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Software Freedom Day in London

Software Freedom Day is fast approaching – I’m hoping the event we have planned in London is going to be suitably awesome 🙂

The meeting is starting at midday in Regents Park with a (newly termed) advocacy walk.

This involves our LUG members (and we hope to have some visitors from other LUGs in South East England) taking to the streets on a 3/4 mile route taking the message of Free Software to the masses

We have Ubuntu CDs and leaflets to distribute and I hope we can get the message across to at least a couple of people.

The end of the route is our regular Westminster University Campus building. At 1300 we have a technical meeting with some great presentations:

  • Malcolm Yates from Canonical speaking about Ubuntu
  • Jim Bailey from GLLUG talking about WordPress installation, configuration, usage
  • Bryn Reeves from Red Hat speaking about the Linux kernel and SystemTap
  • Simon Morris (that’s me!!) talking about securing USB memory sticks with encrypted filesystems

 

After the meeting we have the function room in the King and Queen pub on Foley Street booked for beer, debate and celebration.

If you happen to be in London on this day please come along – it’s going to be great