Vancouver Linux Users Group

Hi folks,

Prior to his lecture "Sever Connections: Concerns About Your Technical Decisions On The Cloud And Elsewhere", Ricard Pitt and his Brunix comrades will be hosting an informal dinner get together at St. Augustine's Pub at 6th and Commercial. (Just a couple of blocks from the Commercial Skytrain Station.)

Monday night is "Cask Night" and fresh craft beers will be available on tap after about 5:30pm. St. Augustine's features over 40 taps.
A typical pub menu is available: http://staugustinesvancouver.com/

We'll be leaving around 7:00pm or so in time to get to the lecture.

The lecture will be held in from 7:30-9:30pm in Room 9 at the Hastings Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings St. (Opposite the PNE) This is quite a distance from our usual meeting location, so please take note and make the necessary adjustments. If you're driving from the pub to the lecture, please consider car pooling with other members.

For additional details about the lecture please see the accompanying meeting announcement.

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Tuesday, 9 August 2011 Vancouver Linux Users Group

PRESS STATEMENT: For Immediate Release

Regarding: LinuxCON –Vancouver, BC August 17-19, 2011

Greetings:

From August 17-19, 2011, Vancouver will host a conference: LinuxCON. Ideas and concepts discussed at that conference will shape everything from how new smartphones and computers operate to such unexpected things as car fuel efficiency and how banks secure credit cards.

To many: this will seem to most a high-end technology fair, with little apparent impact on their lives. Today, high technology affects every facet of our lives: more and more in ways we either take for granted or don’t even realize are there. The more robust stable, and mature this technology is, the more invisible it will seem.

Hey all of you interested in interoperability and Microsoft's contribution
to Open source:

M$ is holding its event on May 7th, which is just after we are going to hold
our May technical meeting. The date for our technical meeting is changed
from the normal Wednesday and so in order to avoid confusing things I will
post that notice separately.

However if you are interested in being involved in this event, please go to
this site

http://www.webnotwar.ca/

and register yourself. There are about to be 31 spots left after I register.
Oh, and it's free! (And there is food!)

It should at the very least be very interesting. I look forward to seeing at
least a few of you there.

Cheers JJW

John Weintraub
Chair, VanLUG

I'm sorry, but procrastination reigns, and I've put off making arrangements for the Christmas party far too long. The end result is that there won't be a VanLUG Christmas party this year. I'll try to make it up by having some especially good talks for 2010.

Kim Kulak
VanLUG Chair

"Free Software in Ethics and in Practice"
Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:30pm - 2:00pm,
Room 101/102/201, George F. Curtis Law Building, 1822 East Mall, UBC
Sponsored by the UBC Faculty of Law

"Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"
Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:30 pm,
The Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver
Sponsored by SFU Institute for the Humanities, Vancouver Fair Copyright
Coalition, and Free Geek Vancouver

"The Free Software Movement"
Saturday, February 7, 8:15pm,
Lecture Hall Number 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC
Sponsored by the Vancouver Institute and the UBC Faculty of Law

The VanLUG Xmas party is a go, and we're going to try something a
little different this year!

When: Wednesday, December 17, 7:00 PM to 9:00

Where: The Hackery, 304 Victoria Drive in Vancouver
Upstairs, enter by the door on the north side.