[Wylug-announce] Next Meeting - Monday 8th November 2004

[Jim Jackson]

Greetings All,

Thanks to Aaron for last months talk on Unicode etc. And boo-hiss to me 
for not getting my demo sorted!

We have a full session next Monday. 3 Speakers. Dave Fisher is hoping to 
provoke us with a talk on Linux and business politics. Martyn Ranyard
will be talking about the cAos distribution (hope I got that right 
Martin). And Chris Tebb is talking about a local open source in schools 
project.

Something for everyone there.

Hope to see lots of you on Monday

all the best
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 8th November 2004

                      6:30 pm for Tea/Coffee and chat
                          7 pm prompt for meeting


      What's Wrong With Open Source? ... With Some Thoughts On Fixing It
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                                Dave Fisher
                                 GBDirect

     2005 will not be the year that 'Linux conquers the desktop'. Growth
      will be slow and organic, depending on direct personal experience
    with little prospect of it becoming a majority concern any time soon.
        This is a problem for everyone in the open source community.
    If open source does not achieve sufficient gravity quickly enough to
      shape the general environment to its needs, it will be shaped by
                 hostile elements in that environment.

     This talk highlights some of the practical threats to open source,
       some fundamental weaknesses in its default responses and some
    possible alternatives.  Although the objects of this talk are geeks
    and technology, its subjects are power, strategy and tactics.  Those
     who delude themselves into believing that IT can be separated from
                            politics will hate it.


                                    cAos
                                    ----
                               Martyn Ranyard
                        Synergistic Software Co. Ltd.

                        see http://wwwold.caosity.org



               Rolling out an Open source MLE in  Leeds Schools.
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                                 Chris Tebb
                    School of Computing, University of Leeds

       Introducing a project to roll out the moodle (http://www.moodle.org)
           open source Managed Learning Environment in Leeds schools,
             as an alternative to the closed source, closed content
                        Microsoft MLE Class Server 3.0

        The project involves three Leeds high schools, with the assistance
        of three Final Year Project students from the University Computing
         Department. The three schools are very keen to get this working,
        and we have the full support of a key member of staff at Education
         Leeds. We seek comments, suggestions and any offers of some much
                needed assistance to allow the project to succeed.



         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 meetings please see
                  http://www.wylug.org.uk/meetings.html

     "Informal" Discussions Continue after the meeting at the Victoria Pub
      on Great George St. at the back of the Town Hall - Everyone Welcome