Ted wrote:
> I thought Godfrey's idea of regular (say monthly) meetings
> looked promising, but I've been unable to get to two out of
> the three and I gather that not many others made it to the
> last one either. Is this a date/time/place problem or because
> we are still so few?
I have been to one meeting so far. It has been a timing issue for me
because I am constrained by UoN term times at the moment while I live in
a fscking Hall.
> I wondered whether the students at either of Nottm's Unis were
> interested in Linux
* jcm makes a quiet reference to the fact that UoN are so stupid they
have only three GNU/Linux machines in the main CS lab. It's painful the
number of people who use windows and are happy with it.
> sufficiently to take over our group (think: hmmmmm - Student Union
> funds/facilities!),
Well, I am about to found an official Compsoc for UoN so I shall have
enough trouble getting funding already :P
> Archived by Simon Amor at http://shoe.bocks.com/nlug/.
Now that was worth knowing.
> 3. Formal meetings (3 so far) organised by Godfrey.
> Agenda/organisation open to suggestions/offers, but not well
> supported yet. Announced via mailing list.
I propose another meeting soon - anyone got ideas?
> 4. Online chat set up by Jon Masters?
> #nottingham - irc.openprojects.net - port 6667?
> (I'm not familiar with this, just quoting others).
> Apparently not much used yet.
No, not yet, but it's there :)
> 5. Informal pub meetup - 5 at first one, last week.
> Arranged via mailing list.
* jcm proposes another pub meet mostly because those of us at either
University will be back in a week (I think Trent University have similar
term times? anyone?)
> We seem to be open to new initiatives when they sprout.
> We could appoint an inner circle of do-ers to make suggestions
> happen, but I suspect we're better off allowing anarchy to reign
> until we're a bigger group.
Well, I'm also involved with various other LUGs around the country. In
the case of OxLUG we have the following mailing lists:
* oxlug
* oxlug-chat
* oxlug-events
* oxlug-installhelp
etc. So there's plenty of room for growth here :)
> So unless we actualy *need* html frames, cookies, special fonts,
> javascripts, ..., why require them in our web pages?
I support the "Telnet to port 80" campaign.
> But I for one would hate a web page that didnt work unless I could
> display a real-time movie of Nottm LUG setting up its stand at the
> next expo, or whatever. Sure we can offer such stuff to anyone who
> wants to see it, but not as a requirement for accessing our pages.
Exactly. It should all validate to one of the W3C standards too :P
> > Come join me on the BlueBus
>
> ??? Please explain Jason. What happens there?
> I knew some poeple who sold a good cup of tea from the Blue Bus
> at festivals in bygone years. Are you offering a cuppa?
Yes, I've been wondering that too.
--jcm
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