[Wylug-announce] Next meeting: Monday 10th December - Linux on laptops

[Louisa Parry]

Hi all,

The December WYLUG meeting will take place tomorrow - Monday 10th
December - in the usual place in the EC Stoner Building at University of
Leeds.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main (level 9) EC Stoner
Building entrance.

As usual, the meeting officially starts at 7pm, but the room will be
open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30pm.

As has been mentioned on the wylug-discuss list, the talk will be by
Matthew Garrett from Ubuntu's Laptop Team on "Why Linux doesn't work on
your laptop, and what to do about it" (more details below).  All are
welcome to attend what should be an interesting and useful session.

Since it's the Christmas talk - and the WYLUG's 10th Birthday - we'll be
going for a meal afterwards, probably to the Spice Quarter in Millennium
Square.  From there, time permitting, we'll go onto the Victoria pub
behind the town hall as usual -- if you don't want to go to the meal,
there will probably be a group just heading to the pub straight from the
talk.

Hope to see you there :)

-Louisa :)

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BLURB ABOUT THE TALK: "Laptops contain large quantities of weird
hardware made by companies you've never heard of and assembled together
with firmware written by a contractor in Taiwan. How can Linux deal with
all this variation, and how can you help it work better?"

BLURB ABOUT MATTHEW: Matthew has been a Debian developer since 2002.  He
is currently the leader of the laptop team at Ubuntu and is also a
member of Ubuntu's Core Development team and sits on their Technical
Board.

While he focuses mostly on laptop issues these days, in the past he has
worked porting Debian to the NetBSD kernel on various architectures;
represented Debian on the Gnome advisory board; and was a lead developer
on the Dasher project (an accessibility application).

His blog can be found here: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/