When:
Friday, June 24, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Where:
UTS Broadway
SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUG-Chat. Meetings are open
to the general public, and free of charge.
Main room: Building 2, Level 4, Room 410
SLUG-Chat room: TBA - probably also building 2 (UTS busy due to exams)
General Talk: Various speakers give an outline of their distribution in
the light of how the package manager works including how to create
packages, how packages get distributed and what it is like to
administer.
Special Interest Talk: Nick Urbanik -- Setting up an OpenLDAP
environment using Linux.
A case study of how we used OpenLDAP at the Hong Kong Institute of
Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) in the Dept of ICT to authenticate our
students' lab machines running Linux, and so students could access their
home directories from Windows by Samba.
As usual, SLUG-Chat (formerly SLUGlets) will be running in another room
during the 2nd half of the meeting for those who do not wish to attend
the 2nd talk.
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
7:00pm (approx): General Talk
Distribution and Package Manager Roundup
8:00pm (approx): Break
Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge.
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:
* Special Interest: Setting up an OpenLDAP environment
using Linux
* SLUG-Chat: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free
Software.
9:30pm (approx) Dinner
Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head.
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