What do you mean by "Multimedia on the desktop"? Is that having the right codecs to play stuff, or merhaps you mean literally playing videos on the root window or am I getting the wrong end of the stick? Eitherhoo, nice of ForLinux to offer their office as a venue.
<br><br>Unrelatedwise, LUG is a silly word, as my sister observes, it is reminiscent of 'lug hole'. Why is it that next to nothing in FOSS sounds good? The one thing that does sound good, people debate over intent on making it sound -less- good. By that, of course, I mean 'Linux' pronounced lie-nuks not lin-nuks and certainly not guh-noo-slash-lin-nuks. We have an image editor called the GIMP, a desktop environment that names things in the same way the KKK did and the alternative's namesake is the least appealing mythical being. We shouldn't be called a LUG, we should be the Newark Tech Model Railroad Club in homage to MIT's TMRC.
<br><br>Tom<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Caddy</b> <<a href="mailto:steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com">steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Hayes wrote:<br><br>> Also, I'm interested to know any ideas that anyone has to make use of this<br>> wonderful offer.<br><br>Indeed, a great offer for a venue for formal meetings/presentations should we<br>
organise any, however, I also like informal settings, particularly if food and<br>drink are involved. I wouldn't like to totally lose a social feel though.<br><br>It's about time we starting thinking about the next meeting I guess.
<br><br>I'm really not sure there'd be enough of us for a presentation just yet (I've<br>given presentations to groupd of 4 or 5 before, and it's not a thrilling<br>experience). However, if we can get a turnout of 10, then it would probably be
<br>more productive and worthwhile talking to the group as a whole in presentation<br>form, before finding something to eat and drink afterward.<br><br>Unless anyone wants to organise something else, a repeat of last month would
<br>still be ok (last Friday of the month, 8pm until whenever, in a local pub),<br>although for those of us who've already introduced ourselves to each other, it<br>might be worth having a "topic for the evening", so that we can share hints,
<br>tips, thoughts and ideas on a common subject, rather than have me retell my<br>lame stories about university life in mid-Wales. A few ideas I've had on this,<br>"Making the command line less scarey", "Sharing files with Windows", and
<br>"Multimedia on the desktop".<br><br>Steve<br><br>--<br>Steven M Caddy, MEng ------------------------------------------------------<br>"Hardware - the part of the computer you kick when the software fails"
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