Hello, everyone.

Firstly, apologies about the website being unavailable earlier in the week. We've been having some server issues, although everything should be working reasonably well now.

This week we have two events! See below for details.

Telepathy ========= Thursday 1st November, 20:00 Stafford Crane Room, Keble College

Robert McQueen of Collabora will extol the virtues of Telepathy, the instant messaging framework used on the Nokia N800, the One Laptop Per Child project, and on a Unix desktop near you. He'll introduce D-Bus (the IPC system underlying Telepathy), discuss novel uses of IM (such as collaborative editing and podcast recording) that Telepathy makes feasible, and will demonstrate how to do useful IM-related things with surprisingly few lines of Python.

There will be someone at the Keble Porters' Lodge to show you to the talk; this may involve a short wait outside if the porters don't let us keep the door open, but we'll keep sticking our heads out (quite literally).

Bletchley Park Trip =================== Saturday 3rd November, 10:00ish Bletchley Park (meet at Gloucester Green Bus Station)

We plan to go and visit Bletchley Park, one of the homes of modern cryptography, and home of the World War I codebreaking effort. We'll be travelling to Bletchley using the bus and train; an exact timetable will be available shortly, but we'll be catching the X5 from Gloucester Green bus station to Milton Keynes, and then taking the train from there to Bletchley.

Travel costs should be less than £14, and once we've figured out the best way to price things up we'll have a more exact figure. Admission to Bletchley itself is £8, and if you plan to eat at the cafe there you'll need more money (expect standard visitor-attraction-cafe prices).

We will probably be leaving around 10ish in the morning (quite likely the 10:05 bus from gloucester green), and getting to Bletchley around 11:30, and returning sometime in the afternoon.

If you're planning to go on the Bletchley trip, then email me so I can get some idea of numbers.

Hopefully we'll see you at one or more events this week, they're both looking to be pretty good ones!

Bear in mind that this is the last week for free admission to events; from next week, non-members will get charged £2 at the door.

Andrew