From hickey444 at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 16 19:48:25 2007 From: hickey444 at yahoo.co.uk (Leo Hickey) Date: Wed Jan 17 06:55:43 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] UK PHP Conference Feb 23rd 2007 Message-ID: <45AD2C09.5010903@yahoo.co.uk> Some of you may be interested in the following: The 2007 UK PHP Conference will take place at The Keyworth Centre, London, SE1 0AA on Friday, 23 February. Tickets are £50 for the day, available from: http://phpconference.co.uk/ Speakers: - Cal Evans from Zend on mashups. - Simon Laws from IBM on Service Component Architecture (SCA) for Web Services - Kevlin Henney doing an object masterclass. - Rasmus Lerdorf - Fast and Rich Web Applications with PHP 5 The event does sell out, so please make sure you register early if you wish to attend. From mail-lists at karan.org Thu Feb 15 20:37:29 2007 From: mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh) Date: Sun Feb 18 09:35:31 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [Gllug] [ANNOUNCE] GLLUG Meeting Thursday 22nd Feb - Puppet, beer and curry Message-ID: <45D4C489.5040006@karan.org> Hi everyone, The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd Feb, starting at 19:00hrs and we have Luke Kanies talking about Puppet. We will be meeting at the Fotango offices ( http://www.fotango.com/contact_us.htm ) and need to be out by 20:45. ----- About the talk : Puppet is a configuration management framework capable of Puppet is a system administration automation framework, written entirely in Ruby. The big difference between Puppet and other frameworks is that Puppet provides an abstraction layer between the sysadmin and all of those messy operating system details -- instead of caring about how useradd or crontab work, you talk about users and cron jobs, and Puppet will figure out how to create or modify the objects as necessary. This allows you to focus on data specification, and Puppet translates the specification into functional operating system details. Project page : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html ----- About Luke : Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project. ----- After the talk + q & a we will head off to a local Pub ( Recommended by the london.pm folk ) The Masque Haunt. It's a Wetherspoons pub, but should fit the entire group in it. ( http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4959/Masque_Haunt/Old_Street ) Some of us will be heading off for a Curry after, everyone is welcome to join in. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug@gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug From lists at frasco.org.uk Sun Feb 18 13:41:48 2007 From: lists at frasco.org.uk (Frank Scott) Date: Sun Feb 18 13:41:18 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Test ignore Message-ID: <20070218134147.GA1648@frasco.org.uk> Test to see if announce list is working! There seems to be some problems. -- .^. .''`. /V\ : ;` : Frank Scott Sutton, London /( )\ `. ''` ^^ ^^ `- From lists at frasco.org.uk Sun Feb 18 14:37:04 2007 From: lists at frasco.org.uk (Frank Scott) Date: Sun Feb 18 14:34:59 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] GLLUG Meeting Thursday 22nd Feb - Puppet, beer and curry Message-ID: <20070218143704.GB1648@frasco.org.uk> Fwd: Hi everyone, The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd Feb, starting at 19:00hrs and we have Luke Kanies talking about Puppet. We will be meeting at the Fotango offices ( http://www.fotango.com/contact_us.htm ) and need to be out by 20:45. ----- About the talk : Puppet is a configuration management framework capable of Puppet is a system administration automation framework, written entirely in Ruby. The big difference between Puppet and other frameworks is that Puppet provides an abstraction layer between the sysadmin and all of those messy operating system details -- instead of caring about how useradd or crontab work, you talk about users and cron jobs, and Puppet will figure out how to create or modify the objects as necessary. This allows you to focus on data specification, and Puppet translates the specification into functional operating system details. Project page : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html ----- About Luke : Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project. ----- After the talk + q & a we will head off to a local Pub ( Recommended by the london.pm folk ) The Masque Haunt. It's a Wetherspoons pub, but should fit the entire group in it. ( http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4959/Masque_Haunt/Old_Street ) Some of us will be heading off for a Curry after, everyone is welcome to join in. - KB -- From mail-lists at karan.org Thu Feb 22 11:32:58 2007 From: mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh) Date: Thu Feb 22 11:29:57 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Reminder: GLLUG Meeting Thursday 22nd Feb - Puppet, beer and curry Message-ID: <45DD7F6A.4030009@karan.org> Hi everyone, The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd Feb, starting at 19:00hrs and we have Luke Kanies talking about Puppet. We will be meeting at the Fotango offices ( http://www.fotango.com/contact_us.htm ) and need to be out by 20:45. ----- About the talk : Puppet is a system administration automation framework, written entirely in Ruby. The big difference between Puppet and other frameworks is that Puppet provides an abstraction layer between the sysadmin and all of those messy operating system details -- instead of caring about how useradd or crontab work, you talk about users and cron jobs, and Puppet will figure out how to create or modify the objects as necessary. This allows you to focus on data specification, and Puppet translates the specification into functional operating system details. Project page : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html ----- About Luke : Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project. ----- After the talk + q & a we will head off to a local Pub ( Recommended by the london.pm folk ) The Masque Haunt. It's a Wetherspoons pub, but should fit the entire group in it. ( http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4959/Masque_Haunt/Old_Street ) Some of us will be heading off for a Curry after, everyone is welcome to join in. