As a further addendum, the discussion theme for SLUGlets will be on spam e-mail and anti-spam techniques.
Cheers, Jan. On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:28, Jan Schmidt wrote: > Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly meeting: October > > When: Friday, October 31, 6:30pm - 9:30pm > Where: UTS Broadway (http://www.slug.org.au/events/uts.html) > > The October SLUG meeting features the all-star Annodex.net core team, > introducing Annodex, a new format for video surfing. Also, Angus Lees > will be taking us through mod_perl/Apache. > > As usual, SLUGlets will be running in another room during the 2nd > half of the meeting for those who do not wish to attend the technical > talk. > Suggestions and offers for SLUGlets gratefully accepted by mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 6:30pm: Doors Open > > 6:45pm: The Usual Suspects > Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me > lately?" + SLUG News & Discussion > > 7:10pm: Vote regarding mailing list policy > Following recent events on the SLUG mailing lists, there will > be a formal vote to decide future policy. More details below > > 7:30pm: General Talk > Annodex.net core team introduce Annodex > > 8:15pm: Break > Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. > > 8:35pm: Split into two groups for: > > + Special Interest: Angus Lees - Apache/mod_perl internals > + SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free > Software. > > Dinner > Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. > > Intro to Annodex.net > > Presenters: Conrad Parker, Silvia Pfeiffer, Andre Pang (aka The > All-Star Annodex.net Core Team) > > Annodex media is a new format for video surfing, developed by a bunch > of slugsy coders at CSIRO in Sydney. The format lets you do heaps of > webby stuff with media files like deep linking, searching, querying > and blogging. It's easy to use and it plays nicely with all your > hardware, software and wetware: servers, proxies, databases, web > monkeys, sysadmins, you name it, everyone loves Annodex. > > The format is based on Ogg technologies, and a BSD-licensed open > source toolkit and full specs are available at www.annodex.net. We're > proposing it as an open standard through the IETF and we're damn > proud > to give sluggers a first look at it. We'll show you everything you > need to get going with Annodex on Linux -- how to get surfing with > it, > how to create cool content, and the basics of dynamically generating > video and managing media files. > > Apache/mod_perl > > Angus Lees will be taking us through Apache/mod_perl internals > in depth. > > "mod_perl is more than CGI scripting on steroids. It is a whole new > way to create dynamic content by utilizing the full power of the > Apache web server to create stateful sessions, customized user > authentication systems, smart proxies and much more. Yet, magically, > your old CGI scripts will continue to work and work very fast indeed. > With mod_perl you give up nothing and gain so much!" > > Vote > > Financial SLUG members should bring their membership cards, as we'll > be holding a vote to formalise the mailing list spam policy as per > this motion: > As a financial member I would like to propose a motion for the > nextmeeting that we vote on the slug mailing list.a) Leaving it > alone. > b) Moving to a moderated list.c) Changing it to a members only > list.d) > Changing it to a financial members only list.Option b) will revert to > an a) unless we have at least 3 volunteers for a guaranteed 12 > months. -- Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
