This site is a wiki, members may contribute to most of the pages above on request of the password.

This is for technical and other meetings and events. Our social meetings are generally arranged via the mailing lists.

In reverse date order - newest first, oldest last:

1st-2nd May 2010

OggCamp10

• Liverpool
• www.oggcamp.org

24^th October 2009

LUG Radio Live

• Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton
• www.lugradio.org/live/2009/

7th-9th August 2009

UKUUG Summer 2009 Conference

• At The Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, B3 3HG. It's local and easy to get to.
• http://summer2009.ukuug.org/

21 July 2009

Virtualisation - VMWare and others

• At the Royal Warwick Club on Tower Street, Coventry City Centre.

4-5 July 2009

Godiva Festival Stall

• Please come and help at the stand. This is a hot opportunity to publicise CovLUG and recruit new members and spread awareness of Linux and Open Source Software.

16 June 2009

Regular technical meeting - subject t.b.a.

• At the Royal Warwick Club on Tower Street, Coventry City Centre.

sometime 2009?

Exhibition stand at The Herbert

• With the newly refurbished and extended museum and art gallery being fully open it is another chance for us to publicise CovLUG and raise awareness of Linux and OSS by having an exhibition stand in the new reception area.

17 February 2009

Temporarily having social meetings at Pasta Hut until a new Tech Meeting venue can be found. Please join us.

20 January 2009

Temporarily having social meetings at Pasta Hut until a new Tech Meeting venue can be found. Please join us.

16 December 2008

OpenStreetMap

• Postponed due to loss of meeting venue.
• Andy Robinson
• OpenStreetMap
• Andy will cover in the introduction where OSM sits in the user generated content scene and how it differs from other crowdsource approaches. Discussion will continue with what makes OSM tick (how it works, how you can contribute, and how everyone can obtain and use the data) and why it bucked the GIS trend. Finally a wrap up with some thoughts on completeness and fitness for purpose as well as some of the challenges facing the project going forwards.

18 November 2008

• Postponed due to loss of meeting venue.

Computer Forensics

• Adrian Shaw
• Linux and Computer Forensics.
• Why Linux is the best platform for computer forensics...but seldom used! I'll talk about the Linux based tools and techniques used to conduct forensic investigations. We'll also look at some good data recovery tools for those of us who routinely format our camera cards then remember that there were really important photos on there. Maybe some techniques for recovering your forgotten password from your Windoze box, or tools/techniques for recovering data from a hosed hard drive or file system, some war stories maybe...depends on audience interest.

21 October 2008

Joomla CMS

• Philip Cowen
• Joomla is popular open source content management system used to build websites and online applications. The talk will cover the following topics:
• A background and history of the Joomla project.
• How to install Joomla on a localhost.
• An explanation of the key elements of Joomla and how to configure them.
• How to backup a live Joomla site and copy to localhost.
• Additional resources available on the Internet.
• Reference sites that have been built using Joomla.
• View a copy of the presentation slides here Joomla_presentation.pdf

September 2008

Freshers Fair - Coventry University

• CovLUG publicity event.

16 September 2008

No tech meeting this month

• We had a social meeting in Pizza Hut instead.

19 August 2008

Ubuntu

• Quentin
• A general talk about the Ubuntu Linux operating system, how to install it etc.

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Below still needs to be tidied, organised and have the resources and links added (refer to the old site). If anyone has the time please feel free to contribute.

Date Topic Presented by Files

18/07/2006

Introduction to TCP/IP

• Andrew Stringer
• TCPIP.pdf (PDF)

Configuring Linux networking

• Darren Austin
• Network-Config.pdf (PDF)

19/09/2006	Introduction to Ethernet	Andrew Stringer	Ethernet.pdf (PDF)

17/10/2006

Alternative operating systems

• Bernard Giltrap

21/11/2006 Introduction to Perl Barbie, Birmingham PM Intro to Perl (View online) Perl-Intro.tar.gz (Gzip'ed tar) 19/12/2006 Linux in the Christmas Enterprise Andrew Stringer Linux-In-Lapland (PDF) 16/01/2007 Voice over IP and Trixbox Quentin Wright VoIP.tar.gz (Gzip'ed tar) 20/02/2007 Introduction to DNS Andrew Stringer DNS-Intro.pdf (PDF)

	DNS resource records 	Darren Austin 	DNS-RRs.pdf (PDF)

20/03/2007 Looking up DNS records Andrew Stringer DNS-Lookups.pdf (PDF)

	DNS server configuration 	Darren Austin 	DNS-Config.pdf (PDF)

17/04/2007 Introduction to the command line Quentin Wright (No files) 22/05/2007 Introduction to email and clients Andrew Stringer Darren Austin Bernard Giltrap