RugbyLUG

We meet as a group for technical/social meetings on the second Monday of each month (except Bank Holidays). All meetings are held in the centre of Rugby and are free to attend.

We are always on the look out for speakers to present on interesting topics, so if you feel that you (or someone you know) could offer a talk, please get in touch!

Covering technical topics and featuring live demonstrations, our technical meetings take place on the second Monday of each month, in the offices of credativ ltd (36 Regent Street, Rugby, CV21 2PS [map]).

Meetings start at 20:00 and typically last a couple of hours. For an idea of the topics we feature please check the meetings archive.

We always try to have at least one technical presentation each month. If a speaker is covering a topic in depth, we usually dedicate the whole meeting to the topic. Alternatively, we may have an evening of "Lightning Talks" in which speakers give quick 10-15 minutes talks on various topics. Lightning talks let us cover several different topics during a meeting and we think it makes meetings even more interesting for those that attend, as there is always something new to learn about.

Our separate social meetings are currently on hiatus. But don't worry, we frequently go to the pub (usually the Alexandra Arms - see map above) at the end of our technical meetings!

Previous talks/discussions given at RugLUG include:

• zsh and vim configuration/plugins (Nick Morrott); Hacking/crypto challenges (Colin Newell) (Apr 2013)
• LXC (Colin Newell, [slides]) and Juju (Quentin Wright, [slides], [screenshots]) (Mar 2013)
• Arduino: Under the Covers (Garry Bulmer, Feb 2013)
• Happy New Year! (Jan 2013)
• End of Year social (Dec 2012)
• Lightning talks (Nov 2012)
• Lightning talks: mr, Unison, Sozi, Speeding up the boot process, Coursera, docopt, Elastic Search in OpenERP (Craig Barnes, Chris Halls, Nick Morrott, Colin Newell, Oct 2012)
• Software Freedom Day 2012 planning (Sep 2012)
• Software Freedom Day 2012 planning (Aug 2012)
• Software Freedom Day 2012 planning (Jul 2012)
• Client-side JavaScript programming with Backbone.js (Quentin Wright, Jun 2012)
• Introduction to XML (Nick Morrott, May 2012)
• Social Meeting (Apr 2012)
• Introduction to Regular Expressions (Nick Morrott, Mar 2012)
• Linux from the Command Line (Quentin Wright, Feb 2012) [slides]
• New Year Social event (Jan 2012)
• Hands-on Arduino session (Garry Bulmer, Dec 2011)
• Unity/GNOME3/KDE4 and Hugin (Nov 2011)
• Introduction to Arduino (Garry Bulmer, Oct 2011)
• Software Freedom Day 2011 planning (Sep 2011)
• Software Freedom Day 2011 planning (Aug 2011)
• Monitoring solar power generation (Jul 2011)
• Ubuntu 11.04 and the Unity interface (Dmitrijs Ledkovs, Jun 2011)
• The FreedomBox Project (Craig Barnes, May 2011)
• Tiling Window Managers/WINE (Craig Barnes, Apr 2011) [sozi SVG]
• The Twitter Streaming API (Quentin Wright, Mar 2011)
• Video editing with kdenlive (Chris Halls, Feb 2011)
• udev and device management (Nick Morrott, Dec 2010) [slides]
• Favourite tools and apps (Nov 2010)
• Q&A session (Oct 2010)
• Lightning talks: Bluetooth audio, CouchDB, MythTV translations/i18n, EuroPython (Craig Barnes, Colin Bradford + Nick Morrott, Sep 2010)
• Pair Programming (Quenin Wright, Jun 2010)
• How I avoided buying an iPhone (Jon 'JJ' Allen, May 2010)
• XMLTV (Nick Morrott, Mar 2010) [slides]
• End of Year social (Dec 2009)
• ... mostly social meetings this year ...
• End of Year social (Dec 2008)
• Bug squashing (Nov 2008)
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Oct 2008)
• MythTV (Nick Morrott, Jul 2008) [slides]
• Understanding Malware (Barbie, Jun 2008)
• Overview of Ubuntu Hardy (Quentin Wright, May 2008)
• Introduction to the git DVCS (Tim Retout, Apr 2008) [slides]
• Hacking the NSLU2 (Quentin Wright, Jan 2008)
• First meeting! (Dec 2007)