The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be Saturday, 20th August, (tomorrow), from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Note that Hilsea, which is almost out of Portsmouth and into Hampshire, is very accessible by both road and rail.
You might like to give us a try, if you haven't already, to give us and yourself some encouragement. If you are primarily interested in food and drink, we are not your ideal location. But if you are after tech help, tech talk, an immersion in being techy, then we may be what you are looking for. We have been told (by more than one person) that we are the last tech LUG meeting in the area. I am not sure how wide the area is in that sentence. Hopefully someone will feel able to start up the Hants LUG meetings again, though the constitution that once saved it may now fetter it; but do come to us for a shot in the arm meanwhile. It will also be our usual Bring a Box meeting: bring your problems, bring your gadgets, come to chat or come to learn. Bring anything from a smartphone to a large desktop - so long as it is, at least partly, Open Source! And remember that Android has a Linux kernel. ;-) Or just bring yourself. You may bring a box, not you must bring a box. Our Zalman (and its owner!) will be missing, so if you have a Zalman that is well supplied with Linux Distros, you will be doubly welcome! Jeffrey Best will give us a talk entitled: "A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery and Node.js". He says: <quote> We have started to use jQuery widely and we have been exploring whether Node.js is a suitable technology to deploy for services to slot into process chains to support generic functionality tailored to the specific short-term requirements of a particular client or event. This talk was created as part of my programme to develop in-house training resources. </quote> http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201608.html In addition, if Luke Stutters is able to make it to the meeting he will give a short talk on making contact over the Internet with ssh, using a virtual Ubuntu server in Google Compute Engine. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/index.html If you are daunted by something you want to install, upgrade, try out or test, do your installation, upgrade, configuration, testing, at the meeting with all those helpful, knowledgeable, people round you. I look forward to seeing you all there. ;-) If you haven't been before, don't be shy. We are a friendly group, and would love to see you. Come and see what we are about and what we look like. Lisi P.S. Advance notice of the September meeting: Matthew Withers will be giving his delayed delayed (!) talk about Open Source Science. It was previously to have been about Astrophotography, but Matthew has decided to broaden it. He assures me that there will still be a lot of photography and Astrophysics in his talk! http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201609.html Note: This talk, that had been scheduled for October 2015, and had to be cancelled because of illness, has again had to be rescheduled for September. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
