Online Meetings

 

During periods of social distancing and lockdown we are MEETING ONLINE on the THIRD THURSDAY of each month at 19:00.

Meetings use Jitsi (web/mobile). We thank OpusVL for hosting our Jitsi meetings.

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!

Next Meeting: Thursday 17th December 2020

TBA

 

You'll find us in a Jitsi hangout. Please check the mailing list for details.

Technical Meetings

 

Covering technical topics and featuring live demonstrations, our technical meetings take place in the offices of OpusVL (OpusVL, Drury House, Drury Lane, Rugby, CV21 3DE [map]).

Meetings start at 19:00 and typically last a couple of hours. For an idea of the topics we feature please check the meetings archive.

We try to have a technical presentation of some sort each quarter. 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.

Past Meetings

 

Previous talks/discussions given at Rugby LUG include:

  • Online Cryptic Crossword Social (Jitsi, Nov 2020)
  • Online Social (Jitsi, Oct 2020)
  • Online Cryptic Crossword Social (Jitsi, Sep 2020)
  • Online Social (Jitsi, Aug 2020)
  • Hashicorp tools (Vault, Consul, Nomad) for Infrastructure (Colin Bradford (Jitsi), Jul 2020)
  • De-duplicating Password Safe Entries with Go and pcap2har-go (Colin Newell (Jitsi), Jun 2020)
  • Online Social (Jitsi, May 2020)
  • Online Social (Jitsi, Apr 2020)
  • No meeting due to SARS-CoV-2 (Mar 2020)
  • Social (Feb 2020)
  • Working with Git (Jan 2020)
  • End of Year Social (Dec 2019)
  • No meeting (Nov 2019)
  • Social (Oct 2019)
  • PostGIS (Matt Saunders, Sep 2019)
  • Summer Social (Aug 2019)
  • Packaging the Mu editor for Debian/Ubuntu (Nick Morrott, Jul 2019)
  • Code Club hacking session (Jun 2019)
  • Improving Documentation session (May 2019)
  • Planning Social: Season of Docs (Apr 2019)
  • Tech Talks: PiDP-11; Python asyncio; Probing web vulnerabilities; Learning classifier systems (LCS/XCS) (Mar 2019)
  • Hacking Social (Feb 2019)
  • New Year Hacking Social (Jan 2019)
  • No meeting (Dec 2018)
  • No meeting (Nov 2018)
  • Mycroft AI hacking (Oct 2018)
  • No meeting (Sep 2018)
  • Mycroft AI hacking (Aug 2018)
  • Mycroft AI planning social (Jul 2018)
  • Tech talks: Mycroft AI, Flic Hub; cling, CERN ROOT; fzf, fd, ripgrep; cleaner nuclear fission (Jun 2018)
  • LineageOS installfest (May 2018)
  • Social - Google-free phone discussion (Apr 2018)
  • Planning meeting (Mar 2018)
  • Social (Feb 2018)
  • No meeting :( (Jan 2018)
  • End of year social (Dec 2017)
  • No meeting :( (Nov 2017)
  • Social (Oct 2017)
  • Social (Sep 2017)
  • Social (Aug 2017)
  • No meeting :( (Jul 2017)
  • Social (Jun 2017)
  • Nobody turned up :( (May 2017)
  • No meeting :( (Apr 2017)
  • No meeting :( (Mar 2017)
  • tmux (Nick Morrott, Feb 2017)
  • New Year hackathon (Jan 2017)
  • End of year social (Dec 2016)
  • Hacking social (Nov 2016)
  • Organising a Digital Music Collection (Nick Morrott, Oct 2016)
  • Project hacking (Sep 2016)
  • A Tiny Adventure in Exploitation: Part 2 (Colin Newell, Aug 2016)
  • No meeting :( (Jul 2016)
  • A Tiny Adventure in Exploitation: Part 1 (Colin Newell, Jun 2016)
  • Lightining talks and project hacking (May 2016)
  • Social (Apr 2016)
  • Project hacking (Mar 2016)
  • Project hacking (Feb 2016)
  • New Year social (Jan 2016)
  • End of year social (Dec 2015)
  • Project hacking (Nov 2015)
  • Office meeting (Oct 2015)
  • The Bergamot Distributed Monitoring System (Chris Ellis, Sep 2015)
  • Summer Social (Aug 2015)
  • Adventures in Debian Packaging (Nick Morrott, July 2015)
  • Office meeting (Jun 2015)
  • Internet Access in Remote Locations (Colin Bradford, May 2015)
  • MythTV, LIRC, network monitoring (Apr 2015)
  • FreeNAS/RAID, general discussion (Mar 2015)
  • git and bash aliases (Feb 2015)
  • Office meeting (Jan 2015)
  • End of year social (Dec 2014)
  • Rugby Open Code Club (Nov 2014)
  • Rugby Open Code Club (Oct 2014)
  • Vim hacks/customisations (Sep 2014)
  • Summer Social (Aug 2014)
  • Summer Social (Jul 2014)
  • Summer Social (Jun 2014)
  • Emacs org-mode (May 2014)
  • sshfs/afuse/fluxbox (Apr 2014)
  • MIDI: hydrogen/jack/qsynth/qtractor/virtual piano (Mar 2014)
  • Introduction to git-annex (Feb 2014)
  • Lightning talks: resty, jsawk, zsh, and libvirt (Jan 2014)
  • Introduction to Salt (Colin Newell, Dec 2013) [slides]
  • Programming in Go (Garry Bulmer, Nov 2013)
  • Post-SFD Social (Oct 2013)
  • Software Freedom Day 2013 (Oct 12 2013)
  • Software Freedom Day 2013 planning (Sep 2013)
  • Software Freedom Day 2013 planning (Aug 2013)
  • Software Freedom Day 2013 planning (Jul 2013)
  • Social (Jun 2013)
  • Social (May 2013)
  • 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 (Quentin 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)