Category Archives: News

2024 Meetings

By | 25/12/2023

Nobody has had time to keep the website up to date, but we are still meeting in the third tuesday of the month at The Bull on Price Street at 7.30pm so please do come along and join us for meetings in 2024.

December 2018 and January 2019 Meeting Report

By | 16/01/2019

Well a delayed December meeting report, combined with a timely January one! 9 of us made it to the Indian Brewery for the pre-Christmas bash, with excellent food and beer. The venue was well recommended and I forsee a repeat visit in December 2019 (if not before?). Thank you to every body who turned up… Read More »

November 2018 Meeting Report

By | 23/11/2018

A healthy crowd of 13 people including a few new faces came to the Bull for the November 2018 meeting to see Tim Williams’  presentation on video encoding, the talk was well received and sparked many questions and items for discussion. As always this was followed by further discussion on computing topics.

October 2018 Meeting Report

By | 16/10/2018

17 People came to the “re-boot” meeting at which Heather Lomond gave an excellent talk on the Shropshire LUG’s balloon project. We’re looking forward to hearing about how the project concludes once the balloon launch takes place. The next meeting will be on 20th November 2018, the talk details will be posted shortly.

First LUG Exchange meeting with Shropshire Group

By | 01/10/2018

The first “LUG Exchange” meeting took place with the Shropshire group on 27th September 2018, you’ll find a full report on the event here: https://shropshirelug.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/first-meeting-exchange-a-great-success/ Don’t forget that the return event will be the Brum LUG’s 16th October meeting, where Heather Lomond will be giving her talk on the “High Altitude Balloon Project“.

PyCon UK 2018

By | 22/08/2018

PyCon UK, founded by the late John Pinner (a former regular at the Birmingham LUG) will be taking place in Cardiff this year 15th to 19th September 2018. See https://2018.pyconuk.org/ for details. Birmingham LUG members past and present will be attending, so it’s a good chance to catch up (or you could go to the… Read More »

Website re-launch

By | 21/08/2018

Welcome to the new website of the Birmingham (UK) Linux User Group. We are in the process of “re-booting” the LUG and are actively looking for new members, you’ll find information on our regular meetings date and venue on the meetings page. An archive of our old website, with the historical archives will be transferred… Read More »