[Wylug-announce] Alan Cox Lecture and NASA Presentation

[Richard Ibbotson]

           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 :)


--
Richard 
www.sheflug.co.uk

  
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