Greater London Linux User Group

Pre-FOSDEM Drinks Thursday 31st January 2013 from 6:30pm @ Ye Olde Cock Tavern

nospam@example.com (Matthew Copperwaite) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:19:32 +0000

Pre-FOSDEM drinks because I'm hoping to get people involved who may be visiting in London that night because they will be heading off to FOSDEM the next day.

But even if you're not heading to FOSDEM you should still come because not only will you be meeting a great bunch of people you'll also be able to claim some O'Reilly merch from me including some books.

We'll be upstairs at the top of the pub, the stairs on your right immediately as you walk in. You'll know it's the right place because I'll have a Tux sitting around in the room.

Really looking forward to seeing you all there.

The details:
From 6.30pm 'til Late - 31st January 2013

Ye Olde Cock Tavern,
22 Fleet Street,
Holborn,
EC4Y 1AA

Nearest tube: Temple (Circle/District Line)
Nearest train: City Thames Link

Saturday 8th December 2012, 12:30pm - Greater London LUG Meetup @ Firefox Space London

nospam@example.com (Matthew Copperwaite) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:23:15 +0000

The Greater London Linux User Group meet up are extremely happy to announce the next Meet up. This time it will be at the Mozilla Space in London on Saturday the 8th of December from 12.30pm. It is open and free for anyone to attend, especially to those interested in Linux, Android, Free software, open hardware and anything related to free software and it's culture.

There will be talks from members of the community as well as the option for anyone to show off something cool too.

Luke Leighton talking about the Rhombus-Tech Project.

Andrew Lack talking about his TinyBasic project.

Robin and Gabrielle talking about Cinepaint.

Details:
Mozilla Space London, 101 St. Martins Lane, WC2N 4AZ

Thursday 20th September - Greater London LUG Drink Up

nospam@example.com (Matthew Copperwaite) — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:34:51 +0100

The Greater London Linux User Group are pleased to announce the next Drink Up on Thursday 20th September from 6pm at The William Blake pub on Old Street.

We have an are booked at the back of The William Blake pub for Thursday 20th of September from 6pm. The Drink Up is an opportunity to meet new and different people after work while having a few drinks and some food. It's pretty close to Old Street station, does some good food and we have access to a projector and speaker system so if you would like to show something too you can. Anyone is welcome to come along, especially if they're interested in finding out more about programming, open hardware, Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Free-software and it's culture.

You'll know you're in the right place because there will be a plushy Tux toy near-by.

The William Blake
Directions: Google Open Street Map

174-180 Old Street
City of London,
London,
EC1V 9BP
020 7336 8310

For more help and information please e-mail the mailing list.

Saturday 11th August 2012 @ 12pm Greater London LUG Meet up

nospam@example.com (Matthew Copperwaite) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:02:16 +0100

The Greater London Linux User Group are excited to announce the first meeting of the group for over two years. We would like to warmly invite anyone who is keen to discover something new about Linux, Android, Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and Free Culture to attend and meet new people with the same interests.

There will be talks from members of the community as well as the option for anyone to show off something cool too. Followed by drinks in a local public house called The Fox from around 4pm.

Details:
Google Campus London, 4-5 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4BX
The Fox, Paul Street, EC2A 4LB

New (Temporary) Mailing List

nospam@example.com (Matthew Copperwaite) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:52:08 +0100

Due to our long-standing GLLUG maintained mailing list being out of service for over a month now we have joined forces with lug.org.uk and are now running a temporary mailing list with them. Most of the previous subscribers have been re-invited to this new list, but if you are new, welcome and please join our new list.

All the instructions for subscribing are here:
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug

Wednesday 6th June 2012 - Social Meeting

nospam@example.com (Alasdair Kergon) — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:48:14 +0100

After the somewhat successful relaunch of the Lincolnshire LUG and the
huge turn out at the GitHub London drink up a few weeks ago it really
is time to get the largest Linux user base in the UK back together.

We're starting out informally, just to gauge interest and to discuss
plans, locations, dates etc. over a few drinks. We want as many people
to come along as possible. Whether you're a GLLUG regular, or simply
have an interest in finding out more about Linux or Free software.

We have booked out a section of The Skinners Arms (5 minutes walk from
Kings Cross Station) for the 6th of June from 6pm. You can find us at
the back and we'll be bringing along a little fluffy Tux so you'll know
you're in the right place.

The Skinners Arms has a great selection of beers and a pretty standard menu.

We've booked for 30 people so we're hoping to freak out the Landlord
and get many more than that. If you're having difficulties finding the
place or what more information you can e-mail Matthew Copperwaite.

Really hope to see you there.

The Skinners Arms
114 Judd Street
London
WC1H 9NT

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25th August 2011 - Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Linux

nospam@example.com (Alasdair Kergon) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:45:31 +0100

On 25th August 1991 Linus Torvalds announced that he had been working on a new PC (80386) operating system.

Now, 20 years later we all know and (mostly) love Linux, the fruit of his labours.

To celebrate this GLLUG (and others) will meet on 25th August at Mabel's Tavern, 9 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AZ from 5pm onwards.

Mabel's Tavern is a "Shepherd Neame" pub so we can expect to drink real beer. They serve food too.

You can see details of the pub at http://www.mabelstavern.co.uk/

N.B. The mailing lists are working again!

