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Previous LUGS Meeting Announcements

• SLMG Christmas BBQ - http://linux.meetup.com/5/calendar/5284840/
  Date	Saturday, 9th December 2006
  Time	3.00pm
  Venue	Prince of Wales Pub, 101 Dunlop Street, Little India
  As our last Christmas BBQ was so successful, we decided to make this an annual event. So you are all invited to attend this gathering at the chilled out Prince of Wales (POW) pub, this Saturday Dec 9, 2006 at 3 pm till close. Sorry for the last minute scheduling and I hope most of you can make it.
  So come on down!!! We will be having a BBQ with plenty of food, beer, wine, conversations and overall great company. If you are into live music then you are in for a treat as the POW is one of the best venues for original Singapore Music with Latitude One playing around 10 pm.
  Please RSVP so I know how much food to get. Note if you have an special dietary requirements, please let me know in the RSVP and I will do my best to accomodate. See http://linux.meetup.com/5/calendar/5284840/
  Other from that there will be a contribution to cover the cost of the food. I will calculate the cost of the food based on how much we purchase and will keep it under $10. If you genuinely can't afford that, still come down anyway and we will fix you up.
  All are welcome. For directions, please see the link: http://www.pow.com.sg/location.php. If you want to help please let me know. Sincerely, Tom, Darrel and Lionel

  LUGS November Meeting - Wireless Security
  Date	Saturday, 25th November 2006
  Time	3.00pm
  Topic	LUGS Information Update / Wardriving Presentation
  Speakers	Harish Pillay, Michael Boman
  Venue	Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems (SIS), Room NSR 2.4 (Level 2)
  (a) LUGS Information Update - Harish Pillay, LUGS President, will provide a de-brief to the meeting that was held on 31st Oct 2006 with - Dr. Vivian Balakrishnana, 2nd Minister of Information, Communication and the Arts - Mr. Chan Yeng Kit, CEO, IDA - Ms Pauline Tan, Senior Director, IDA
  (b) LUGS Meeting Topic of Discussion - Wireless Security, Michael Boman - Recent local events has highlighted the security weaknesses in the wireless networks and their implications for both owners and users. This talk will focus on what you can do as a owner of an access point to properly secure it. It will show how easily WEP can be cracked, how to modify a Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL router to boot off custom Linux firmware and how to configure WPA PSK on both the access point as well as the Linux client.

  LUGS July Meeting - JBoss / Perl
  Date	Saturday, Jul 29th
  Time	3.00pm
  Topic	JBoss / Perl
  Speakers	Manik Surtani, Adam Kennedy
  Venue	Singapore Management University, School of Economics and Social Science(SESS), Room NSR 2.1 (Level 2)
  For the month of July, we're pleased to have Manik Surtani to speak on JBoss and Adam Kennedy, one of the CPAN adminstrators to talk on Perl projects. (Details to follow). Please note the change of venue!

  LUGS May Meeting - Annual General Meeting
  Date	Saturday, May 27th
  Time	3.00pm - 6.00pm
  Topic	Annual General Meeting
  Speaker	NA
  Venue	Singapore Management University, SIS Networked Seminar Rm 2.4 on level 2, Bras Basah Road
  Due to unforeseen reasons, the speakers from Microsoft will not be able to make it to this meeting. Instead, we will be screening the BBC documentary, Code Breakers. Microsoft has dominated the world of computing for many years, with its heavily guarded ‘code’ being beyond reach to many in the developing nations. In some of the poorest countries the cost of upgrading an operating system to keep up with the rest of the world amounts to a year's wages, and there are few legitimate options. In Thailand for example, 95 percent of software on computers is pirated. The poorest countries are now beginning to use free or open source software (FOSS), a software that parallels many of Microsoft's programmes but with the major difference being that they are distributed free of charge and can be altered by computer programmers who are allowed unfettered access to the 'source code'. In this two-part documentary, Code Breakers includes stories and interviews from around the world where FOSS is making an impact, from disaster management in Sri Lanka to tortoise breeding programmes in the Galapagos. Synopsis as obtained from http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2783
  The LUGS Annual General Meeting will follow thereafter.

  LUGS April Meeting - All about Fedora Core 5
  Date	Saturday, April 29th
  Time	3.00pm - 6.00pm
  Topic	All about Fedora Core 5
  Speaker	Eugene Teo
  Venue	Singapore Management University, SIS Networked Seminar Rm 2.4 on level 2, Bras Basah Road
  For the month of April, we are very pleased to have Eugene Teo to present a talk on Fedora Core 5, "All about FC5". Here's your chance to find out what's new with FC. This will be followed by a discussion session on proposed amendments to the LUGS constitution. Prior to the Annual General Meeting (to be held in May), we would like to have members to brainstorm and gather feedback on how the changes. Handouts on the proposed changes will be distributed, and we would like to members to comment and update. Those of you who are interested to participate, but have yet to be members, please do sign up on the spot! As usual, there will be no attendance fee for the monthly meeting, so we hope you will all join us. Come along to meet up and share your Linux interest with other Linux enthusiasts and join in to support making our LUG a better LUG.

  LUGS March Meeting - Web application development with Ruby on Rails - an introduction
  Date	Saturday, March 18th
  Time	3.00pm - 5.00pm
  Topic	Web application development with Ruby on Rails - an introduction
  Speaker	Low Chin Chau, Director, RelyAS Pte Ltd
  Venue	Singapore Management University, SIS Networked Seminar Rm 2.4 on level 2, Bras Basah Road
  LUGS is pleased to present this month's meeting for which we have Low Chin Chau here to talk about Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org which is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for database-backed web application development using Ruby. This talk will introduce the concepts and programming on Ruby on Rails, as it is commonly called. We'll also attempt to code a simple web application for hands-on illustration. Please come along and participate in this exciting event. This event is free to attend and is open to all.

  LUGS February Meeting - Discussion about the proposed update to the General Public License - GPLv3
  Date	Saturday, February 18th
  Time	3.00pm - 5.00pm
  Topic	Discussion about the proposed update to the General Public License - GPLv3
  Speaker	Mr Bryan Tan, Director, Keystone Law Corporation
  Venue	Singapore Management University, SIS Networked Seminar Rm 2.4 on level 2, Bras Basah Road
  LUGS is pleased to present this month's meeting at which we will have a discussion about the proposed update to the General Public License (GPL) version 3. The GPLv3 - http://gplv3.fsf.org/ - is in the discussion mode right now and they are soliciting contributions and suggestions from around the world. This month's talk will be given by Mr Bryan Tan, Director, Keystone Law Corporation. Bryan has extensive experience with open source and related licensing issues. The talk will introduce the salient points of the proposed draft and will draw a comparative with the existing GPLv1 and GPLv2. So, please come and participate in this very important event. This event is free to attend and is open to all.