Greater London Linux User Group.
On 25th August 1991 Linus Torvalds announced that he had been working on a new PC (80386) operating system.
Now, 20 years later we all know and (mostly) love Linux, the fruit of his labours.
To celebrate this GLLUG (and others) will meet on 25th August at Mabel’s Tavern, 9 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AZ from 5pm onwards.
Mabel’s Tavern is a “Shepherd Neame” pub so we can expect to drink real beer. They serve food too.
You can see details of the pub.
N.B. The mailing lists are working again!
The this months talk will be about the Android kernel and will be given by Sunny Aujla.
He will be talking about the history, a view of android in mainstream linux, the Google changes, and the future of the Android kernel.
This month we have another change of venue, we are back at UCL! Ron Gaston has kindly booked room 1.02 in the Malet Place Engineering Building which if I remember correctly you have to enter through the Roberts building.
If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930.
At the end of the talk we usually visit the pub (Jeremy Bentham?) for a few drinks, general chat and socialising.
Date: Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Location: Univ of Westminster Campus Street: New Cavendish Street City/Town: London
The next talk is titled “Typesetting with Free Software Tools” and will be given by Tethys.
After being introduced to the wonders of Unix at university, Tethys was hooked. With the release of Linux a few years later, he was able to use Unix at home as well, and has never looked back. He has interests in digital typography, large system design, and playing with LARTC. His career has alternated between coding and sysadmin for various companies in various industries. One of those was in the pre-press department of a large newspaper group, where an interest in typesetting became a profession for a while. He is currently at the coding end of the spectrum, writing software for a small company using statistical analysis to predict future trends.
We are returning to our previous venue at the University of Westminster, in the Large Lecture Theatre. If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. At the end of the talk we usually visit the pub for a few drinks, general chat and socialising.
Sean has a sign-in sheet organised on the day for people to sign so he can get an idea of attendance.
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010 Time: 7:00pm Venue: Lecture theatre 1.03 in the Malet Place Engineering Building, University College London Map City/Town: London
Linux is Supercomputing – how Linux works on your mobile phone and on the biggest supercomputers on the planet.
Eng Lim Goh of SGI will be discussing how Linux is used on supercomputers, and will demonstrate some of the capabilities of the new SGI Ultraviolet architecture, which is the most scalable Linux architecture in the world.
Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been CTO of SGI since 2001, and has been voted one of the Top 10 most influential CTOs.
He oversees Project Ultraviolet and works on solutions to massively parallel rendering.
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Location: Univ of Westminster Campus Street: New Cavendish Street City/Town: London
The next talk is titled “Wire Shark and the basics of network traffic monitoring.” and will be given by Nahual Marisi and John Sharp.
We have a slight change of venue, we will still be meeting at the University of Westminster (Cavendish Campus), but in Room C1.04. If people could arrive for 1900, ready for the talk to begin at 1930. I will try and get some signs made up to direct people to room C1.04 Hopefully there will be a trip to a local pub for social and technical chit-chat.
I feel the “I’m going” email’s were unpopular and Sean had a sign-in sheet organised on the day anyway. So I think we should stick people just turning up and signing in. (ie you don’t have to email the list or me explicitly stating you are going, unless you really really want us to know.)
Ciaran Mooney
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010 Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Location: Univ of Westminster Campus Street: New Cavendish Street City/Town: London
There will be a talk for the GLLUG by Richard Jones on libguestfs[1] on Thursday 18th March at 1930. It will be held at the Cavendish campus of the University of Westminster, in the Large Lecture Theatre. I will try and get a more accurate description of the lecture theatre’s location and post it to the mailing list and website. If people could arrive at 1900 to make sure we are ready to begin at 1930. After the talk I suggest we go to a decent local pub for a social.
Please email general.mooney-at-googlemail.com if you are attending in order to get an idea of the expected number of people.
Ciaran Mooney
Venue : Pembury Tavern Date and Time : 19th November 1930 til “late”
Person to find there : Ciarán Mooney, who might or might not look like this guy.
We also have a Facebook event page for this.
