Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend. Saturday 4th February 2005 Our next meeting will on the 4th of February. Alan Cox will give a talk comparing software engineering as it is taught with what is practiced in the world of open source software. Software engineering is a long established discipline. This lecture compares the theory of software engineering with the practices of the open source community where much of the practice and policy is implemented by engineers rather than management. By comparing and contrasting the two it is hoped that both software engineering theory and open source practice can learn useful lessons. We also have a special guest coming along on this occasion. Megan Larko will give a talk about her work for NASA. This might involve a short discussion about clusters and some features of network security. Megan is a Senior Sysadmin at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. She has been there for more than 20 years. She has been working with GNU/Linux since early Slackware and pre-RedHat 4.2 and 2.0 kernel days. She runs the Linux Land Information Center data cluster which won the software of the year award in 2005. For more about that have a look at... http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov http://icb.nasa.gov/nasaswy.html Megan also manages e-mail and web servers and many workstations and she loves to do custom kernels. Her favourite recent project is the Web 100 modification to SSH that came out of the University of Pittsburgh. http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh http://www.web100.org/download The venue for this meeting will be at the University of Sheffield, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, St George's building, Mappin Street, Sheffield. Lecture theatre 3 or LT3. Just now the meeting is claimed to start at 10.00 a.m for 10.30 a.m but the time may change before the 4th of February. For maps and for travel information you can have a look at.... http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/maps/index.html http://www.shef.ac.uk/maps/sheffield.html To book for this session please see.... http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/EventInfo?eventid=175 After lunch which will be at about 13.00 the plan is to then move over to Sheffield Hallam University from something like 14.00 to 17.00 so that Megan can give a longer and more detailed presentation about aspects of her work at NASA Goddard in addition to a shorter talk in the morning session. This may or may not be at the Stoddart building but the venue might change by next week. For info about the whereabouts of Sheffield Hallam University have a look at... http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/ Whilst the Alan Cox session it just about set in stone by now we are still working on Megan's talk. Something might change. Look out for info and e-mail about this by next week. You should also keep an eye on our meetings page at... http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html For information about buses telephone 01709 515151. For train information please call 0845 748 4950. We hope that you can come along to this event. You should try to go to this if at all possible. Keep checking in on this page until the 2nd of February to make sure that you have the latest info. At the end of the proceedings on the evening of the 4th of February at about 17.00 we will most likely wander across the road to the East Ocean Seafood Restaurant at Matilda Street in Sheffield for dinner. You can get some Japanese, Cantonese or Thai food here. They do some excellent Bento boxes. After dinner we will probably go to somewhere like the Hillsborough Hotel or Fat Cat or Cask and Cutler or a similar non-smoking establishment. For info about these places have a look at the CAMRA guide or search with Google.. http://www.camra.org.uk/ Plenty of high quality British or Belgian beer on tap. If you plan to come along for dinner on the evening of the 4th of February or you want to be around for some drinks later on make sure that you let me know. The restaurant owner and the Landlord of a local pub will not be pleased if a vast hoard of people descend on him or them without warning. Hope we see you around on the day :) -- Richard
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