Meeting Archive
For current and future meetings, please click here.
Videos of past meetings for December 2010 and earlier (where available) are mostly hosted here http://www.sourceguru.org/videos/, videos for February 2011 onwards are on blip tv. Some of the older videos may be moved to the new location over time.
Past Meetings
- Thursday 20th October 2011 Tim Williams - MythTV
- Thursday 15th September 2011 Tim Williams - SOAP and PHP
- 6pm, Thursday 25th August 2011 Bratby Bar, Staff House, University of Birmingham following on from: Richard Stallman lecture.
- Thursday 21st July 2011 Social meeting, The Old Joint Stock
- Thursday 16th June 2011 Lightning talks
- Thursday 19th May 2011 Ruby web frameworks - Omar Qureshi
- Thursday 21st April 2011 Udev and device management - Nick Morrott. Video Slides
- Thursday 17th March 2011 IPv6, Andy Davidson Video Slides
- Thursday 17th February 2011 Android Application Development, Charles Banwell Video Slides
- Thursday 20th January 2011 Dan Dart Video (different location)
- Thursday 16th December 2010 Christmas Social, Kings Indian, in Kings Heath
- Thursday 18th November 2010 Your CouchDB, powered by Ubuntu One
- Thursday 21st October 2010 Introduction to CouchDB, JJ from Birmingham Perl Mongers
- Thursday 16th September 2010 Antonio Roberts, "Freedom in Creativity"
- Thursday 19th August 2010 Summer Social at the Old Joint Stock
- Thursday 15th July 2010 Bruce Lawson - New HTML5 markup elements: a hands-on coding demo
- Thursday 17th June 2010 Linux and LDAP Authentication - Richard Wallman Presentation Slides
- Thursday 20th May 2010 Dan Dart - Bibud
- Thursday 22nd April 2010 Tim Williams, Red5 Flash Server
- Thursday 18th March 2010 Lightening Talks
- Thursday 18th February 2010 Antonio Roberts - Intro to Birmingham hackerspace "fizzPOP" (Subject to Change)
- Thursday 21st January 2010 Bruce Lawson - Open Standards: democratising and future-proofing the Web
- Thursday 10th December 2009 Christmas Social
- Thursday 19th November 2009 Rob Hardy - "The Cloud from both sides"
- Thursday 15th October 2009 Hack the Planet - Martin Meredith
- Thursday 17th September 2009 Darren Mansell, Linux high-availability and load-balancing using OpenAIS / Pacemaker and ldirectord (Video)
- Thursday 20th August 2009 Summer Social at The Green Room
- Thursday 16th July 2009 Debugging is Difficult so why do it?, Chris Hills, Phaedrus Systems
- Thursday 21st May 2009 Matthew Somerville from MySociety.org (Video)
- Thursday 16th April 2009Social Meeting
- Thursday 19th March 2009OpenStreetMap Workshop - Ciaran Mooney
- Thursday 19th February 2009 Scott James Remnant (Ubuntu) on Upstart (Video)
- Thursday 15th January 2009MythBuntu - Dave Walker (Video)
- Tuesday 9th December 2008 (Not unusual date/day) Zagora Restaurant, Paradise Place, Fletchers Walk, Birmingham, B3 3HJ (Open street map link)
- Thursday 20th November 2008 John Pinner, Search Engine Optimisation - Making your website search engine friendly
- Thursday 16th October 2008 Trusted Platform Module
- Thursday 18th September 2008 Andy Robinson Open Street Map
- Thursday 21st August 2008 Tim Williams, Video Technology
- Thursday 17th July 2008 Summer Social at the Green Man, Harbourne
- Thursday 19th June 2008 Lightning Talks
- Thursday 15th May 2008 Birmingham Perl Mongers (Barbie and his Merry Mongrels)
- Thursday 17th April 2008 Social meeting.
- Thursday 20th March 2008 Various short demos, Peter Lewis - KDE4, Ciaran Mooney - Xbox Media Centre, Richard Starkie - Qmail Toaster
- Thursday 21st February 2008 Ralph Janke on Bug Triaging
- Thursday 17th January 2008 Asus EeePC
- Thursday 13th December 2007 Christmas Curry Night
- Thursday 15th November 2007 Richard Nicholas: Legal issues for software developers (joint meeting with PHP-WM)
- Thursday 18th October 2007 New distro release party: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, Mandriva 2008 and PC-BSD!
- Thursday 20th September 2007 Social meeting at the Wellington, Bennets Hill
- Thursday 16th August 2007 Discussion meeting
- Thursday 19th July 2007 Meetup at GUADEC, Old Joint Stock, Colmore Row
- Saturday 7th July 2007 Pub Lunch meetup at Lugradio LIVE
- Thursday 21st June 2007 MythTV
- Thursday 17th May 2007 Digital Freedom Night
- Thursday 19th April 2007 Visit of the Perl Mongers World Tour
- Thursday 15th March 2007 Pub/Curry Night in the Briar Rose, Non-smoking Wetherspoons, 25 Bennets Hill (Between New Street and Cathedral).
- Thursday 15th February 2007 Utility Fest
- Thursday 18th January 2007 Clive de Salis - A rough guide to making a home network with printing
- Thursday 14th December 2006 Pub night: Meeting at the Briar Rose, Wetherspoons at 7.30pm. Curry night. Look for the penguins.
