[Wylug-admin] Next Meeting - social?

James Holden wylug at jamesholden.net
Fri Jul 31 11:58:28 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 12:51 +0100, John Leach wrote:
> hi Guys,
> 
> August is usually the social isn't it? So that makes things a bit easier
> as we don't need a talk.
> 
> I'm assuming nobody has volunteered to arrange this so I will (it's an
> easy one, hehe)
> 
> Whilst I think there is growing interest in Mr. Foley's pub, I suggest
> we stick with tradition and have it at The Victoria.
> 
> The date will be August 10th at 7pm.  I'll get this booked.
> 
> In the past I think we've managed to get sponsorship for food, any
> suggestions?  Does anyone know how much this has cost in the past?

Was around 70 to 90 quid OTOH.

> (In the past I think James Holden's employer has sponsored, but things
> have changed there as I understand).

Yes, sorry.

james

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
> 
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 13:29 +0100, Tom Hall wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I am not here again for the next meet as I am in China. I have
> > actually decided to give my notice in at work on my return and will be
> > going to India for 3 months in September so will need to drop out of
> > any WYLUG organising.
> > Sorry for the late notice, things have been a bit crazy for me lately.
> > 
> > I had in the pipeline
> > 
> > 
> > hudsonjr at ntlworld.com
> > "Hi Tom
> > 
> > If you want to take forward the idea of a talk on LyX/LaTeX, the
> > handout I did for Bradford LUG is at:
> > 
> > http://bradford.lug.org.uk/LyX_LaTeX_and_TeX.pdf
> > 
> > As it is much more oriented to users than to those who manage Linux
> > systems, it may be one for October under the headline 'The best
> > software, bar none, for your dissertation/thesis.' But I also think
> > that, now that LyX has gained versioning, it may be useful for anyone
> > producing and updating documentation regularly.
> > 
> > John
> > "
> > 
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > Chris Street chris at chris-street.demon.co.uk
> > "
> > 1. An analysis of Linux raid performance across large disk arrays, (500GB
> > plus, 14 spindles covering ext3, xfs)
> > 2. Cacti monitoring. Examples of how to build a cacti appliance and server
> > and some examples of how to monitor common systems. A virtualised (VMware)
> > cacti appliance will be available to those who are interested.
> > 3. A talk on an early stage disk monitoring system. This project is to
> > replace a commercial package that keeps track of disk usage, enabling
> > capacity plannign, looking for rogue users, those using excess share, or
> > storing inappropriate content, as well as file hashing to look for file
> > changes (think of Tripwire lite...)
> > 
> > I just hope that I can fit all this into the time allocated - if you think
> > it too much I can easily of course split it over a couple of meetings.
> > 
> > Ideally internet access would be desirable especially for the cacti demo
> > as I would be conencting to my webserver at home.
> > "
> > 
> > 
> > All the very best.
> > Tom
> > 
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