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Thanks to all who came, more pics are here. Thomas Pedoussaut(Tpt) robbed his sons toy and Paul O’Malley (Ompaul) bought the pint.

I went along on  Sunday to see the Viking re-enacmtnet taking place at the National Museum of Ireland. I must say I feel really bad as I’ve been saying for a long time I should go in there and have been meaning to for a number of years, so now that I’m living up here and it’s literally on my front door step I took a stroll around yesterday to have a look.

I’ve taken some pictures of the clothing and artillery they would have used during viking fights.  Butwhat was really interesting to watch was the fighting. So taking some small video clips also of the and didn’t want to embed them all in here after wrecking Donncha’s head already this morning

• Video 1
• Video 2
• Video 3
• Video 4
• Video 5

I’ve been asked to lend a hand in this years Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008. There are a few of us on the committee who belong to differnt groups/communities. (Python, Java, Open Ireland are taking part in this)

Details of the event are here, they are basic at the moment but there is a site in progress being set up.

Some suggestions from PotD and twitter are as follows, if you have any more please contact me on #linux or via twitter or email. Thanks

• Data Recovery
• Emacs V Vi
• The Role of Apache in Modern society
• The Pros and Cons of the GPL compared to the BSD licence
• Thought ware
• A basic introduction to the differences between sneaker net and fibre optic
• Business intelligence
• Hardware
• Cryptography
• “Open Source for my business”
• CPU Optimised firewalls
• Project Management as a social networking exercise
• OSS for non geeks i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, Openoffice / OSS in an office
• OSS alternatives to commercial apps
• OSS demystified
• The GPL in ENGLISH
• Linux kernel developer talking about their processes

So last Saturday after much twittering and blogging from myself and Elly we had a really good turn out from folks. We went to O’Neills and had a good time, thankfully easily spooted by the yellow ballons, good call Elly as to be honest I only knew Elly and George there before hand.

After much chatting, twittering, eating eggs, getting the wifi working, photo taking, and a few  drinks down it was like (well for me) already knowing people before hand.

So are we going to do it again? Hell yes! What do you need to do?

Pick a venue, time & date and twitter/blog about it and encourge more face to face meet ups.

Folks that turned up that I have blog details for are :

·         Alexia

·         Anthony

·         Ben 

·         Darragh 

·         Darren 

·         Elly

·         George 

·         Niall Larki

·         Niamh 

·         RedMum 

·         Sam

·         Suzy 

Last one for March and seeing as it’s just come to light that it’s closing down!!!!! So usual place, The Longstone  top floor look for nerds and possibly a penguin or two there’s even a few laptops usually about. 6:30 for food, 7:00 for drink and some chatting!

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