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq From dan at eco.li Sat Mar 17 00:57:30 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Sat Mar 17 00:55:40 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [ANNOUNCE] GLLUG Meeting Saturday 24th March Message-ID: <20070317005729.GA2122@hades.eco.li> Hi all, The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Saturday 24th March, starting around 1.30pm, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cavendish/Map.htm or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 NOTE: You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. At this event we have the following speakers/features: * Pete Ryland Pete Ryland will present a talk/tutorial on his new Python GUI Library * David Harris David Harris (http://www.geeklawyer.org/blog/) will be talking about legal issues relevant to geeks * Lightning talks We plan to run a set of lightning talks of no more than 10 minutes each, including questions. If you have a particular favourite topic which you would like to share, then please feel free to turn up and talk. It would be helpful, but not necessary, to email me beforehand with a topic. As usual, we shall decant to a nearby pub for drinks and food after the meeting. Dan From dan at eco.li Sat Mar 17 00:57:30 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Sat Mar 17 11:14:16 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [Gllug] [ANNOUNCE] GLLUG Meeting Saturday 24th March Message-ID: <20070317005729.GA2122@hades.eco.li> Hi all, The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Saturday 24th March, starting around 1.30pm, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cavendish/Map.htm or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 NOTE: You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. At this event we have the following speakers/features: * Pete Ryland Pete Ryland will present a talk/tutorial on his new Python GUI Library * David Harris David Harris (http://www.geeklawyer.org/blog/) will be talking about legal issues relevant to geeks * Lightning talks We plan to run a set of lightning talks of no more than 10 minutes each, including questions. If you have a particular favourite topic which you would like to share, then please feel free to turn up and talk. It would be helpful, but not necessary, to email me beforehand with a topic. As usual, we shall decant to a nearby pub for drinks and food after the meeting. Dan -------------- next part -------------- -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug@gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug From dan at eco.li Sun Mar 18 01:13:53 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Sun Mar 18 01:09:00 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Re: [Gllug] [ANNOUNCE] GLLUG Meeting Saturday 24th March In-Reply-To: <20070317005729.GA2122@hades.eco.li> References: <20070317005729.GA2122@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <20070318011353.GQ11666@hades.eco.li> Hi all, In addition to the speakers mentioned in the previous mail, we've just confirmed another speaker: * Steve McIntyre, currently the Debian Second In Charge, will be talking about the Debian project. In order to accommodate the three speakers plus lightning talks, the first talk will be starting at 1.30pm, and we shall do our best to make sure the talks don't overrun. Dan From dan at eco.li Fri Mar 23 16:27:06 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Fri Mar 23 16:25:48 2007 Subject: [Gllug-announce] [ANNOUNCE] REMINDER: GLLUG Meeting Saturday 24th March Message-ID: <20070323162706.GA20469@hades.eco.li> Hi all, Just a reminder that the next GLLUG meeting will take place on Saturday 24th March, starting at 1.30pm, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. This is in the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/cavendish/Map.htm or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 NOTE: You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. At this event we have the following speakers/features: * Pete Ryland Pete Ryland will present a talk/tutorial on his new Python GUI Library * David Harris David Harris (http://www.geeklawyer.org/blog/) will be talking about legal issues relevant to geeks * Steve McIntyre Steve, currently the Debian Second in Charge, will be talking about Debian matters * Lightning talks We plan to run a set of lightning talks of no more than 10 minutes each, including questions. As usual, we shall decant to a nearby pub for drinks and food after the meeting. Dan From sunil at sdas.orangehome.co.uk Wed Sep 5 14:55:00 2007 From: sunil at sdas.orangehome.co.uk (Sunil Das) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:55:00 +0100 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Linux Desktop talk 26/09/2007 Message-ID: <009801c7efc4$5ac2c1d0$4e01a8c0@user094p4s44cb> Michael Meeks - Distinguished Engineer at Novell ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Linux Desktop, present and future" ------------------------------------------------------------ A light-hearted look at the desktop, from past to present, to Novell's role, and vision. Michael will prod some of the new toys coming into the desktop, from promising technologies to curvaceous applications, and meditate on the wonders of our new on-line world. Michael will shamelessly plug whatever project is interesting today, and attempt to wildly extrapolate the near future, for people's amusement - to rob Gascoigne: "I never predict anything, and I never will!". Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He very much enjoys working for Novell where as a member of the Desktop research team he has worked on desktop infrastructure and applications, particularly the CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things. He now works full time leading the OpenOffice.org team. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UKUUG and Gold Sponsor Member Novell invite the Linux and Open Source community, and other interested parties to an evening talk: TIME: 6:45pm for a 7:00pm start DATE: Wednesday 26th September 2007 VENUE: University College London, Cruciform Building (Lecture Theatre 2), Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE. More information at the UKUUG website: http://www.ukuug.org/events/agm2007/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug-announce/attachments/20070905/8aeefec1/attachment.htm From dan at eco.li Wed Sep 19 12:01:21 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:01:21 +0100 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Gllug meeting, 22nd September Message-ID: <20070919110121.GF3923@hades.eco.li> There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 22nd September, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting at 2pm. This venus is on the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. We've currently got three speakers lined up: Cillian de Roiste - video editing on Linux Andrew Mulholland - Joost (TBC) Steven Goodwin - The dichotomy of computer games and open source There should also be time to fit in a few lightning talks (absolutely no more than 10 minutes including questions). If anyone has a favourite topic they'd like to talk about in 10 minutes or less, please let me know. There will also be a sub-meeting just after the talks about the potential of hosting a Community Linux event in London. Everyone is welcome to join in. More details in the thread of the Gllug list at http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2007-September/069583.html As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub. Dan -- Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, But it's very funny-- Did you ever try buying them without money? -- Ogden Nash From dan at eco.li Fri Sep 21 17:56:01 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:56:01 +0100 Subject: [Gllug-announce] Reminder: Gllug Meeting, 22nd September (change to speakers) Message-ID: <20070921165601.GY3923@hades.eco.li> Just a quick reminder that there will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 22nd September, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting at 2pm. Unfortunately, one of our speakers has had to pull out at the last minute. However, Jason Clifford has generously offered to step in at the last minute. This venus is on the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. We've currently got three speakers lined up: Cillian de Roiste - video editing on Linux Jason Clifford - UKFSN: upgrading & expanding an established platform, and a new plan to establish a UK Free Software Charity Steven Goodwin - The dichotomy of computer games and open source There should also be time to fit in a few lightning talks (absolutely no more than 10 minutes including questions). There will also be a sub-meeting just after the talks about the potential of hosting a Community Linux event in London. Everyone is welcome to join in. More details in the thread of the Gllug list at http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2007-September/069583.html As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub. Dan From Sunil at sdas.orangehome.co.uk Tue Oct 2 19:02:07 2007 From: Sunil at sdas.orangehome.co.uk (Sunil Das) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:02:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Gllug-announce] Databases and the Web - 16th October 2007 Message-ID: <19259513.377441191348127389.JavaMail.www@wwinf3103> UKUUG announces the first in a series of one-day seminars. For more information including speaker abstracts and biographies see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/seminars/databases/ "Databases and the Web" Tuesday 16th October 2007. 9:30 - 5pm Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB Provisional Schedule: MySQL Database for HighAvailability Web Applications - Tushar Joshi PostgreSQL Web Projects: From Start to Finish - Simon Riggs Tuning Tips for Linux and AIX to run a Database - Nigel Griffiths Introducing Oracle Application Express - Julian Lane DB2 on Linux for Web Development - John Pickford iPlayer Server-Side: The Evolution of an XML Tool-Chain - Matthew Browning From dan at eco.li Fri Oct 26 17:37:09 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:37:09 +0100 Subject: [Gllug-announce] ANNOUNCE: Gllug meeting, 10th November, Westminster University Message-ID: <20071026163709.GC19375@hades.eco.li> There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 10th November, at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting at 1.30pm. This venue is under the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a map at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. We've got three speakers lined up: * Armijn Hemel - UPnP (in)Security. