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Web site changes
by MJ Ray 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

The web site is at http://www.alug.org.uk/ and now has: # Jobs listing linked to meeting areas # Meeting details for 2004 (Norwich, Syleham, K.Lynn in Jan and Feb. More Norwich entries to come.) # Venue listing: new map and pages for each local area. # Stuman sneakily asking for a job in the contrib area's member's directory # Dave Briggs moves his blog # Visitors from HUDLUG and France sign the visitor book -- 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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LOCAL: GNU/Linux/East Anglia: 17 Dec, 25 Jan, 29 Feb+more tbc
by MJ Ray 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

ALUG meets frequently around East Anglia to discuss and demonstrate GNU/Linux and other free software. The next meetings are: * [7]King's Lynn on Wed 17 Dec 2003: Informal chat and xmas quiz * [8]Norwich on Sun 25 Jan 2005: A talk? * [9]Syleham, mid-Suffolk on Sun 29 Feb 2004: Film screening and software demos * IRC each Monday from 8pm in irc.alug.org.uk #alug * Ely, date tbc If you are interested in coming along, look at the pages mentioned for details and send an email to our discussion list or the meeting organiser. We are also interested in hearing from people who can help make meetings happen again in the Ipswich and North Norfolk areas. Join the mailing list and start organising, or drop us an email privately if you'd rather. Discussion If you want to talk about this, please [13]use the mailing list. * Jump to 1. [15]Join ALUG 2. [16]FAQ 3. [17]Meetings References 7. http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2003/meeting19.html 8. http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/01-25Sun.html 9. http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/02-29Sun.html 13. http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main 15. http://www.alug.org.uk/background/contacts.html 16. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?AlugFaq 17. http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2003/

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[Fsfe-uk] "Software Patents in Europe" IRC meet 6pm Monday
by James Heald 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

There's going to be an IRC discussion on "Software Patents in Europe" this Monday at 6pm, to kick off a week of free online events organised by Uninet as part of its 4th international virtual conference on unix: http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2003/english/prog.html All welcome to #linux on the Uninet IRC network, http://www.uninet.edu/uninet/servers.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Brand" Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:34 AM Subject: Umeet conference on swpats > Hello, > > Uninet Project (http://www.uninet.edu) is announcing its 2003 edition of > the Umeet Conference (http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2003/english/pres.html) > This year, the organizing comittee wants to start the event by a bof session > dedicated to Software Patents in EU. Feel free to join this bof session, > which will take place on Monday, December 15th at 18:00 UTC. Umeet > conferences are given online through the IRC network of Uninet > (http://www.uninet.edu/uninet/servers.html) The bof and conferences will > take place in the #linux channel. > > For those new to IRC, you need an IRC client (such as xchat, chatzilla, > ircII) which has to be told to connect to one of the servers listed on the > previously given web page and you have to join the #linux channel (usually > by issuing a /join #linux command). If you need help or assistance, feel > free to ask. Some web gateways to IRC servers are also available for users > sitting behind restrictive firewalls or networks (http://irc.fr.uninet.edu/ > is one of these gateways). > > gb > > _______________________________________________ > bxl mailing list > (un)subscribe via > http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl and http://aktiv.ffii.org/. If you subscribed via the latter, you can unsubscribe only by going to both. > _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk(a)gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk

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Reminder: Norwich evening meet this week
by Syd Hancock 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Norwich area monthly evening meet takes place as usual on the second thursday of the month: 11th december 2003 from 8pm in the bar of the Forum, Norwich. Full details, directions etc. on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk Syd

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Linux Ham headcount
by MJ Ray 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2003-12-03 10:06:19 +0000 From: chris williams <webboss(a)ntlworld.com> Subject: Linux Ham headcount Hi All, Would you mind asking around your lugs to see if you have and Radio Amateurs in your groups. If you could you ask any "Linux Hams" you find lurking to drop a very quick mail to :- linuxham(a)485design.co.uk At this stage Im doing a quick headcount using an email countbot to see roughly how many are about, but if there is enough interest a couple of members from our group plan to put together a UK based Linux-Ham resource site etc... We (Shropshire LUG) recently did a "Linux Awareness Day" at Telford Radio Rally - a national event kind of like a computer fair on steriods for radio amateurs. Quite a good event - several thousand visitors all of whom had to walk past our display to get to the bargains - lots of interest - kept 6 of us on the display stand busy all day with demos and chat :) Judging from the number of visitors we spoke to who indicated they used linux already there should be potentially quite a few. Our lug has about half a dozen out of our 60ish membership that are radio amateurs (around 10%). I will be interested to see if this is a national thing or if we are just a strange bunch of anoraks here in shropshire ;) cheers all... Chris W (g7/m3nbp) -- Christopher J Williams LugMaster for Shropshire - http://www.shropshire.lug.org

