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August 2011
Beeston Cider, Cheese and Hog-roast
A few people expressed interest in this: The Crown Inn in Beeston is having a cider, cheese and hog-roast festival this weekend. I'll probably be there from some point after 1900-ish, standing around a bunch of boffins looking confused. No change there then. They usually have live music at this kind of thing, the genre varies but the standard is usually pretty high. The Crown is not far from Beeston bus station. If you walk out the back of the…
Find out more »A Gentle Taste of South India
Venturing to another part of the world around Angel Row and Chapel Bar, we next move a little north to southern India to: CHENNAI South Indian Cuisine 70 Long Row, Nottingham Nottinghamshire, NG1 6JE Phone: 0115 8370343Google Map Usual rendezvous about 7:30pm: The Roebuck Inn 9-11 St James Street Nottingham Nottinghamshire, NG1 6FH Phone: 0115 9793400JDW-Google Map And thence 8pm-ish to the gentle taste of southern India. We’ll later wander over to try the nearby Malt Cross Cafe Bar for…
Find out more »Free Software for Your Freedom
Nottingham Gnu/Linux User Group and Nottingham University Compsoc in association with Nottingham Hackspace present Richard Stallman Free Software for Your Freedom A non-technical talk by the founder of the Free Software Foundation. Richard Stallman is one of the most influential speakers on the topics of Digital Freedoms and Free Software. If you don't know who "rms" is, then you definitely should come along! We've got very limited space with seating for just 80 people... Booking is on…
Find out more »Beeston Blue Moon Beers
Just a few informal beers in Beeston to celebrate the occasional Blue Moon! Post new moon of Pluto, post rms-talk, who needs any excuse for a few beers at: The Last Post! I’ll be there from 8pm to catch up on a few beers and linux... Just look for the Linux mags and netbooks. See a few there :-) Cheers, Martin "Blue Moon" in this context is used to mean "a rare event". Usage here is also…
Find out more »September 2011
What has FLOSS done for us?!
Or, to paraphrase a certain famous quote: "What has the GPL ever done for us?" After the recent highly focused talk to the group by Dr Richard Stallman (FSF) highlighting some aspects of our freedoms and the compromises compromising those freedoms, this meeting is a chance to discuss what we think... And also to see what all this means for the world of software and IT and people in general. On the night, there was just far too much thoughtfulness…
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