The AFFS conference and AGM took place on Saturday just gone and was quite an interesting day. A trip to north London for a change (the last two have been in the west midlands) and a fairly large exhibition hall and seminar room at the Resource Centre on Holloway Road. The venue was pretty good and could have taken many more people and a few more stands. Are so many people on summer hols?
Ciaran O'Riordan opened a bit later than announced by describing the good work he's been doing with the FSF Europe in Brussels and Strasbourg, including some mad antics around the software patent directive voting. That's not the whole story though: IPRED is still going on and there's probably going to be more in the next year, but it's hard to predict exactly what. Alex Hudson brought forward his talk on Hula to cover a no-show. Hula is a modular agent-based mail/calendar/kitchen-sink server which might be suitable for production some time next year. Alex showed how quick it is to install and get running and the web interface used for configuration. After a break and talking to some friends old and new over lunch (finger buffet of samosas, pizzas and sandwiches), Phil Hands explained the plan for world domination by preseeding the debian-installer. http://svn.hands.com/d-i/ sticks in the mind. Tim Yamin gave an introduction to Gentoo Linux and with any luck, I'll get the recording uploaded somewhere useful soon. Recording was a bit difficult, with a noisy aircon (which only got noisier the one time I flipped the switch to "off" - sorry all) and strong light from the open windows behind. There was another break in which I was part of a coffee search party and then the AGM. Sadly, it was inquorate, but still some intersting reports and discussion (which I think will be in the next newsletter as RFCs?) before moving through the rain to a nearby pub and onwards to the buggy tube notwork home. Next up: www.fave.org.uk in Bristol next Saturday. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
