UKUUG - Winter Conference and Tutorial

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PRESS RELEASE

UKUUG Winter Conference & Tutorial 
at the Institute of Physics, Portland Place, London W1.
18th - 19th February


The UK UNIX User Group recently announced the programme for its Winter
conference which will be held in London on 18th & 19th February 2003.

The event will start on Tuesday, 18th February with a half-day tutorial
on IPv6 Implementation Issues by Dr. Tim Chown.  Tim works at the
University of Southampton's Electronics and Computer Science Department
and leads the IPv6 activity within the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
(IAM) research group.  He is a leading expert and practitioner in the
filed of IPv6.

The technical talks of the conference start after lunch on Tuesday, 18th
and will finish mid-day on Wednesday, 19th February. 

The provisional programme includes: 
Eddie Bleasdale (Netproject) - Secure Open-Desktop Architecture,
Richard Francis (Internet Governance Consultants) - UK Law and the
System Administrator,
David Holdsworth (Leeds) - Authentication and X.509 Certificates,
Josh Howlett (Bristol University) - Managing Wireless Computing,
Brad Knowles (Snow B.V., NL) - MTA Performance (sendmail, postfix &
exim),
Stuart McRobert (Imperial College) - Networking,
Lindsay Marshall (University of Newcastle) - Mac OS X  in the hands of a
UNIX guru,
Steven Newhouse (London E-Science) - Inside the Grid and its Future,
and
Andrew Nicholson (UWE Bristol) - Open Development for a Fuzzy Client.

Although the event is aimed at UKUUG members, it is also open to non-
members. 

It is possible to book either or both the tutorial and the technical
talks.

See  www.ukuug.org/events/winter2003/ for more information.

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Notes to Editors:

For further information:


UKUUG Chairman: Charles Curran
Tel:  07973 231 870
E-mail: charles.curran@ukuug.org


UKUUG Administration: Jane Morrison
Tel:  01763 273475
E-mail: office@ukuug.org



The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the
UK.  It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is
completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors.  Any
profits are used to further the activities of the organisation.


10/01/03



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