[Sderby] [Fwd: [Sheflug] ShefLUG February Meeting - Alan Cox Lecture and NASA Presentation]

[David Bottrill]

Excuse the top-posting however I think it's appropriate in the circmstances.

Mike will be up this weekend and we will be going to the ShefLUG meeting
advertised below. I will have a couple of spaces in the car if anyone
wants to meet up probably near MI J26. There is a nearby pub where cars
can be parked.


Dave

David Bottrill

david at bottrill.org
www.bottrill.org
Registered Linux user number 330730
Internet Free World Dialup: 683864


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Subject: [Sheflug] ShefLUG February Meeting - Alan Cox Lecture and NASA
Presentation From:    "Richard Ibbotson" <richard at sheflug.co.uk>
Date:    Mon, January 16, 2006 7:10 pm
To:      shef-lug at list.sheflug.org.uk
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           Sheffield Linux Users Group  (ShefLUG)

        Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

                Saturday 4th February 2005

Our next meeting will on the 4th of February.   Alan Cox will give a  talk
comparing software engineering as it is taught with what is
practiced in the world of open source software.  Software engineering  is
a long established discipline. This lecture compares the theory of 
software engineering with the practices of the open source community 
where much of the practice and policy is implemented by engineers  rather
than management. By comparing and contrasting the two it is  hoped that
both software engineering theory and open source practice  can learn
useful lessons.

We also have a special guest coming along on this occasion.   Megan  Larko
will give a talk about her work for NASA.  This might involve a  short
discussion about clusters and some features of network
security.   Megan is a Senior Sysadmin at NASA/Goddard Space Flight 
Center.  She has been there for more than 20 years.  She has been  working
with GNU/Linux since early Slackware and pre-RedHat 4.2 and  2.0 kernel
days.  She runs the Linux Land Information Center data  cluster which won
the software of the year award in 2005.  For more  about that have a look
at...

                http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov
            http://icb.nasa.gov/nasaswy.html

Megan also manages e-mail and web servers and many workstations and  she
loves to do custom kernels.   Her favourite recent project is the  Web 100
modification to SSH that came out of the University of
Pittsburgh.

        http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh
              http://www.web100.org/download

The venue for this meeting will be at the University of Sheffield, 
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, St George's
building, Mappin Street, Sheffield.  Lecture theatre 3 or LT3. Just  now
the meeting is claimed to start at 10.00 a.m for 10.30 a.m but  the time
may change before the 4th of February.

For maps and for travel information you can have a look at....

        http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/
     http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/maps/index.html
      http://www.shef.ac.uk/maps/sheffield.html

To book for this session please see....

    http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/EventInfo?eventid=175

After lunch which will be at about 13.00 the plan is to then move over  to
Sheffield Hallam University from something like 14.00 to 17.00 so  that
Megan can give a longer and more detailed presentation about  aspects of
her work at NASA Goddard in addition to a shorter talk in  the morning
session.  This may or may not be at the Stoddart building  but the venue
might change by next week. For info about the
whereabouts of Sheffield Hallam University have a look at...

      http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/

 Whilst the Alan Cox session it just about set in stone by now we are
still working on Megan's talk.  Something might change.  Look out for 
info and e-mail about this by next week.  You should also keep an eye  on
our meetings page at...

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

For information about buses telephone 01709 515151.  For train
information please call 0845 748 4950.  We hope that you can come  along
to this event.  You should try to go to this if at all
possible.  Keep checking in on this page until the 2nd of February to 
make sure that you have the latest info.

At the end of the proceedings on the evening of the 4th of February at 
about 17.00 we will most likely wander across the road to the East  Ocean
Seafood Restaurant at Matilda Street in Sheffield for dinner.   You can
get some Japanese, Cantonese or Thai food here.  They do some  excellent
Bento boxes.  After dinner we will probably go to somewhere  like the
Hillsborough Hotel or Fat Cat or Cask and Cutler or a
similar non-smoking establishment.  For info about these places have  a
look at the CAMRA guide or search with Google..

                 http://www.camra.org.uk/

Plenty of high quality British or Belgian beer on tap. If you plan to 
come along for dinner on the evening of the 4th of February or you  want
to be around for some drinks later on make sure that you let me  know. 
The restaurant owner and the Landlord of a local pub will not  be pleased
if a vast hoard of people descend on him or them without  warning.

Hope we see you around on the day :)



-- 
David Bottrill

david at bottrill.org
www.bottrill.org
Registered Linux user number 330730
Internet Free World Dialup: 683864
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