson            Canonical developer and Debian installer hacker.
Drew McLellan           An established and respected web developer and
author based in London.
Jon Masters       Jon Masters is an embedded systems developer and
freelance writer.
Sarah Ewen        Sarah Ewen runs the Linux for Playstation 2 community and
advocates using Linux on Playstation 2 hardware.
Simon Willison          Simon Willison is a leading web developer.

(All TBC at the moment)

Plus there will be exhibitions from Mambo, Scundog and the Infopoint
project, and a gaming room.

The main program runs from 12-6, and there will be socialising over beers
in the evening. This means it will be possible to travel down on the
Saturday morning, and thus only have to pay for 1 nights B&B. Some of us
are already planning to go, but if you are thinking of going, it's probably
worth posting a note to the list, as travelling together is much more fun
;)



Ben Thorp