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is becoming an omnipresent technology and support for it is being added to more and more routers, gateways and DSL modems. Chat clients (MSN Messenger), networked games and gaming networks (X-Box Live and others) depend on UPnP to work correctly. Up until now, there haven't been any real problems with UPnP, except for the occasional buffer overflow. UPnP seems to be working just fine. But it's not! The protocol is unclear and flawed by design and many implementations have security holes you can drive a truck through, leaving your network open to a variety of interesting attacks. * Karanbir Singh - automated systems provisioning with Cobbler and CentOS. A brief intro to cobbler itself and then a live demo on setting up real machines and Xen + VMware virtual machines. Cobbler is a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized installs using Xen or KVM. Cobbler uses a helper program called 'Koan' (which interacts with Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support. * Rich Jones - hacking a FORTH Compiler on public transport There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the last speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10 minutes or less. As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub. Dan From lists at frasco.org.uk Tue Nov 6 17:07:41 2007 From: lists at frasco.org.uk (Frank Scott) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:07:41 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-announce] REMINDER GLLUG meeting 10th November Westminster University In-Reply-To: <20071026163709.GC19375@hades.eco.li> References: <20071026163709.GC19375@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <20071106170741.GB22448@frasco.org.uk> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:37:09PM +0100, Dan Kolb wrote: > There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 10th November, at the New Cavendish > Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting at > 1.30pm. > > This venue is under the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube stations are > Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a map at > http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 > > You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the building. > > We've got three speakers lined up: > > * Armijn Hemel - UPnP (in)Security. > > Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is becoming an omnipresent technology and > support for it is being added to more and more routers, gateways and DSL > modems. Chat clients (MSN Messenger), networked games and gaming networks > (X-Box Live and others) depend on UPnP to work correctly. Up until now, there > haven't been any real problems with UPnP, except for the occasional buffer > overflow. UPnP seems to be working just fine. But it's not! The protocol is > unclear and flawed by design and many implementations have security holes you > can drive a truck through, leaving your network open to a variety of > interesting attacks. > > * Karanbir Singh - automated systems provisioning with Cobbler and CentOS. A > brief intro to cobbler itself and then a live demo on setting up real machines > and Xen + VMware virtual machines. > > Cobbler is a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network > installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs > can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized installs using Xen > or KVM. Cobbler uses a helper program called 'Koan' (which interacts with > Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support. > > * Rich Jones - hacking a FORTH Compiler on public transport > > There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the last > speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10 minutes or > less. > > As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub. > -- .^. .''`. /V\ : ;` : Frank Scott Sutton, London /( )\ `. ''` ^^ ^^ `- From dan at eco.li Fri Nov 9 17:18:26 2007 From: dan at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:18:26 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-announce] REMINDER November 10th GLLUG meeting - update! In-Reply-To: <20071106170355.GA22448@frasco.org.uk> References: <20071106170355.GA22448@frasco.org.uk> Message-ID: <20071109171826.GW19375@hades.eco.li> Unfortunately, one of our speakers has had to pull out at the last minute, due to a family matter. This does mean that we have a slot free. If anyone fancies giving a last-minute talk, then please come along to the University around 1.15 - there will be people setting up the projector around that time: give one of them a shout. The remaining details are the same, and follow: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:03:55PM +0000, Frank Scott wrote: > Reminder of Dan's post :- > > There will be a Gllug meeting on Saturday 10th November, at the New > Cavendish > Street campus of Westminster University, with the first speaker starting > at > 1.30pm. > > This venue is under the shadow of the BT Tower; the nearest tube > stations are > Great Portland Street, Warren Street, and Goodge Street. You will find a > map at > http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679 or at http://shorterlink.org/1882 > > You will need to sign in at the front desk to gain access to the > building. > > We've got three speakers lined up: > > * Armijn Hemel - UPnP (in)Security. > > Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is becoming an omnipresent technology and > support for it is being added to more and more routers, gateways and DSL > modems. Chat clients (MSN Messenger), networked games and gaming > networks > (X-Box Live and others) depend on UPnP to work correctly. Up until now, > there > haven't been any real problems with UPnP, except for the occasional > buffer > overflow. UPnP seems to be working just fine. But it's not! The protocol > is > unclear and flawed by design and many implementations have security > holes you > can drive a truck through, leaving your network open to a variety of > interesting attacks. > > * Rich Jones - hacking a FORTH Compiler on public transport > > There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the > last > speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10 > minutes or > less. > > As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub. --