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EdLUG meets every first Thursday of the month, every month, at 19:30.

Meetings are held at the Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, St Marys Street, EH1. Tea, coffee, bikkies and FOSS.

Contents

Scheduled Talks

  • 2010-07-01 - Mark Dickie Asterisk PBX and VoIP - The future of telephony
            Mark will describe the capabilities of Asterisk PBX and how it can integrate with a variety of existing telephony systems as well as showing some example setups.
            Here are some of the points that will be covered
            • Quick glossary of telephony terms
            • Brief description of VoIP (protocols, and codecs)
            • Why is an open source telephony system important?
            • How to install Asterisk
            • Basics of the command line
            • How to make use of FreePBX (A web based Asterisk interface)
            • Examples of office PBX features
            • Examples of callcentre features
            • Clever features of Asterisk
            • Then finish with a Q/A session


Past Talks

  • 2010-06-03 - Arek Turlewicz - "MongoDB" Slides from presentation available here.
  • 2010-05-06 - James Carter - "Mono Project".
  • 2010-04-01 - Claudio Calvelli - "Implementing RFC4824". Robert McLay - "Linux Security Tools".
  • 2010-03-04 - Claudio Calvelli - "Roasting your Filesystem for Fun and Profit"
  • 2010-02-04 - Magnus Hagdorn - "Linux and High-Performance Computing".
  • 2010-01-07 - Pub (recovery from holidays)
  • 2009-12-03 - Christmas/Holiday Meal
  • 2009-11-05 - Pub (Holyrood Tavern)
  • 2009-10-01 - Outreach Meeting - Encouraging New Users - note: meeting starts at 6pm
  • 2009-09-03 - Robert MacLay - "Linux Malware"
  • 2009-08-06 - Pub - The Auld Hoose
  • 2009-07-02 - "Cloud Computing"
  • 2009-06-04 - Joe Barnett - "Raid"
  • 2009-05-07 - Andrew Smith - "An Introduction to ViM"
  • 2009-04-02 - Dan Shearer on "OpenChange - Open Source tools for interacting with MS Exchange"
  • 2009-03-05 - Mark Brown on "An Introduction to Debian"
  • 2009-02-05 - Rab McLay on "Linux on PDAs"
  • 2009-01-08 - meeting in the pub: The Auld Hoose to nurse those New Year hangovers
  • 2008-12-04 - Greg Lewin on "Squeak Smalltalk"
  • 2008-11-06 - Al Broom on "Linux ? It just works". Arkadiusz Turlewicz on "Nagios Monitoring"
  • 2008-10-02 - Alistair Marshall: "Rockbox, the Open Jukebox firmware"
  • 2008-09-04 - Main event: "The LaTeX Document Preparation System", Denise Wood; Short introduction: "Author-friendly Text Formatting Systems", Dan Shearer
  • 2008-08-07 - pub
  • 2008-07-03 - pub
  • 2008-06-05 - Introducing SME Server, Robert McLay; Demo and Background of Open Source Hardware, Alastair Bennett
  • 2008-05-01 - Arron M Finnon will talk about the OLPC project, with live demo of the XO
  • 2008-04-03 - PXE Booting, Robert McLay; Big Brother is Watching Your Shell, Claudio Calvelli
  • 2008-03-06 - pub
  • 2007-11-01 - Speed Talks - open to all. 5 mins on your favourite website, software, gadget or whatever. Live demos encouraged.
  • 2007-10-04 - Linux @ Ed Uni Informatics - creating infrastructure to support thousands of Linux desktops, Simon Wilkinson and Stephen Quinney, 4th October 2007.
  • 2007-09-06 - Ruby on Rails - Intro to RoR, with DB2 on Linux, Philip Nelson
  • 2007-08-02 - VPNs - Security's Magic Bullet, James Eaton-Lee
  • 2007-07-05 - Synthetic Biology, Alistair Marshall
  • 2007-06-07 - Openstreetmap, Chris Fleming
  • 2007-05-03 - Dealing with Spam under the law in the UK, by Gordon Dick announcement
  • 2007-04-27 - OpenLDAP, Present and Future by Howard Chu, Chief Architect, OpenLDAP (special extra meeting)
  • 2007-04-05 - Dan Shearer: Aspects of Rsync. Drummond Str 7:30pm April 5rd 2007 announcement

Format

This is more-or-less how it works out each month. There is a hard deadline for the venue though. Informality rules and good suggestions taken on the list or on the day.

17:00-19:00 Informal meeting in the Auld Hoose for food and preliminary drinks

19:15 Pre meeting coffee and biscuits in the Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, St Marys Str

19:30 The official meeting starts

20:15 Break (if its a longer talk) or end of formal talk

20:45 Anyone got something to say, laptop Linux fixit session, more coffee

21:30 The venue must be empty by 21:30.

Venue Discussions

This paragraph is now historical interest only. There's a solution that seems to be working well for now.

A thread started which established several things:

and has been used once. It is a good venue.

  • Some people felt (plus others referenced in emails unavailable to the archive) that having a presentation in a room followed by optional pubs/whatever afterwards would be good. Other people suggested alternative pubs.
  • Valley Technology offered sponsorship for tea/coffee/bikkies if a presentation venue can be found, with no attribution sought or wanted
  • Peter George has volunteered a room and computers at Net Resources however there is only room for twenty people. (No wheelchair access unfortunately).

Suggestions

It would be nice if you guys have upcoming.com or eventful account so I'm alerted when you meetings are taking place. I'm very keen to attend your next meeting and maybe in the future offer some meeting space. Jamie from Terinea.

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