[Scottish] The UAD Linux Users Society - Dundee

[Arron M Finnon]

Sorry dude, it's downside to having meetings every two weeks, and loads
of stuff going on.  I'll look at a digest sort of thing in the future,
and i do take your criticisms on board, just thought in the mean time
i'd do it that way, whilst trying to keep people informed.

I'll try to keep it down on the next one,

Once again cheers for the feedback 

f1nux



On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 17:54 +0100, Andrew Back wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> I can only speak for myself here, but must say that whilst curious as to 
> what you guys had organised, I started to lose the will to live as I paged 
> down. So it might be an idea to have a digest / list of contents at the 
> top of such mail-outs. So that folks can quickly see if there is 
> anything that is of interest to them and then read on if so. The 
> voluminous monolithic blocks of text approach I find a bit overbearing!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> ----------------
> Andrew Back
> a at smokebelch.org
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Arron M Finnon wrote:
> 
> > The UAD Linux Users Society - Dundee
> >
> > News Letter April 08
> >
> > Well Hi Guys, happy Easter, and welcome to Aprils newsletter.
> >
> > There's a wee bit to talk about but i'll try and keep it short, we've
> > had a fantastic run of speakers over the past months.  Coupled with the
> > excellent evenings the flash talks have provided, most commenting how
> > they'd learned three or four new things in one evening.  Personally i've
> > loved them, and the 10th of Aprils flash talks will be fantastic.  From
> > Jabber/XMPP to Linux From Scratch, and the one due is matched for a lot
> > more of the same.
> >
> > We have  had great talks on Drupal, Secure Coding, Regular Expressions,
> > Xen and Server Visualisation.
> >
> > An interesting talk is planned by our very own Tim Spencer on XSS (Cross
> > Site Scripting) and SQL-Injection, which from previous experience of
> > watching Tim talk before should be both interesting and entertaining.
> >
> > The site is really starting to take shape, there is some improvements we
> > have ear marked as needing done, it's the general consensus that we need
> > to also make the site, one where people can come and find out about us
> > and about Linux.  As with all of these things time us a factor, and once
> > the headache of exam's coursework submissions, and the beginning of
> > student holidays, and before freshers fair it will get done.  However
> > this is not to say that the site isn't active, that great content is
> > being posted, and a fantastic bank of handy tutorials, ,reviews, tips,
> > and advice isn't found on there.
> >
> > Some of the howto guides that are available
> >
> > There's Azmodie's (aka Kris Findlay) Guide to posting to Jaiku from the
> > command line
> >
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/howto-post-to-jaiku-from-the-cmd-line
> >
> > and the same for doing it with Twitter
> >
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/a-twitter-command-for-your-terminal
> >
> > Azmodie came in again with a useful guide for a centralised BitTorrent
> > server
> >
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/centralised-bittorent-server-using-rtorrent-rtgui
> >
> > Kirok (aka Kris Davidson) with handy guide to renaming web files with
> > his perl script
> >
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/perl-script-to-rename-web-files-and-links
> >
> > And a guide by myself on how hamachi can be used to network VM's to
> > Guest Machines
> >
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/using-vpn-to-network-virtual-machines-to-each-other-and-to-the-guest-os
> >
> > Also this week, Kismet seems to be my package of the week, i'll be doing
> > a flash talk on it, in addition i have made a howto guide, to talk
> > people through configuring Kismet, with GPSDrive and Google Earth and
> > using that rig to war drive,  and with our new friend over at the Linux
> > Basement (Cheers Chad and Pete) there is a segment on their podcast to
> > support this guide, if i erm and err a little you'll have to forgive me
> > it was a little nerve racking sometimes.  It should be available on
> > either the 10th of April (Thursday) or the 11th of April (Friday) from
> > http://www.linuxbasement.com in both ogg and mp3.  The Link to the howto
> > guide is
> > http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/kismet-gpsdrive-google-earth-howto-war-driving-guide
> >
> > Also at the last meeting i mentioned that we need to schedule elections
> > soon, these are for the most part the official officers positions, which
> > of course is President (me), Vice-President (Jen Higgins), Treasurer
> > (Kris Davidson), Secretary (Attila Szomor).  To be eligible to run you
> > must be a students studying at Abertay University, so if you fancy
> > helping the Linux Society grow, and you want to stand for election if
> > you could notify me of your intent to run, and your position your
> > running for.  The election of these officers can only be made of Abertay
> > Student Votes, however the position of Web Master is open to everyone,
> > both in a person wishing to run, and the election of that person.  If
> > you want to run for this position then we'll hold the Web Master
> > election at the same time as the Officer elections.
> >
> > Well that's about it from me folks, hope to see you all over the forth
> > coming weeks
> >
> > Arron M Finnon
> >
> > President
> >
> > UAD Linux Society
> >
> >
> >
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