- Thursday 16th November 2006 Workshops: Installing Linux, Open Source Applications, Free Culture. Tim and Zeth
- Thursday 19th October 2006 Ian Lynch from the Open Source Consortium
- Thursday 21st September 2006 John Pinner on Partitioning/Installation etc
- Thursday 17th August 2006 Summer Socia at the Old Joint Stock
- Thursday 13th July 2006 Security discussion
- Thursday 15th June 2006 Chris Ross on Ferite
- Thursday 18th May 2006 Shane Coughlan, FSF Europe
- Thursday 20th April 2006 Pascal Honore, The AppleScript Framework
- Thursday 16th March 2006 Aaron Sloman, AI, its requirements, and an example Open Source Package for teaching and research in AI
- Thursday 16th February 2006 An evening with python, John Pinner
- Thursday 19th January 2006 how I'm controlling my home central heating system from Linux with Python, John Pinner. This meeting will be held at Clockwork Software.
- Thursday 15th December 2005 Moodle and on-line distance learning. Tim Williams.
- Thursday 17th November 2005 Sean Glasspool OSX on Intel
- Thursday 20th October 2005 Linux for Libraries - Presentation available here (OpenDocument)
- Thursday 15th September 2005 Jon Masters on Embedded Linux
- Thursday 18th August 2005 Summer Social at the Old Joint Stock
- Thursday 21st July 2005 Kat Goodwin, Python Developement Framework
- Thursday 16th June 2005 Jono Bacon and LugRadio
- Thursday 19th May 2005 Jez Higgins on XSLT
- Thursday 21st April 2005 Alex Willmer, GIS and Satellite Navigation with Linux
- Thursday 17th March 2005 Clive de Salis on Voice over IP. Meeting notes : Openoffice format or PDF format
- Thursday 17th February 2005 Clocksoft Breaking the Rules of Commercial Software Development. Why and How we developed a FLOSS Payroll.
- Thursday 20th January 2005 Workshop session, covering networking and anything else that comes up...
- Thursday 16th December 2004 Xmas social
- Thursday 18th November 2004 Talk on the Moodle open source distance learning platform by Tim Williams.
- Thursday 21st October 2004 Autumn Social at The Old Joint Stock (formerly postponed because of an interesting talk)
- Thursday 16th September 2004 Richard Rothwell, LTSP at Handsworth Grammer School.
- Thursday 19th August 2004 Jeff Waugh/Scott James Remnant on Planet and Canonical software
- Thursday 15th July 2004 Presentations from B'ham Perl Mongers
- Thursday 17th June 2004 'Newbies night', covering software installation, networks, databases, command prompt etc
- Thursday 20th May 2004 Malcom Yates from SUSE
- Thursday 15th April 2004 John Pinner and Open Source software in business
- Thursday 18th March 2004 Jono Bacon has pulled out at the last minute. Social event planned instead, click for more details.
- Thursday 19th February 2004 - David Chan (et al, Clocksoft) Commercial Wide Area Deployment of Linux
- Thursday 15th January 2004 - Rob Goldsmith on Mac OS X.
- Thursday 11th December 2003 - Sarah Ewen Linux and the Playstation 2.
- Thursday 20th November 2003 - Jon Ward on Encryption how it works, why you should use it and how you use it (gpg).
- Thursday 16th October 2003 - It all went horribly wrong....
- Thursday 18th September 2003 - Keith White demo of the Dasher editor.
- Thursday 21st August 2003 - Social event for anybody who isn't on holiday. No talk.
- Thursday 17th July 2003 - Sean Glasspool - Linux on the XBox.
- Thursday 19th June 2003 - Paul Cooper and Tim Williams, discussion of wired and wireless networking for the home user.
- Thursday 15th May 2003 - David Chan (Clockwork Software) on the Government Gateway
- Thursday 17th April 2003 - Video Night
- Thursday 27th March 2003 - Ibrahim Khatib (Openscape) - Embedded Systems - The Linux way
- Thursday 20th February 2003 - Hardware Help Night
- Thursday 16th January 2003 - Marc Eberhard - FSF(E), AFFS and the history of free software
- Thursday 19th December 2002 - Balti night - Selly Oak. Full details to follow.
- Thursday 21st November 2002 - Mike Banahan - Building Retargettable Websites Using Open Source Tools
- Thursday 17th October 2002 - Demo session, hopefully including Digital Cameras (gphoto), DVD playback (xine), VNC, screen and ssh.
- Thursday 19th September 2002 - Openminds - High Availability Computing
- Thursday 15th August 2002 - Dinner Meeting at The Green Room (7.30pm opposite the Hippodrome Theatre)
- Thursday 18th July 2002 - Jon Ward, Linux on the IPAQ
- Thursday 20th June 2002 - Demo of the smoothwall firewall distro
- Thursday 23rd May 2002 No notes, discussion of Office software and Python
- Thursday 18th April 2002 - Linux Technical/Demo Session
- Thursday 21st March 2002 - John O'Ryan, A quality professional personal view of Linux and the Open Software Movement
- Thursday 21st February 2002 - The Linux Terminal Server Project by Nigel Pallett
- Thursday 17th January 2002 - Linux in the Real World by John Pinner
- 15th November 2001 - Tim Williams overview of technologies used for small (home) networks.
- 18th October 2001 Paul Cooper on PHP / Postgres / XML / XSLT
- 20th September 2001 Jono Bacon on KDE
- 16th August 2001 John Warburton on Zope
- 12th July 2001 Our first meeting !