Re: [ubuntu-uk] Happy New Year UK LoCo

[Tim Dobson]

thanks for your efforts Alan!

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 11:12, Alan Pope  wrote:

> Heya,
>
> Wakey, wakey, everyone! :D
>
> The Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical are rebooting the whole LoCo
> project. So, I wanted to help dust off the UK LoCo team. Alan Bell was
> previously the point of contact for the UK LoCo. Since he's moved to
> Ireland and has other exciting interests, I decided to pry the LaunchPad
> team out of his hands so we can facilitate the reboot.
>
> I'm not looking to be the long-term contact. I'd rather we find someone
> else who's active and enthusiastic, but it was just easy for me to email
> Alan and change the ownership to get things moving.
>
> Here are some links for you to click:
>
> There are a few threads over on discourse in the Ubuntu UK LoCo category:
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/ubuntu-uk
>
> We also have a shiny new Matrix channel for real-time chat:
> https://matrix.to/#/#loco-uk:ubuntu.com
>
> I forked the Korean LoCo website to make a new static Hugo site:
> https://github.com/ubuntu-uk/ubuntu-uk.github.io
>
> The prototype site which needs work: https://ubuntu-uk.github.io/
>
> A conversation where we are looking for a new logo!
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/loco-logo-dojo/41290/6
>
> Contributions and discussions are welcome on Matrix
> , Discourse
> , here. there,
> everywhere! :D
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

[Tim Dobson]

On 26/08/12 17:28, Bruno Girin wrote:
 I was planning to upgrade to 12.04 and install Scratch and TurtleArt.
 Other than that, I would welcome any suggestion of fun software for a 6
 year old.

Frozen Bubble seems to go down well in my experience.

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[ubuntu-uk] Strange question: record audio on time delay.

[Tim Dobson]

Ok Guys,

This is an end-user question... which is strange because I usually think
I should know the answer to a question like this... but I don't.

It is reputed that I snow. Allegedly, when camping, people have confused
the sound with that of a quadbike due the the volume and consistency.

I'm not however, asking for anti-snoring advice - I have that in hand.

Given, that I've not heard it myself, it's difficult to empathise and so
I'd like to record myself snoring.

This creates some problems:

I don't want to record 7 hours of PCM audio.

I don't know any commandline tools to record from pulseaudio.

What I really need is a:

at 03:00 recordfrompulsemic1 for 600 seconds to ~/file.wav

Or something along those lines. I don't care if it's graphical or shell,
but I'm sure this isn't too difficult to do, so I'd be interested in
hearing what people thought.

Cheers,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird message filter rules

[Tim Dobson]

On 09/03/12 20:42, paul sutton wrote:
 Any ideas,  if this is not possible how would i go about suggesting this
 to Mozilla and an idea for later versions.

Sieve.

Who uses this? I know in theory it's possible for it to all work very
nicely.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source VOIP

[Tim Dobson]

On 18/10/11 12:02, Daniel Case wrote:
 These are all good, but I can't seem to find an 'unlimited' plan on any
 of them, or prepay for 3000 minutes cheaply. They all seem to be pay as
 you go, while 1.20p is cheap...I go through 3000-5000 minutes to UK home
 phones which was why I got the 'Skype unlimited' subscription for £5, do
 any SIP providers do a similar thing?

I used to work for a gradwell reseller and they definitely have an
unlimited UK landlines package. Call them up, speak to a salesdroid and
get him to sort you out... ideally get him to mail you some options. :)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release party

[Tim Dobson]

On 14/09/11 07:42, Ted Wager wrote:
 Anything going on in the High Peak/Stockport area ?

There should be something happening in Manchester (I'd imagine).

Perhaps poke Ucubed? http://ucubed.info/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bonding 3G connections.

[Tim Dobson]

On 03/04/11 21:10, Tim Dobson wrote:
 Just wondered, does anyone have any experience or has seen any blogs
 posts of anyone bonding two or more 3G  connections so they can
 aggregate the bandwidth?
 
 If you've seen or heard of anyone doing this I'd be interested to know
 any hints on how they went about it. :)

Yeah, I think, it's quite easy*.

Hook each dongle up to computer and connect with wvdial or whatever.
Setup VPN over each separate dongle to VPN endpoint.
Put all the VPN interfaces in a bonded interface locally.
Perhaps do some clever stuff at the VPN endpoint side.

kind of:
client = (3 x VPN = 3x(3G Dongle = network = internet) = VPN
server) = internet

Simple right? ;)

Maybe I should try it and see where it starts breaking.. :P

Tim

*everything is easy to do in a theoretical sense!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Old computers for charity

[Tim Dobson]

On 04/04/11 13:14, Alan Pope wrote:
 On 4 April 2011 13:07, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote:
 I heard around here that someone worked with charities. I have a work
 colleague that has several in storage and is willing to give them away as
 they are (minus the HDD, though he hinted he might put in new ones)
 Do any of you know of a charity that might be interested?

 
 Two options I know of spring to mind:-
 
 In Southampton is Jamies Computer Club which is a charity which
 takes computers and renovates them to raise money for charitable
 activities. They also pull in jobless people from the community to do
 that work and train them up on the hardware/software. Good guys/gals.
 
 http://www.jamies.org.uk/
 
 Secondly I'm aware of green h which takes old computers and makes
 them good for people who don't have the means to buy one themselves at
 full price.
 
 http://greenh.co.uk/

Greenh are awesome (highly recommended by me!) but don't do this kind of
thing really as far as I'm aware.

Access Space in Sheffield however do, and are equally awesome.

If you ever visit Sheffield, don't leave until you've visited. It's
right in the centre, close to the station and truly is inspirational.

They provide an open cluster and also recycle *lots* of old hardware. I
mean lots. It's stunning how much.

www.access-space.org

Cheers,

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[ubuntu-uk] Bonding 3G connections.

[Tim Dobson]

Hey hey,

Just wondered, does anyone have any experience or has seen any blogs
posts of anyone bonding two or more 3G  connections so they can
aggregate the bandwidth?

If you've seen or heard of anyone doing this I'd be interested to know
any hints on how they went about it. :)

cheers,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] 10 Reasons for Quitting IT

[Tim Dobson]

On 08/03/11 20:46, Alan Pope wrote:
 Saw this on another list and thought it might resonate with some of you :)
 
 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-reasons-for-quitting-it/2316

Some of the points resonate very strongly.

Of course, some of those negatives can also be viewed as positives and
some of them I do view like that.

Stress is important to combat though - you need to know when enough is
enough and what is working for you and what isn't. If you're not
stressed, then other things will annoy you less.

I think my only quibble would be to replace the words the cloud with
marketing hype and use the cloud as an example.


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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [UK event] Open Source Junction - developing open cross-platform mobile apps

[Tim Dobson]

could be interesting to people. Certainly wish I could be there. :(

 Original Message 
Subject: [UK event] Open Source Junction - developing open
cross-platform mobile apps
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:12:00 +
From: Steve Lee steve@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Reply-To: Managing community led projects
community-developm...@jiscmail.ac.uk
To: community-developm...@jiscmail.ac.uk

(With apologies for any cross-posting)

There are 3 weeks left to register and some places are still available.

The Open Souce Junction is a two day workshop connecting industry and
academic innovation in open source mobile technologies covering how to
manage the co-production of cross-platform mobile apps in an open
development context and how to set up open source industry-academia
partnerships. Details below and on the linked website.

Steve Lee
OSS Watch - Open Source advisory service - http://oss-watch.ac.uk



OSS Watch is pleased to invite you to take part in Open Source
Junction.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1283889147

Open Source Junction builds a community of industry and academic
stakeholders with an interest in open source software for mobile
technologies. The first Open Source Junction workshop is on
cross-platform mobile apps.


===
Details about the event
===

This two-day workshop will show delegates how to manage the
co-production of cross-platform mobile apps in an open development
context. The participants will get the knowledge and opportunities to
set up open source industry-academia partnerships relevant to the
mobile
apps space.


When?
* Tuesday 29 March and Wednesday 30 March 2011

Where?
* Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH

Who?
* Mobile industry RD managers, senior strategists, software
developers
* Principal Investigators, research staff, project managers
* Funders with an interest in cross-platform mobile applications

Why?
* become familiar with the basics of open innovation in software
* find out about successful software partnerships created via open
innovation
* explore partnership opportunities relevant to the cross-platform
mobile apps space
* join a community of practitioners interested in pooling resources
for
co-developing mobile open source software
* have your say in setting up an industry-academia open source mobile
community

The full programme with speaker and session details is available at

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1283889147

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[ubuntu-uk] Streaming video on variable bandwidth connection?

[Tim Dobson]

Hey guys,

Can I pick your brains please. :)

I'm trying to work out what technology to use;

Situation:
Mobile Linux computer connected via 3G/GPRS to internet.
The computer is likely to encounter fluctuating connectivity where it 
connectivity drops between low GPRS signal, full HDPSA signal and 
completely offline.


Objective:
I'm trying to find a technology to stream [live] video from a V4L2 
device to 'the internet' over the able connection. The connection only 
needs to be one way.


Caveat:
Ideally I need to work out something that makes a 'best effort' 
judgement based on the amount/quality of bandwidth available and and 
streams the best picture it can. Eg. Where loads of bandwidth is 
available, there is a nice picture and where there isn't, there isn't a 
nice picture, but there isn't nothing.


Does anything like this exist?

Ideally something I can pull the video out in something resembling a 
sane format would be cool.

Bonus points if it's easily scriptable...

Cheers,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu?

[Tim Dobson]

On 07/01/11 22:03, David King wrote:
 I would be interested to know if any of the webcams that work with
 Ubuntu also have an optical zoom -- does anyone know of any? Or is that
 too fancy for a webcam? I need something more powerful than your average
 webcam but a lot cheaper than a proper camcorder, to use as a camera to
 stream live via the web (using livestream.com) rather than record onto a
 disk/memory card/tape.

