The Nottingham GNU/Linux Users Group is a community of computing enthusiasts spanning Nottighamshire and beyond who wish to promote the use of free and open source software with an emphasis on the GNU/Linux operating system created by and for the community.
Our members encompass all skill levels and interests, so there should be something for everyone. Membership is free and open to all, so get involved!
Our primary form of communication is our members mailing list. Feel free to subscribe and contribute to the discussion (see here for more details), or just browse the archives here.
We hold regular social and technical meetings which are open to anyone who has an interest in Linux and Free software. Especially welcome are those who are seeking help with Linux. Our usual venue for tech meetings and talks is upstairs at the Navigation pub where we have use of the function room with free WiFi access (when it's working)! This year we have the first Thursday of each month scheduled at the Navigation and we'll squeeze a social in the weeks between!
Upcoming Activities
NB: this page isn't being kept up to date -- for details of upcoming events check the mailing list.
Tech Meetings at The Navigation: first Thursday of each month throughout 2009
Check the mailing list for details.
Tech Meeting at The Navigation: Thursday July 2nd '09
Folks,For our next talk, a mini-talk on:
What's in a Filesystem?
A brief-ish comment on the various Linux filesystems available and which
one/ones to choose.
Followed by general discussion, beers, whatever! Perhaps even go diskless?!
All at our favourite venue:
The Navigation
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
*Thursday 02/07/2009*
Meet: 19:30
(in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
Talk: 20:00
(in the room upstairs)
Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
The Navigation Inn
6 Wilford Street
Nottingham
NG2 1AA
Tel: 0115 9417139
http://www.pub-explorer.com/
http://www.multimap.com/map/
We are in the large room upstairs. Internet access available at the bar
downstairs.
To find us, just look for any penguins or a super-cluster of netbooks!
Or ask the friendly bar staff.
All welcome,
Cheers,
Martin
Previous Events
Tech Meeting at The Navigation: Thursday June 4th '09
Folks,Supercomputer bits 'n' bobs - How to compute the "Super"
In our last talk we heard the names Babbage, Turing, Flowers, Cray and
others in passing. There are a few more names and stories and devices to
tell for where Supercomputers are now.
Keeping with the "Super" bits and following on from (or following
before) our last Supercomputers talk, I hope to give a 'prequel' talk to
give a feel for what the /Super/ /is/ in "Supercomputers".
(And Linux just happens to be the OS for most of the top 100 rated
computers in the world.)
All at our favourite venue:
The Navigation
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
*Thursday 04/06/2009*
Meet: 19:30
(in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
Talk: 20:00
(in the room upstairs)
Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
The Navigation Inn
6 Wilford Street
Nottingham
NG2 1AA
Tel: 0115 9417139
http://www.pub-explorer.com/
http://www.multimap.com/map/
We are in the large room upstairs. WiFi access available.
To find us, just look for any penguins or a super-cluster of netbooks!
Or ask the friendly bar staff.
All welcome,
Cheers,
Martin
Tech Meeting at The Navigation: Thursday May 7th '09
This month's talk is guaranteed super! :-)Supercomputers
Including something about the one we have here in Nottingham.
All at our favourite venue:
The Navigation
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
*Thursday 07/05/2009*
Meet: 19:30
(in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
Talk: 20:00
(in the room upstairs)
Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
The Navigation Inn
6 Wilford Street
Nottingham
NG2 1AA
Tel: 0115 9417139
http://www.pub-explorer.com/
http://www.multimap.com/map/
We are in the large room upstairs. WiFi access available.
To find us, just look for any penguins or a super-cluster of netbooks!
Or ask the friendly bar staff.
All welcome,
Cheers,
Martin
Social Meeting at Wagamama: Weds April 15th '09
Sorry, been a bit side-tracked and behind on the e-mail over the Easter
break, so this one has crept up on me!
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Martin wrote:
> Next meet is a foodie-social.
Indeed,
Come one, come all for a trip to the not-so-far-off land of noodly
goodness:
Wagamama
The Cornerhouse
Burton Street
Nottingham
NG1 4DB
0115 9241797
http://www.wagamama.com/
(note: tableside visits from the Flying Spaghetti Monster cannot be assured.)
Drinks beforehand at:
Langtrys
South Sherwood St,
NOTTINGHAM, NG1 4BY
0115 9472124
http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/
Meet at Langtrys 19:00ish, move to Wagamama 19:30ish (they don't take
reservations, so I'm opting for a semi-early start in case they're full.)
Everyone welcome to join us.
See some of you there,
-Stef
Previous Events
Tech Meeting at The Navigation: Thursday April 2nd '09
Our regularly scheduled slot at the Navigation: topic of discussion: EMAIL!!! SPAM, MIME, TNEF, what-have-you!
All at the NAV,
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
Thursday 02/04/2009
* 19:30 meet in the bar
* 20:00 the talk
* 21:00-ish general discussion
All welcome,
See ya there!
Social meeting at Antalya: Weds March 18th '09
The next
social is on Weds 18th March 2009
(20:00ish) at:
Antalya Restaurant & Bar
Forman Street,
Nottingham NG1 4AA
0115 9418420 or
0115 953 7788
http://www.antalya.co.uk/
It's
been a few years since NLUG have been there, though everyone
who
partook the last time seemed quite pleased with the offerings
and value.
Drinks beforehand (19:30ish) at:
Langtry's
South Sherwood St,
NOTTINGHAM, NG1
4BY
0115
9472124
http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/notla.htm
Anyone
planning on attending, could you please contact me offlist so we
can
arrange for sufficient seating at Antalya if need be.
Everyone
welcome, and we look forward to seeing some of you there,
-Stef
Tech Meeting at The Navigation: Thursday March 5th '09
Our regularly scheduled slot at the Navigation.
