[Rustington] Meeting - Wednesday 27th May

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 26 May 2015 21:59:57 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> If I could stick a finger in the pie:
> The group is one of the member groups of <http://lug.org.uk/>  Here is a
> description of what that covers, and what LUGs can therefore be expected to
> cover:
>
> Welcome to UK Linux User Groups
> The UK Linux User Groups organisation, also known as lug.org.uk, is
> dedicated to providing technical services for Free Software and Open Source
> Software user groups in the UK. We offer free web hosting with PHP and
> MySQL services, mailing lists, and run an IRC server.
>
> Definitely *not* only Linux.
>
> Here is what other local groups say on their websites (Sussex seems not to
> have a website at the moment)
>
> http://surrey.lug.org.uk/
> Surrey LUG is a friendly Linux user group. If you have any interest in
> Linux, GNU (or related systems such as *BSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, etc)
>
> http://hantslug.org.uk/
> We aim to encourage and support the use of Linux and other free operating
> systems
>
> http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/
> Supporting and Growing users of Linux & Open Source Software
>
> and our meetings and even talks have certainly included the Raspberry Pi.
> (Running Linux, of course ;-)  )  (Not to mention Arduino, Banana Pi,
> CHIP - "the world's first $9 computer" for those who haven't yet come
> across it.
>
> The problem with Android is that although it is based on the Linux Kernel
> it is not fully Open Source.


I should have included this to illustrate that we (PLUG) are not restricted to 
Linux.  This is our last year's talk topics.
http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/

Lisi