I managed to get my [expensive] Sanyo CA100 with optical zoom to work as
a webcam (plug  play!) but they seem to have disabled the Optical Zoom
controls when it is being a webcam which sucks really badly. :(


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu?

[Tim Dobson]

On 07/01/11 15:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
 Sorry if this is common knowledge - I'm after recommendations for a
 webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Toshiba
 Satellite using an Intel 82801H audio device.

Things may well have massively changed now and I admit I'm probably out
of date and uneducated in this field.

Do built-in webcam mics (that don't output to jack plug for you to plug
into your soundcard) ever work on ubuntu?

I'd be interested to hear about success stories. :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS Simple Web Forms?

[Tim Dobson]

John,

On 05/01/11 21:42, John Levin wrote:
 LimeSurvey might fit the bill:
 http://www.limesurvey.org/ for the floss php code
 https://www.limeservice.com/ for the free, hosted service

That's fantastic. Just what I was looking for! :D

I knew there must be something out there. :)

For completeness of the record, a friend also pointed
http://drupal.org/project/webform
out to me which could work quite well in context.

Thanks again!

Tim

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[ubuntu-uk] FOSS Simple Web Forms?

[Tim Dobson]

Hi there,

This seems like a really silly question, but I've asked a few people and
I suggest it may not be.

Does anyone know of a FOSS, easy, simple way of creating forms to gather
user feedback?

I.e. something similar to google docs forms or like
http://viniglobal.wufoo.com/forms/q7x3p3/ which will let me create forms
without tears *or* code?

Someone suggested http://www.orbeon.com/ but it's in Java which would be
fine in an Enterprise environment but doesn't really work for me wanting
to set up a single form.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

I wish there was a status.net for simple web forms...

Cheers,

Tim


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edimax wireless router

[Tim Dobson]

Hey Tony,

On 05/01/11 20:08, Tony Arnold wrote:
 I'm thinking of replacing my current wireless ADSL modem/router as it
 keeps hanging up and does not support ADSL-2
 
 My inclination is to go for the Edimax AR-7266WnA Wireless N ADSL
 Router. It seems to do what I want and Edimax are known for supporting
 Linux.
 
 But there are mixed reviews on the PC world web site so I was wondering
 if anyone on this list has used one with their Ubuntu Linux system and
 got any comments, good or bad, about this box?

I've used Edimax routers in the past with Linux netbooks and not had any
problems.

I shouldn't think you'd have any problems as a result of you using
Ubuntu. What are you going to use it for? Connecting to the internet and
connecting your home computers to?

:)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edimax wireless router

[Tim Dobson]

Hi Tony,

On 05/01/11 23:18, Tony Arnold wrote:
 On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 20:53 +, Tim Dobson wrote:
 I shouldn't think you'd have any problems as a result of you using
 Ubuntu. What are you going to use it for? Connecting to the internet and
 connecting your home computers to?
 
 Exactly that. As long as there is no issue when setting up. Some of
 these boxes come with a setup disk that only runs on Windows. I'm quite
 happy to set it up manually over a web or even command line interface.

You should be fine. In my experience you can ignore the 'setup' disks
and just use the web interface the router has. They are fairly standard
and intuitive if I remember right - just work out what IP to connect to
and what the default username and password is. This is usually in the
instruction manual or on the bottom or the router.

I think you should have no problems to be honest. :)

I'm in Manchester area anyway so if it all goes wrong (seriously, it
won't), I'm around to help!

Take care,

Cheers,

Tim

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[ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Tim Dobson]

You've all seen the comings and goings of the likes of Google Wave,
Plaxo, Plurk, Virb, Friendfeed, Friendster, Myspace...

Well there's a new effort out there called Diaspora:
http://join-diaspora.com in alpha right now with very limited numbers
of invites.

Here's my first impression: I think it might do what you wanted Buzz
to do, but it isn't tied to anyone's company. Twitter is great for
short posts and links, and very short chats. I like IRC/Jabber for text
chats over just about anything else, but it isn't easy to do drawn out
discussions spanning over several days.

If you want to give diaspora a try, let me know and maybe others who
have invites will also say hi in here as well.

Diaspora might be pretty cool, but it won't be of any interest without
a lot of like-minded people on it. Please consider joining us if

- you enjoy testing all types of things with a bunch of people (that's
why you're on this list, isn't it?)
- you are willing to log in once a day for a while to try to help us
get momentum
- you are willing to try to get others in via your (currently) 5 invites.

When you first get in to diaspora, you have two Aspects. These are
simple groups of people, work and family. I created one I call
Geeks where most of you would be. If you like diaspora, you can try and
drag your family in from Facebook.

Personally, I like diaspora as a discussion platform, but it isn't
rich like FB. Because it's simple though, you can post to your groups
and discuss with them. The down side is that it's yet another site to
log in on.

I have a few invites left if anyone wants thinks they want be willing to
give it a try and I was hoping that other people with invites might also
be willing to donate a few to interested parties.

Cheers,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Tim Dobson]

On 02/01/11 19:20, Neil Perry wrote:
 I'd love to give diaspora a go, An invite would very much welcomed

Invite sent. :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Tim Dobson]

On 02/01/11 19:24, J Fernyhough wrote:
 On 2 January 2011 19:20, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'd love to give diaspora a go, An invite would very much welcomed
 Thanks
 Neil Perry

 
 [aol] meee t! [/aol]
 
 But in all seriousness, yes please.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Tim Dobson]

On 02/01/11 19:58, Neil Perry wrote:
 I've invited you Vin.

Thanks for the community spirit. :D


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[ubuntu-uk] Diaspora handles

[Tim Dobson]

This would probably be a good time to start a separate thread for anyone
who would like to share their Diaspora handles;

mine is tdobson (at) joindiaspora.com

(I'm tdobson everywhere!)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

[Tim Dobson]

On 03/12/10 18:50, danteash...@gmail.com wrote:
 We are creating advert(s) for Ubuntu, for a non-technical audience.

Yo-buntu!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHAUvbuV4ofeature=youtu.be

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Party \o/

[Tim Dobson]

On 18/11/10 14:36, Alan Bell wrote:
 I am pleased to announce the Ubuntu UK Christmas party. It will be at
 the Hub Islington (same venue as last year) on Tuesday 21st December
 from 7PM until about 10ish
 http://islington.the-hub.net/public/
 The venue is easy to get to from Islington tube station, but there are
 rather a lot of stairs to get to the room.

If anyone is up in Manchester and fancies a similar kind of event, I 
suggest we meet at the Digital Communities Christmas party*:

You just need to sign up here:
http://digitalchristmas.eventbrite.com/

See you there!

Tim

*Disclaimer: I'm partly helping organise this.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash/Iplayer issues

[Tim Dobson]

On 29/10/10 00:39, Alan Pope wrote:
 On 28 October 2010 23:34, Tim Dobsonli...@tdobson.net  wrote:
 Is anyone else affected by this and can suggest any potential fixes or
 workarounds.

 Not at all scared of getting my hands dirty. :)

 Sadly this sounds like a bug that unfortunately I have memorised the
 number of - 410407.

:) Thank you.

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[ubuntu-uk] Flash/Iplayer issues

[Tim Dobson]

Hey there,

I suspect this is a known issue, is anyone to point me in the direction
of any fixes.

My parents are on Ubuntu 10.04 and have a problem clicking on controls
of flash players embedded in web pages - specifically the play button in
BBC iPlayer for instance. They can click the button, it depresses but
doesn't acknowledge the click.

One workaround is to click on the flash embed to give that
mouse/keyboard focus and then press space bar to start/pause the video
however I'm getting the impression this is non-ideal and wondering if
there was a better solution.

My brother in law suspects this is related to compiz...

Is anyone else affected by this and can suggest any potential fixes or
workarounds.

Not at all scared of getting my hands dirty. :)

Cheers,

Tim


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Find a Router's IP address

[Tim Dobson]

On 19/10/10 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
 On 19 October 2010 16:54, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 Is
 
 1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan

 All of which probably contravenes rule 1 you set out.

As I read it, you appear to have misread parent.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

[Tim Dobson]

On 16/10/10 18:16, Chris Rowson wrote:
 Empathy doesn't have a Windows port at the moment but knowing that
 you've got video working with Empathy gives me a bit of hope that I
 can get a decent video solution up and running using something or
 other.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

[Tim Dobson]

On 13/10/10 10:48, Alan Pope wrote:
 The fact is though that right now there are few manufacturers making
 machines with Ubuntu pre-installed, so people do have to do the
 install. However I believe you should be comparing Oranges and
 Oranges. If my mum bought a blank computer and wanted windows, she
 wouldn't install it herself, she'd ask a computer expert (me) to do it
 for her. Same goes for Ubuntu.

I remember back in the old days I had nightmares trying to reinstall
Windows on my laptop - I ended up keeping a folder of the relevant setup
files to hand so I could get various bits of it working.

The only thing I've had to do like that is mess with Samsung printer
drivers.

As my personal motto is
I hate printers big small, black and white, big and small. They are
hateful and horrible.
I don't generally go near them. :P

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State

[Tim Dobson]

On 07/08/10 12:06, Alan Bell wrote:
 I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
 hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
 our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
 based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was
 too young to fully take part this year! There was a panel of judges
 including Andrew Stott, the government Director of Digital Engagement.
 Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for the app most
 likely to irritate the civil service which is great! The event is much
 more about Open Data than Open Source, the laptop of choice for the next
 generation of technology leaders is clearly the Macbook, but there were
 a number of Ubuntu laptops present (in fact the Manchester team did 20
 application demos on Tim Dobson's Ubuntu laptop).

