Thanks to Spode and Karl Buckland we once again meet at the Ashford Youth Theatre right next to Ashford train station.<br>It is a great venue, quite central to the county and has parking opposite.<br><br>18 people made it to the meeting and continuing our record we had a new member, Kieran attending.<br>
<br><b>Attendees</b><br>Colin McCarthy<br>Nathan Friend<br>Stuart Brand<br>Kieran (new member)<br>Dan<br>Guhan<br>Allan<br>Karl Buckland [delurking for this year :-)]<br>Mike<br>Julia<br>Paully<br>Dan Ellis<br>Peter<br>Ray Osmond<br>
Blake Slade<br>Tom Groves<br>Dan Attwood<br>Toby<br><br><b>Tech Talk - MythTV</b><br><br>Paully Littlefield gave a run though of how he did his MythTV setup and MythTV's key features. He explained that he used <a href="http://www.parker1.co.uk">www.parker1.co.uk</a> for install guide in UK and that a MythTV install can take time to setup correctly, but then it will just work. Some of the problems were hoped to be solved in Ubuntu 9.04. Paully explained about the backend and front end setup and that he had setting up his own wiki for step by step guide. He also showed a Hauppauge Mediamvp, which is a simple device, boot off of the MythTV server and display videos.<br>
<br>MythTV wiki - <a href="http://www.indie-it.com/wiki/index.php/MythTV_Paully">http://www.indie-it.com/wiki/index.php/MythTV_Paully</a><br><br><b>Tech Talk - Moodle</b><br><br>Nathan Friend gave us a brief overview of an open source virtual learning environment that is used at schools, universities and companies to provide education or training. It runs on a lamp server and also other OS's. <br>
<br><b>Tech Bit</b><br><br>Colin quickly showed 'get_iplayer' (<a href="http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer">http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer</a>) and 'Zattoo' (<a href="http://zattoo.com/">http://zattoo.com/</a>) for those wanting TV content but do not have a MythTV setup.<br>
<br><b>Coffee and Snacks</b><br><br>The selection of three sugary snacks, mini flapjacks, mini brownies and mini shortcakes were from Aldi. The coffee was CafeDirect 'Rich Roast Coffee', priced at £2.79 and found in most supermarkets, it had a rich creamy aroma, had a full bodied taste and slight smokey, earthy after taste.<br>
<br><b>After Meeting Meeting</b><br><br>After the meeting 7 of us ventured into town and the Whetherspoons pub for a tasty burger and drink.<br><br>Overall it was a great meeting which everyone seemed to enjoy.<br><br>Please add any comments, additions about the meeting to this thread.<br>