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This month’s SWIG is tomorrow, Wednesday the 25th of April rather than the usual fourth Thursday.

We’d like to pretend that this was because we know that some people can’t always make Thursdays, but the reality is that we got confused by something.   This happens frequently, of course, and in this case affected our chosen date.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!  We have a great talk from Neil Connolly to look forward to on Project Planning.

Event: SWIG - For all web industry workers in Liverpool and…

Date: Multiple Dates

Location:
Interconnect IT Office
Liverpool Science Park IC2
146 Brownlow Hill
L3 5RF Liverpool
United Kingdom

For more information click here:
SWIG - For all web industry workers in Liverpool

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Here is some news on this Friday’s GIT Award show at LEAF for you today. Do read on…

“It has been a significant year for musical creativity and diversity on Merseyside and one standout act from the region will be recognised this coming Friday when the winner of the inaugural GIT Award 2012 will be revealed.

On Friday, April 27 the winner of The GIT Award 2012 will be announced at Leaf on Bold Street, where each of the shortlisted artists is expected to perform while being filmed exclusively by Mocha and Liverpool Football Club TV. Journalist and Goldblade musician John Robb will host the evening.

Since its launch at Liverpool Music Week’s closing party in November 2011 up until the closing date at the end of February 2012, the GIT Award received more than 380 entries.  The shortlist was then decided by a judging panel comprising top names from Liverpool Football Club, NME, Vice Magazine, The Quietus and The Guardian alongside the cornerstones of the region’s music scene – Getintothis, Bido Lito Magazine, Waxxx and EVOL. Now 6 months since its launch the time has come for the winner to be announced.

Ten of the 12 nominees will be performing on the night with exclusive new music and videos accompanying their display. Accompanying them will be a host of DJs including, Chew Disco (Emma Obong and Khalil West), Daniel Hunt (Ladytron) and Absense (Waxxx resident DJ). Milk Productions, on Bold Street, are also making a commemorative memento for each of the nominees.

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Via John Mckerrell

Don’t forget it’s Maker Night tonight, but I thought you might also be interested to hear about GeekUp tomorrow:

GeekUp Liverpool tomorrow (Tuesday 24th) will be a social to celebrate the 5th anniversary of GeekUp Liverpool!

We’ll be meeting in the Shipping Forecast after work, aiming to be there by 7pm at the latest. Hope to see you there!
Come along whenever you can,
we’ll be there most of the night and plans are afoot to head to China City for some food afterwards.

Let us know you’re coming by signing up on lanyrd but feel free to just turn up anyway: http://lanyrd.com/cgmmm

GeekUp Liverpool May will be back to DoES Liverpool for a talk on ClojureScript by Simon Holgate. After that we’ll take each month as it comes, if you want to give a talk then get in touch and we’ll arrange it, otherwise we’ll just head to the pub for a social!

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News from 20lb Sounds …..

Howdy all, it’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you, without a strong rhyme to step to… no wait that was Rakim sorry.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know we’ll be playing at this year’s Rathole Roadshow on Friday May 11th at LEAF on Bold St in Liverpool. The best thing is this time it’s completely FREE, yeah that’s right, FREE ENTRY. Just come down and join the party. Bring your friends along, it’s gonna be good. We’ll be playing alongside some amazing acts such as The Corinthians, P’Chenga and Thom Morecroft.

The fun starts at 8pm and if you can’t make it person you can watch online via - http://ratholeradio.org/live

You don’t wanna miss it. Spread the word! Thank you

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Date: Wednesday April 4th at 7:30pm

Location: Liverpool Social Centre, Bold St, L1 4HY - Underneath the News From Nowhere bookshop. It’s the door just to the right of the shop entrance and there’s a buzzer for the basement.
If you have problems finding them please feel free to call Dan and he’ll meet you at the door - 07779 165 528

This month our own Bob Ham will be giving a talk and practical demo on IPv6 networking. I don’t have full details yet but I did happen across this recent New York times review:

“Bob Ham really demystifies IPv6 in his own inimitable way with this unique one man show. The addition of musical numbers was surprising but welcome and really added to the drama. I don’t mind admitting that I shed a tear during the haunting ballad ‘The IP Address To My Heart’, and how he got those dancing elephants down the stairs I’ll never know. Outstanding!”.

Ok, joking aside I’m sure it’ll be a great night so do come and join us. If you haven’t been before don’t worry, the group is informal and very friendly. All are welcome, from complete novice to Kernel hacker. We’ll no doubt adjourn to a nearby pub after the talk too.

<SIDE NOTE> If you can bring a camera along we’d appreciate it. There’s a dearth of photos from LivLUG and we could really use some to promote the group online. So this is a call to arms. Thanks in advance. </SIDE NOTE>

Hope to see many of you there,

Any more questions ask Dan Lynch.

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On Wednesday, 7th March 2012, the Liverpool Linux User Group will be meeting.  Sam Tuke of the Free Software Foundation Europe¹ will be giving a talk entitled “Free Software Vs. Open Source: how much  freedom is enough?”  An abstract follows:

 At what point does advocating freedom become tyrannical? Freedom to
 use the license we want, or freedom from certain kinds of
 restrictions? Can’t we let the license suit the purpose? As long as
 I’m able to choose what I use, what’s the problem? Can’t we all just
 get along?

 These questions and more will be addressed in a talk about the
 relationship between the two major traditions: Free Software and
 Open Source. The relevance of the debate to society, the impact on
 developers, and the history of the movement will all be addressed
 during discussion of these difficult subjects.

We will meet at the Liverpool Social Centre² at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm
start.  After the talk, we will venture to Studio 2³ for beverages and
further discussion.

Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the News from Nowhere bookshop
on Bold Street⁴.  To access the centre, press the bell for the
basement on the left of the door and someone will come up and let you in.

This promises to be another fascinating talk :-)

¹ http://uk.fsfe.org/
² http://www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org/
³ http://www.parrstreet.co.uk/STUDIO2/Home.htm
⁴ http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.402426&lon=-2.976481&zoom=18

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