:P Considering there were about 30 apps in total and 14 were from
Manchester and were demo'd on my Thinkpad running Ubuntu you can twist
the stats in our direction if you want. (not very representative though!)

All the Young Rewired State Manchester applications are currently linked
from http://dev.dfey.org including the farcical html5 ones. :P

If you're based in Manchester then you may be interested in some of the
buss timetable applications we built.

Again, you can play with everything on http://dev.dfey.org :)

For victims who didn't suffer yesterday, the YRS Manchester video is
here: http://tdobson.net/node/422

Thanks again to everyone!

Cheers,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Ubuntu Party Weekend…

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On 28/07/10 07:15, Lucy wrote:
 Last time we held our first ever Global Jam at the MadLab. It was
 great to meet up with people and it would be good to hold it there
 again. Thoughts?

Unfortunately, this sounds like the first weekend of my holiday \o/ so
I'm not going to be around, but this sounds like a great idea to me!

I'd say go for it!
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[ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State :: 2nd-6th August

[Tim Dobson]

Apologies for the blatant offtopicness, but recently I've been thinking
it's how it's more important than ever to get young people aware and
engaged with digital issues.

(Please forward this email to anyone you think it might interest)

This email is Manchester specific, but Young Rewired State is happening
across the UK. :)

- What is Young Rewired State?
Young Rewired State (YRS) is a initiative that aims to support young
developers and coders in using public data to build apps, websites and
anything else that people may use. It is about mashing up and getting
out there with data people may not have seen or experienced before.

- Who can take part?
Anyone aged between 15-18.

- When is it?
YRS will take place *next week* between Monday 2nd August and Friday 6th
August 2010

- Where is it taking place?
YRS is taking place at centres across the country - there are centres in
Brighton, London, Norwich, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester.
In Manchester we will be based at the MadLab - a space well-known for
digital collaboration in the city centre.

- What will happen?
We will meet on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the
MadLab and work together on ideas and developments. On Friday 6th August
we will take the train down to London to meet the other teams, show 
tell our work and perhaps win a prize!

- Do I need to have skills?
The nature of Young Rewired State means that people will get quite
technical however we are looking more for a mindset rather than simply
technical skills.
If you have programming experience then you are very welcome and if you
are interested in developing apps, websites or good uses of public data,
then by all means come along.
Basically, we want you to have 'tinkered' with computers in your own
time and of your own accord.

- What time will it be each day?
We can meet at MadLab at 10.30am each day, and try and finish around 5pm
or so.

- Who else is involved?
In Manchester we are supported by the MadLab and staff from Substance,
Blackpool Council and Digital Freedom in Education and Youth. All
support staff will be CRB checked and we will always be in a group.

- How much does the whole week cost to attend?
It's free to attend. Nada. Nothing. £0.00.
All we ask is that you commit to turning up on time each day. :)

- Do I need to register?
Yes - there is a central registration form at YRS
(http://events.osmosoft.com/recipes/yrs/tiddlers.wiki ), but if you
would be as kind to email us to let us know that you've registered we
can pass information straight over to you!

- What else do I need to do?
We need to know that you've told an responsible adult as to where you'll
be - particularly if you come to London. By all means, put them in
contact with us, if there is anything not clear?

- So, why should I do this?
YRS is the great opportunity to develop the next killer app whilst
getting a headstart into IT and meeting people at the cutting edge of
technology!

- It's been a long time since I was 18 but this sounds rather exciting,
is there any way I can lend a hand?
Yes!
Can you forward this email to anyone who would be interested in
attending? Please do pass it on!
We are looking for extra sponsors and mentors.
Donations of developer time, money or prizes would be very gratefully
recieved.

Contact the organisers:
Tim Dobson/Steven Flower: y...@tdobson.net
Tim: 01457 597 007

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trade supplier of Linksys WRT54G+DD-WRT Routers

[Tim Dobson]

On 20/07/10 11:57, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
 Hi Tim,
 
 I've enquired on the Bristol Wireless list to see if they have anything.
 
 I'll keep you updated if they come back to me.

thanks! :)

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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] An 'open source manifesto' to counter the ICT cuts

[Tim Dobson]

Very interesting article.

For anyone interested there's an edugeek discussion raging here:
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/blue-skies/60124-open-source-schools-miles-berry-offers-radical-response-ict-funding-cuts.html

 Original Message 
Subject: [sf-uk-discuss] An 'open source manifesto' to counter the ICT cuts
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:11:54 +0100
From: Steve Lee st...@fullmeasure.co.uk
Reply-To: sf-uk-disc...@googlegroups.com
To: Schoolforge-UK Discussions sf-uk-disc...@googlegroups.com

Miles Berry has put together a good list of ways to make the most of
open source in educational settings.

http://agent4change.net/grapevine/platform/645

Those of you have been around open source in education for a while
will recognise the themes that Miles has collected them together in a
compelling article that deserves wide dissemination. Pass it on.

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[ubuntu-uk] Trade supplier of Linksys WRT54G+DD-WRT Routers

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Hey,

I know this is pushing it a bit but does anyone have any trade suppliers
of WRT54G routers running DD-WRT.

Ideally, I'd prefer Linksys WRT54G-TM's with UK power supplies but
really any of the WRT54G range with DD-WRT would do.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,

Tim
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

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On 28/06/10 10:35, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
 Did anyone spot the Ubuntu logo on the back of Moss's screen? As most of
 the episode focuses on Moss talking from behind his screen, the Ubuntu
 logo was visible quite a lot!

It was practically like a Ubuntu/ORG/EFF/XKCD advert...

What other references did I miss? :P

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

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On 28/06/10 23:11, Steve Flynn wrote:
 Also spotted an Ubuntu mug in the kitchen.
 
 Frankly, I'm surprised that anyone actually watches the programme as a
 whole. I've endured 6 or 7 episodes and tried to like it but as my
 wife says This is shit. and I have to agree with her.
 
 Each to their own... thank christ.

1, 2, 3 ...

I suspect that opinions not going to be the dominant one on this list. :)

IT Crowd is one my favorite series, without a doubt better than anything
else in the same field.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] get_iplayer fork

[Tim Dobson]

can we document this fork on the beebhack wiki if it's not already been
done so?

http://beebhack.wikia.com

http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/Programs

:)

-Tim

On 13/05/10 21:38, Rob Beard wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to 
 get it installed.
 
 I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here: 
 http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get the 
 simple version working (which won't allow me to capture HD format shows).
 
 I've tried the instructions to install the new version, first of all I 
 use the command:
 
 git clone git://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer.git
 
 Which gives me the following output...
 
 r...@aspire:~$ git clone git://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer.git
 Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rob/get_iplayer/.git/
 remote: Counting objects: 112, done.
 remote: Compressing objects: 100% (106/106), done.
 remote: Total 112 (delta 58), reused 0 (delta 0)
 Receiving objects: 100% (112/112), 191.68 KiB | 220 KiB/s, done.
 Resolving deltas: 100% (58/58), done.
 
 It creates a get_iplayer directory which has the following contents...

 
 r...@aspire:~$ ls get_iplayer/
 deps  get_iplayer  INSTALL  LICENSE.txt  man  README  run.pl
 
 I then run the next command...
 
 git submodule update
 
 ... and get this error message...
 
 fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
 
 This is where I'm getting stuck.  Not knowing anything about Git, I'm 
 wondering if I should be in the get_iplayer folder, in the .git folder 
 or in /home/rob
 
 So I'm wondering, has anyone got it working at all?
 
 Ta,
 
 Rob
 


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

[Tim Dobson]

On 11/05/10 16:43, Isabell Long wrote:
 On 11 May 2010 16:40, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:33 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:



 I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with
 a bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them
 (observing the resultant chaos).


 What an excellent suggestion for a launch party. :)
 
 Hahaha!  That could work pretty well actually couldn't it? :P
 

Please can someone secretly film a LUG doing this...

It'd make epic entertainment!

:)

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[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [backstage] Open Source Show And Tell]

[Tim Dobson]

I don't know if people have already seen this but it might be cool to go 
to for people in the south east.

 Original Message 
Subject: [backstage] Open Source Show And Tell
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:50:42 +0100
From: Phil Whitehouse phil.whiteho...@gmail.com
Reply-To: backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
To: backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk

Apologies for the mass mailing, but I'm organising a (free) event next week
that might well interest some of the readers on this list. It's the Open
Source Show And Tell, takes place at our offices near Borough Market in
London, and everyone is welcome. You can find out more here:

http://www.ossat.org
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5393063/

Cheers,
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[ubuntu-uk] TODAY: Digital Economy Bill Flashmob, 5pm [Manchester]

[Tim Dobson]

Whilst the practicalities of the Digital Economy Bill, may seem like a 
complete joke, sadly this email is no April Fools Prank.

As you may be aware, the Digital Economy Bill is a piece of legislation 
which, if put through, would have quite serious implications for Digital 
Industries.

What is the Digital Economy Bill?
-
Whilst billed a law about preventing copyright infringement, the bill 
has far reaching powers, allowing the government to block websites, 
(social networks, wikileaks, wikipedia), at will and changing one of the 
basis's of UK common law in assuming you guilty until proven innocent.

THe bit I find particularly unhelpful the segment that holds the 
subscriber of the internet service liable for all activies on that line. 
This is essentially the death of open wifi in cafes and bars - its just 
unworkable if you are liable for the actions of your patrons.


Why are we protesting?
--
The DEB has been written at the behest of the media industry (some 
clauses were actually written by the BPI) with absolutely no regard for 
anybody else.

Furthermore, not only is this bill flawed, it is being rushed through 
parliament without debate using a process known as wash up, which was 
intended for use on uncontroversial bills.

If you're coming to the flashmob then sign up to get a ticket on 
EventBrite so we can let you know the exact location of the flashmob 
shortly before it begins!

http://debflashmobmanchester.eventbrite.com/

We'll have plenty of flyers so just bring yourself and something to 
censor yourself with but we'll be providing black tape in case you can't.

