There will be a FOSS meetup on Friday 27th November 2026, from 7pm until late, at The Masque Haunt, in Baker Street, called by Polarian on behalf of FSUG.uk.

Address:

168–172 Old Street, Old Street, Islington, EC1V 9BP

Just down the road from Old Street station, see map below:

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Time: Friday 27th November, from 7pm until late.

RSVP: not required.

Finding us on the day:

Polarian will wear the EuroBSDCon 2026 (Zagreb) tshirt (artwork can be seen here), and will dump a FOSS poster and some stickers on a table nearby. It’s not a reserved venue, so we will have to make do with what space is available on the day, and due to it being after work, it is likely to be busy.

There will be a FOSS meetup on Saturday 24th October 2026, at 1pm, at The George in Belsize Park, called by Polarian and Matthew Fennell!

Address:

250 Haverstock Hill Belsize Park Greater London England NW3 2AE

The Nearest station is Belsize Park, once leaving the station turn right and walk straight until you reach the pub.

The next nearest station is Hampstead Heath which is on Mildmay, which might be faster for some people living in North London. When you leave the station turn left and walk towards the royal free hospital, turn right until you reach Hampstead Green walk through Hampstead Green until you come out on the main road, then turn left and you should see the pub.

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Time: Saturday 24th October, 1pm onwards.

RSVP: not required.

Finding us on the day:

Polarian will wear the EuroBSDCon 2026 (Brussels) tshirt (artwork can be seen here), and will dump some stickers on the table. You can also look for the Beastie, the FreeBSD Mascot. We have not put a reservation into the venue, as we can’t predict the numbers which will turn up, however the pub is large and has decent beer on tap.

There will be a talk by Lars Wirzenius on The Early Days of Linux on 10 November at 6pm, at University College London. This talk is jointly organised by the UCL LUG and GLLUG.

Address:

Lecture Theatre G12,
1-19 Torrington Place (University College London),
London,
WC1E 7HN

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Time: 6 pm - 7:30 pm on Tuesday 10 November. Admission opens at 5:30 pm.

Registration: required - sign up here.

Thank you to Lars, Arun Isaac, UCL LUG and UCL itself for calling, organising and hosting this event!

There will be a FOSS meetup on Saturday 8th August 2026, at 1pm, at The Metropolitan Bar at Baker Street, called by Polarian!

Address:

The Metropolitan Bar,
7 Station Approach,
Marylebone Road,
NW1 5LD

Between the two underground station entrances.

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Time: Saturday 8th August, 1pm onwards.

RSVP: not required.

Finding us on the day:

Polarian will wear the EuroBSDCon 2024 (Dublin) tshirt (artwork can be seen here), and will dump some stickers on the table. It’s not a reserved venue, so we will have to make do with what space is available on the day.

As part of the FSF’s LibreLocal initiative, we’ll be meeting on Saturday 16th May, at midday, at Canada Water Library.

Join us for a casual chat about free software!

RSVP:

Please reply to this message or email me directly, so we know rough numbers.

Address:

Canada Water Library Meeting Room 1,
21 Surrey Quays Road,
SE16 7AR,
London

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Time: Saturday 16th May, midday - 4pm.

Finding us on the day:

At or after midday, head to the top floor and follow signs to meeting room 1. I’ll be wearing a plain purple tshirt and black tracksuit bottoms. I’ll also put a green toy dinosaur on our table. Email me if you can’t find us!

Happy new year all.

We will be meeting on Saturday 24th January, at 19:00, at Kings Cross Tandoori.

Anyone and everyone is welcome. If a casual chat about Linux and FOSS over a curry sounds fun, please come join us!

RSVP:

Please reply to this message or email Matthew directly by the end of 21 January so we know numbers for the booking.

Address:

Kings Cross Tandoori
341 Gray’s Inn Road
WC1X 8PX

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Time: Saturday 24th January, at 19:00

Hi all.

Welcome to the new site.

