need to confirm programme by end of Wednesday

[garylloyd]

		  UKUUG have agreed to include our programme in their next newsletter. To
do so, we need to finalise by the end of this month which means end of
Wednesday. 

Trying to finalise the programme has been dragging on for some time and
I suggest that we use this deadline as our own. Anything not confirmed
will either have to be labelled as "too be confirmed" or excluded from
the programme.


Paul: 

  confirm venue and time for Septemeber meeting
  provide details of subject, venue, date and time for proposed
December meeting

Peter

  provide cost of travel and accomodation, to enable decision on
patents speaker for February

Graham


  provide details on proposed meeting on Agile to replace Oxfam
case study in April (or get Oxfam for a date that works)


Current programme is below:

OSSG
Programme


Date
and Time: 13 September at 18:30(?)
Topic:
An Introduction to Open Source for Developers and Managers â?? twin
track meetings
Venue:
Southbank University
Speakers:
Barry Cornelius of OSS Watch and Mark Taylor, CEO Sirius 



A
meeting to introduce the key features, benefits and pit-falls of open
source development to both developers and IT managers with little or
no experience of the field.


Introduction
to Open Source: a track for developers


This
track first introduces the principles of open source development and
then
explores the way in which a successful development community can be
built.


1.
Introducing open source principles


Open
source software is distinguished from conventional IT development in
several ways. It uses a set of licences which aim to promote
widespread availability and distribution; it is often developed using
an informal style of development and community building; and it is
associated with a social movement around sharing code for the common
good. This session will explore these aspects in more detail, and
demonstrate the wide range of activities and software associated with
the label "open source", and drawn together by a common
licencing regime.


2.
Open source and communities


The
success of open source is often put down to the development of
communities. But how do we create a viable community? What is the
secret behind the widespread success of projects as disparate as the
Debian distribution, Apache, and Moodle? In this session we will look
at the different types of community, and describe modes of
interaction with them.


Sebastian
Rahtz is Manager of OSS Watch. OSS Watch ((www.oss-watch.ac.uk)
is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to
provide unbiased advice and guidance about free and open source
software for UK further and higher education. Sebastian is also
Information Manager for Oxford University Computing Services, and
Oxford's representative on the Text Encoding Initiative. He is an XML
bigot, after a previous incarnation as a heavy-duty TeX enthusiast.


Stuart
Yeates is a Research Officer for OSS Watch, specializing in the study
of software development. With a background in software engineering
and computer science, Stuart has participated in a number of open
source software and open content projects. He maintains an educause
blog on open source software in education.


Barry
Cornelius joined OSS Watch as a Development Officer in March 2005.
Previously, he was a support person in the IT Service at the
University of Durham. There he looked after Apache httpd, Apache
tomcat, MySQL and OpenLDAP servers. Prior to this he was a lecturer
in Computer Science. He has interests in XML, XSL, Java, C# and Web
Services, and has produced books on Modula-2 and Java.




Date
and Time: 27 October 05 - 18:00 to 21:00
Topic:
Open Source Software Quality in Practice
Venue:
Southampton Institute, Herbert Collins Building, HC 024 HC032) -
within walking distance of Southampton Central Railway Station
Speakers:
Graham Oaks and Mark Taylor Executive Director, Open Source
Consortium


Speakers
discuss their practical experience of Software Quality Management in
the production of Open Source Software.





Date
and Time: 10 November 05
Topic:
Open Source Technology Stack 

Venue:
Oxford â?? Joint meeting with Oxfordshire Branch
Speakers:
Alan Lenton


The
â??Open Source Technology Stackâ?? which has been in wide
use for many years but only recently gained an acronym,
is referred to as â??LAMPâ??. LAMP stands for four
components




  
    Linux (or Free BSD?, or any other free Unix-like OS) 
    
  
  
    Apache, the world's leading web server which also provides
many other network services  
  
  
    MySQL (or PostreSQL, or BerkeleyDB, or another open source
database)  
  
  
    Python (or Perl
or PHP): a high level application programming and scripting language,
usually combined with a web templating system to generate dynamic pages
and forms.  
  





Alan
Lenton is in charge of game design and development and overall
technical matters for Interactive Broadcasting. Alan handles all the
design for new and existing games, and the programming for new games.





Date
and Time: 13 December 05
Topic:

Venue:
York?
Speakers:
Daniel German?



Paul to confirm details



Date
and Time: 10 January 05 at 18:30
Topic:
An overview of Open Source Licensing: Obligations
that licences, do or do not, place on users, distributors and
modifiers of OSS 

Venue:
BCS Southampton Street, London
Speaker:
Andrew Katz, a solicitor with specialist legal
firm Moorcrofts LLP


Andrew
Katz is a solicitor with specialist legal firm Moorcrofts LLP. Prior
to becoming a lawyer, he was a software developer and has released
code under the GPL. He advises clients on software licensing issues,
including the use of open source, and has debated points with
luminaries such as Eben Moglen, Cory Doctorow and Larry Lessig. He
was involved in drafting the England and Wales Creative Commons
licence, which is the basis of the licence adopted by the BBC for its
Creative Archive project. 





Date
and Time: 14 February 06
Topic:
Software Patents â?? Good or Evil?
Venue:
?
Speakers?


No
progress on this




Date
and Time: 14 March 06
Topic:
Is Open Source Secure?
Venue:
?
Speakers:
?



No progress on this


Date
and Time: 11 April 06
Topic:
Case Study - Oxfam and Open Source (TBC) â?? TO BE REPLACED BY
AGILE?????????? Graham to advise
Venue:
Oxford
Speaker:
Romilly Gregory Systems Architecture Manager for Oxfam GB


Ms Romilly Gregory.  Systems Architecture Manager for Oxfam GB, responsible for Oxfams web based and marketing systems.  Also responsible for ensuring Oxfam GB adopts well thought through technical strategies for both infrastructure and applications. Worked for 20 years in the IT industry as a developer and IT manager, mainly in not for profit sector, notably for Amnesty International and Clinical Operational Research Unit (University College, London).



Date
and Time: 9 May 06
Topic:
Case Study - Open Source versus Free Software...a debate
Venue:
?