I'm sorry it has got to this stage, however I hope you'll join me there,

Thanks,

Tim Dobson

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[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: MFS Talk. Tuesday, 16th March. Rob Taylor, The Semantic Desktop, SPARQL and You!]

[Tim Dobson]

This might be interesting to some people here...

 Original Message 
Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] MFS Talk. Tuesday, 16th March. Rob Taylor, 
The Semantic Desktop, SPARQL and You!
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:19:14 +
From: Michael Dorrington michael.dorring...@gmail.com
To: Manchester Free Software fsuk-manches...@nongnu.org

* Talk: The Semantic Desktop, SPARQL and You!
* Speaker: Rob Taylor

* Location: The Lass O' Gowrie's Salmon Room (upstairs).
* Address: 36 Charles Street, Manchester. M1 7DB.
* Website: http://www.thelass.co.uk/
* Date: Tuesday, 16th March 2010 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
* Start time: 19:00
* Finish time: 20:30

Details
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Rob Taylor will be giving a version of his FOSDEM 2010 talk, The
Semantic Desktop, SPARQL and You![1]

You've probably heard about the Semantic Web and the Semantic Desktop.
But what lies behind the buzzwords? Let's look together at at effective
examples, running code and actual applications. Be inspired, tame the
sparql beast and join the future of desktop computing!

Helpful links:
* Semantic Web Road map by Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
* GNOME: The Semantic Desktop http://live.gnome.org/SemanticDesktop

Rob Taylor: Managing Director, Codethink Ltd
http://www.codethink.co.uk/ - Rob has been developing software since
he was just nine years old. His personal focus has always been on
working with powerful middleware and frameworks with the aim of
providing a far more compelling user experience. Having been educated in
Mathematics and Computer Science at Cambridge University, Rob began
working on embedded Linux systems back in 1999. In January of 2007 Rob
founded Codethink Ltd, an Open Source consulting company that aims to
Provide Genius wherever it's needed. He continues to attract like-minded
individuals with a variety of specialist skills to the company with the
aim of driving forward Open Source technologies and providing expert
consultancy to businesses around the world.

Location

The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass
O'Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be
located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people
around a little earlier downstairs (probably sampling the food and
drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can't find us. Their
website[2] has full details of how to get there and the fine selection
of food and drink available. The venue also provides WiFi.

More Information


General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
found on our websites[3][4][5].

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at t...@manchester.fsuk.org.

[1]:
http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Devroom#Philip_Van_Hoof.2C_Rob_Taylor.2C_Roberto_Guido

[2]: http://www.thelass.co.uk/
[3]: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
[4]: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-03-16
[5]: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio in, Record and transmit over Network

[Tim Dobson]

Cornelius Mostert wrote:
 I have an audio stream coming in via usb or input jack (line in) and would
 like to:
 1. Record this and
 2. Live stream this to the network

This should be possible with pulseaudio itself:

http://cubicgarden.com/wordpress/2009/05/10/pulseaudio-networked-audio-2/

I've not done it myself but this is certainly one way to do it and the 
lowest level way of doing it if you like..

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[Bug 103791] Re: [needs-packaging] pcsx2

[Tim Dobson]

I'm another person who would be very happy by a package in lucid :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendation for SIP phone wanted

[Tim Dobson]

Kevin Safford wrote:
 Hello
 
 I'm thinking of buying a USB phone, to make things easier for my wife,
 who struggles with the headset and softphone (Twinkle). I haven't
 found much information about what works with Ubuntu; can anyone help?
 
 My provider is sipgate.co.uk. I asked them about their model
 SG-HS100b, but they can't provide any information!

Hey there,

I really recommend something like the Grandstream GXP1200 over a USB
handset. It will be more expensive, but it will certainly work, they are
reliable and well known and there is lots of documentation.

They should work with any SIP VOIP provider or local SIP setups you may
have.

Hope this helps, sorry I've not heard of the SG-HS100b at all.

Cheers,

Tim

Disclaimer:
I work for a company DMC who supply SME's with VOIP stuff -
www.servicesforasterisk.co.uk

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendation for SIP phone wanted

[Tim Dobson]

Kevin Safford wrote:
 Thanks for the replies. He he, I'm really looking for a 'quick and
 dirty' solution, but I should have expected the responses I got. 
 
 SIP isn't our main phone option - we just use it on those occasions when
 Virgin Media charge us for calls. I'm happy to use the soft phone, but
 my wife would prefer something more traditional. 
 
 I'd considered a solution like Alan's but our phones don't need
 replacing yet. I might go down that route when they do, although the
 phone access point and broadband router are in different rooms, so I
 suppose that complicates things. 

Maybe a wireless (DECT) VOIP phone like this:

http://www.voipon.co.uk/siemens-gigaset-c475ip-p-698.html

We used to have one of these in the office and it was really sleek


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[ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

[Tim Dobson]

Hey there,

I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot
of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think
looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask for some pointers...

So we are looking at putting together a custom server in a micro-ATX
sized case with the provisio that it needs to be able to accomodate a
full height PCI/PCI-E card.

Who does one go to for Micro-ATX server-grade motherboards?

Sorry, I'm slightly clueless in the land of putting *servers* together
and I wonder if anyone would be able to give me a few pointers in ther
right directions..

Cheers,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SIP Configuration for BT BRoadband?

[Tim Dobson]

Russell Hay wrote:
 It may be that I just need to port forward port 5060 to my Ubuntu box... 
 will try that..

if you forward 5060 and 5061that should do it, but BT home hubs have a 
bit of a reputation in the VOIP world.

I would recommend enabling NAT Traversal (STUN) if you can, else you'll 
certainly behaving the issues described.

You may need to forward more ports, but let me know how you get on.

Oh and yeah, SIP/VOIP is my job and NATs+VOIP=Headache. :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openshot video editing software Karmic Koala

[Tim Dobson]

Simon Osborne wrote:
 Yes. It upgrades libavcodec to a version which is incompatible with
 gstreamer and VLC, along with other things. It can be fixed by forcing
 a downgrade on libavcodec to the version supplied with Karmic.

I'm not on karmic yet but this is an interesting point. Currently 
KDEnlive (my preferred video editing suite) can't deal with AAC audio by 
default due to some broken libavcodec package as I understand.
As my (stupid) video camera outputs h.264 + aac this is somewhat 
frustrating.

Anyway, hopefully this will all get smoothed out! :)

Tim

P.s. If you know and cameras that output to theora  ogg or dirac, 
please do let me know!

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[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [ORG-discuss] Come see Bruce Schneier talk in London]

[Tim Dobson]

I'm sure this could be interesting to you lucky London lot!

 Original Message 
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Come see Bruce Schneier talk in London
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:16:27 +
From: Michael Holloway mich...@openrightsgroup.org
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Bruce Schneier is coming to London in December and will be doing a
talk for ORG. Hope to meet more of the discuss crowd at the event.



We live in a unique time in our technological history. The cameras are
ubiquitous, but we can still see them. ID checks are everywhere, but
we still know they're going on. Computers inherently generate personal
data, and everyone leaves an audit trail everywhere they go.

Bruce Schneier, internationally-renowned cryptographer, technologist
and author, will share his vision of current and future technologies'
effects on privacy. Schneier rejects the traditional security vs.
privacy dichotomy in favor of a more subtle and realistic one.

Data is the pollution problem of the information age and we need to
start thinking about how to deal with it.

When? Doors open at 1830, Friday 4 December 2009
Where? St Albans Centre, 18 Brooke St, London, London EC1N 7RD (More 
info here)

Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group, will chair the
audience QA. Drinks will be available at the venue before and after
the talk. An audio and video recording will be made available after
the event.

Tickets and more info
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2009/bruce-schneier-event



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - 30th October

[Tim Dobson]

Lucy wrote:
 Can anyone suggest anywhere else it should be advertised?
 
the usual northern lugs :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

[Tim Dobson]

Gordon Allott wrote:
 On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:32 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
 I love that the address for Pitcher and Piano is Arches 9-10 Deansgate
 Locks.

 Dan


 
 I have absolutely no idea if thats the correct address, I just copied
 whatever google told me. if its not please correct me and I can change
 it, I'm not from Manchester'

I can't comment which arches it occupies by arch number, but it 
certainly does occupy two railway arches on Deansgate Locks :)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

[Tim Dobson]

Hey Lucy,

Thanks for CC'ing me in.

Sorry!

I had intended to be more proactive on this but due to me being occupied 
chasing Barcamp Manchester (whih is the 7th and 8th of november) 
Sponsorship stuff, I've been worked off my feet and unfortunately not 
been able to give this the energy I had hoped I would be able to.

That said, it's really great to see people taking the lead. :)

Anyway, see comments inline. :)

Lucy wrote:
 2009/10/15 Gordon Allott gord.all...@canonical.com:
 On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:17 +0100, Lucy wrote:

 I suggest that we go with the Pitcher and Piano, and start planning
 publicity and things. Unless anyone has any objections?

 Jon, do you happen to know what their policy is on under-18s?

 Pitcher and Piano sounds good to me :) In terms of publicity i suggest
 everyone start telling everyone else ;) whatever we did (i forget) for
 jaunty obviously worked so lets do that!
 
 Great :)
 
 I'm currently talking to Jon about confirming the venue. I intend to
 get an announcement out this weekend and create a Facebook event, etc.
 If other people could add the announcement to other sites and blog
 about it that would be great.

Sounds good to me.

 The venue doesn't allow under-18s after 7pm, so I'm cc'ing Tim from
 DFEY-NW to see if he wants to arrange something earlier for younger
 people, if there's a demand.

Well I'm not 100% sure there is the demand but I think we can still work 
with this.

