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<div>"I think we'd do better to align and push ideas like android, ardoino, creative commons, maker bots etc. "<br><br>Perhaps we could focus on 'What you can do with your tech kit [PC, Router, Server, Phone, Netbook, techkit and other such Gizmos] using non proprietary software/hardware add-ons....'<br><br>A sort of bring-it-and-experiment/play kind of club?<br></div>
<br>How many people do you know who are frustrated by what they think the limitations of their 'stuff' is??<br><br>How about 'the technical enlightenment club' as a name/focus?<br><br>Aitch<br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:08:37 +0100<br>From: pchilds@bcs.org<br>To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Re-branding the 'L' in LUG<br><br><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 3 October 2011 17:04, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com">danattwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div class="ecxim"><br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Open Source & Unix.<div><br></div><div>Not that Linux is strictly speaking Unix, its more sort of gnu.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't think we really need to change the name, more come up with some aims</div><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div>if broadening participation is the idea that I'd suggest the gnu and unix aren't mentioned at all as both are elitist. no term should used that doesn't come in the first page of google.</div>
<div> </div><div>so OSS and FLOSS are ok</div><div>I think we'd do better to align and push ideas like android, ardoino, creative commons, maker bots etc. </div></div>
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