<div dir="auto">Wuthering Bytes Festival Day tickets went on sale just now.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Needless to say I'm very up for ICL and very up for telephone exchanges.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happy maggots</div><div dir="auto">-D.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, 17:04 Bernard Czenkusz via Bradford, <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi guys, note that Wuthering Bytes is on:</p>
<p>See: <a href="https://wutheringbytes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wutheringbytes.com/</a></p>
<p><strong>Friday 25th August to Saturday 2nd September</strong></p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>Physical meets can be less formal, with side discussions if
someone has a linux problem etc.,</p>
<p>So I wouldn't vote for replacing physical meets - <br>
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<div>On 22/06/2023 14:11, John Robert Hudson
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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.
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.
John
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<pre>There was some talkat the last meeting about attendance and also on-line
meetings.
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.
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.
I think that themeetings should all be on-line but interspersed with social
meetingsat the pub.
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.
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.
Comments and viewsplease.
Refs:
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Brian
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