Welcome to the London Community News. Details are for the month of December 2001.
Due to this being the month of December some of the groups are still looking around and planning venues so keep and eye on the home pages if a group is mentioned with no meeting date. The User Groups: ----------------------------------- London Perl Mongers Home Page: http://london.pm.org Meetings: http://london.pm.org/meetings/ Contact Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] London PM are a group who are dedicated to the encouragement of all things Perl-like in London. This months meeting is a bit special as we toast Dave Cross for all the hard work he's putting in to the running of London PM and announce the new shiny leader who is going to allow Dave to have a life again. The new leader may be a stuffed toy... Come along to find out more. This months social meeting is being held on the 13th of December in the Three Cups. A map and directions can be found on the London PM web page. ----------------------------------- Lonix Home Page: http://www.lonix.org.uk/ Contact Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The aim of Lonix is quite straightforward although it comprises of many points. The overall aim is to unite many Linux individuals in and around London. Below is a list of aims, but you as a member may not agree to all of them. (Hopefully at least one!) Meet like minded individuals to share ideas and discuss opinions. To provide a Linux force in London to persuade the industry to opt for a more Linux friendly approach to their services and products. To assist users with problems, providing advice and physical help, do Linux advocacy and drink too much. Date Wed 5 Dec 2001 Time 6.00pm onwards Place Red Lion Pub, 14 Kingley Street, WC1 (Tel 020 7734 4985) Nearest Tube Oxford Circus/Piccadilly Circus Contact Tushar Joshi Contact Number: 0208 992 7008/07980 224 772 E-mail: E-mail Kicking off the Christmas spirit with a Lonix meeting in the Red Lion pub. We'll be meeting upstairs, food will be decided on the day but will most likely be somewhere nearby. After closing time, we'll migrate over to 'Nothing But Blues' on the same road to enjoy some live music. Note that this blurb is from Lonix itself and I (Dean) in no way encourage the playing of blues music. Also for those of you who are bored go and look at the new lovely brown site. ----------------------------------- GLLUG Home Page: http://gllug.linux.co.uk/ Greater London Linux User Group's (GLLUG) 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. We try to arrange meets so that there is space for users to set up their equipment, so you are welcome to bring your kit along, either to go through the problems you are having or just to show off what you are up to. There are no formalities to attending a GLLUG meeting, no subscription or entry fees, you can just turn up on the day. We welcome and encourage new and inexperienced users, young and old. Due to the high turnout GLLUG meetings are less frequent than the other user groups, you can get notification of the next meeting either on the home page or through this mail but the next meet will probably not be until November. The mailing list however will stay as busy as usual. ----------------------------------- SAGE-WISE Home Page: http://www.sage-wise.org/ Map: http://www.sage-wise.org/lecture/directions.html SAGE-WISE is the System Administrators Guild for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, hence the "-WISE" suffix. Our aim is to form a professional association for system administrators in the UK and Ireland. But what is a system administrator? Professional system administrators, however, often look after large numbers of computers and networks - they are the people who keep the systems running, repair faulty discs, install and debug new software, upgrade existing systems, and generally take care of the computing resources needed for their users to perform their tasks effectively. A shorter definition is "A system administrator is one who manages computers not solely for his or her own use". If you know the joys and frustrations of this then feel free to come and visit one of our meetings. This months SAGE-WISE meeting is on Tuesday 11th December 2001 and the details are: Speaker: No speaker this month - it's a Christmas Social Date: Tuesday 11th December 2001 Time: 19:30 Place: Shakespeare's Head, Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, London WC ----------------------------------- SLLUG http://www.sllug.org.uk/ The South London Linux Users' Group is a regional LUG that may be of interest to people that can't make the Central London ones or want to join another mailing list dedicated to Linux. No details of the December meet yet so keep an eye on the SLLUG announce list for details. http://feeler.sllug.org.uk/pipermail/sllug-announce/ ----------------------------------- FreeBSD UKUG http://www.freebsd-uk.eu.org/ The FreeBSD UKUG is a users' group based in the UK for UK FreeBSD UNIX Users. This months meeting is being held in Cambridge on 5th December at around 19:00. A map can be found here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=CB11DU&Z=1 ----------------------------------- LonBUG (http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug.html) A new (To me anyway) user group for the community of Free, Open and NetBSD. A group of individuals who share an interest in Net, Free and Open BSD's. We meet monthly for a few beers and to chat, share opinions, tales of battle with lusers etc... I have no details about the meeting this month so if your interested in attending keep an eye on http://www.juiceco.com/html/lonbug/news.html) Outside London Events: ----------------------------------- Die LinuxBierWanderung (Linux Beer Hike http://www.sxlbw.x31.com/) Next years LBW will be at the start of the year, 30/01/2001 to 05/02/2001 in New Zealand so get your requests in for holiday time early. Details about the event itself can be found here: http://www.sxlbw.x31.com/details.html I went to last years and it was great fun. --------------------- Congress of the Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/congress/) Papers are being solicited for the eighteenth annual Congress of the Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from December 27th through 29th. The congress is intended to promote the technical, social and political interchange of ideas among hackers, security professionals, artists, nerds and other lifeforms, watching how technology affects society. Unlike earlier incarnations, this years congress will not only address the German speaking population. One of the goals is to have at least the main track of the conference held in English and translated to German or held in German and translated to English. The page with more details is at http://www.ccc.de/congress/ and chunks of it are in English. Other Stuff: ----------------------------------- Event Calendar: Alasdair Kergon has come up with an essential resource for events all around the country and then some. Still an essential stopping point. If you have anything you'd like to get added then you can speak to him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oxlug.org/majorevents.html ----------------------------------- Community Recognition Special: A special mention goes out this month to one of the most dedicated members of the community I've ever been fortunate enough to meet in London. Pete Humble, the Secretary of SAGE-WISE tragically passed away at the end of November. For anyone that has ever attended a SAGE-WISE meeting you will probably remember Pete as the smiling guy that came over and introduced himself and everyone else. Pete was one of the most welcoming people you could hope to meet and served as an excellent advocate for the group by his simply attending. Pete will be missed. ----------------------------------- Community Recognition: In this section I'd like to include people or companies that have contributed or helped one or more of the user groups in some way. A lot of people quietly contribute time, money or effort and get no recognition for it. This month I'd like to thank: Computer Film Company & Framestore (www.framestore.co.uk) These two very generous companies allowed GLLUG to use one of their private cinema's for a GLLUG technical event. Not only this they have also provided other resources for the meetings such as spare monitors and numerous other bits of kit. Conix Thanks to Conix for providing a place for London PM to hold a technical meeting. And thanks to the person who provided the projector despite what MBM said about it :) --------------------------- Any comments (Good or bad), suggestions of groups to add or ideas for recognition of services to London Community groups are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to the organizers of these events for sending me the details. Any typos or spelling mistakes are probably mine. Enjoy your Christmas parties. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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