[Lincs] multitude of sins

[iain Baker]

i have the strange feeling mailman doesnt like me at the mo- but we'll try 
this anyway (sorry if its smart enough to add it to the conversation string 
i hijacked to make sure it sent)
 Sin 1) Laptops
i have sent a message before but like i said - i dont think mail man likes 
me so... does anyone know a good manufacturer of laptops? i am looking to 
get a decent spec, somewhat future proof laptop at a not 
<dubious_spelling>extorshionate</dubious_spelling> prices, and rather 
unsurprisingly want it to be linux compatible...
 Sin 2) LLUG Distro
Does anybody remember a pipe dream about a Lug specific Live Distro for use 
as promotional gizzits and for Real Life meetings (more on them later)??
I eould love to see this happen, and i would love to see comunity 
involvement! My happiest moment as a LLUG member was in the development of 
the new website, pull up a sand bag while i wander down memory lane. I had 
uploaded v0.1 of my entrant in the website design competition, and had asked 
all present in our IRC room for feedback... and there was quite a bit of it. 
due to the sterling efforts of Marc suggestions were implemented on one of 
the pages within the prototype... then, with me editing a second page of the 
prototype, we were able to trial run the suggestions as they were made... 
and someone within our fold (forgive me for forgetting whom) said how 
impressed they were in seeing community development in action!
 i know it may not be quite as 'live' but i'd love to see that passion 
brought back into the lug, and the distro may be a nice place to start? give 
us something to focus on?
what do you say?
 sin 3) Real Life Meetings
we need one!
anyone disagree?
i would love to organise a meeting full of demo's and tutorials, because 
that would be fun and interesting... but i think we may have a darker need 
for them. unless we can get IRC meetings at a time everyone can be online 
(which seems unlikely from before) i think we should meet up to discuss the 
future, to discuss what we want to do, create and achieve... and maybe to 
have a friendly drink and chat... 
 just my oppinion and if people disagree then please feel free to let me 
know... but if thats what others want i will see what i can do to get one 
near Lincoln City Centre (a central point, the best i can think of for a 
fair location)
 sin 4) Future
either mailman REALLY dislikes me or the conversation thread has faded 
away... what do people think we should do about the splitting in 
half/keeping unified issue?
does anyone have a 'LUG Dream' of what they see us achieving for ourselves, 
for lincolnshire, and/or for linux?
 where are we going?
 we had a passion when we built the site (sorry to revert to it but it was 
our hayday) because we had a goal, we had something to aim at, and we could 
see a way to achieve it... do we need to create more goals, targets, and 
missions to keep a passion? are there differant areas we can have these 
objectives to allow everyone a fair crack at the whip?
 this is everyones LUG, lets get some love back into it! lets get a Lug we 
are proud of, lets get me a new laptop
:-)
 iain
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