Map to St. Peter's School:
at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
Come off the motorway at junction 29 follow Honiton
Road, initially the A3015 changes to the B3183 (Go
straight on at the rounderbout just after the railway),
towards the city centre. Turn left, at the lights,
onto Rifford Road, then left again onto Quarry Lane
until you come to the top of the hill.
When leaving you can go down the one way section of
Quarry Lane to join the A3015 back to junction 29.
Talk Summary: Technical Aspects of Meteorological Office Relocation
Presenter: Alan McIlveen
Description: Alan gave a 50 minute talk on the Met Office plans and activities for moving a major computing and networking facility from Bracknell to Exeter. Fascinating although necessarily fairly superficial, moving the Met Office IT is clearly not a one hour kind of project.
Talk Summary: Use of Linux at St.Peters school
Presenter: Mark Evans
Description: How the computer room systems inter-operate.Linking network systems and telephone distribution points across rooms in the premises, staff, library, finance, music and art.Network monitoring and data traffic illustrations.UPS monitoring. Implementing LTSP to increase pupil experience of Linux - OOo already in use on existing Win95 machines and introducing the Debian desktop to users.
http://www.st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk/
Talk Summary: Free Software in Education
Presenter: Simon Waters
Description: Aimed at teachers and complete Linux newbies Simon discussed a selection of Free Software from the OFSET Freeduc CD.The intent was to give potential users some background and confidence to get the most from this CD. 10 copies of the CD were supplied free to interested parties.
Simon's notes in StarOffice format (26K)
Talk Summary: GnuPG/PGP key signing
Presenter: Neil Williams
Description: An opportunity for people to match a real person to an email address and keyID. Demonstrations of key signing, exporting, importing, verification, UIDs and more were available. Those attending the key signing brought printed copies of their public key fingerprints as well as photographic ID. Exporting (sharing) the signed keys couldn't operate as expected as the school firewall did not allow HKP transfers to the keyservers. Signed keys were exported later once members had access to their usual internet connection at home.