About GLLUG

nospam@example.com (Alasdair Kergon) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:34:10 +0100

Welcome

GLLUG's purpose is to bring together London's Linux users so they can share experiences and expertise (or revel in their inexperience and quest for expertise), to chat about the state of the (Linux) world, that sort of thing.

There are no membership fees, just pop along to a meeting, or join the mailing lists or IRC channel. For more details check the Online Discussions page.

15th July 2010 - GLLUG Talk - The Android Kernel

nospam@example.com (Ciaran Mooney) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:06:36 +0100

The this months talk will be about the Android kernel and will be
given by Sunny Aujla .

He will be talking about the history, a view of android in mainstream
linux, the Google changes, and the future of the Android kernel.

This month we have another change of venue, we are back at UCL! Ron
Gaston has kindly booked room 1.02 in the Malet Place Engineering
Building which if I remember correctly you have to enter through the
Roberts building.

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UCL Campus map

If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930.
At the end of the talk we usually visit the pub (Jeremy Bentham?) for
a few drinks, general chat and socialising.

17th June - GLLUG Talk - Typesetting with Free Software Tools

nospam@example.com (Ciaran Mooney) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:30:59 +0100

Date: Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

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The next talk is titled "Typesetting with Free Software Tools" and
will be given by Tethys.

After being introduced to the wonders of Unix at university,
Tethys was hooked. With the release of Linux a few years later,
he was able to use Unix at home as well, and has never looked
back. He has interests in digital typography, large system
design, and playing with LARTC. His career has alternated
between coding and sysadmin for various companies in various
industries. One of those was in the pre-press department of
a large newspaper group, where an interest in typesetting
became a profession for a while. He is currently at the
coding end of the spectrum, writing software for a small
company using statistical analysis to predict future trends.

We are returning to our previous venue at the University of
Westminster, in the Large Lecture Theatre. If people could arrive for
1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. At the end of the talk we
usually visit the pub for a few drinks, general chat and socialising.

Sean has a sign-in sheet organised on the day for people to sign so he
can get an idea of attendance.

13th May - Joint GLLUG / UKUUG talk

nospam@example.com (Dan Kolb) — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:12:59 +0100

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Lecture theatre 1.03 in the Malet Place Engineering Building,
University College London
Map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res
City/Town: London

Linux is Supercomputing - how Linux works on your mobile phone and on
the biggest supercomputers on the planet.

Eng Lim Goh of SGI will be discussing how Linux is used on
supercomputers, and will demonstrate some of the capabilities of the new
SGI Ultraviolet architecture, which is the most scalable Linux
architecture in the world.

Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been CTO of SGI since 2001, and has been voted one
of the Top 10 most influential CTOs.
He oversees Project Ultraviolet and works on solutions to massively
parallel rendering.

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/

15th April - Greater London LUG meeting

nospam@example.com (Dan Kolb) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:39:36 +0100

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

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The next talk is titled "Wire Shark and the basics of network traffic monitoring." and will be given by Nahual Marisi and John Sharp.

We have a slight change of venue, we will still be meeting at the University of Westminster (Cavendish Campus), but in Room C1.04. If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. I will try and get some signs made up to direct people to room C1.04 Hopefully there will be a trip to a local pub for social and technical chit-chat.

I feel the "I'm going" email's were unpopular and Sean had a sign-in sheet organised on the day anyway. So I think we should stick people just turning up and signing in. (ie you don't have to email the list or me explicitly stating you are going, unless you really really want us to know.)

Ciaran Mooney

18th March - Greater London LUG Meeting

nospam@example.com (Dan Kolb) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:42:11 +0000

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

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There will be a talk for the GLLUG by Richard Jones on libguestfs[1] on Thursday 18th March at 1930. It will be held at the Cavendish campus of the University of Westminster, in the Large Lecture Theatre. I will try and get a more accurate description of the lecture theatre's location and post it to the mailing list and website. If people could arrive at 1900 to make sure we are ready to begin at 1930. After the talk I suggest we go to a decent local pub for a social.

Please email general.mooney-at-googlemail.com if you are attending in order to get an idea of the expected number of people.

Ciaran Mooney

[1] http://libguestfs.org

19th Nov 2009 : Social Meeting

nospam@example.com (Karanbir Singh) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:53:42 +0000

Venue : Pembury Tavern
Date and Time : 19th November 1930 til "late"

Person to find there : Ciarán Mooney, who might or might not look like this guy :

We also have a Facebook event page for this at : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167818403148&ref=nf

28th March - Greater London LUG Meeting

nospam@example.com (Karanbir Singh) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:13 +0000

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009
Time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London

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NOTE: You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building.

At this event we have the following speakers/features:

Peter Brownell and David O'Dwyer built a scalable server infrastructure to host Schoolofeverything.com using (Drupal on Debian on) Amazon's EC2 cloud to be able to scale with growth - without the up-front expense. Did they find the switch from hardware servers to virtual machines a welcome move?

Shaun McDonald (CloudMade) discovered OpenStreetMap during his final year at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and has helped run field work in ever more exotic locations since. His talk will introduce the system architecture and data/tagging model. We will then learn the practicalities of the project and go out on our own mapping party of the local area before returning to refine/update our local map with the proceeds.

As usual, we shall decant to a nearby pub for drinks and food after the meeting.