Perhaps we can take a leaf from the NWDC (North West Digital 
Communities) Christmas party which was at the piano and pitcher last year.

There was no specific guidance towards whether the venue was young 
people friendly - so we came anyway - and there weren't any issues as 
far as I know.

It's not a great approach to the core issue, but it's by far the easiest 
way of dealing with it which seems to work to some extent.

 Since it's a pub the start time doesn't matter as much as it did for
 the BBC, but does 7pm sound okay or 6pm?

The thing about pubs is they generally don't care about the odd youngish 
person who goes *into* a bar before ~7pm so long as they don't try and 
go in and out after that or try and buy anything.

 It would be really nice to have some posters and some buttons to put
 on blogs to publicise the event. Can someone volunteer to come up with
 something?

Sounds great - unfortunately I don't think I can though.

 we don't have all that much time to get people interested though =\

 I can bring a few usb thumb drives with as many variations of ubuntu on
 it, those things install real quick, also popey's local loco mirror
 worked a treat last time, very quick downloads so i'll get a few images
 on my laptop too
 
 Great idea! Make sure you label the thumb drives so that you get them
 back at the end of the evening. I'll probably bring along some old
 fashioned CDs again.

Cool. Sounds great.

Any questions, fire away.

Cheers,

Tim


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Throw a release party to get free software.

[Tim Dobson]

Matt Jones wrote:
 I wonder where they got this idea from?
 http://houseparty.com/windows7

Apple?

In all seriousness, I was thinking of throwing a windows 7 release 
party (in my windows free house) and sending them home with a karmic CD...

Tbh though, I don't really care about microsoft these days, I see Apple 
as much more of a threat because they have user loyalty.

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Movie Editor

[Tim Dobson]

Rowan Berkeley wrote:
 Has anyone else tried this? I have just installed it from the repos. and
 attempted to make a very simple music video for upload to YouTube. I
 used a still jpg for the video and attempted to use an mp3 audio file,
 then an ogg version of the same audio file, but although the picture
 seems to work (as a sustained still in the video frame), all I get in
 the audio is static. I have looked on the web but the developer of OME
 doesn't have much to say about 'no sound' problems except that 'there
 might be a bug'. 
 
 

Personally I use Kdenlive for video editing...

I've done things like this with it:
http://files.tdobson.net/dfey/render.quick.full.mpg
(note: it's intended to be low quality and deliberately has the time 
rendered because it's not finished)

My best advice would be to install ffmpeg from medibuntu if you have 
issues like that but as the developer says, it might be a bug.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display table at Wallingford Bunkfest 2009

[Tim Dobson]

alan c wrote:
 I am delighted to say that I have arranged a FOSS display table at the
 festival in Wallingford, the so called 'Bunkfest'
 fri 4th - sun 6th september 2009
 http://www.bunkfest.co.uk/

that's cool!

Pity I can't be there but people I know have been to Wallingford 
Bunkfest in the past and really enjoyed it!

We should do things at more events like this.

Hope it goes well :)

Cheers,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reminder - DFEY-NW tomorrow :: Young Rewired State Announcements

[Tim Dobson]

Dave Walker wrote:
 Andrew Williams wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:33:23PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
   
 I'm not young, and I'm not in the North West of England.  I know these
 messages aren't very frequent, but still ...
 
 Suprisingly, this is one of the best lists in the UK to announce open
 source events to, as the Ubuntu UK list covers alot of UK foss users who
 don't really post or get involved anywhere else.

 Do we have any official guidance on the posting of events to the list?

 It wouldn't hurt to add [EVENT] to the subject of future mailings. 
 Personally, I have no objections to people raising events that, in best
 judgment, are of interest to Ubuntu users in the UK.  However, if the
 list becomes overwhelmed by many events then i might think differently.

If an [EVENT] (or on a another fairly high volume list I'm on [ANN], 
short for announcement, is a desirable prefix) then I'll certainly try 
to help people

We have about 14 young hackers from DFEY from all around the UK heading 
to London this weekend.

The support everyone has given us, getting us to this point where we can 
go events like this, is something we really hold dear to us.

The first anniversary of DFEY-NW's first meeting is on the 31st August, 
at the time a landmark of months of hard work but with an uncertain 
future - whilst there's is lots more to do, we have come a long way 
since then.

Things have certainly changed since the days of nearly getting kicked 
out of the place we were meeting because a pub was the only convenient 
place we could find to meet, despite most of us being underage! :P

If you aren't familiar with Digital Freedom in Education  Youth, please 
drop past and take a look at our new website at www.dfey.org

Many Thanks,

Tim

(DFEY-NW Co-organiser)

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[ubuntu-uk] Reminder - DFEY-NW tomorrow :: Young Rewired State Announcements

[Tim Dobson]

Just a reminder that the DFEY-NW meeting is taking place tomorrow from 
12:00pm - ~3:30pm

===

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education  Youth - North West) is a group 
aiming to provide a social space for young people interested in 
technology, issues of freedom and technology in relation to education.
www.dfey.org

== Meet ==
   Because the venue is not amazingly easy to find, we'll meet at 
Piccadilly station and we'll walk over there (it's about 5minutes on foot).
   Meet on the seats between platforms 1 and 2 in the main concourse.
   Look for people with laptops and perhaps some funky DFEY signs. :P

Attending?
   if you are thinking of attending please add your name to the wiki page
   http://dfey.org/wiki/Manchester,_August_2009#Time
   or feel free to email us on t...@nw.dfey.org to let us know you are
coming...

== Young Rewired State ==

   This is all falling together! So far 8 young people from DFEY will be 
attending this 2 day event at Google HQ in London next weekend.
   If you are free on 22nd and 23rd August 2009 and wish to go get in 
touch ASAP.
   There will some assistance with travel and accommodation for those 
wishing to attend, but DFEY is trying to sort things out as a group and 
so all stay in the same place. If you are interested in coming, contact 
me(or t...@dfey.org) ASAP. We're trying to get *everything* sorted by 
Saturday the 15th if possible

For those already intending on going, p-lease make sure your name is on 
the DFEY wiki page:
http://dfey.org/wiki/London,_August_2009

To find out more about the event visit:
http://rewiredstate.org/young

 From the website:
How about we give you Google's offices in the heart of London, 
technology and a tonne of the country's best programmers and hackers to 
help and teach you along the way? We'll also give you food and drink to 
keep you going.

If so, and you're aged between 15 and 18, we'd love you to come to our 
free weekend to see what you can come up with. We think we're all in for 
a big surprise.

---

In case you need it, here's some contact information:
   Tim's mobile: 07922334403
   Email: t...@nw.dfey.org

=

DFEY-NW Community:

Web:
   http://www.dfey.org
Mailing list:
   http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dfey-nw-discuss
IRC:
   #dfey on irc.freenode.net
Identi.ca  Twitter:
   #dfey  #dfeynw
Forum:
   http://www.nw.dfey.org/wiki/Forum
Facebook:
   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24304402298

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Open Source Project kafuffle...

[Tim Dobson]

James Milligan wrote:
 So effectively I /can/ relicence it to opensource (or the developers  
 etc) and relaunch it?

Email licenc...@fsf.org for a sound opinion.

Always the best thing to do before doing anything that potentially could 
cause headaches. :)

They'll walk you through things from a legal perspective.

Good luck!

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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Manchester Free Software Talk - Dan Lynch, Audio Production with Free Software

[Tim Dobson]

All you Loco people near Manchester might be interested in this - it's 
this tuesday!

Tim

 Original Message 
Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software Talk - Dan Lynch, 
Audio Production with Free Software
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:09:51 +0100
From: Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com
To: Manchester Free Software fsuk-manches...@nongnu.org

Manchester Free Software's next meeting will be on Tuesday 21st July 2009.

Talk
--
This month's talk will be given by the prolific podcaster and
musician, Dan Lynch. Dan will be giving a talk entitled Professional
Audio Production With Free Software. Where he'll be going through the
free software tools he uses to make the Software Freedom Law Show
amongst other podcasts. He'll do a live demo (hopefully) and cut
together a quick example podcast. He'll also talk a bit about audio in
general on Linux and discuss areas where it could be improved in
comparison to proprietary software.

Dan is currently involved in the Linux Outlaws, Software Freedom Law
Show and Rat Radio podcasts. A selection of Dan's music is available
at danlynch.org/music.

Location
--
The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass
O'Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be
located in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people
around a little earlier downstairs (probably sampling the food and
drinks on offer). Just ask at the bar if you can't find us. Their
website[1] has full details of how to get there and the fine selection
of food and drink available. The venue also provides wifi.

General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
found on our website[2].

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at t...@manchester.fsuk.org.

[1]: http://www.thelass.co.uk/
[2]: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/


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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: FOSDEM X: 6+7 February 2010

[Tim Dobson]

If you've never been to FOSDEM, I sincerely recommend attending.

I'm very glad I went to it this year and will certainly be attending for
FOSDEM's 10th birthday!

It is a fantastic event, insightful, interesting, fun and incredibly
welcoming. :D

Tim

 Original Message 
Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM X: 6+7 February 2010
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:32:02 +0200
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Organisation: FOSDEM
To: FOSDEM fos...@lists.fosdem.org

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Unlike previous editions, and thanks to a closer collaboration of our
benevolent host (the ULB), we are able to already announce the date of
the upcoming FOSDEM, which will be held on the weekend of the 6 and 7
February 2010 in Brussels (at ULB's Solbosch campus, as usual).

This will also be its 10th anniversary (we include the first edition
that was still called OSDEM ;)).

The timeline for submitting developer room and stand requests will be
communicated soon.

cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

[Tim Dobson]

David King wrote:
 I wonder what a Dalek running on Ubuntu would be like?

Well for starters, there'd be none of these legacy proprietary 
limitations regarding stairs (unless there were outstanding patent 
issues with this technology).

