[Wylug-announce] Jeremy Allison - Samba Presentation

[Richard Ibbotson]

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           Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)

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to anyone to attend.


Our next meeting will take place on the afternoon of the 9th of=20
October at the St Georges Lecture Theatre 3, University of=20
Sheffield, Mappin Street.  There is seating for about 175 people. =20
Coffee and tea is served at 13.30 and the presentation begins at=20
14.00.  Finish at about 16.00 or whenever everyone stops asking=20
questions.

Jeremy Allison will give a talk about Samba internals and what we expect=20
to see in the new release of Samba which we think will be released some=20
time next year.

If you have an interest in software production and you know very little=20
of Open Source and Free software then this is a great opportunity to=20
find out something about it.   Samba is the file sharing software which=20
allows seamless integration of heterogeneous networks thus making Unix=20
and Windows work together as though they are just one network or=20
computer.  It is one of the showcase projects of the Open Source era. =20
Jeremy is one of the two programmers who between them wrote most of the=20
code in Samba. The other is Andrew Tridgell who created Samba and its=20
predecessor which was a client for the DEC Pathworks protocol.  Jeremy=20
and Andrew began working together in 1993.  Jeremy has worked for Cygnus=20
and VA Linux and in more recent times Hewlett-Packard and others.  With=20
the Samba project he handles release engineering and co-ordinates=20
development efforts and also acts as a corporate liaison to companies=20
which use Samba code commercially.  He's a good speaker and he knows=20
what he is talking about.

            For more information have a look at..

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

Entrance will be through an online booking form.   Cost of the=20
presentation for participating individuals is nothing.  We would just=20
like to know who is coming along so that we don't over book the room.  =20
To book for this event please go to..

http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/eventsbookingform.html?eventid=3D40

Hopefully you will be able to come along.  We look forward to meeting =20
you on the day.



Richard

www.sheflug.co.uk