External Events

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UKUUG & O’Reilly – Perl Tutorials – London 24-26 November 2009

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UKUUG & O’Reilly presents:

Beginning Perl – 24th November 2009

Intermediate Perl – 25th November 2009

Advanced Perl Techniques – 26th November 2009

Tutor: Dave Cross

Venue: Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB

see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl09/

for full course details, delegate fees and on-line booking form

This event is organised by: UKUUG Ltd., UKUUG is the UK’s Open Systems User Group, for people who care about open IT standards and the systems that implement them. UKUUG promotes education and understanding through its newsletter, regular briefings and conferences. It is independent of any industry groupings and not-for-profit. It values intelligence, thoughtfulness and long-term thinking rather than immediacy and froth.

O’Reilly is the publisher of the iconic animal books and spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books & services. The company has a long term history of advocacy, meme-making & evangelism.

Open Source Schools Unconference – Nottingham 20/07/09

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The Open Source Schools community, a project supported by Becta, is delighted to invite teachers and technical staff who use, or are interested in, open source software to participate in a friendly, informal day of sharing enthusiasm, experience, and expertise at NCSL’s Conference Centre in Nottingham, on Monday 20 July, 10.00 to 16.00.

Places are free for those working in schools or local authorities and for those presenting; there’s also the chance to stay at NCSL the night before for those interested.

We hope as many delegates as possible will be willing to offer presentations or facilitate discussions.
Topics are likely to include: Moodle, Open Source netbooks, design software, teaching programming, management information systems, and whatever you would like to talk about! Unconferences, such as TeachMeets and BarCamps, owe their success to their participants rather than organizers.

However, to inspire you and provoke discussion we have two keynote speakers:

Graham Attwell, Director of Pontydysgu, is well known in the field of technology-enhanced teaching and learning. Graham’s recent work focuses on new applications and approaches to e-Portfolios and Personal Learning Environments and use of social software for learning and knowledge development.

George Auckland, Head of Learning Innovation, BBC Learning, whose experience and expertise spans the original ‘open source’ education computer, the BBC Micro, and the most recent BBC open source project, BBC Open Lab.

There are further details at http://opensourceschools.org.uk/unconference09.

To register, create an account on our site, making sure you tick the ‘Unconference 09’ group. http://opensourceschools.org.uk/user/register, or join ‘Unconference 09’ via the groups menu if you’re already registered.

To offer a session, simply create a proposal at http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/add/sessionproposal

Open source in the public sector – London 22/04/09

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How can open source help your organisation save money and increase flexibility? Join us at Open source in the public sector in London on 22 April and be empowered with the knowledge you need to make the right choice for your organisation when considering the move from proprietary software.

Explore various options available and weigh up the pros and cons in terms of time, expense, logistics and security, and get the answers to your most pressing questions from experts in the field.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER for British Computer Society Open Source Specialist Group members: Get a 20% discount by using promotional code ‘Guardian’

Don’t miss your chance to hear from:
Dr John Pugh MP, Liberal Democrats – why is open source climbing up the IT agenda now?
Ryan Cartwright, Contact a Family – examine the difficulties and benefits of rolling out open source across the whole organisation
Alasdair Mangham, London Borough of Camden – hear first hand the challenges of implementing open source systems, including the people and cost implications
Prof. David Chadwick, University of Kent – hear the impact of open source systems on your organisations security
Gerry Gavigan, Open Source Consortium, Dr Stephen Lucey, BECTA and Liam Maxwell, Centre for Policy Studies – discuss the place of open source in the ICT procurement process
Adrian Davey, Tube Lines – investigate the business and economic decision making process for staying with Microsoft systems
Chaired by Mark Elkins, British Computer Society Open Source Specialist Group

Discover how an open source system could enable your organisation to be responsive to some of the latest, flexible software solutions available and ensure you make an informed decision about the best way forward for your organisation’s IT strategy.

To book your delegate place visit www.kable.co.uk/events or call our conference team on 0203 353 4858 .

UKUUG Summer Conference 2009 – Birmingham 07-09/08/09

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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

The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems – Skövde, Sweden 3-6/06/09

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Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has become an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. OSS is a complex phenomenon and requires a interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The goal of OSS 2009 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer

Conference Overview

The organizers are happy to announce the keynote speakers for the conference:
Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation; and Brian Behlendorf, founder of the Apache Software Foundation and of CollabNet.

The conference includes presentations of research papers, panels, and a poster session featuring accepted academic and industry posters.

In addition to the main OSS 2009 program, there will be a PhD consortium, workshops, and a number of formal and informal meetings. At breakfast on June 4th there will be a networking event “Women@OSS breakfast”, and at breakfast on June 5th there will be a networking event for Nordic researchers, “Nordic@OSS breakfast”.

For further information please visit: http://oss2009.org/

FIRST OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE 2009 – Nottingham 22/06/09

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22 June 2009, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham

Website: http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk

Contributions are invited but are not limited to the following topic
areas:

o  State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS o  Open Source GIS
in Education o  Interoperability and standards – OGC, ISO/TC 211 o  Open
Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory GIS,
Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc o
Web processing services o  Open architectures, open content o  Case
studies of open source implementations o  Open Source GIS
Internationalisation and Localisation o  Using Open Source GIS with
proprietary software o  Transition to Open Source GIS o  Open Source GIS
business models o  Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case
studies o  Sensor Web enablement o  Hands-on workshops on using and
developing open source GIS tools

UKUUG’s annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference and Tutorial – London 24-26/03/09

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UKUUG’s annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference and Tutorial will be held in London at the Park Crescent Conference Centre from 24th to 26th March 2009.

The event is kindly sponsored by Google.

For full information see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/