All Daleks would be a tasteful shade of chocolate brown with the 
exception of the cult of K Daleks which would be instantly 
recognisable by by the blue colour, lots of unnecessary flashes and the 
way they prepend a K to the names of their komrades.

Several companies would also start to commercialise the Dalek race for 
their own purposes, adding builtin integration with a large starcloud 
services providor to allow the modified Daleks to access their services 
to send messages and search for the most efficient way to exterminate 
their targets.

Some Dalek experts would criticise this approach and suggest that 
latency in deep space could become an issue whilst communicating through 
busy wormholes whilst purists would suggest that googleks could become 
totally reliant on these third party services, compromising their 
ability to exterminate impartially.

Currently, however, all existing Daleks run a optimised version of the 
Microsoft Windows 7 Dalek Ultimate Edition operating system.


 From
http://dalek.microsoft.com/en-us/ultimate/FX101674081033.aspx :

Windows 7 Dalek Ultimate Edition contains a number of game changing 
features and patented extermination methods to deliver an award winning 
experience all round.

The exclusive ability to Reboot at Random (RaR) has been at the core of 
all Windows 7 Dalek editions since the initial release and has not left 
them since. Indeed it continues to keep thousands employed as engineers 
wormhole across space and time to restart Dalek Terminal Services from 
the console, helping to stimulate the economy.

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feel free to expand  elaborate I'm too tired to continue

:)

Tim

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[ubuntu-uk] Server Suppliers

[Tim Dobson]

Hi Guys,

Company hat on today, apologies ;)

I'm looking for reccomendations for a supplier of cheap, reliable basic
spec tower servers of about:

2x 2.6 GHZ CPU
2GB RAM
250GB Sata Hard Disk Disk
CD/DVD Sata Disk drive 
No OS, display, keyboard, mouse etc...
No manufacturer warranty required

and:

2x 2.6 GHZ CPU
2GB RAM
2x 250GB Sata Hard Disk Disk
RAID Controller
CD/DVD Sata Disk drive 
No OS, display, keyboard, mouse etc...
No manufacturer warranty required

We would like professional looking cases etc as these servers will be on
client sites powering their phone system with our Asterisk-based VOIP
system on them.

Dell who have supplied us servers prviously have discontinued their
Poweredge SC440 range and now want to give us a much worse deal for servers
to supply to our customers.

Any suggestions would really be welcome - I'm sure we can get a better
deal!

Cheers

Tim


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[ubuntu-uk] Custom Ubuntu Image

[Tim Dobson]

Hi there,

I'm having some difficulties modifying a custom ubuntu server CD so it 
automatically installs an extra package.

I have been following the instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
Word for word, however when I try and boot from it, it works fine - it 
searches the disk for packages and then it says:

Loading ubuntu-keyring-udeb failed for unknown reasons. Aborting
With a red screen
Looking through syslog via busybox i can't see anything related to 
ubuntu-keyring-udeb, I can't see anything relevant..

anyone got any thoughts?

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Terminology and beginners, was Re: Scrambled screen reinstalling

[Tim Dobson]

Neil Greenwood wrote:
 Finding a common set of terms (and then remembering to use them!) is 
 difficult.
 
 The best thing to do is ask if you don't understand. 

Seconded. Just ask for clarification - even if it's not something your 
particularly interested in or if you can't understand it enough to know 
whether you'd be interested.

I do take your point and can see what you mean but please do feel free 
to ask the list what is meant by Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic 
etc or anything else.. :)

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?

[Tim Dobson]

Tony Arnold wrote:
 Alan,
 
 Alan Pope wrote:
 2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk:
 As far as I can tell the main reasoning is the fact that they can lose 2
 apps (ekiga and pidgin) thus saving space and also the empathy upstream
 were working on bugs faster than pidgin were.

 this should give you more idea
 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-messaging-and-communication-selection
 Easy video calling is a very compelling argument.
 
 Indeed. I was going to register objections without having seen what
 Empathy does, and it does look interesting.
 
 A colleague just told me of a plugin for Pidgin to do Facebook chat and
 I was worried that might be something lost with Empathy.

Even if they do switch to empathy by default and the facebook chat hack 
plugin hasn't been ported to it yet, you could still install pidgin from 
synaptic and then install the facebook chat plugin.

I like pidgin and probably won't switch to empathy in a hurry, but so 
long as pidgin continues to be easily available and empathy doesn't 
*really* suck, I don't care.

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[ubuntu-uk] Custom Ubuntu Image pendrive problems

[Tim Dobson]

Hi guys perhaps you can help.

I'm producing a customised Ubuntu alternate CD at the moment so we can 
install Ubuntu at work with a custom set of packages, in our case, 
orientated towards Asterisk.

I've followed the instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki and the iso image 
appears to work fine on a CD.

However, we would like to put this iso image on a USB pendrive.
I've used unetbootin and usb-creator but both, sadly give the same problem.

Initially it boots up fine however when it comes to search for a CD 
drive it doesn't find the usb disk and fails on that option meaning one 
cannot continue the install.

The specific error message reads The Installation CD-ROM could not be 
mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. If so 
you can insert it and try again
(and it then asks you whether you'd like to try again with yes returning 
the same message and no returning a list of tasks in the install process 
however you cannot advance without it knowing where it should expect the 
CD image.

Does anyone have ideas on how to solve this or work around it?

Thanks,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Image Hosting

[Tim Dobson]

John wrote:
 Hi I was wondering if anybody knows of an Image Hosting that works with 
 Ubuntu. I did use Photobucket and Webshot, but neither work with Linux. 
 I tried Imageshack, but cant get that to work either.

AFAIK they should or do work for me.

 Anyone?

however, I use BayImg by preference - http://bayimg.com

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Custom Ubuntu Image pendrive problems

[Tim Dobson]

Lucy wrote:
 Does anyone have ideas on how to solve this or work around it?
 
 Based in a similar problem I had over the weekend. Have you tried
 removing the usb stick and putting it back in when it's searching for
 the install media?

Just tried it. It doesn't seem to be making any difference.. :(

thanks for the suggestion though!

Tim


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[ubuntu-uk] [ANN] DFEY-NW :: June 13th @ BBC Manchester

[Tim Dobson]

Details for the next DFEY-NW are enclosed... Please forward this to
anybody or any lists you think might be interested.

===

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education  Youth - North West) is a group
focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world,
currently based in the Northwest of England.

When
   Saturday June 13th 2009 12:30pm - ~2:00pm

Where
   Drupal Camp UK,
   BBC Manchester, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ
   Photo: http://tiny.pl/z7bf
   Map: http://tiny.pl/z7b1
   Nearest train station: Manchester Oxford Road (3 mins walking distance)

Attending?
   Due to BBC restrictions, you need to tell us if you wish to attend:
 http://dfey-nw-5.eventbrite.com/
   or email us on t...@nw.dfey.org.

Drupal Camp UK
   This is a special meeting taking place as a side session from Drupal 
Camp UK, which will be happening in the BBC at the same time. This will 
allow us to share their hospitality for lunch at about 1pm.

DFEY-NW Open Session at Drupalcamp-UK
   DFEY-NW will be an open discussion for anyone to voice their 
opinions, and to hear the views of other young people on various issues 
relating to technology. It would also be interesting to discuss how to 
get more young people into technology using Drupal.
This will take place sometime on Saturday afternoon, and is open to all 
those attending Drupal Camp UK.
http://drupalcamp.org.uk/session/dfey-nw-open-discussion

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] bbc listen again anomaly

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alan c wrote:
 Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok
 for me.
 
 However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a
 message appears that I need to 'install real player'.
 
 In a machine which has an older install - an asus 900 which is still
 running the original xandros offering - such programmes play ok.
 
 just for the record - in one machine with 9.04 on it, I did actually
 install RealPlayer  from a deb an dalso on 8.04 machine from a binary.
 Neithe rworked for the problem item.
 
 A particular example is the michael bentine show
 for example
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bv2gw/episodes/player
 
 strangely, shows with this problem do work sometimes. It is as if
 firefox (3) or th eplugins are not fully working with bbc iplayer
 
 any ideas please?
 

I'm going to forward this to the BBC-Backstage mailing list where a lot 
of the people who maintain stuff like this hang out.

We'll see what happens... :)

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 100 open source gems

[Tim Dobson]

Saikiran Madugula wrote:
 In case some one missed
 
 http://tuxradar.com/content/100-open-source-gems-part-1 and
 http://tuxradar.com/content/100-open-source-gems-part-2
 
 Very nice list! My fav is #6 back in time.

That's cool. thanks for posting it. Interestingly they don't just dig 
out wordpress, firefox and well known programs and they haven't just 
trawled through sourceforge by the looks of it either...

some really interesting stuff there... :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Image Windows Drive into a VM

[Tim Dobson]

Michael Holloway wrote:
 Recently, I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent (easy) way to do
 it, and VMWare's P2V (free) is by far the easiest.

I'll take a look at it.

 Other ways are painfully slow(er) and complicated. 

hmmm.

 It worked fine fir Vista64, but for use in VMWare server/workstation.
 You can probably use qemu to convert the disk to Virtualbox. 

That's what I was thinking. I have a feeling virtualbox supports the 
vmware HD format :-/ I'm fairly sure qemu does.

 Bad news, windows needs reactivation. Good luck with that.

Ah yes, this did occur to me. Sounds like a complete nightmare. :-/

Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on 
average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.

Really, if I can get him off Vista on a day to day basis, I  suspect 
that the whole angle the business will take will start to change.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Image Windows Drive into a VM

[Tim Dobson]

danattwood wrote:
 Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on 
 average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.

 Be aware virtualising the machine might not solve the blue screen issue. 
 You might just end up converting a broken laptop into a virtual broken 
 laptop.

