Bradford Linux Users Group, BRADLug
Welcome to the Bradford GNU/Linux site; we are a self-help group for GNU/Linux, Open Source and Free Software users in and around the Bradford District, West Yorkshire

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Upcoming Meetings


Friday 17th September

8:00pm Bradlug Social Event at The Corn dolly Bradford

Wednesday 29th September

7:00pm Bradlug: Official Meeting

Friday 15th October

8:00pm Bradlug Social Event at The Corn dolly Bradford

Tuesday 26th October

12:00am Fedora release (14?)

Wednesday 27th October

7:00pm Bradlug: Official Meeting

Thursday 28th October

12:00am Ubuntu released 10.10
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Attendees

23 people attended the most recent meeting.
9 people went to the most recent social.

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What’s happening to the site?

As you can see, moving the website is progressing well.

We’d still like you to have your say by editing the wiki doc on the redevelopment at: http://bluwiki.com/go/Bradlug.co.uk

Contributions of content from members are more than welcome. If you would like an account setting up so you can add and edit posts and pages etc yourself please just give us a shout and we’ll get you one set up right away.

August 25th: HTML5
This is my site Written by Nigel Smith on August 17, 2010 – 9:56 am

The Hype and Some Alternative Realities – Dave Fisher

What’s Actually New in HTML and What Isn’t in it at all

Unsurprisingly, they often got the wrong end of the stick; misled by corporate PR hyping browser and platform capabilities with only indirect relationships to HTML5.

As a consequence, both end-users and coders may be forgiven for conflating clever graphical tricks in CSS3 and JavaScript with HTML5. As may the multimedia professionals who mistakenly believe that HTML5 is some kind of H.264-based Flash-killer.

This talk attempts to clarify what HTML5 actually aims to do, what browsers can currently do with it, and what a wider range of software could potentially do with it.

The talk will identify the evolutionary and revolutionary differences between HTML5 and the current standards for HTML and XHTML. In so doing, it should enable both web developers and open source advocates to get a better grasp of the decisions and conflicts that lie before them.

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July 28th 2010: Show and Tell
This is my site Written by Dave on July 29, 2010 – 10:00 am

No formal speaker this month, so those with something to show, got up and told us about:

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