May 25th 2011 - Open source, intellectual property and all that jazz – the MIT licence

Robert concluded his presentation on IP law by looking at US, European and UK law and taking a detailed look at the structure and content of the MIT licence. Members digested the news that Linus is thinking of starting kernel 3.0.0, John summarised where we are with the FOSS articles for Bradford CVS and invited contributions and Nick introduced the Raspberry Pi computer: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

April 27th 2011 - Open source, intellectual property and all that jazz

Robert took us through the first part of his presentation on the legal fiction of IP covering copyright, patents and trademarks pointing out that IP law is framed by lawyers for publishers to maximise investor returns and imposed on consumers, producers and distributors. John then introduced the Cabinet Office survey on open source standards which is very much aimed at integrators rather than individual users and David demonstrated Quantum GIS.

Desktop publishing

Most voluntary organisations need to advertise themselves, publish information or produce newsletters. Often using an Office suite or Microsoft Publisher is enough. But what if these don't give quite the polished finish you want? Enter Scribus.

March 30th 2011 - KDE 2000

John demonstrated KDE 1.2 from 2000 comparing applications as they were in 2000 with what they look like today. Download: KDE 2000 Presentation (.odp 0.8MB) There were some other things we did at that meeting, can you remember what?

Document Freedom Day

Document Freedom Day on March 30th is a celebration of the progress towards a permanent open standard for documents.

February 2011 - IPV6, BGP and BAS

[BAS = Bursting At the Seams] 36 people packed out the meeting last night to hear a really good talk about 'how your mother will never notice' as the internet infrastructure makes the switch from IPV4 to IPV6. Andy Davidson of Hurricane Electric gave the talk, and a demo of their IPV6 Tunnel Broker that people can use to try the IPV6 net. Anyone got any plans to do something locally on World IPV6 Day, 8th June 2011?

Feb meeting

This months meeting we will be welcoming Andy Davidson Of Hurricane Electric to the LUG to give us all a primer on IPv6 and also for those of us that want to a practical example of what its all about. This kind of goes without saying but if you want to get the most out of it you might want to bring a laptop!

Publicise the LUG

If you fancy, you could publicise the next meetings of BradLUG with this handy pdf poster. Created by our very own Wayne, please feel to download and distribute. I guess if you'd like to get a copy of the file that made it, you should mail him - I reckon he'd be happy to share.

January 26th 2011

Nice to see everyone again in the new year. Last night's meeting was a bit of a mish mash of news and new ideas. So: Dates for your diary: First Saturday of March, June, September, December 2011 will be days when we can spend some more time looking in depth at things of interest (yes it's a vague as that). We'd like people to suggest topics, offer their services, etc and then the group will offer help and support to make it happen. We'll get these dates on our calendar, it's looking like Arduino might be the first day (March 5th) Nige agreed to draw together a calendar of big events and to get those on the calendar as well (this after Martin informed us that UKLUG is going to be in Leeds this year, 22nd-24th March) Bradford Jelly - next meeting 11th Feb, Bradford Uni.

Chrome Web Browser

Much like Firefox, Chrome is an open source web browser that let's you do everything that you are accustomed to while online.