EdLUG:Meetings
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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.
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Scheduled Talks
- 2008-12-04 - Greg on "Squeak Smalltalk"
Proposed Talks
- ????-??-?? - SambaXP 2007 (David Holder, uncomfirmed, no date yet)
- David Holder said from the far North-West of Scotland agreed he would like to present, perhaps to preview his SambaXP 2007 talk on Samba3/4 and IPv6.
- ????-??-?? - Introduction to AJAX, Al Broom has volunteered to give an introduction to AJAX programming. Or an introduction to blender3d
Past Talks
- 2008-11-06 - Jan Goulding 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:
- Faye looked at alternatives and sought suggestions
- Faye has access to a Uni room as often as required, free of charge. This is in the Geophysics building,
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.
