April 2004 - Announce

Summaries: Meeting dates, EU Software Patents
by MJ Ray 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

ALUG: ---- 1. 5th Birthday Meeting at City Gate, Norwich, Sunday 2 May 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018432.html 2. Norwich UEA meeting, Sunday 27 June 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018481.html National: -------- 1. NotCon '04, Sunday 6th June 2004, Imperial College Union, London http://www.notcon04.com/ Proposals due by: Friday 14th May 2004 2. The EU Irish Presidency text rejects all amendments made by the European Parliament and pushes for direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions. The Patent Department at Nokia is collecting signatures from top company executives for a "Call for Action" in favour of the Presidency text. http://www.ffii.org.uk/ http://swpat.ffii.org/ 3. Rally in Brussels on 14 April under the slogan "No Software Patents -- Power to the Parliament" http://demo.ffii.org/ was covered by some tv channels. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Norwich sunday meetings - another suggestion
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

A couple of people have said that they can book a room at UEA, which has always been a popular choice of venue. Since the upcoming 'anniversary' get-together at the start of May has already been discussed and arranged, and since it seems best to keep that as more of a social than a technical event, I suggest that we have another sunday meet in Norwich, at UEA, to bring kit along etc, farly soon. I propose the last w/e in June, i.e sunday 28th June. Does this clash with any other planned events, local or national? As always, comments welcome especially anyone who can say that they intend to be there. Syd

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ALUG 5th Birthday Meeting - 2pm sunday 2nd May, Norwich
by Syd Hancock 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

ALUG will be five on the 2nd May 2004! To mark the occasion a 'special' sunday afternoon get-together will take place at 2pm that day at the 'City Gate', Dereham Road. As well as being spacious and comfortable, the City Gate also do a wide range of food in a restaurant area (i.e it should be a cut above usual 'pub grub') so there is the possibility of having a meal as well - I'll leave that for discussion. Full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm === directions etc === The City Gate pub is just off the inner ring road at the junction of Grapes Hill and Barn Road. Dereham Road is the A1074 - take the Costessey junction on the A47 if coming from west of Norwich. Otherwise, when going clockwise around the inner ring road, Dereham road is the left turn at the traffic lights at the bottom of Grapes Hill (but see parking info below). There is a very large Cane Furniture shop on the corner and this is probably the best landmark from either direction. The pub, which has a large glass frontage (see link to picture above), is next to the cane furniture shop. There is ample parking nearby, including possible free parking on the forecourt of a wine warehouse next to the pub or on side roads off Dereham Road. There is also Pay-and-Display parking on the other side of the ring road off St Swithin's road. Coming down Grapes Hill turn right at the lights (St Benedict's Street) and then left into the entrance to the car park which is behind Toys-R-Us. Syd

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Norwich meetings
by MJ Ray 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

ALUG: ---- 1. Syd followed up with opinion poll results and asked for more help deciding on the May meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018298.html 2. Norwich evening meeting on 8th April, see http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018329.html 3. Discussion of sharing hard drives and audio capture at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018257.html 4. More on the City College "phantom courses" saga at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018258.html 5. Discussion of DVD-R-related things at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018262.html 6. Mixed reaction to ESR's latest rant at http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018295.html Elsewhere: --------- 1. Europe-wide "net strike" against software patents, UK focus on Wed 12 May http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2004/demo05/ 2. LUDEx at Olympia, London, 20-21 April http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/ Finally: ------- Please keep notices, announcements and suggestions coming to announce(a)alug.org.uk! (...and no, no April Fools summary...) -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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