[Dundee] Lug digest, Vol 1 #10 - 4 msgs

Wed Nov 6 16:38:01 2002

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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: MOM 1 - 03/11/2002 (Bergdahl, Carin)
   2. Hello to Dundee and Moray! (Mark McRitchie)
   3. Re: MOM 1 - 03/11/2002 (Aidan Karley)
   4. Local linux-using businesses, "Interesting Times" (Aidan Karley)

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Message: 1
Subject: RE: [AberLUG] MOM 1 - 03/11/2002
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:19:05 -0000
From: "Bergdahl, Carin" <CarinB@Petrotechnics.com>
To: <lug@arricc.net>
Reply-To: lug@arricc.net

  Either is fine, but could we have a meeting-time,
not just a general "see you there!" for the fair? I'm not
a regular visitor by any means, and it would be detrimental
to my home-life to bring home much more "stuff". :-)

  Cabe.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aidan Karley [mailto:aidan@karley.org]
>
>In article=20
><Pine.LNX.4.44.0211041254580.14294-100000@cable.arricc.net>,=20
>Mark McRitchie wrote:
>> MM - is it worth having a lug-announce mailing list?
>>
>       I wouldn't think so. There's only 4 that we are likely=20
>to impact=20
>on.
>      =20
>       I think the main outstanding issue is whether we should be=20
>trying to have the meetings mid-week or at the weekends, and if the=20
>co-ordination with the computer fairs is a good idea. I can see good=20
>grounds for having it mid-week, particularly for those working in=20
>Aberdeen but living out of town. But the opposite agrement can also be=20
>applied to doing it in concert with the computer fairs:=20
>there's "stuff"=20
>we all need to get from time to time (AT power supply and a couple of=20
>odd cables were my needs on Sunday) , and there's interesting oddities=20
>to be collected (7-off Z88 terminals [battery-powered, RS232=20
>terminals]=20
>for a tenner!). Except when I've been out of town, I've not missed one=20
>for years.
>       Besides, it *has* worked. Always a good point.
>       OK, people anyone got any objections to coordinating=20
>things like=20
>this?
>       The one issue that might come up is if the fair in=20
>early January=20
>is skipped, because people are expected to be skint and stuffed with=20
>turkey. Their website doesn't look forward beyond December. I'll drop=20
>them an e-mail and report back.
>      =20
>       =20
>--=20
> Aidan Karley,
> Aberdeen,  Scotland
> Written at Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:46 GMT, but posted much later.
> Present loc.: 57=BA10'11"N, 02=BA08'43"W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), =
0.021233
>
>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:27:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark McRitchie <mark@arricc.net>
To: lug@arricc.net
Subject: [AberLUG] Hello to Dundee and Moray!
Reply-To: lug@arricc.net

Hello!

After taking to the guys that run the lists for Dundee and Moray LUGs,
digests of the Aberdeen LUG list will get posted to the other lists, as
we're fairly close together geographically.

Hopefully we'll be talking enough nonsense at meetings to inspire some
wanderings in our direction!

Regards,
Mark.

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 19:30:37 GMT
To: lug@arricc.net
Subject: Re: [AberLUG] MOM 1 - 03/11/2002
From: Aidan Karley <aidan@karley.org>
Reply-To: lug@arricc.net

In article 
<AD34118C0D487D478A480924DBD839F2602C0E@moe.petrotechnics.com>, Carin 
Bergdahl wrote:
> Either is fine, but could we have a meeting-time,
> not just a general "see you there!" for the fair?
>
       The nominal times for the fair are 10:00 to 15:00. I'd say to 
meet at [insert name of pub with meeting room] 16:00 and expect about 2 
hours LUG meeting (½ hour talk; ½ hour Q+A about the talk; 1 hour 
padding) so the SO/CWCM [*] can have food on the table for 18:30. Of 
course, if you want to stay on at the boozer ...
       In practice, Mark and I bumped into each other at about 14:00 at 
the fair, picked up some "stuff" (I've just finished soldering up a 
couple of "suspect device" leads with bits I got there - one for 
HandyAndy next time I see ya, loon. Thanks for the PSU.) and ambled up 
the road to a convenient pub, so we probably started to talk seriously 
at about 16:00. I think the times work reasonably well.

       Most of the places we were considering as possible meeting rooms 
are at the east end of town, purely because they'll be within walking 
distance of the Beach. Thinking about the needs of pub management 
people, we'd need to have made a decision as to which place is most 
appropriate at least a week in advance. [That's Mark's excuse to go to 
the pub tonight!]

[*] SO/CWCM = Significant Other/ Cooking Washing Cleaning Machine - the 
latest in home technology for your fully modernised cave.
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen,  Scotland
 Written at Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:30 GMT, but posted much later.
 Present loc.: 57º10'11"N, 02º08'43"W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 01:30:53 GMT
To: AberLug Mailing list <lug@arricc.net>
From: Aidan Karley <aidan@karley.org>
Subject: [AberLUG] Local linux-using businesses, "Interesting Times"
Reply-To: lug@arricc.net

In article <001001c25fe0$ff4b8e90$82037ad5@zakalwe>, Andrew Craven wrote:
> Can we do this without paying for it? 
       [Subject was advertising the meetings]
> Does anyone know of any linux-using
> businesses in Aberdeen area we can contact, to see if we can peak their
> interest?
>
       I'm still working on collating things, including a list I got from the Linux Counter, but there are several for certain. I'm just handling an email address for the Rowett Research Institute up in Bucksburn; I know a number are in use at the University; a number of departments at RGU use Linux extensively; there are 18 others on the list from Linux Counter who say they're using Linux at work.
       For what it's worth, that source has expanded my original 9-strong list to a stock of 46 (of whom 3 were on the original list). That's a big jump in potential resource. Well thought to Mark for digging it up - I'd forgotten that I'd registered (and I've forgotten my password <SIGH>!).
       I'm not publishing the list yet, because some of the people might object to their info being culled in this way (if I can do it, a spammer can do it). Once I've tracked down as many as possible I'll bring them up to the list. Busy with the phone book just now.

-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen,  Scotland
 Written at Wed, 06 Nov 2002 00:09 GMT, but posted much later.
 Present loc.: 57º10'11"N, 02º08'43"W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

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