WYLUG

Our next meeting will be on Monday 14 July 2008 in Leeds University’s Stoner Building.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance.

The meeting officially starts at 7.00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30pm.

Talk: Linux – Is it ready for work?

Linux has moved forward in great leaps over the last two or three
years regarding user friendliness. Installation is easy and the range
of applications designed to enhance business processes has grown
rapidly in quantity and quality.
Mike Goodman will introduce how Linux is being used in micro businesses
currently, which applications are most popular in his experience, and
lead a discussion on how we can go on to encourage further use in this
sector.

Location:

Directions:

• Getting to Leeds and Leeds University.
• Campus Map showing entrances and car parks.
• Location of E. C. Stoner Building on Campus.

We’re holding an Open Streep Map micro-mapping party followed by a general WYLUG social this Sunday, 22nd June 2008.

Open Street Map micro-mapping session – 2pm-6pm (ish)

Meet at the Wetherspoons/Becketts Bank pub on Park
Row, Leeds at 2pm. We’ll assign areas and equipments
once we see how many people turn up. (If you can, bring along a GPS
receiver and a laptop – also, don’t forget a notepad/camera/dictaphone
to record streetnames and landmarks along the way.)

We’ll try to assign city centre areas to people on foot and those
with transport might end up mapping slightly further afield.

After a couple of hours of mapping, we’ll meet back at Becketts Bank
around 5pm for a review of how it’s gone and to start downloading the
data for editing etc.

Newcomers and experienced mappers are both very welcome to attend –
if you’ve not mapped before, we should be able to pair you up with
someone more experienced or give you some pointers to get tou started
before you head out.

• Park Row on OpenStreetMap – Becketts Bank is between Greek Street and Bedford Street as marked with the beer sign on the map

WYLUG Social – from 7pm (ish)

Meet in the Scarbrough Hotel from
7pm.

Anyone who’s attended before or been to the pub after a WYLUG meeting
will know what to expect. It’s just an informal get together, with no
particular agenda. Given the participants the topics of conversation
tend to be fairly geeky 🙂

The Scarbrough Hotel is conveniently located right next to Leeds
train station, and serves a good range of ale, plus other drinks.

As always, all are welcome. If you’ve not been down to a WYLUG
before, just look out for the nice shiny penguin poster – or get in
touch beforehand and we’ll keep an eye out for you. 🙂

• The Scarbrough Hotel on OpenStreetMap

Our next meeting will be on Monday 09 June 2008 in Leeds University’s EC Stoner Building.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance (level 7, the side facing the Parkinson Tower).

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for geeky chatter.

Talk: Hadoop and Friends

Robert Burrell Donkin is going to give a talk on ‘Hadoop And Friends’:

Leaving clustering behind: scaling grids to utility computing and why this matters. A lightning tour of the emerging open source utility computing nexus: Hadoop, Lucene, Nutch, Solr, SmartFrog, Mahoot, Pig, Hama, Zookeeper. More than Java: a two minute introduction to MapReduce. Catch the wave: why now’s the right time to get involved and how to do it.

Location:

Directions:

• Getting to Leeds and Leeds University.
• Campus Map showing entrances and car parks.
• Location of EC Stoner Building on Campus.

Our next meeting will be on Monday 12 May 2008 in Leeds University’s Stoner Building.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance.

The meeting officially starts at 7.00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30pm.

Talk: Hardy Heron on the EeePC

Ubuntu’s new LTS version Hardy Heron was released last month and James Holden is going to give a talk on getting it to work on the EeePC.

• How to trial it on an SD card
• Backing up the existing OS
• Installation options (netboot, USB CD etc)
• Wireless support
• ACPI
• Sound
• External monitor
• Improving boot speed
• Fonts and cosmetic tweaks
• Visual effects

Location:

Directions:

• Getting to Leeds and Leeds University.
• Campus Map showing entrances and car parks.
• Location of E. C. Stoner Building on Campus.

Slides:

James’ slides can now be found on the WYLUG wiki in both OpenOffice Presentation (odp) and PDF formats.

Join us for beer and mapping in central Bradford (27 Feb 2008).

We will rendevous at the following locations and times:

• 6.00 p.m. ‘The Cock and Bottle’, BD3 9AA
• 7.00 p.m. ‘The Beehive’, BD1 3AA
• 8.00 p.m. ‘The Fighting Cock’, BD7 1JE

The idea is to plug a hole in the map, and get fairly inebriated at the same time.

It’s entirely informal, with no planning and no expectations.

After the OpenStreetMap talk earlier in the month, we’re holding a micro-mapping session before the WYLUG social this Sunday (24th February 2008).

OpenStreetMap micro-mapping session – 2pm-6pm (ish)

Meet at the Wetherspoons/Becketts Bank pub on Park Row, Leeds at 2pm. We’ll assign areas and equipments once we see how many people turn up. (If you can, bring along a GPS receiver and a laptop – also, don’t forget a notepad/camera/dictaphone to record streetnames and landmarks along the way.)

We’ll try to assign city centre areas to people on foot and those with transport might end up mapping slightly further afield.

After a couple of hours of mapping, we’ll meet back at Becketts Bank around 5pm for a review of how it’s gone and to start downloading the data for editing etc.

Newcomers are very welcome to attend – hopefully there will be a few experienced mappers around to show us what to do.

• Park Row on OpenStreetMap – Becketts bank is between Greek Street and

WYLUG Social – from 7pm (ish)

Informal social meet giving WYLUGers a chance to chat about FOSS, Linux and other generally geeky things over a few drinks at the Scarbrough Hotel, Leeds (across the road from the train station).

Kicks off around 7pm-ish and continues until we all go home (probably around last orders knowing us) 😉

Feel free to drop in for a drink at any time – we’ll have a shiny penguin poster to indicate who we are if you’ve not been down before.

• The Scarbrough Hotel on OpenStreetMap

I’ve just had confirmation that Jim Jackson can definitely open up the room for us (thanks, Jim).

The meeting will, therefore, definitely go ahead at the usual time and place (see details in the original announcement below).

It may be a brief affair, if no-one has much to say, with a swift departure to the pub.

Tom Hall is unable to deliver the planned talk, and we have yet to confirm a replacement.

In addition to that problem, we have also been unable to confirm that someone will be around to open the room at the University.

This warning is a only precaution. The meeting will go ahead, if we can open the room, and if someone volunteers to provide one or more, off-the-cuff, short talks.