[Bradford] wuthering bytes and Stinky room

[David Spencer]

Wuthering Bytes Festival Day tickets went on sale just now.

Needless to say I'm very up for ICL and very up for telephone exchanges.

Happy maggots
-D.


On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, 17:04 Bernard Czenkusz via Bradford, <
bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi guys, note that Wuthering Bytes is on:
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> See: https://wutheringbytes.com/
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> *Friday 25th August to Saturday 2nd September*
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> Re on-line meetups - I'm a member of a U3A online astronomy group that
> works very well, however every meet is strongly structured, a lady runs it
> who controls and publishes an agenda with assigned speakers. She puts a lot
> of work into it.
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> Physical meets can be less formal,  with side discussions if someone has a
> linux problem etc.,
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> So  I wouldn't vote for replacing physical meets -
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> On 22/06/2023 14:11, John Robert Hudson via Bradford wrote:
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> Hi Brian
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> BradLUG has always been an umbrella organisation for people wanting to share
> experiences - we have had social events, outings and for many years IT Stuff.
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> There is nothing to stop anyone from starting a Meetup or similar - other than
> their willingness to maintain it. Perhaps this would attract members who are
> not attracted to the current meetings. There have always been people who would
> get involved in activities other than our regular meetings.
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> John
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> On Wednesday, 21 June 2023 21:11:50 BST bradlug--- via Bradford wrote:
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> There was some talkat the last meeting about attendance and also on-line
> meetings.
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> Here is my view onthis matter. I definitely do not like that meeting room in
> BCB. Youmay have noticed that whenever I have attended, in person, that
> Ihave propped open the door to allow some air in. This time the roomstank
> of sweaty bodies, it had obviously been occupied earlier andthe stink had
> not moved out due to the terrible lack of ventilation.
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> If we want to havemore participants then we need to use one of the
> establishedplatforms. 'Meetup' is an obvious one and 'Discord' for
> on-linemeetings. However 'Element' might be a better choice from the
> FOSSviewpoint.
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> I think that themeetings should all be on-line but interspersed with social
> meetingsat the pub.
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> As examples: ‘PCPro’ do their podcast live on Discord. ‘Malaga Mobile’
> and‘Barcamp Manchester’ also use Discord. ‘IoT North’ use Meetupfor general
> contact but ‘Youtube’ live video, together with useof text for questions to
> presenters.
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> However, if there isa formal move to go on-line AND to get more participants
> then we allneed to make a special effort to make sure that all our AV is
> workingcorrectly in advance of the meetings.
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> Comments and viewsplease.
> Refs:
> WordPress Leeds Online - Monthly Meetup, Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:30 PM | Meetup
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> WordPress Leeds Online - Monthly Meetup, Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:30 PM | ...
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> Our monthly meetup for WordPress users, bloggers and developers. The meetup
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