Herefordshire Linux and Open Source User Group

We will be meeting in the Courtyard Theatre, in Hereford on the Mezzanine Floor again this month.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual. The meeting will be an open meeting but will also consist of discussions on:-

* New meeting venue suitable for Workshop style events for the LUG
* Update on new website and change in HLUG hosting currently taking place. We are keen to know what members want from the new website and what they also want to put in.

Everyone is welcome including our new recent members. (don't worry we don't bite ;-) )

I am having to fill in a questionaire designed by SecurityMetrics to conform to PCI Compliance standards and am painfully getting fined for non-compliance. I told them I was running Ubuntu Linex and that the ports are closed. They still said I have to complete the questionare to obtain complaince.

The questions I am not sure how to answer are to do with firewall software and the configeration is to the standard they require; whether I need to install anti-virus software: and on what criticial security patches I have.

We will be meeting in the Courtyard Theatre, in Hereford on the Mezzanine Floor again this month.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual. The meeting will be an open meeting as my plans to arrange a talk fell through unfortunately :-( Hopefully we'll get a talk/demo lined up for next month. Everyone is welcome including our new recent members. (don't worry we don't bite ;-) )

The Courtyard has free wifi and serves lovely coffees, and there is level (and/or lifts) access to all public areas of the building. You can find directions to The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR.

The Courtyard has pay and display parking adjacent and free parking a short walk away.

Hello everyone

After one of our most successful events in the history of HLUG, ie Software Freedom Day a few weeks back, we're back to the normal monthly meeting schedule..

For our September meeting we will be holding a bit of a follow up to SFD, effectively an evening for those new to Linux and/or open source to help them with their installs or software / hardware configuration. So please any new members please come along if you need any help with Linux ..

We will be meeting as usual on the mezzanine floor at the Courtyard in Hereford at 7pm, a slightly earlier start.

SFD 2012Software Freedom Day is over for another year and our event at Allsaints in Hereford proved to be a great day.

Well it's Software Freedom Day tomorrow and we are busy making sure we have all our kit ready for the day.
We have a record number of volunteers and demo machines arriving at Allsaints on Saturday morning as well as our facepainter, dedicated photographer, an Open Source Car Club and our very own Open Source Town Crier - it should be a busy and fun packed day.

As usual there has been lots of behind the scenes work going on preparing for the event but it's all coming together ready for Saturday - so I hope you can make it - it's going to be a great event.

The final planning meeting for SFD will be at the Courtyard Arts Centre, Edgar Street Hereford HR4 9JR, in the cafe area on 2nd floor - at 7:30pm on Weds 5th September -
The official September HLUG meeting will be on Wednesday 26 September again at the Courtyard at 7:30pm.

Here's a sneak preview of a couple of the face and arm paints we will be doing at the Software Freedom Day Event on September 15.
Ethan is sporting a Tux and an SFD logo on his arms and as you can see was happy to be our test model.

The normal September HLUG meeting will be on Weds 26, September. This will be the first meeting after the SFD event on Sept 15th so we hope to see some new faces.
We will need to have a pre-SFD meet-up as there was no August meeting because of the holiday period at the moment we are looking at Sept 5th but we will confirm after the bank holiday is over - watch this space and keep an eye on the mailing list.