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WYLUG Monthly Meeting: Monday 14 July 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Our next meeting will be on Monday 14 July 2008 in Leeds University’s Stoner Building.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance.

The meeting officially starts at 7.00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30pm.

Talk: Linux - Is it ready for work?

Linux has moved forward in great leaps over the last two or three
years regarding user friendliness. Installation is easy and the range
of applications designed to enhance business processes has grown
rapidly in quantity and quality.
Mike Goodman will introduce how Linux is being used in micro businesses
currently, which applications are most popular in his experience, and
lead a discussion on how we can go on to encourage further use in this
sector.

Location:

Active Learning Lab., (Level 9, near staircase 2)
E.C. Stoner Building (aka Physics/Admin)
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds UK
LS2 9JT

Directions:

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Open Street Map: micro-mapping party (and WYLUG social) - 22 June 2008

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

We’re holding an Open Streep Map micro-mapping party followed by a general WYLUG social this Sunday, 22nd June 2008.

Open Street Map micro-mapping session - 2pm-6pm (ish)

map of leeds Meet at the Wetherspoons/Becketts Bank pub on Park Row, Leeds at 2pm. We’ll assign areas and equipments once we see how many people turn up. (If you can, bring along a GPS receiver and a laptop - also, don’t forget a notepad/camera/dictaphone to record streetnames and landmarks along the way.)

We’ll try to assign city centre areas to people on foot and those with transport might end up mapping slightly further afield.

After a couple of hours of mapping, we’ll meet back at Becketts Bank around 5pm for a review of how it’s gone and to start downloading the data for editing etc.

Newcomers and experienced mappers are both very welcome to attend - if you’ve not mapped before, we should be able to pair you up with someone more experienced or give you some pointers to get tou started before you head out.

Park Row on OpenStreetMap - Becketts Bank is between Greek Street and Bedford Street as marked with the beer sign on the map

WYLUG Social - from 7pm (ish)

pint of beer Meet in the Scarbrough Hotel from 7pm.

Anyone who’s attended before or been to the pub after a WYLUG meeting will know what to expect. It’s just an informal get together, with no particular agenda. Given the participants the topics of conversation tend to be fairly geeky

The Scarbrough Hotel is conveniently located right next to Leeds train station, and serves a good range of ale, plus other drinks.

As always, all are welcome. If you’ve not been down to a WYLUG before, just look out for the nice shiny penguin poster - or get in touch beforehand and we’ll keep an eye out for you.

The Scarbrough Hotel on OpenStreetMap