<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2012 08:37, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com">danattwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Ok my two pennies worth<div><br></div><div>My first impression of Lucs plan/ idea was that it was very long and complicated, given that have managed for years without the need for subs or affiliations. We also have an open invitation to continue at Medway Innovation centre and also at MidKent College if needed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However my second thought was that I know I personally don't want to take over the running of Klug - although I'm happy to continue to sit strongly on the sidelines. As such it's up to whoever takes over as chairman to drive forward in whatever way they see fit and feel will work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regardless of anything the mailing list and IRC will continue.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed....</div><div><br></div><div>If Luc wants to found a Student Society then go ahead, I'm some of us may support him in any way we can.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We've been asked this "afflication" question in the past, And as it stands we are not an official organisation that you can affiliate with.</div><div><br></div><div>We are infact a "<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">a group of like minded linux, open source and computer enthusiasts" in Kent. but even thats not 100% true at times. </span></font></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">We are more than happy for our mailing list, IRC channel etc to be used by ANYONE who wishes to communicate with other computer enthusiasts within Kent. weather they be using Windows, Linux, Mac, ZX Spectrams, C64, WII, etc etc etc.. We are primarily "hard core" computer users rather than you stand run of the mill MS Word or Facebook computer user, </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">We encourage the Freedom of software, (ie software reuse etc) but more importantly want to ensure that the "Right tool is used for the right job" and if the right tool is not Free or Open then that's not really a problem, so long as it does the job required well.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">We are about "Diversity" and "Reuse" rather than a one show stop. </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">Think of use as KCUG (Kent Computer User Group) rather than KLUG and you would be closer to the truth. </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:19px">Peter. </span></font></div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dan </div>
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