<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'm sorry i couldn't make it. looks like you guys had a great evening. <br>Personally I have briefly played around with discrete logic chips and micro controllers (and 555's). This stuff is certainly a lot of fun. <br>I think that perhaps many Linux users will share an interest in electronics and music, sometimes in combining Linux, music and homemade electronics. <br><br>Developing Mobile phone apps is another subject that appeals to me. I also like the idea of scientist and artist collaborations (not that an individual need be exclusively one or the other).<br><br>Hope to meet you all soon.<br><br>Gary<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 21/11/11, Ian Dickinson <i><i.j.dickinson@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ian Dickinson
<i.j.dickinson@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [members@lugog] Hi<br>To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury" <glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Monday, 21 November, 2011, 23:17<br><br><div class="plainMail">So four of us made it to the Ring O' Bells tonight (which was a nice<br>pub - thanks Phil for the suggestion).<br><br>Douglas brought a problem with reconnecting his Firefox and<br>Thunderbird profiles after restoring from a backup - hopefully we've<br>solved that one.<br><br>We talked about:<br><br>* Raspberry Pi (<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/</a>) - simple cheap computer<br>for building into projects<br>* various linux distro's du jour (obviously :)<br>* Coding for Kids (<a href="http://codingforkids.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://codingforkids.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>) and Young<br>Rewired State (<a href="http://youngrewiredstate.org/"
target="_blank">http://youngrewiredstate.org/</a>)<br>* Hackspaces (<a href="http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Main_Page</a>)<br>* BathCamp (<a href="http://www.bathcamp.org" target="_blank">http://www.bathcamp.org</a>)<br>* this book: <a href="http://goo.gl/XiuUO" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/XiuUO</a><br>* and a bunch of other random stuff<br><br>By coincidence, Phil and I were both at BathCamp 27 last month,<br>listening to three talks on robotics. Very interesting, good buzz,<br>about 60 people in attendance. It made me wonder whether there's scope<br>for doing something like that in this part of Somerset. It seems to me<br>there must be a load of people doing cool techie stuff in our area<br>that we don't discuss or find out about because it's not Linux-based.<br><br>Sean phrased the question as "should LUGoG become a wider technology<br>forum?". I'm not sure I'd propose that LuGOG changes per se,
more<br>asking whether there's an opportunity - and interest - for doing<br>something in parallel to this group, but rather more inclusive in<br>topics and technologies. Douglas also mentioned the Sherborne Science<br>Cafe, a monthly series of science talks, which is also very well<br>attended and has good momentum.<br><br>To stand up and be counted, I'm up for trying to bootstrap a wider<br>digital-technology focused discussion with a geographic centre around<br>Glastonbuy/Street (Strode College was mentioned as a possible meeting<br>venue if we could arrange some talks). Any one else interested?<br><br>And yes, it would need a snappy name :)<br><br>Ian<br><br>PS Phil and I are thinking of car-sharing to BathCamp 28<br>(<a href="http://bathcamp.org/events/event/christmas-spectacular/" target="_blank">http://bathcamp.org/events/event/christmas-spectacular/</a>) on Dec 7<span>th</span>.<br>I could take a couple more in my car - let me know if
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