Archive for August, 2009

Matthew Barker, Corporate Services, Canonical Ltd will give a talk for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and the BCS West Yorkshire Branch on Tuesday 20th October 2009 from 1830 hours at The Met Hotel, King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HQ.

As open-source software has grown in sophistication, it has quickly become a viable alternative to the major proprietary operating systems. This presentation will give an update on the current capabilities of open source along with an insight into future developments. Matthew will discuss the issues and myths around its use in commercial and public-sector organisations, whilst also providing pointers for personal use.

The talk will include:

• Overview of Ubuntu
• Usage in the contexts of: Commercial-enterprise, Public Sector, Personal
• Open Source Applications
• Open Source Capabilities
• The road map

Matthew Barker joined Canonical in 2006, taking responsibility for the OEM channel in South Asia. Having successfully built partnerships with hardware manufacturers like HCL, Wipro and eSys, he moved into the Canonical Corporate Services Team in 2008 focussing on driving the adoption of Ubuntu in enterprise. He has overseen deployments with organisations like the NHS, York University and Handelsbanken. He has experience across all the significant vertical markets and of “the how and why” open source is being adopted.

Founded in late 2004, Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project with the mission to help individuals and organisations take full advantage of open-source technologies by:

• Delivering the world’s best free-software platform
• Ensuring its availability to everyone
• Supporting it with high-quality professional service offerings
• Encouraging the continued growth and development of the free-software community

Canonical believes the open-source community creates better software. The community enables an increase development capacity many times over.

Ubuntu is a community-developed and supported project. Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world. Every six months the world’s best free and open-source software is selected, tested, brought together, and made freely available on common technology platforms.

To book a place to attend this event please email your name to wybranchbcs@googlemail.com

Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits from 1745 hours

Objective: Introduce participants to Open Source ERP solutions, compare Open Source and Proprietary ERP, discover how to implement Open Source ERP, review case studies and learn how to evaluate ERP for your organisation.
Date: Monday, 24 August 2009 – 0930 – 1600 (lunch included)
Venue: British Computer Society, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
Cost: £65 Non Members, £55 Members

Agenda:

- What are the features that make an ERP?
- What is open source?
- Review of the leading open source ERP solutions
- Analysis of the ERP solution marketplace (open source & proprietary)
- What to look for in an open source ERP product
- Tour of an open source ERP
- Implementing open source ERP
- Managing ERP implementation
- Features of a typical open source ERP adopter
- Case studies
- ERP and the business eco-system
- Q&A
- Close

Presenter Profiles:

Michael Judd is an Accountant and has held roles such as European Financial Controller and Manager of Global Financial Systems in FTSE 100 businesses before entering consulting in 2002.  Michael has worked with Cable & Wireless, Barclays Bank, British Telecom and many medium sized organisations to deliver process efficiencies and better leverage ICT platforms. Michael is a specialist in designing & implementing business eco-systems based on open source platforms.  Michael is a Director of Akuna Ltd, a business consultancy leading the UK in leveraging professional open source technology.

Web: www.akunagroup.com

Norbert Wessel is CEO of metas, Germanys leading ADempiere ERP Implementor and co-founder of the German ADempiere society where he serves the board. Norbert has presented at major events like Cebit, Linuxtag (Germany), OpenExpo (Switzerland), Profoss (Brussels) and others.

Web: www.metas.de

How to Join:

To join the conference or for more information please contact Michael Judd on 08444 84 3590 or via this form.

Objective: Introduce participants to the Open Source ERP ADempiere, learn how to use ADempiere including the purchasing, sales and accounting  processes, discover how to customise & implement ADempiere, receive advice on how to minimise risks and get the most out of your implementation.
Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 and Wednesday, 26 August – 0930 – 1630 (lunch included)
Venue: British Computer Society, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
Cost: £440 Non Members, £400 Members

Agenda:

Day 1:
 - Navigating ADempiere
 - Administering master data
 - Material management
 - Pricing
 - Sales processes
 - Purchasing processes
 - Accounting
Day 2:
 - Modelling business processes
 - ADempiere technology stack
 - Reporting engines
 - Discover the Application Dictionary
 - Customising ADempiere

Presenter Profiles:

Michael Judd is an Accountant and has held roles such as European Financial Controller and Manager of Global Financial Systems in FTSE 100 businesses before entering consulting in 2002. Michael has worked with Cable & Wireless, Barclays Bank, British Telecom and many medium sized organisations to deliver process efficiencies and better leverage ICT platforms. Michael is a specialist in designing & implementing business eco-systems based on open source platforms. Michael is a Director of Akuna Ltd, a business consultancy leading the UK in leveraging professional open source technology.

Web: www.akunagroup.com

Norbert Wessel is CEO of metas, Germanys leading ADempiere ERP Implementor and co-founder of the German ADempiere society where he serves the board. Norbert has presented at major events like Cebit, Linuxtag (Germany), OpenExpo (Switzerland), Profoss (Brussels) and others.

Web: www.metas.de

How to Join:

To join the conference or for more information please contact Michael Judd on 08444 84 3590 or via this form.

RT is the leading open-source issue tracking system. Written in object-oriented Perl, it is a high-level, portable, platform independent system that eases collaboration within organisations amd makes it easy for them to take care of their customers.

Full details and booking form can be found at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/rt/

Friday 7th (Tutorials), Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th August Conference

Venue: Birmingham Conservatoire, School of Music, Birmingham City University,
Paradise Place, Fletchers Walk, Birmingham B3 3HG

Call For Papers

Summer 2009 will take place at the Birmingham Conservatoire from Friday 7th to
Sunday 9th August. The conference this year will have a choice of conference
streams, and we are particularly keen to get other groups and projects
involved.

For more information please visit: http://summer2009.ukuug.net