"Its all going pear,shaped guv'nor"
by Steven Maddox
Lo,
Been watching this list for about 2 years since I started work up in
Keele, I think I was told of some kind of regular meeting in Keele, so I
starting imagining some arrangement you had with the university to have
a room, and a bunch of people with laptops.
Nah! Nothing of the sort like this must have existed, but then I've
never been to a meeting because I can never work out where they are or
when from the ever continual stream of decision making on the mailing list!
I'd love to go to one however, but surely we can strike a deal with
Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent (where there's a computing
department who may help us out, and it's a central location for us all)
to give us a regular location to be at... show off what we may have
found on ye olde internet on our lappys since the last time we met -
then go PUB. Although I don't mind if its Keele either since I'm
already here.
All the talk about splitting, maybe a Potteries LUG and a Staffordshire
LUG would be easier to manage, and the places the meetings are be more
familiar to the attendees. There's no reason why the two close-by LUGs
can't have joint meetings on occasion.
I never have time or the memory to check a web site regularly, so maybe
we can stick to IRC... Mailing Lists... and a CalDAV server so we know
when stuff is... and just use the web site for general information and
help people to use these real protocols for communication.
Hell if anyone feels like resurrecting the Papercut project with me
(written in Python, little out of date... can't figure out why it won't
work) then we can even have an NNTP server that uses a phpBB database...
then people can use proper caldav/nntp/irc clients or use the website
for a forum/web-calendar/java-irc. Best of both worlds. I have a
server here at the Internet Central data centre in Keele where I can run
whatever is needed too.
Any thoughts?
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Steven Maddox
Lantizia / Cyorxamp
16 years
Re: [Staffslug] Online Vote/Survey ( Was VOTE)
by Jonothon Nihill
I have tried
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew <m(a)z.je>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:09 PM
To: 'staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk' <staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Online Vote/Survey ( Was VOTE)
> We also need to start thinking of other mediums to comunicate hence my
> suggestion of stuff like identica
>
Or face to face :-) lol
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VOTE
by Andrew Edwards
To decide the lug's direction...
perhaps we should have an informal vote
A : formal lug (chair etc..)
B : informal lug (purely social for example..)
C : lug with a purpose (e.g. advocating linux)
cards on the table chaps! i'll start a new thread and we can have an
open vote PURELY A, B or C... no reasoning or chatter... that way
it'll be totally clear and calculable!
I wont be voting - so as not to sway the opinions of others!!
e.g. reply with
"A" or "B" or "C"
16 years
Re: [Staffslug] Online Vote/Survey ( Was VOTE)
by Jonothon Nihill
We also need to start thinking of other mediums to comunicate hence my suggestion of stuff like identica
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:59 PM
To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Online Vote/Survey ( Was VOTE)
2009/2/3 stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/3 Andrew Edwards <andrew(a)andrewedwards.name>:
>>> As others have said, the LUG isn't big enough to split.
>>> Just hold meetings in Stafford & Stoke alternately.
>>>
>> Richard is right... and for what its worth...
>
> I've been to a few meetings in recent years. I think the most people
> attending was about 6. Hardly seems practical to split does it?
>
Agreed and I'm as much to blame but I am just thinking of the future.
I would like to see the group grow properly :-)
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Staffordshire
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16 years
website
by Jon Nihill
Dave is there anything keeping the lug tied to e107? I just don't think
it cuts the mustard and we could do with something that is a little more
known (joomla,dupal etc)
16 years
Re: [Staffslug] web site / Install fest?
by Dave
> There is a small but interesting and possibly useful article in the
latest Linux Format. It's issue 116 just in case it's not yet on the
shelves. Anyway, it's all about structure and getting the LUG going as
the members want it :-)
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>
> Kevan Farmer
> Linux user #373362
> Staffordshire
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I shall try and grab myself a copy.
I was having a think about the priority of events, and I was thinking:
1. Get the web site sorted and everyone happy with it.
2. Try and find somewhere for meetings to be held on a more regular
occurrence.
3. Set-up the meetings
4. Maybe some lug projects?
If anyone has any other ideas/suggestions or feels the order is wrong, let
me know.
Also, I gather that as I haven't had any come back from my previous mail
about heading up the lug, the current structure still stands?
Thank you
Dave
16 years
Re: [Staffslug] web site / Install fest?
by dick_turpin
On Saturday 24 January 2009 19:53:37 Jonothon Nihill wrote:
> Another thing has anyone actually been to a install-fest before? what
> happens exactly? I know Linux gets installed (I will, with daves go ahead
> try to get some ubuntu CD's from canonical) but don't really know much
> else.
<Humongous bloat cut>
Install fests can be whatever you want, straight forward installs of Ubuntu
etc (Which TBH in this day and age can be pretty boring, installation is
child's play) or as some Lug's do a "Bring your pain in the butt machine and
the group will help install and get it running"
Diversity of OS's is the key 10-12 people watching 10-12 Ubunutu installs is
pretty boring setting up say a Free Nas would get the Geek in you salivating.
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There is no excuse for not asking"
16 years
