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tom bruton wrote:
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cite="mid:CAFJetDJvMRH306_kv2+24Y9_m0eXaQx45rLprUOODfJiXqVjQA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Was great to meet all of you the other night. Sorry I
didn't get to speak to every1 got into a deep conversation with Alister
and a tenacious debate about security with Becky's other half. Its good
to speak to like minded people.<br>
<br>
I spoke to Becky about how the Leeds groups worked and building on the
Lincoln community. However I don't want to step on anybodies toes, so
it was suggested I emailed some ideas in the mailing list and see what
people think.<br>
<br>
In Leeds the place I have spent the last few years of my life there is
quite a few groups similar to LUG e.g. OWASP and Ruby Thing. Out of all
the groups OWASP is by far the most popular with professionals students
and hobbyists alike. I think this is mainly down to there format, which
is 2 talks running from 40mins to and hour then off to the pub.<br>
<br>
I think a similar format could work for LLUG, having a single 40min
hour presentation then a general social aspect. I think it would give
the meeting a focal point and also attract others into the group as it
will give immediate value to coming. I would be more than happy to do
the occasional presentation a few topics i wouldn't mind doing are<br>
<ul>
<li>Home Networking gone wild (really just going though really cool
home networking stuff you can do such as media servers with front ends
on tvs, network logins across all OS's, home instant messaging service,
virtualisation servers, intranet. Oh and how to do it for cheap)</li>
<li>Why linux sucks</li>
<li>Why linux is awesome and you should ignore everything I said in
my why linux sucks presentation</li>
<li>Hacking IP cameras</li>
</ul>
I have taken inspiration for the presentation ideas from other
presentations but they would all be original presentations.<br>
<br>
The other thing that a couple of people mentioned is a desire to learn
html/css. This is something in which the basic concepts can be taught
in a day and people can walk away with something pretty cool that they
have made. Again I would not mind getting involved in running a day
course.<br>
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So guys/girls let me know what you think to my ideas, tell me if I'm
way off the mark to what people want from the group if that is the
case. I would just really love to see a large and active Linux
community in the Lincoln area.<br>
<br>
PS Becky said about attracting some IT students from the uni a good
person to talk to is Joss Winn, he has been using linux and a friendly
chap from what ive been told.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk">jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk</a>
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-- <br>
Tom Bruton<br>
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<br>
Hello to the group again, long time no speak!<br>
<br>
I think Tom has a good idea here about doing some talks. The home
networking caught my attention. I would like to get music connected in
the house - I still use CD's. It's hard to keep up with what hardware
and boxes are available for network solutions. <br>
<br>
Well, I recently got Linux (Vector Linux Light 6.0) installed on a 13
year old PC. The install CD would not boot, and I had to use a boot
manager from a floppy (SmartBootManager). <br>
<br>
I also recently came across (g)awk and sed for editing text files which
comes in very handy at work for extracting columns of text, text
patterns and building text input decks etc. I thought I was going to
have to learn a general langauge to do this, but gawk and sed does the
work for you. These should be in your installation.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Simon.<br>
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