When Positive Internet contacted me last week letting me know I was using PHP 5.6 – which I subsequently realised went out of support about 7 years ago at this point – I had kind of forgotten I was responsible for the server.

In fact, given the site ran Wordpress, I was astounded the site hadn’t been done over.

Postivie Internet kindly let me know that the upgrade might cause Wordpress to break.

So I did what everyone should do in these situations and backed everything up.

But the server is still upgraded to pretty old versions of Debian, Apache and PHP which was alarming.

So I’ve taken the liberty of using the backup to move everything over to a static site using Hugo. Take that hackers!

I also removed the spam that had found it’s way in to the site from I think a previous release.

I was also able to configure it so the old Wordpress URLs are redirected to the new URLs without the need for index.php in the URL.

I realise this is at least the second time the site has been updated.

I’ve also got a neat solution for automated deployments as evidenced by this new post which is simply pushed to GitHub and then then synced to the server.

I’ve also noticed there have been a few recent meets.

One of the things I want to do is to capture these on the site in future. This new site should make that easier. Or people who want to publish their meet can raise a PR.

Reach out on the mailing list if you see any issues.

And I am extremely greatful to Positive Internet who have supported this site for many years, and particularly Brad who helped me fix everything, including adding certs to the site.

Happy new year all.

We will be meeting up on the Thursday before FOSDEM – 2nd February from 6pm at the Mulbery Bush Pub which is near Waterloo station.

It’s a great chance for anyone who is interested in Linux and Open Source to have a few drinks and a chat with some like-minded people in a nice informal atmosphere. Anyone and everyone is welcome, so spread the word and bring people along, especially if you’re in the area to head to FOSDEM.

Hope to see you there.

Directions to the Mulberry Bush

Mulberry Bush 89 Upper Ground, Southbank, London, SE1 9PP

Leave Waterloo via the original main entrance in order to head towards the South Bank.  The main entrance is found by turning left after coming through any of the ticket barriers, and is at the far end of the concourse beyond platform 18, on the right next to the lost luggage.  Head through the glass doors and down the stone steps, if you find yourself on a bridge you’ve gone the wrong way, come back and look on your left for the glass doors.

Once down the steps head to your left, cross some zebra crossings and generally follow what is likely to be the main crowd towards the traffic lights to cross York Road.  The aim is to stroll along Sutton Walk, the pedestrian walkway under the blue lattice bridge, towards the South Bank.  Once under the bridge continue straight towards the Royal Festival Hall and you will shortly reach a T-junction with Belvedere road before you actually get to the hall.

Turn right and walk along that road – this is the home straight, except it’s the longest section of the trip!  I’m afraid this part isn’t much to look at, you’ll pass the National Theatre, IBM and ITV and just when you think you’ve gone wrong, the Mulberry Bush will appear on your right hand side.

The route looks like this

The pub looks like this

Much like London busses, a second London Linux event has also come along.

FOSS Talk Live 2016 is a free evening of Linux podcasts on Saturday 6th August at The Harrison near Kings Cross. The main event is ticketed, taking place in the basement of the pub and I expect there will be a large public social gathering upstairs in the main bar area.

All of the tickets for the main event have been reserved but I expect that in the time between the four live shows, people will congregate upstairs and that not everyone will go down to watch every show.

So if you are in London on the evening of the 6th August, come along. This isn’t an official GLLUG meet up but there will almost definitely be like minded people there and it should be good fun.

Full details at http://fosstalk.com

Not to make this look like a 6 monthly meetup, but that’s what it’s going to be.

We’ll be meeting on Wednesday the 27th of July 2016 from 6pm at The Blacksmith and Toffeemaker pub, a 5 minute walk from Angel tube station, or just behind City University.

It’s a new venue for us, not sure what to expect. Wear a geeky shirt or t-shirt so we can identify each other, don’t forget to bring a friend.

Look forward to seeing you there.

The Blacksmith and Toffeemaker

292-294 ST JOHN STREET, LONDON,  EC1V 4PA