[SlugBug] Alan Cox speaking in Sheffield on Sat 4th Feb

[Chris]

Hi

In case people haven't seen this...

Chris

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Saturday 4 February
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Over the Christmas break I sent you preliminary details about a presentation 
by Alan Cox which is to be held on Saturday 4 February. This is now confirmed 
and full details are included below. With two weeks to go it looks like we 
will have a good attendance for this event, so if you have not already done 
so please register for this rare opportunity to hear Alan and avoid 
disappointment.

At the same event, we will be privileged to welcome Megan Larko to South 
Yorkshire. Until very recently, Megan was a Senior Sysadmin at NASA/Goddard 
Space Flight Center. Although she continues to act as a consultant to 
NASA/GSFC she is taking up a new appointment in February. In between she is 
visiting the UK and has volunteered to give a short presentation about her 
work with Linux at NASA.

Both of our speakers have kindly agreed to extend their day in Sheffield and 
attend a ShefLUG meeting in the afternoon. Subject to room availability, this 
will be held at Sheffield Hallam University (Stoddart Building) and will 
provide an opportunity for you to meet the speakers informally and to ask 
those searching questions you thought of immediately after leaving the 
morning presentation! This will run from approximately 2:00pm to 4:00pm - if 
you would like to attend this please let me know directly so I can arrange a 
suitable room. Further details on this session can be found at 
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/

The details of the morning presentation are...

Date: Saturday, 4 February
Time: 10:30am. Refreshments served from 10:00am.

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3 (LT3),
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
St George's Building
The University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD

Free Registration: http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/EventInfo?eventid=175

Title: "Software Engineering - Theory and Open Source Practice"
Speaker: Alan Cox - Linux Pioneer, Kernel maintainer and consultant to Red 
Hat. For biography see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox

Synopsis: Software engineering is a long established discipline. This lecture 
compares the theory of software engineering with the practices of the open 
source community, where much of the practice and policy is implemented by 
engineers rather than management. By comparing and contrasting the two it is 
hoped that both software engineering theory, and open source practice can 
learn useful lessons.

This event is being organised by Digital South Yorkshire and ShefLUG with 
support from the South Yorkshire Branches of the IEE and BCS.

Wednesday 15 February
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Aidan McGuire, the CEO of Blue Fountain Systems Ltd will be talking about 
"Content Management with Zope/Plone" as originally planned, and will now be 
accompanied by a colleague who will present a case study of using Zope/Plone 
in the NHS. It is always good to hear presentations on real applications of 
FLOSS - particularly in those sectors which are familiar to us all, so please 
try to get along for this.

Full details of this event and a registration form can be found here... 

http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/EventInfo?eventid=139

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