6th June Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)

Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend

Saturday 6th June 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For the past two years we have held meetings at Starbucks coffee shop
at Western Bank next to the University. We thought that our June
meeting might go down well at the Walkley Cottage. The address is...

Walkley Cottage Inn
46 Bole Hill Rd
Sheffield, S6 5DD
0114 234 4968

http://www.walkleycottage.co.uk/

If you don't have a car then you might like to know that the No: 94
and 95 buses run from High Street and Church Street (across from the
Cathedral) through the city centre to the pub. This is a frequent bus
service every 10 to 15 minutes during the day. Call 01709 515151 for
bus information. Use Google maps if you don't know where the Walkley
Cottage is. Tea and coffee is available. There is a good selection of
beers which are well looked after. Look out for someone sitting next
to an Hewlett-Packard penguin with a laptop in front of him.

http://www.sheflug.org.uk/meeting.html

The topic of the meeting will be a general discussion or we can fix
some hardware or software. If you need some help with that we can
most likely point you in the right direction. If you want to
know more about anything else come along and ask questions. We seem
to have a growing band of EeePC people who bring them along to
meetings. We also see other netbooks such as Acer, Dell and Elonex.
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and it's associated operating
systems have been released. We can discuss this release and how
to install it. Also any other version of GNU/Linux that you might
be interested in. Most people who come along to our meetings have
used most versions of GNU/Linux and the BSDs.

3 June Exposure Leeds #4 - The Technology Special!

Full details

Exposure Leeds is series of monthly events in a user-group format aimed at helping those serious about their photography to improve and develop.

This months' event will tie in with Leeds Web Festival, LSx09, and deliver a special technology focus. Because of this we are going to run the evening in a mini-photocamp format - with simultaneous workshop / presentations. Because of this I am asking for speakers / workshop leaders to volunteer to deliver sessions of a more 'technical nature'.

This could be more obvious computer/web-related issues such as...
- Flickr secrets (Greasemonkey, anyone?)
- Websites
- Photoshop
- HDR :-)
- Lightroom
- Capture NX or
- Photosynth

Or could be otherwise 'technical'; but whichever you choose - it should be easy to cover (you'll have 60-90 minutes) and would be best if those in the workshop can get involved. Do you have ideas? Think you can help? Have some technical passions? We may also run a new short session of 'my top tip' - if you have one you'd be happy to share then please let me know! There will be time given over for networking and socialising - including continuing the evening at a nearby hostelry. www.exposureleeds.org

3 June NW Hackspace - Liverpool

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2495877/ ]

Fortnightly meet-up at 7pm at FACT. Join the efforts to make a hackerspace where hacking and creativity can bloom. It's a start to getting together a crowd to open a North West Hackspace in Liverpool.

We're looking to create a hackerspace where anyone interested in technology, or digital or electronic art can meet, socialise and collaborate. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability or experience. Sign up to the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/NW-hack-space & introduce yourself. If you're really shy, you could just follow announcements on http://Twitter.com/hsNW - or subscribe to the data feed for announcements from http://nwhackspace.wordpress.com/feed/ Want to know more about hackspaces? Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

2nd June OpenCoffee Leeds {June}

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2750703/ ] If you're working in the creative or digital industries, we'd love you to come hang out, chat, demo or just network with others...usually around 20-25 people each month...sometimes more :)

OpenCoffee itself runs from 10am to noon, but Old Broadcasting House has an open house in the afternoon with plenty of hotdesks available for those who wish to work into the afternoon and stick around for the company :)

SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Techniques

Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Leeds - Wednesday 3rd June - Sponsored by Quest Software

End-to-End SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting – Iain Kick

When attempting to diagnose a problem in a SQL Server application, there's no right or wrong way to go about troubleshooting. However, certain techniques yield much better results when used for end-to-end troubleshooting.

This presentation will teach you the best practices for finding the root cause of a problem in a SQL Server application, correlating that root cause to a specific set of activities being performed on the server, and tuning the problem activity for maximum performance-all using the native SQL Server tools. We will then compare and contrast those techniques to Quest Software's performance management and query tuning tools. All examples and syntax are verified for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

See http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/events/182/SQL-Server-Performance-Troubleshooting-Techniques-Sponsored-by-Quest-Software.aspx

Jun 03 End-to-End SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting by Iain Kick of Quest

This presentation will teach you the best practices for finding the
root cause of a problem in a SQL Server application, correlating that
root cause to a specific set of activities being performed on the
server, and tuning the problem activity for maximum performance-all
using the native SQL Server tools. We will then compare and contrast
those techniques to Quest Software's performance management and query
tuning tools. All examples and syntax are verified for Microsoft SQL
Server 2005.

For more details and registraton look at
http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/events/182/SQL-Server-Performance-Troubleshooting-Techniques-Sponsored-by-Quest-Software.aspx

June 10th AgileYorkshire@ThePub - Slim, The Future Of FitNesse,

The next meeting of AgileYorkshire which is on the 10th June when we have Gojko Adzic coming to talk about Slim. Slim is the next step in the evolution of Fitness which itself was the de facto standard tool for executable specifications and agile acceptance testing.

See here for more details.

Note - 6:30 sharp start for this presentation.

27th May North West England Perl Mongers - Manchester - Social meeting

This months North West England Perl Mongers social meeting is in
Manchester at The Salisbury pub next to Oxford Road station
(http://manchesterbars.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/the-salisbury/) Cask
ales and Perl will be consumed from around 19:00, though some people
might be there slightly earlier - look out for Pingu. Further details
along with directions can be found on the North West England Perl
Mongers web site (http://northwestengland.pm.org/meetings/005.html).

Remember, North West England Perl Mongers covers the largest
geographical area for any Perl Mongers group in the world! If you
want us to bring the camel and penguin to your area and you can
organise a venue, please do let me know. We're looking to organise
next months technical talks in the Manchester area and would
appreciate any assistance in finding a suitable venue (projector, bar
or close proximity to, room for twenty people?).

23rd May Howduino

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2126491/ ]

Howduino is a free, one day event about connecting the internet to the real world, breathing life into inanimate objects and creating new ways to interact with things. It's for artists, programmers, designers, hobbyists and anyone else interested in robotics, technology, communication and interaction.

The event was initially inspired by the Arduino platform, a cheap and easy way to introduce intelligence into objects. The focus of the talks and support will be on using Arduino, but don't let this limit your imagination. All platforms and tecnnologies are welcome.

Where: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) @ 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, England L1 4D UK

21st May NWDUG May Meet-up

This month's Drupal meeting is on Thursday, 21st May from 6pm at
Manchester University's Samuel Alexander building, off Oxford Road.
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/22287 for directions.

Whether you're a long time Drupal developer or just starting out,
you're more than welcome.
Expect plenty of discussion about the upcoming DrupalCampUK [1] this
month!

[1] http://drupalcamp.org.uk