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LUGRadio Live 2005

2 June 2005

Later this month, I’ll be engaging geek mode and heading up to Wolverhampton to attend LUGRadio Live 2005. For the uninitiated (and frankly, that’s going to be most of you), LUGRadio is a UK-based podcast on the subject of Linux, OSS and related issues, created by a Linux User Group (LUG). As the name suggests, LUGRadio Live is a chance for interested parties to gather, learn, discuss and drink beer. But mostly drink beer.

I’ll be presenting a quick-fire talkette on “How to make sure your OSS website isn’t crap” or something to that effect. Nicely sidestepping having to talk about linux, you’ll note. Stick to what you know, I say. Other speakers include The Willison, Ian Bell co-author of classic computer game Elite, my very favorite BBC technology essayist Bill Thompson, and a whole host of individuals who you’ll know more for their excellent work than their names.

Tickets are available in advance or on the door for a ferociously reasonable five of your very best English pounds. All that remains to be seen is if I get lynched for giving a presentation with a Powerbook…

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Tim: Drew,

    I’m a long time LUG Radio listener, and a Linux user at work/Mac user at home. On the show, Ade in particular has a real chip on his shoulder about Apple!

    If your Powerbook is running Ubuntu then you won’t be lynched ;)
  2. § sil: We promise to not lynch you, assuming that your Powerbook will plug into whatever data projector we scrounge and doesn’t require some magic digital output or something. :-)
    It’ll be great to have you.
  3. § Drew: Where magic = industry standard. ;-)
    But yeah, I can bring an adaptor for legacy video standards.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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