Weds Feb 18th 2009 Social: Big Wok!
All you can eat!
We are booked in at 19:30 - look for geeks!
Big Wok: www.bigwok.co.uk
72-74 Upper Parliament St
Nottingham, NG1 6LF
0115 958 3666
Thursday 05/02/2009 - Netbooks!
What are they and are they any good?
OK... So I recently got one... Long after various others in the group
have been pathfinding with cheap XXXX ooops! "affordable" and easy
ultra-portability :-)
There's Michael-E to give his impressions of an Asus EeePC and also
myself to give first impressions of an Acer Aspire One. Followed by
general discussion and comments for the various other netbooks out there.
All at The Navigation
Meet: 19:30
(in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
Talk: 20:00
(in the room upstairs)
Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
Thurs 11/12/2008
A Fluff Special... Near enough to Christmas to consider this the NLUG
Christmas Meal #1 (Or will that be the January meet-up meal for the NLUG
bash?...)
... Thursday the 11th of December,
Laguna Tandoori Indian
Restaurant
43 Mount Street
Nottingham, NG1 6HE
Fantasticly unavailable website at:
http://www.lagunatandoori.co.uk/
7:30 meet at the Salutation (or the Roebuck, whatever.)
8pm for food
Anybody else available and up for this date and/or location?
I'm guessing there's six of us so far and counting. Others? Fluff?
Thu Nov 20th 2008 -- Tech chat at the Navigation
Our usual venue - bring yer good self and what have you! There's free wi-fi
and good beer. 7:30pm or thereabouts. All welcome. Ask the bar staff if you can't spot the geeks!
Thu Oct 16 2008 -- Fix-It night at the Navigation
As Martin L. is busy imploding this week, a few of the rest of us plan to
pop along to the Navigation tomorrow night (around 7:30 or 8ish till
whenever) to engage in an impromptu fix-it/social evening. They do have
power sockets available, so feel free to bring your computing kit along.
(Please leave your particle accelerators and kilowatt amplifiers at home
though, the Nav doesn't need the lights dimming any more than usual.)
http://www.pub-explorer.com/notts/pub/navigationinnnottingham.htm
Some will also be dining at 6:00ish at the Big Wok on Upper Parlaiment
Street--
All are welcome to join at either or both venues, though if anyone wants
to join us at the Big Wok it might be a good idea to let me know so that
we're sure to hijack a large enough table to accomodate you.
Hope to see a few there,
-Stef
Previous social: Wednesday 01/10/2008 Sinatra food 'n' beers meet.
Folks,
Another "somewhere long not visited" since the days of Awareness Days
and Info-Points and before certain NLUGers discovered the various
oriental Buffets places...
Wednesday 01/10/2008
Food 'n' Beers with the food bit at:
Sinatra's Restaurant
8-16 Chapel Bar,
Nottingham, NG1 6JQ
0115 9411050
http://www.sinatrarestaurant.com/sinatra_aboutus_08_05.html
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=NG16JQ&title=map%2Bof%2BSinatr...
With the beers bit at:
The Bell Inn
(In the left-hand bar as you walk in the entrance. One of the other two
rooms if that one is too busy.)
18 Angel Row,
Old Market Square,
Nottingham, NG1 6HL.
0115 9475241
http://www.thebell-inn.com/
http://stuartfrew.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-bell-inn-nottingham/
http://www.thetram.net/attractions/beerbytram/bellinn.asp
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=NG16HL&title=map%2Bof%2BTheBel...
Meet: 19:30 at The Bell Inn
Eat: 20:00 at Sinatra's
Later: With a return to The Bell or instead onto The Roebuck (St. James
Street, off the Market Square) depending on beers and crowds.
The usual various fun stories (including the C3 continued...), and no
doubt lots more from everyone else.
See you folks there,
Cheers,
Martin
Previous talk: Thursday 18/09/2008
Dr Dick Nickalls
"Linux goes to Hospital"
========================
The City & QMC in Nottingham (now joined back again of course) have a
bunch of Linux systems running stuff - which are all maintained and
supported by a special team/dept of Linux folks. I am hoping to tell you
a bit about what they do etc.
I plan to mention a bit about my own program(s) for the operating
theatre, and perhaps some more general stuff too.
All at The Navigation
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
Meet: 19:30
(in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
Talk: 20:00
(in the room upstairs)
Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
The Navigation Inn
6 Wilford Street
Nottingham
NG2 1AA
Tel: 0115 9417139
http://www.pub-explorer.com/notts/pub/navigationinnnottingham.htm
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=52.948&lon=-1.1518&scale=1000...
About 2 mins walk from The Trip to Jerusalem pub just the other side of
Castle Boulevard, next to The Irish. Right on top of the canal lock. Or
from the Waterfront area, head along the canal towards the castle until
you see the lock (and The Navigation).
Buses and parking at the Broadmarsh Centre nearby. Free parking after
6pm alongside the castle on Castle Boulevard and Castle Road (Trip To
Jerusalem).
We are in the large room upstairs. WiFi access available. All completely
smoke-free.
Previous Events
Social on Wed 03/09/2008, a new version of a good foodie favourite:
The Maysum Buffet Restaurant:
92 Upper Parliament Street,
Nottingham
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/foodanddrink/Food-Drink-choice-world-C...
(Thanks Simon for the link.)
and beers at Lantry's:
South Sherwood St,
NOTTINGHAM, NG1 4BY
0115 9472124
http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/notla.htm
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?gride=457200&gridn=340100&scale=5...
Meet: 19:30 at Langtry's Pub
Eat: 20:00 at The Maysum
With a likely return to Langtry's afore the buses depart.