I can now officially announce the first South Wales Linux User Group Technical Meeting will be held on Sunday the 26th of April starting at 1800 (6pm) in Swansea Meeting house.  The meeting is an informal series of talks and discussions, with the possibility of extra activities such as installfests, advocacy, keysigning and maybe some gaming.  The directions can be found on this page.  The wiki page can be used to request talks or add info about the evening.  Obviously all are welcome to come along. 

Obviously hiring the meeting house isn't free and Stephen Constantinou a SWLUG member who is also the Lettings Clerk for Swansea Meeting house
has paid half of the £48 fee (£24 per 3 hours and we're having it for 5 hours, which comes in as 6 hours for the purposes of charging) and the refundable deposit. This does mean that I will ask folks for a £2 voluntary donation on the night. If you are unemployed/OAP/student then I'd be happy with £1. Obviously that is voluntary, so if you don't want too pay I'm not going to kick you out. As an aside there will be tea/coffee and milk there. If you fancied contributing fizzy drinks/biscuits I doubt they'd go uneaten :)

Agenda

How to Find Interesting Characters: A Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions

by Mark Summerfield (25 mins)

Basic Linux Security

by Carwyn Edwards (length TBC)

Introduction to Coldfusion - Why you MAY want to learn it

by Paul Connell (10 mins)

I have spoken to a number of people about talks, if you are still interested, please email me/respond on list. On the flipside, if you have a subject you'd like to hear a talk about, please again post to the list and if there is interest I'm hopefully someone will be able to do a talk about it. If you are doing a talk please let me know how long it will last, so I can schedule you in.

I'm happy to accommodate other things at the meeting, so if you have *anything* linuxey or geeky you think we should do let me know and we'll
sort it out. Ideas include keysigning, installfests, a bit of LAN gaming, tech support for those hard to fix linux issues, hardware hacking and anything else I've not thought of but comes in under the linux/tech/geek category.

The meeting wiki page has quite a bit of information on it.  If you want to suggest a talk or put your self down for one, feel free to enter your details on there.

If someone wants to sort out a poster, please feel free. I'm not very good at that sort of thing.

We do now have access to a projector.  I hope to have a DV Camera (not 100% tho) for the talk so it should be recorded.  Obviously if you don't want your talk recorded, that isn't a problem.

I doubt I've covered everything, so if you have any questions, fire away.  Please check the wiki page out as that will be most up to date.