The Linux Society

**Meeting is at 7:30 this week** This week we'll be having a talk from Gary Whitton on Using Blender. {Blurb yet to be received}

To attend the meeting, please arrive at the University of Abertay Dundee Kydd building (Bell street) in the foyer, where a society officer will be there to greet you and take you up to the correct room.
thankyou,
Nick Walker
President

This week We'll be having a talk from Axel, on Smart Card Aware Application Development.
"Smart Card Aware Application Development
-Both smart cards APIs CT-API and PC/SC will compared, with SC being compared in more detail. -An overview about the specification and the architecture. -How to setup a development environment for Linux and debug the application. -An overview on the smart card reader itself. -A short introduction to the different smart card reader security classes -An overview on the issues with significant readers"

This week we will be meeting at our new location in the University of Abertay. We will meet in the foyer at 7pm, where one of the officers will be available to take you up to the room we have booked. There we'll have Robert Ladyman, an excellent speaker at the society, with a talk titled "Borderless Networks: there goes the neighbourhood"

Software Freedom Day is fast approaching us, and as many have noticed i have been pretty quite on the site. This is due to the active preparation for this years Software Freedom Day event, that we are hosting at the HMC. Last years was a roaring success, and everyone was very proud.

This years promises to be an awesome event, and anyone that has been following the site will have seen the recent post detailing the talks being held and the blurb being released (http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/dundees-software-freedom-day-event...).