Monthly archives: December 2006


Wi-fi and Open Source – Bournemouth, 31/01/07

Paul Mccreeth of DCCIS (Defence College of CIS) will give a talk on Wi-fi and Open Source at The Cobham Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB on Wednesday, 31st January 2007. DCCIS has a remit to teach all types of communication based subjects to all branches of the MOD (Army/ Navy/ RAF) as well as civilian MOD staff and civil servants. 

Time: 1900 for a 1930 hours start.

Free buffet and refreshments including wine.

Please email your name to the events coordinator to book a place at this event.

For further information please contact Mark Elkins via email at mark_elkins@bcs.org


UKUUG Spring 2007 ‘Kerberos’ Tutorial & ‘Virtualisation’ Conference – Manchester Conference Centre (19/03/07 – 21/03/07)

19th – 21st March 2007

Full information on talks, speakers, venue, costs etc. is now available together with an on-line booking form at:

http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007

Please note: BCS Open Source Group members are to allowed attendance at UKUUG member rates for this conference. Please make UKUUG aware of this when making your booking. 

With the major conference theme being virtualisation we
include major talks from:

     * Xensource by Ian Pratt and others
     * Solaris Logical Domains & Zones by Sun
     * Transitive Technologies
     * Google
     * An afternoon of Uses and Experiences of virtualisation
       & how it solved contributors’ problems

And talks on :

     * Perl 6 by Jonathon Worthington
     * System Configuration by Paul Anderson
     * Svk by it’s author Chia-Liang Kao
     * Secure Filesystems with AFS
     * FreeBSD by Poul Henning-Kamp & Robert Watson

The core of the conference being a full afternoon session
on virtualisation, focusing on experiences and direct
benefits including talks by users & developers of
virtualisation tools.

The conference dinner, sponsored by Google will take place
on the Tuesday evening at Old Trafford.

For more details, see www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007 or contact the UKUUG Office to book


UKUUG Secretariat
PO Box 37
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9UQ
Tel: 01763 273475
Fax: 01763 273255
office@ukuug.org
www.ukuug.org