Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users Group

Paignton Lug meet 10th August

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Very good meeting Myself (Paul) and Dan Smith who dropped off 5 laptops for centre peace spent some time setting a few things up, removing unwanted packages and talking to matt,

We now have 5 laptops for the centre to use or more usefully for the lug to use at meetings for teaching / workshops etc,  so all we need now is more people to attend meetings.  shame that public transport and car parking in Torbay is a total rip off.

I also collected some posters from Dan and have started to put these up to promote software freedom day.

 

Meeting attended by:

Paul Sutton

Dan Smith

Mark Evans

Matt (IT manager at centrepeace)
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Exeter LUG Meet 9th August

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Exeter LUG Meet

Friday 9th August 7:30PM

Exwick Community Centre

Kinnerton Way

Exeter

EX4 2PR

 

PLEASE NOTE: THE MAIN HALL IS OUT OF ACTION DUE TO FLOOR REFURBISHMENT AND WE WILL BE IN THE MEETING ROOM, GO UP THE STAIRS, TURN LEFT INTO THE INTERNET CAFE, TURN LEFT AGAIN AND FOLLOW THROUGH THE DOORS.

Hot Drinks will not be available due to no kettle. If you would like a drink there  is a shop next to the Community Centre where drinks are sold.
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Demand progress : Update

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This is the latest dispatch from Demand Progress

Friend,

What an idiot.

Former NSA and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden just compared supporters of Edward Snowden to al-Qaida terrorists and dismissed us as “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twenty-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.”

Tell Michael Hayden that you — like millions of Americans who  care about their constitutional rights and believe whistleblowers serve a crucial role in our democracy — support Edward Snowden.

He even conflated hackers and activists who support Snowden with 9/11 hijackers, asking his audience, “Who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida.”

This kind of fearmongering is offensive and dangerous.

Please join us in condemning Hayden’s  idiotic comments and show your support for Snowden. 

As the Washington Post’s Andrea Peterson points out, it is precisely those hackers who Hayden disparages that the government’s cyber-security apparatus depends on to help them identify vulnerabilities and defend against cyber attacks.

And to be clear, Hayden is the guy under whose watch the NSA began collecting Americans’ phone records and internet data without warrants after 9/11. He is obviously grossly out of touch with the perspective of the American people — whose privacy he condemned to be perpetually violated by the state’s watchful eyes.

Click here to call him out, demand an apology, and stand with Edward Snowden.

Thank you,

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Raspberry PI jam

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The next Exeter Raspberry Pi jam details

Saturday 24^th August for the next Raspberry Jam in
the Hoskins room of Exeter Central Library 10.00 - 12.00


We will split the room in two
and at one end have people with their projects and pis set up for people to
try and at the other end we will have a help desk where people can come and
ask for advice or help with particular problems.

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Software freedom day – update

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If anyone is available to help on software freedom day please get in touch with the exeter lug, its a joint effort esp given that  few of the dcglug are involved too

http://exeter.lug.org.uk/

 

Lots of cool stuff to win, details will be posted to the exeter lug website,  big news is that hte event is now not running in to late evening and will be on until 17:30
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