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Open Street Map: micro-mapping party (and WYLUG social) – 22 June 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 leedsMeet 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 beerMeet 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. 🙂

WYLUG Monthly Meeting: Monday 09 June 2008

Our next meeting will be on Monday 09 June 2008 in Leeds University’s EC Stoner Building.

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main EC Stoner Building entrance (level 7, the side facing the Parkinson Tower).

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for geeky chatter.

Talk: Hadoop and Friends

Robert Burrell Donkin is going to give a talk on ‘Hadoop And Friends’:

Leaving clustering behind: scaling grids to utility computing and why this matters. A lightning tour of the emerging open source utility computing nexus: Hadoop, Lucene, Nutch, Solr, SmartFrog, Mahoot, Pig, Hama, Zookeeper. More than Java: a two minute introduction to MapReduce. Catch the wave: why now’s the right time to get involved and how to do it.

Location:

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

Directions:

WYLUG Monthly Meeting: Monday 12th May 2008

Our next meeting will be on Monday 12 May 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: Hardy Heron on the EeePC

Ubuntu’s new LTS version Hardy Heron was released last month and James Holden is going to give a talk on getting it to work on the EeePC.

  • How to trial it on an SD card
  • Backing up the existing OS
  • Installation options (netboot, USB CD etc)
  • Wireless support
  • ACPI
  • Sound
  • External monitor
  • Improving boot speed
  • Fonts and cosmetic tweaks
  • Visual effects

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:

Slides:

James’ slides can now be found on the WYLUG wiki in both OpenOffice Presentation (odp) and PDF formats.

WYLUG Social and OpenStreetMap session – Sunday 24th February 2008

After the OpenStreetMap talk earlier in the month, we’re holding a micro-mapping session before the WYLUG social this Sunday (24th February 2008).

OpenStreetMap micro-mapping session – 2pm-6pm (ish)

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 are very welcome to attend – hopefully there will be a few experienced mappers around to show us what to do.

WYLUG Social – from 7pm (ish)

Informal social meet giving WYLUGers a chance to chat about FOSS, Linux and other generally geeky things over a few drinks at the Scarbrough Hotel, Leeds (across the road from the train station).

Kicks off around 7pm-ish and continues until we all go home (probably around last orders knowing us) 😉

Feel free to drop in for a drink at any time – we’ll have a shiny penguin poster to indicate who we are if you’ve not been down before.

WYLUG Monthly Meeting: Monday 10th December 2007

Talk: “Why Linux doesn’t work on your laptop, and what to do about it” by Matthew Garrett

Laptops contain large quantities of weird hardware made by companies you’ve never heard of and assembled together with firmware written by a contractor in Taiwan. How can Linux deal with all this variation, and how can you help it work better.

Matthew has been a Debian developer since 2002. He is currently the leader of the laptop team at Ubuntu and is also a member of Ubuntu’s Core Development team and sits on their Technical Board.

His blog can be found at http://mjg59.livejournal.com/

Date:

  • Monday, 10 December 2007

Times:

  • 6:30 p.m. Tea and coffee and chat.
  • 7:00 p.m. Talk.
  • 8:00 p.m. (ish) Onwards – for food, drinks and more chat.

Location:

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

Directions: