I agree with you Steve, unless we feel that we could get a turn out of around 10 or more, a formal meet isn't likely to be very productive.<br><br>Anyhow, I'm looking forward to attending this months meet - maybe the theme could be silly names in FOSS?
<br><br>Chris Hayes / cbhworld<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 9:32 PM, Paul Mellors <<a href="mailto:paul@paulmellors.net">paul@paulmellors.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Khismett Riddle wrote:<br>> What do you mean by "Multimedia on the desktop"? Is that having the<br>> right codecs to play stuff, or merhaps you mean literally playing videos<br>> on the root window or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?
<br>> 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<br>> reminiscent of 'lug hole'. Why is it that next to nothing in FOSS sounds
<br>> good? The one thing that does sound good, people debate over intent on<br>> making it sound -less- good. By that, of course, I mean 'Linux'<br>> pronounced lie-nuks not lin-nuks and certainly not<br>
> guh-noo-slash-lin-nuks. We have an image editor called the GIMP, a<br>> desktop environment that names things in the same way the KKK did and<br>> the alternative's namesake is the least appealing mythical being. We
<br>> shouldn't be called a LUG, we should be the Newark Tech Model Railroad<br>> Club in homage to MIT's TMRC.<br>><br>> Tom<br>><br>> On 07/01/2008, *Steve Caddy* <<a href="mailto:steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com">
steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com</a><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com">steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Chris Hayes wrote:<br>
><br>> > Also, I'm interested to know any ideas that anyone has to make<br>> use of this<br>> > wonderful offer.<br>><br>> Indeed, a great offer for a venue for formal meetings/presentations
<br>> should we<br>> organise any, however, I also like informal settings, particularly<br>> if food and<br>> drink are involved. I wouldn't like to totally lose a social feel<br>> 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<br>> 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<br>> probably be<br>> more productive and worthwhile talking to the group as a whole in<br>> presentation<br>> form, before finding something to eat and drink afterward.
<br>><br>> Unless anyone wants to organise something else, a repeat of last<br>> month would<br>> still be ok (last Friday of the month, 8pm until whenever, in a<br>> local pub),<br>> although for those of us who've already introduced ourselves to each
<br>> other, it<br>> might be worth having a "topic for the evening", so that we can<br>> share hints,<br>> tips, thoughts and ideas on a common subject, rather than have me<br>> retell my
<br>> lame stories about university life in mid-Wales. A few ideas I've<br>> had on this,<br>> "Making the command line less scarey", "Sharing files with Windows",<br>> and
<br>> "Multimedia on the desktop".<br>><br>> Steve<br>><br>> --<br>> Steven M Caddy, MEng<br>> ------------------------------------------------------<br>> "Hardware - the part of the computer you kick when the software fails"
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