May News Letter Hi Guys and Welcome to May's newsletter.
A lot has happened in the past couple of weeks, and there is a little bit to talk about, but as usual i will try and keep it short. I would like also to take this opportunity to wish a good summer to all of our members, some of who will be travelling back to their non term time homes, and some of who will have finished their studies at Abertay and will be moving on to new things. I hope you all enjoyed your academic year, and to those moving on, good luck and you will be missed, please feel free to keep up with what's happening both via the mailing list and the web site. Well i suppose the biggest news we have to deliver is in partnership with Hannah Maclure Centre we are holding an all-day event for Software Freedom Day on the 20th September 2008. This is a fantastic opportunity to promote and celebrate free software. We have a number of ideas already however nothing has been set in stone, but the general feeling is to have a number of talks planned, a number of workshops, and a couple of discussion groups set up. We're hoping to bring a lot of groups and individuals together who are interested in how freedom in software can have positive effect on both their life's and their interests such as artists, writers, students, hobbyists, and businesses. At the moment we are canvassing ideas and thoughts for the event at http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/software-freedom-day-ideas-thoughts-and-discussions. I would ask everyone to have a look and add your ideas and thoughts as soon as possible. We have had some very interesting ideas on the site, and at the last meeting. I must admit i was somewhat shocked when a member mentioned at the last meeting that there where only five meetings until the event. A pencilled outline of the kind of topics we're hoping to have seems to be; * Business * Science * Home * Multimedia / Audio/visual * Schools / Education (OpenEducation Disc) * Tecchies, Linuxistas, Converts, Sysadmins, BoFHs * Community There is also the usual call for speakers, volunteers, and participants. This is an event that can truly showcase the best parts of our community and the freedom we take for granted, and a event not to be missed. We had a great run of security related talks, and a virtualization talk and i would like to thank Gordon Dunlop, and Tim Spencer for their talks in the past month or so. It is important not to forget that we have a freshers fair to prepare for and with it just being days before the Software Freedom Day it seems a great way to both get new people interested in free and open source software, as well as a dry run of some of the demo's we're hoping to hold at the SFD event. I would also like to takes the opportunity to mention the Scottish Developers meetings that are taking place on the opposite week to our meetings, i was unable to make the last meeting but the feedback i received was fantastic, to find out when the next meeting is come visit the events section of the Linux Society website. As usual there has been a run of great howto guides, articles and editorials at www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk and i would like to thank everyone that has contributed and like to encourage people to post their work on there too. Don't forget to visit the site and keep up-to-date with the events section on the site, and remember to send us your events as well. Well as promised i'll wrap up now, and hope to speak to everyone over the forth coming couple of weeks. Arron M Finnon President University of Abertay Dundee Linux Society www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk Software Freedom Day 20/9/08 _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