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Web site updates, North and South edges of ALUG
by MJ Ray 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Details of the King's Lynn and Debian-UK meetings have been added to the web site. A 2004 meetings index page has been created. The site design has changed a little, which hopefully will reduce the number of layout problems. Thanks to Stuart Hammond for suggesting some of the changes on IRC last night and helping to test them. The page at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/ has changed to be a more useful geographic guide to our area. The side bar link list of other LUGs has been replaced with links to the new pages in /venues/ too. The front page and "join ALUG now" page have been heavily edited. North and South Edges I've not created a page for North Norfolk, because I don't have any links to put on the page, nor any clear idea of what town to link it to. Can someone from North Norfolk tell me, please? For Colchester, I don't even know whether there are still any ALUGgers there. Can you please make yourselves known to me or the main list, please? Can anyone remember how to contact the university there? For Ipswich, I've made a page, but there is no meeting planned and the last one was quite a while ago. I've put a link to the "how to make ALUG meet" page. Please can Ipswich people interested in meeting there make themselves known to the main list? Three come to mind immediately, so there should be enough people out of the 300 who will get this message... -- 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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GnuPG small vulnerability
by MJ Ray 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Probably it won't affect any ALUGgers, but ElGamal sign+encrypt keys in GnuPG (ones with G in the --list-keys output) have been found to be insecure. See http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2003q4/000276.html for more information. For more information about GnuPG and signed or encrypted email, ask at a meeting.

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King's Lynn meeting report
by MJ Ray 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

A hardy band of trailblazers restarted the King's Lynn meetings last Tuesday evening. Brett, Kaz, James, Pete and MJR were there and Chris sent his apologies. Many exotic and strange ways to configure disks, some sort of electrical modelling software (was it called spice?) and differentiation were discussed, while some beer was quaffed. It was a small but encouraging meeting after nearly a year's gap. I hope the others there enjoyed it as much as I did. I think the next meeting will be Tuesday 16 December at the same time (7pm) in the same place (Hogshead, High St). I'll prepare some better directions for car drivers (Lynn's roads are fiendish, so maybe photos) and probably a slightly silly christmas quiz. If 10 people agree to come far enough in advance, we should be able to get a free buffet, so please email me now. -- 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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Collecting history of FLOSS in UK (fwd)
by MJ Ray 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

David is particularly interested in any events to do with Martlesham Heath. Do we have current ALUG subscribers who could help him with this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2003-11-18 12:00:14 +0000 From: David Tannenbaum <david.tannenbaum(a)worc.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Collecting history of FLOSS in UK Dear Lugmasters, I am a doctoral student in Economic & Social History, and am writing my dissertation on the history of free software. I am currently compiling a short history of free software use and development in the UK, particularly in higher education, for a separate project that will be published online. The report will go on the website, which has a policy of putting an open license on all documentation, and that anyone can contact them to discuss alternative licensing if they need it. Could folks suggest events or areas of interest that I should include? I am particularly interested in free software use and development in higher education, but would like to include everything that's important. I'm interested in history going back as far as the 1950s. David Tannenbaum University of Oxford Economic & Social History -------- -- 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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[ALUG] Short Report from the meeting at Syleham on Sunday 23rd November 2003
by John Woodard 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

Attendees: Keith (sorry I didn't catch the surname) Brett Parker Mark Ray Syd Handcock Tony Anson Jonathan McDowell Paul Corner BigJohn Woodard (host) Young David (BJ's son who made the tea and played Frozen Bubble) Nice to see familiar faces, a new face and a face that hasn't left the confines of Norwich for an ALUG meeting before. Sorry about the lack of beer my fault I will make sure I have the bar keys next time. Various discussions were held about web hosting, firewalls, software patents, the DMCA and its European equivalents, how to circum navigate CD copy protection, hi-fi vinyl turntables and how to stop vibration affecting them also the reason why there was *NO* beer. Some kit was in evidence with a partial install of Mandrake 9.2 being made (just to test the hardware). Future meetings were also mentioned with another showing of Revolution OS being requested, so it was decided that it could be screened at the next meeting at Syleham, on the large TV owned by the Syleham and Wingfield Sports and Social Club. Their permission will be sought and it will be scheduled for the last Sunday in Feburary next year, the 29th. This will be a normal Sunday meeting too so feel free to come with or without kit as per usual. Cheers, BJ _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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