The whole meeting went really well I thought. Nice to see the attendance is going up, we seem to be building quite a strong group of regulars now and of course it's always good to see new faces too. See you all there next month, unless any of you are going to the Liverpool Twestival next week? Seems like quite an interesting event with some great bands and it's all free, you have to book though and tickets are going fast, so do it now if you're interested. There was 18 places left when I looked today. There's gonna be a lot of media there by the looks of it and it's all raising money for charity as well. I'll see if I can promote the LUG a bit :)<br>
<br>It's in the Leaf Cafe which is opposite the Cain's brewery in town, the same place they had the social after the Liverpool Barcamp. Should be a lof of fun, it's a week today - <a href="http://liverpool.twestival.com/">http://liverpool.twestival.com/</a><br>
<br>See you at the next meet if not before, take it easy<br><br>Dan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@tensixtyone.com">andy@tensixtyone.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Just wanted to give a quick follow-up to our February meetup. Thank<br>
you for everyone who turned out last night, it ended up being the<br>
biggest so far (15 people). The scheduled talk didn't end up going<br>
ahead as Vladimir was unable to speak, so with 20 minutes notice I<br>
rustled up a "talk" (which I use in the loosest sense) about<br>
Tikitags[1] and RFID. Thank you for all your input and questions,<br>
which turned a 5 minute demo into a reasonable and detailed talk. I'm<br>
especially interested in working out how to read Bob's University ID<br>
and i'm sure i'll have something to present next month.<br>
<br>
It seems we've struck gold over the last few weeks, we now have an<br>
excellent event which is very suited to our needs, and also we have a<br>
"local", also known as the Old Ropewalks which is just around the<br>
corner from the meeting place. While it didn't have the widest range<br>
of ales it had the old stalwart favourates at a reasonable price, It<br>
turns out the place has been under new management for a few weeks and<br>
before that they didn't even open after 7pm! It must of been the only<br>
quiet pub in Liverpool city centre during the derby and I think the<br>
barmaid was glad to get some customers through the door.<br>
<br>
Anyway, next month we're got a provisional booking at the same place<br>
again and we already have a provisional speaker, Graeme Dyas will be<br>
giving a talk on Lego Mindstorm and the FOSS firmware that has been<br>
released by Lego.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://www.tikitags.org/" target="_blank">http://www.tikitags.org/</a><br>
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Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof<br>
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