[Wylug-announce] Next meeting - Monday 12th January 2009: NB NEW VENUE! - Talk: SSD is it for me?

[Tom Hall]

Hi all,

I will be giving a talk entitled "SSD: is it for me?"
I will talk about why now is a turning point for SSD in terms of
performance/price, how the big players are working it into their
storage systems and why you should be considering having it somewhere
in your storage hierarchy.

Other details are below, including the new venue.

Next months talk will be on pfSense, a FreeBSD firewall solution with
some compelling features and a nice web interface.

We need more speakers urgently, please consider giving even a small
talk on something that interests you or you are working with lately
for March's talk. If you have talked on a topic before perhaps a
status update would be interesting as Free Software often evolves
quickly. If you have any suggestions for talks you would like to hear,
please send me a mail or ask the discuss list
(wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk).
Last time I asked, sourcecode management (git, SVN, CVS diff, patch
etc) and system monitoring (Zenoss, Nagios, Cactai or
something_else_cool) were suggested, any volunteers please get in
touch.

I look forward to seeing lots of you in the new venue, I have not seen
it myself yet.

Happy New Year,
Tom



On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Phil Driscoll <phil at dialsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> The first meeting of 2009 is also the first meeting at our new venue, Old
> Broadcasting House.
>
> The meeting is on Monday 12th January and officially starts at 7:00pm, but the
> room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we
> usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.
>
> The talk is still to be confirmed.
>
> Location
> Old Broadcasting House
> 148 Woodhouse Lane
> Leeds
> LS2 9EN
>
> More location details on the OBH contact page
> http://www.oldbroadcastinghouse.com/contact/
>
> or on
> Open Street Map
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.80565&lon=-1.5487&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
>
> --
> Phil Driscoll