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January 11th: Open Source in East African Hospitals

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 11th of January 2010 at Old Broadcasting House.

This month we’re fortunate enough to have a talk from Tim Schofield, who has spent much of the last 18 months implementing an open source solution in rural East African hospitals.

Tim will talk about some of the technical challenges and provide some entertaining “tales from Africa” anecdotes.

The talk will start at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map.

Update: The slides from the talk are available to download here: wylug-2010-01-11.odp

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November 9th: Icarus Project, high altitude automated photography

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 9th of November at Old Broadcasting House. The is talk by Robert Harrison about his Icarus Project “high altitude ballooning and photography”.

Robert sends cameras attached to helium weather balloons high into the stratosphere to take pictures of the Earth. An on-board computer takes pictures at timed intervals in various directions and then handles phoning home when it lands.

Icarus box

He’ll be talking to us about the challenges involved in designing and building these devices: GPS, HAM radio, nitrocellulose explosives and dealing with interest from the ministry of defence (they tend to notice unidentifiable devices 35,000 feet up above the Earth).

Robert will also be bringing along some of the stuff he’s launched for us to see.

The talk is open to all and starts at 7:00pm but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

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September 14th: LyX, LaTeX and TeX: Producing superior documents

Monday, September 7th, 2009

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 14th September at Old Broadcasting House. The talk is “LyX, LaTeX and TeX: Producing superior documents” by John R Hudson.

UPDATE: Attached a LyX LaTeX and TeX expanded notes PDF.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

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August 10th: The WYLUG Social – straight to the pub

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

August is traditionally the WYLUG social event, so no talks we just meet at the Victoria Hotel pub. We have “Albert’s Room” booked from 6.30pm until closing on Monday the 10th August. Everybody is welcome!

We’re currently looking for sponsorship for food (£7.50 per head for about 15 to 20 people) if anyone would like to volunteer. Otherwise we’ll probably go for a curry at Akhbar’s afterwards. We’ll post an update here if we get sponsorship in time.

Location:

Victoria Hotel
Great George St, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 3BB
Tel: 0113 245 1386

Directions:

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July 13th: Matthew Bloch on virtualisation with KVM

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Everything you always wanted to know about virtualisation but were afraid to ask”. It’ll be a brief tour through the systems and networking concepts that a jobbing sysadmin ought to know before thinking about using virtualisation for the first time, and the software options available (though focussing on KVM).

Matthew Bloch is the Managing Director of Bytemark Hosting, a geeky UK hosting company specializing in Linux and virtualisation. His commercial software experience previous to Bytemark was in PC emulation and Java VM implementations, and he continues to work on systems-level code within the company, as well as supervising its day-to-day operations. As yet he has not achieved his ambition of becoming a rock-star games programmer.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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Monday June 8th: Ian Lynch, INGOTs qualifications

Monday, June 8th, 2009

This month’s talk will be given by Ian Lynch. You may remember that Ian gave us a talk on OpenOffice.org a couple of years ago when he was education lead on the OOo project. Ian is director of new business development at The Learning Machine Ltd (TLM). TLM is an Awarding Body Accredited by Ofqual, DELLS and CCEA, the regulators for qualifications in England Wales and Northern Ireland. TLM is responsible for developing and managing a new and innovative family of qualifications called The INGOTs (International Grades – Open Technologies).

Ian will be talking about the INGOTs qualifications and, no doubt, many of the other things he does to further the goals of free software in the education arena.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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Monday May 11th: Change of speaker, Smylers on “When MYSQL bites”

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Chris Street is unwell today so Smylers has agreed to bring forward his talk from next month to this month.

When MySQL Bites: Quirks to Watch Out For

MySQL is a very popular DBMS.  Or rather, it’s very widely used, which is not necessarily the same thing.  It has quite a few quirks, behaviour that many people wouldn’t expect and which if you aren’t aware of can be the cause of much frustration, pain, and data loss.

In the hope that more people being aware of these infelicities will reduce the damage they can do, a collection of them is presented here, along with tips and techniques for dealing with them.

There’s also an examination of why so often the MySQL feature is tantalizingly only available in one version higher than the one you’re running.

For those that dont know, Smylers was a founding member of Wylug, and after a period exiled to London returned to Leeds last year when he persuaded his employer to invent a position for him.  So he’s now Hosting Analyst for web hosting and domain names provider Webfusion — a job title so vague he
pretty much gets to make it up as he goes along.  Previously he was Head of Perl Training at GBdirect, where he taught Perl to Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sony, and the Nationwide building society among others, and was the lead developer for top UK IT news website ‘The Register’.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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Monday 9th March 2009: Talk on HTML5 by Dave Fisher

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

HTML 5 – What’s New, Why It Matters, And What You Can Do With It
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1 New elements and attributes
2 Modified elements and attributes
3 Deprecated elements and attributes
4 Images and multimedia elements
* figure, audio, video and embed
5 Scripting
* Canvas and GUI scripting
* More support for web-apps
* Detailed DOM spec
6 Forms
* New controls
* Scripting support
7 Prescriptive browser behaviour
* Error handling, including invalid content
* Non-XML serialisation
* Rendering consistency

Dave’s last talk was superb and I am glad he has agreed to come back
so soon to do another.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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Monday Feb 9th – pfSense, a freeBSD based firewall distro

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

The talk is by Rob Goodair and is on pfSense, a very cool freeBSD firewall distro.

The meeting is on Monday 9th Feb and officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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WYLUG Monthly Meeting: Monday 12th January 2009

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The first meeting of 2009 is also the first meeting at our new venue, Old Broadcasting House

The meeting is on Monday 12th January and officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

The talk is still to be confirmed.

Location

Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map

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