Herefordshire Linux and Open Source User Group

It occurred to me that other people may want to use the content of the display panels. You may wish to print them and put up in your public access computer area - or IT department :-)

The four files are in pdf format A1 size saved as 150 dpi images, and print OK at that resolution.If you want a sharper version email me through hlug. Note also that they will print OK at smaller sizes but it's a bit hard to read at A4!
The files are downloadable from;
http://www.peterlinnell.org.uk/
followed by
150HowTo.pdf
150HistPhil.pdf
150OpenDisc.pdf
150WHATISL.pdf

HLUG Open Source Day

Evaluation Meeting.

The final Wednesday of March saw us meet, once again at swish point4 venue, mainly to evaluate our performance on Open Source Day the previous Saturday. Ten members attended the meeting, so as usual there was a background murmour of geek behaviour, configuring laptops mostly! as well as focused and more ad hoc discussions. For these reasons, these notes are offered as indicative only, as I must have missed many nuances of the various conversations.

Good things;
The high turn out of HLUG members, and their stamina to last the day.

Well I think I have recovered from Saturday - I was too busy to hear Dr Wright speak as Tim and I were holding the fort and talking to stray visitors but thanks to Paul I watched the whole thing online including the presentations.

Normally we would have our monthly LUG meeting on the 4th Weds of the month, but as we expect to get a few more interested parties joining us following our Herefordshire Open Source Day event, we have changed the meeting date to the week afterwards instead.
So the March HLUG meeting will be on the 30th March - meeting place as usual is at the the Point 4 in Hereford.
30th March 2011 is Document Freedom Day

Nominations for the 2011, HOSS Awards closed today - the awards will be presented to the winners at the Herefordshire Open Source Day on March 26.

These are the inaugural HOSS Awards and there have been some interesting nominations so if you want to find out who has won - come along and join us at AllSaints in Hereford on March 26 .

Herefordshire Open Source Day is being supported by both Canonical, openSUSE and Fedora who have donated linux discs to give to the general public at our event.
So thanks to them alongside our HLUG Open Source Custom Discs we have over 200 openSUSE 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Server plus 10.10 Desktop edition Discs to give-away.
You can of course download your own copies
at
http://software.opensuse.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://fedoraproject.org/

March has arrived and we are in the final stages of preparation for the Open Source Day on March 26th. Julian has created a fantastic poster which you can download - just go to the bottom of the Open Source Day page
We are putting them up around the county - so if you can help please print one off and help us to get the word out.

Hello everyone again

It's nearly time for our February LUG meeting to be held as usual at the Point 4 in Hereford across from the RNIB in Hereford. Please see http://www.hlug.org.uk/node/4 for details of how to get there if you haven't been before. We have a few new members over the last few weeks so it would be nice if you can make it so we can to say hello.

We're lucky to have such a good free venue with good free fast wifi (I measured 10 Mbps one night last year ;-) ), and easy free nearby parking, drinks and food available too.

The Linux Emporium have once again kindly offered to support us by duplicating and printing 100 of our custom Open Discs for our Open Source Day in Hereford on March 26, 2011.
Paul has been hard at work amending the Open Disc which he originally created for the SFD day back in September. This new version features Libre Office and we will be testing it before it goes out to The Linux Emporium to be copied.

Nominations are open for our new HOSS Herefordshire Open Source Star Awards - we are looking for entries from businesses, organisations and individuals who have done the most to promote and develop the use of FOSS (free open source software) in the county.
The HOSS Awards will be presented at our Open Source Day on March 26.
So if you have introduced Open Source Software at work, at your school or college, at your organisation or have been active in the Open Source community let us know by emailing hoss@hlug.org.uk