Indeed. But obviously if he is using ubuntu 90% of the time when he is 
looking at a web browser, terminal etc he's not going to have the same 
issues (hopefully).

When he has to use whatever windows software there is on there, then he 
can use the bluescreening VM... :P

lets just hope it's not dodgy memory or something causing the blue 
screens :p

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[ubuntu-uk] Image Windows Drive into a VM

[Tim Dobson]

Hi there,

I wonder if anyone can help.

I'm in the situation (with someone else's laptop) where it would be 
ideal if I could image their Windows Vista installation on their machine 
into a virtual machine, ideally Virtualbox.

Is this possible at all? Has anyone successfully done anything like this?
If so, what would be my first steps?

Cheers,

Tim

P.S. Sorry this question is more about Windows than Ubuntu, but I hope 
you sympathise with my situation! :)

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[ubuntu-uk] Barcamp Leeds, May 30-31st

[Tim Dobson]

This is bound to be a load of fun interspersed with really useful
networking and cool sessions,

If you've never been to a barcamp before, I strongly recommend coming -
It'd be good to see a good ubuntu-uk turnout after the manchester 
release party :)

Tim

 Original Message 
Subject: [python-north-west] Bar Camp Leeds, May 30-31st
From: Michael Sparks spark...@gmail.com
Reply-To: python-north-w...@googlegroups.com


Hi,


Bar Camp Leeds is running for its 3rd year running. It'd be great to see
other
Python people there if you're around. Details:

 * May 30th, May 31st
 * Old Broadcasting House, Leeds, UK
 * Website: http://barcampleeds.com/


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BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences —
open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by
participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web
applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols,
and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of
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[ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

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DFEY is having a Logo Competition.

Top Prize: £40
First Runner Up: £10


Brief for Entries
=

* Should be easily recognisable, visually pleasing and easily reproduced 
in different mediums.
* Should echo themes of Digital Freedom, Technology, Young People and 
Education.
* All entries must be licenced under Creative Commons Zero Licence 
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
* Should be submitted in SVG format, though high resolution bitmap might 
be acceptable.
* Ideally, should be created solely using free software but entries 
created using non-free software will be accepted.
* Ideally, shouldn't use that many different primary colours.
* Have been emailed entry to l...@dfey.org with the SVG or other image 
file attached by 23:59, 31st May 2009


Eligibility of Entrants
===

* Anyone can enter, regardless of age, geographic location etc.
* There is no limit to the number of entries per entrant


How to Enter


1. Take a moment to read http://nw.dfey.org/wiki/Logo_Competition
2. Send an email to l...@dfey.org with the SVG or other image file 
attached by 23:59, 31st May 2009.
3. Include a statement that you have read and understand you are are 
licencing this piece of work to us under the Creative Commons Zero 
Licence v1 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0)
4. Please include your name and (if desired) a link to your blog/website 
etc.
5. Your entry will be processed and uploaded on to the Entries page.
http://nw.dfey.org/wiki/Logo_Competition/Entries

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Winners will be decided upon through a Schulze Method voting system. 
More information at http://nw.dfey.org/wiki/Logo_Competition

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About DFEY
==

DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in 
response from a growing need to encourage and promote young people's 
involvement with the free software and technical communities by creating 
a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get 
involved with LUGs and other technical groups.

Find out more and get involved at www.dfey.org

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

[Tim Dobson]

Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote:
 Thanks for this.
 I'm just forwarding it on to a local youth council I'm involved in - it's
 not typical of our activities, but maybe I'll be able to change that.

Wow, this sounds like a really good opportunity! It's worth a go at least!

 The issue of digital freedom, both in terms of surveillance and source
 availability, is also something we might be able to bring up in the UKYP.
 One of our members is an MYP so it's a possibility.

Definitely, if I can help at all, speaking to people, writing letters, 
doing talks, please do drop me mail.

You should probably join our mailing list too...
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dfey-nw-discuss

We're fairly northwest UK centric at the moment, but I'm hoping this 
will change fairly soon...  :)

I'd be really interested to know how it goes with the council.. in fact 
if you get the chance, drop into #dfey on freenode - a few of us have 
done similar things in the past, I think.

Cheers

Tim


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

[Tim Dobson]

It's naive to think that the .mov file extension refers to it being in a 
nonfree video format.

Actually the reason get_iplayer can get the video is because the iphone 
(possibly one of the most drm'd devices in the world) couldnt support 
Windows media DRM so they made it h.264 codec video.

You can find out more about this part of BBC iplayer here: 
http://beebhack.wikia.com

You can find out about licencing issues of the h.264 codec here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patents_and_GNU_Free_Software_license

Just to reiterate, the decoding implementation for GNU/Linux the H.264 
codec, which is used in the .mov files is freely licenced.

There may be patent implications with regards to the format in the UK, 
but at this moment, it's not very clear...

Tim


=== Own opinions only ===



Harry Rickards wrote:
 
 On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com  
 wrote:
 
 On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards  
 hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote:

 On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:

 I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme Click broadcast this
 weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection,
 they
 used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good
 advert for Ubuntu.
 Just out of interest, how long did it take?
 It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that
 the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of  
 choosing
 the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution
 server, so one can
 put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good.

 If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you
 can download the episode
 with

 get_iplayer --get 128   (expires on the 10th May)

 Simos

 
 What format does this download in, and will ffmpeg convert it to ogg  
 theora + vorbis okay (I assume it's some proprietary format with DRM  
 on)? I only ask as I refuse to watch non FLOSS codec video when I'm on  
 a device that can handle it.
 
 Many thanks
 Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)
 


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

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Sean Miller wrote:
 Why are Linux people so territorial??
 
 Any attempts I make in Somerset to organise a release party for
 something like Ubuntu gets folks saying can't be doing with that -
 Debian's the only decent distro or Sorry, that's one of those Debian
 derivitives isn't it?  apt-get reallys gets to me... give me Red Hat
 and yum any day.  Or the secret to life, the universe and everything
 is SuSE (they think late that, honest!)

It seems some parts of the Ubuntu community aren't completely exempt 
from the territorial bit either. :(

My advice would be to organise something that is going to happen anyway 
(ie don't give them a , publicise it, and mention that **everyone** is 
welcome. If at the end of the day, you have a measured discussion about 
the pros and cons of different distros, at least you have gathered 
something of value and found some common ground.

 We should surely be celebrating every Linux release, rather than
 forming into camps -- but it does seem that people get very tied to
 their own particular favourite distro.

Exactly. Ultimately we are all in the same boat, ultimately we share 
similar values.

When people start supporting distros like people blindly support 
football teams, they lose sight of the fundamental basics behind the 
whole thing.

In the context of football, this would be to stop caring about the 
football itself and simply focus on one upping supporters of the other 
team.

In the context of GNU/Linux, this would be forgetting what has drawn us 
all together.

Good luck with your event, I know several people who would probably be 
interested in Dorset, so make sure you forward it to the right place :) 
(I think it's Dorest LUG?!)

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

[Tim Dobson]

Andrew Williams wrote:
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/

Other people took photos too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ubuntumcr/

Use the #ubuntumcr tag on your content!

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[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software Talk: green h consulting, a social venture using free software

[Tim Dobson]

Anyone coming to the Jaunty release party later on this week might also 
be interested in this:

Hope to see you there!

Tim :)

 Original Message 
Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: Manchester Free Software Talk: green h 
consulting, a social venture using free software
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:54:14 +0100
From: Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com
To: Manchester Free Software fsuk-manches...@nongnu.org

As someone else pointed out, I forgot to mention the date!

It's this Tuesday, 21st April (tomorrow). Please respond if you can
come along. It promises to be a really interesting talk and I know
that Des is keen to hear questions and comments from people.

2009/4/19 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com:
 This month's talk be given by Des Gregory from greenh [1], a
 with-permission-free-franchise-social-enterprise based in Manchester.
 They sell low cost, reconditioned computers to communities, schools
 and low businesses (to name but a few), earning money for Ubuntu
 'techies' in the process.

 [1] http://www.greenh.co.uk/

 PLEASE READ THE DETAILS ABOUT A CHANGE OF LOCATION!

 Location
 --
 There has been a delay in confirming location this month, hence the
 late email! We are hoping to have the talk at the BBC building on
 Oxford Road again [2]. However, we are still awaiting confirmation of
 this and if we don't get the room we will meet in Bar Odder just
 across the road instead [3].

 Assuming we meet at the BBC, access is via the front entrance
 (including disabled access), where someone will meet you in the
 reception area.

 As usual the talk will start at 7pm and it will end around 8.30pm.
 There will be refreshments available from a vending machine.

 Due to fire regulations we need to know in advance the names of people
 who will be there (it's a secure building), so if you think you will
 be coming please reply to this email or email
 t...@manchester.fsuk.org.

 [2] New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ
 [3] http://www.oddbar.co.uk/odder/index

 General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
 found on our web site [3].

 [3] http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Work Experience

[Tim Dobson]

Josh Holland wrote:
 Sorry if this is very late notice, but I would like to ask if any
 Midlands-based companies would be able to take me on for work
 experience related to computers this summer.

Heya

Sadly I can't help out here this time, but you should definitely come 
and hang on on #dfey a bit.
DFEY-NW has very good connections with industry in the northwest but the 
occasional things else where do come to our attention.

It'd be good to see you around sometime.

Tim Dobson

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[ubuntu-uk] [ANN] DFEY-NW :: 25th April @ BBC Manchester

[Tim Dobson]

Details for the next DFEY-NW are enclosed... Please forward this to 
anybody or any lists you think might be interested.

===

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education  Youth - North West) is a group 
focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world, 
based in the Northwest of England at the moment.

