[Wylug-announce] Next Meeting - Monday 10th March 2003

[Jim Jackson]

Greetings All,

I think our introductory introduction to Linux meeting went well last
month. Many thanks to Dave Fisher and Mark Conmy for the scene
settings talks. I hope people new to Linux found them useful.

The Next meeting has Geoff Richards doing an intro on the dreaded "bash"
command line. The command line tends to phase Windows only users that come
new to Linux. They may have bad vibes from having used the DOS command
line. Rest assured, once you learn to drive bash it has oodles of features
that make you wonder how come the DOS command line is so aweful!

The next 4 meetings will all share a common format, firstly at 7pm an
Introductory topic for aprox 30-45 mins, then a short topic on some
hardware aspect for 15 mins or so, a Q&A session, then after the
mid-meeting break, a "normal" WYLUG talk.

This month we have Rik Wade talking about getting the ADSL "frog" working
with Linux, and the 2nd half talk is by Nik Jewell, Tom Hebbron and Chris
Tebb about their experiences building an XML based content management
system.

We hope to finish before 10 pm :-) -  only kidding, I think.

See you all on Monday

cheers
Jim

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                West Yorkshire Linux Users Group  (WYLUG)

             Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.
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                           Monday 10th March 2003

                        6 pm for Tea/Coffee and chat
                          7 pm prompt for speakers

                          The Dreaded Command Line:
                 Easier to Use and More Powerful Than Expected
                          Geoff Richards, GB Direct

                       The Alcatel Speedtouch USB Modem
          Rik Wade (person who does "stuff" with IP Networks and Unix)

  In this presentation I will be looking at getting up and running with
  the Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem using Linux. The Speedtouch modem was
  one of the first available to the UK market and is still the standard
  one provisioned by BT with an IPStream ASDL line for home users. Its USB
  design makes it easy to connect to most home PCs. However, it was
  plagued by somewhat abysmal drivers during the early days of its life.
  Fortunately, it is possible to get it working under Linux.

                         Question and Answer Session

                      8:00 p.m. (ish) Mid-Meeting Break

                             "Building an XML CMS"
                    Nik Jewell, Tom Hebbron and Chris Tebb

  The Philosophical and Religious Studies Subject Centre of the Learning
  and Teaching Support Network (PRS-LTSN), based at the University of
  Leeds, are currently building an Open Source XML Content Management and
  Delivery System.  The system comprises a backend object-relational
  database in PostgreSQL a CMS interface in PHP and Java, and content and
  metadata output in multiple formats via Apache Tomcat-Cocoon. Java and
  XSLT are used throughout the system. This is still work in progress, but
  the talk will be of particular interest to PostgreSQL and XML
  developers, and to those interested in Content Management Systems in
  general.


        WYLUG Venue:  Active Learning Lab.,  (Level 9, near staircase 2)
                      E.C. Stoner Building   (aka Physics/Admin)
                      University of Leeds
                      Woodhouse Lane
                      Leeds UK

             for location of Leeds University & Campus Map see
                http://www.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/directions.htm
                http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/physa-1.html
                http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus_map/campus.htm


          Discussions Continue after the meeting at the Victoria Pub
              on Great George St. at the back of the Town Hall.


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