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Paignton Code Club 5

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CODE CLUB PAIGNTON

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 1st December 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.     Please visit https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ for more information about Code Club and please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information about the Paignton sessions.  Places are limited.

You can also contact Paul Sutton via the DCGLUG mailing list.

Torqauy Library also run sessions.  Please contact  https://www.torbay.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/torquay-library/ 

Places are limited

Cosmic Cuttlefish

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Ubuntu 18.10  aka Cosmic Cuttlefish is currently in Beta and looking for testers.    More details on how to get involved in this can be found here

Looks like it has a some interesting new features, including kernel 5.0  which is another milestone.

Anyway the above page has a link to the usual image archive, so get downloading and testing 🙂

 

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide

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National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide.

Last week the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) in the UK issued their latest publication which gives advice on how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in accordance with their security best practices.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)is the UK government department responsible for providing guidance on Information Security to the UK public and private sectors as well as responding to online security incidents and securing networks.

https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/30/national-cyber-security-centre-publish-ubuntu-18-04-lts-security-guide

Holsworthy Coderdojo

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Anyone who has been following the list recently will be aware of Tom, from Holsworthy who has been setting up a Coderdojo in Holsworthy.

Today, it was announced,  this is now all set up.  Please go here for more information.   I have added the details to the other events page.

We wish Tom best of luck with this venture and hope that it grows and does well,  which I am sure it will.

Paul