When
   Saturday April 25th 2009 12:30pm - ~4:00pm

Where
   BBC Manchester, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ
   Photo: http://tiny.pl/z7bf
   Map: http://tiny.pl/z7b1
   Nearest train station: Manchester Oxford Road (3 mins walking distance)

Attending?
   Due to BBC restrictions, you need to tell us: 
http://dfeynw4.eventbrite.com/
   or feel free to email us on t...@nw.dfey.org to let us know you are 
coming...

Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty' Release Party
   The day before the meeting is the Ubuntu release party in Manchester.
   It looks like it's going to be a load of fun. Maybe see you there?
   Details: http://is.gd/sKLf

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and a Great Grandma. A great story.

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Philip Wyett wrote:
 OK, I scrolled back through my email and see it has been posted. Wish
 some users would keep up. ;-)

Sadly I didn't see this the first time, so thanks anyway! :)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party

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Lucy wrote:
 2009/4/7 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com:
 A) I'd Digg that!
 
 I don't use digg, but cool :)

fsdaily.com ftw!


 Good idea. I'll create a poster this weekend - I know that the
 community have made similar ones available so it shouldn't be
 difficult. I'll let you know when it's available for printing ;)

If you need a hand getting things printed give me a shout. :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two

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Alan Pope wrote:
 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/
 
 Feedback and suggestion as ever are always welcome!

woop woop Manchester Jaunty Release party plugged. :D

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release party speaker or link up

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Lucy wrote:
 It would be great if someone from Canonical could come up to
 Manchester to give a talk at the release party. I don't know if any
 Canonical employees or Ubuntu developers already live in the North
 West?
 
 If not, assuming that the London party is on the same night, would it
 be possible to arrange a live link up, just so we can say hello to
 everyone?

I'm happy to setup ekiga at the manchester end...

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party

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Lucy wrote:
 2009/3/25 Gordon Allott gordall...@gmail.com:
 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:57 +, Lucy wrote:
 I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has
 booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the
 Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will  start at 7pm and
 go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another
 pub on Oxford Road).
 Fantastic news, plenty of rail connections to oxford road so that
 shouldn't be a problem. what about projectors/speakers? it might be nice
 to have a showing of big buck bunny or something
 (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ - open source short film made with open
 source software on ubuntu machines)
 
 That's good idea. There's a projector and free wifi available. I'll
 try to remember to bring a copy, but if someone with a better laptop
 could bring theirs along that would be great too.

Well, I'll be bringing my Ee too but it may be busy ekigaing to the 
world or doing other things etc.

 Someone mentioned about having a local apt repository. Is it possible
 someone could set that up on their laptop before the day?

My netbook has a 20GB SSD. This is not enough for a repository afaik 
though IIRC someone suggested apt-cache and I forget how that works.

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Ubuntu Release Party

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Lucy wrote:
 Okay, I've spoken to someone at BBC Manchester and it's possible that
 we will be able to use the BBC bar inside the BBC building on Oxford
 Road. What do people think of this idea?
 
 The advantages are: it will be quiet, it's likely that we will have
 the bar to ourselves. It has free wifi and projectors should we chose
 to use them. It's in a central location and very easy to get to. It
 also has the usual advantages of a pub.

oh. Very nice.

Whenever I've been to Manchester Werewolf Chapter[1] in the BBC bar it's 
been very pleasant and seemed reasonably priced. I'm very happy with the 
BBC.

Maybe we could setup a local repository or something for extra quick 
jaunty updates

Tim

[1] http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1844563/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Ubuntu Release Party

[Tim Dobson]

Simon Wears wrote:
 Quick question - are these locations mentioned in the city center ? I  
 haven't heard of them before!

Yes, they all are. I strongly recommend joining some of the local 
mailing lists as meetings and events happen in the city centre all the time.

I'm sure, whereever we choose, we'll be able to come up with some 
directions for those who don't know the city or are coming a long way..

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

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people wrote:

I'm from South Manchester, Cheshire, etc.

Are people aware of the existence of:

Manchester Free Software Group - http://manchester.fsuk.org
Manchester Linux User Group - http://manlug.org
#manlug Currybeer Social - http://manlug.org.uk
DFEY-NW - Digital Freedom in Education and Youth North West - 
http://nw.dfey.org
South Cheshire Lug - http://www.sc.lug.org.uk/
Preston LUG - http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/preston
Liverpool LUG - http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool

Maybe collaborate with one of these groups?

Cheers,

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games

[Tim Dobson]

I used to hang out on openarena.
Now days I do things like sleep, but if you you like that kind of game 
its there.
Both my parents are horrifically addicted to ksirtet (tetris).

There's a old, but good review that made slashdot of the best Free 
Software games... go look it up. :)

Tim

red wrote:
 Hi
 
 Is there any Linux gamers out there?
 
 My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games?
 
 Rik
 


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

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Alan Pope wrote:
 2009/3/15 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk:
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/highfield_quits_kangaroo/

 Ashley Highfield (Ex-BBC Iplayer boss) now works for MS.  I seem to
 recall that the latest appointee of the BBC's media division is an ex
 MS UK employee.

 
 I wonder how many potential recruits to that role, at that level, with
 the necessary experience would also fall into the group have once
 worked at Microsoft.
 
 If you use Flash (or AIR which seems to run perfectly on Ubuntu for
 iPlayer and Google Analytics) then cross-platform gaming should be easy.

 
 As a parent I can testify that the _vast_ majority of kids content on
 the BBC website is indeed already in various versions of flash. Some
 older video is real format but that's gone out of fashion of late.
 
 Of course neither of those platforms are open, but then if you're
 downloading a closed source game from bbc.co.uk, all bets are off in
 terms of 'I only want free software on my computers'. Fail at multiple
 levels there.
 
 What the BBC _should_ be doing of course is commissioning new Free
 software projects. Rather than having great swathes of code on their
 site that nobody can improve upon, and will eventually die off and
 become unusable when the various versions of flash, air, real (and so
 on) are no longer supported by the vendors.

Sorry but I have to defend the bbc here.

firstly bbc.co.uk/opensource  - dirac video codec is free software at 
the beebs hands as is kamelia - the python framework and other things.

There are people in the BBC who are doing amazing work promoting free 
software and open standards within the organisation - this needs to be 
recognised in discussions like this.

One example that springs particularly in my mind: 
http://welcomebackstage.com/2008/11/george-wright-responds-to-backstage-questions/

There are policy makers and content producers who cause big problems for 
free software advocates in the beeb - these are the people who writing 
to people get to (also write to content producers association who are 
equally to blame for DRM and subsequently Adobe Air etc.)

If you have some cool technical ideas though, you might be interested in 
the BBC Backstage mailing list or the Backstage Idea thingy:

http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/mailinglists
http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/

There are good people in the BBC, lets try and work with them rather 
than flaming the organisation... :)

teflon suit :)

Cheers

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

[Tim Dobson]

Rowan Berkeley wrote:
 I have an awful lot of short music videos (non-interactive), I mean
 scores and scores of them, which I downloaded from YouTube in flash
 format and converted to .mp4 format. I felt that this would be a more
 versatile format for video jukebox type use on unknown machines in the
 future (like my eleven thousand plus .mp3 music files, I keep them on an
 external hard drive) -- but I could have been completely wrong.

you are aware of sudo apt-get install clive?

I use that for youtube stuff


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

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Tim Dobson wrote:

 If you have some cool technical ideas though, you might be interested in 
 the BBC Backstage mailing list or the Backstage Idea thingy:

take a look down here: 
http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/most_popular_ever/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

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Matt Jones wrote:
 However, would it have been possible to create such a thing in an
 entirely FOSS manner? 

I haven't looked at the game play of the controversial game, but maybe 
blender? Apricot project - apricot.blender.org is completely F/LOSS.

I'm not a games dev, or anything like that, so whether or not it would 
be feasible (not to mention desirable) is a good question.

It would be amazingly cool to see them developing on a platform like 
that though! :)

Tim

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

[Tim Dobson]

Alan Pope wrote:
 2009/3/16 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net:
 Sorry but I have to defend the bbc here.

 
 I wasn't knocking the BBC, merely musing on the current situation and
 where I'd like to see them go in the future. There was no ill intent
 meant on my part towards the BBC.

My post wasn't directed personally at you, but at the thread, sorry if 
it felt that way! :)

 
 If you have some cool technical ideas though, you might be interested in
 the BBC Backstage mailing list or the Backstage Idea thingy:

 http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/mailinglists
 http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/

 
 I am registered user number 4 on that site :)

:)

 There are good people in the BBC, lets try and work with them rather
 than flaming the organisation... :)

 
 I fail to see how I was flaming, but hey ho.

I just felt the conversation was a bit one sided and could do with 
broadening.

I have been in the BBC Manchester RD department and they have extensive 
numbers of posters on the corridor walls of cool things they have done 
with free software. DRM'd Iplayer and this game, non-free software is 
bad - but I wouldn't say it is characteristic, of the BBC, as was 
suggested earlier on.

Tim

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[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [GeekUp] Got anything cool to share about Free/Open Source Software? Sheffield University FSS is after speakers!]

[Tim Dobson]

anyone interested? they are a great bunch of people!

 Original Message 
Subject: [GeekUp] Got anything cool to share about Free/Open Source 
Software? Sheffield University FSS is after speakers!
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:51:17 +
From: Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.com
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To: gee...@googlegroups.com


Hello everyone, as some of you may know I'm in charge of the University of
Sheffield's Free Software Society, and we're on the lookout for speakers 
who
have something interesting to share related to Free Software, Open Source,
digital rights and that kind of thing. We're pretty much all students, with
computer literacy ranging from browsing the Web up to hardcore hackers, and
we're pretty flexible with regards to length and dates.

If you're interested then please feel free to contact me either at
chriswa...@gmail.com or the society address of f...@sheffield.ac.uk.

Thanks,
Chris Warburton

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