Erm, look I know that I can hardly be seen as the most regular attender
of meets or wonderful of contributors to the list, but I have been
subscribed to wolves lug for pretty much all of the past 5 years,
quietly looking at the email folder and trying to keep up with whats
going on in my own way. Anyway, now seems the time to make known
the, I think, reasonable reasons for not making it to more meets than I
have done.<br>
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Primarily it boils down to this. My knowledge of Linux is
comparably basic, my interest more technical and altogether not
particularly socially , If I go to a meeting
then it is because i want to learn about a subject in a relaxed
atmosphere. As most of the meets I have been to took place
in the
Moon, Standard or Spice Avenue, it has been impossible to have the
serious
demonstrations or discussion that most talk subjects really
require. Somewhere in the mist of time I recall meets took
place in the Combermere and people like Ron could give good talks with
lots of equipment.<br>
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I have a fascination for, but not an economic reliance upon
computers. That is to say, I am not a Sysadmin. This Summer
and last I made the effort of travelling to Holland, meeting some cool
guys from around the world, including Vic Hayes the Father of wifi, and
learnt a lot about wifi, FreeBSD and some other pretty amazing stuff
including Andrew File Systems. Last year the event was hosted in
a cow-shed and this year a scout hut. <br>
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A bit OT but until about three years ago, Dan Jones was a good friend
of mine. At the point we had a rather acrimonious separation of
non-LUG related opinion, it became easier to avoid common interest
activities. He sulked rather loudly the last time I
attended a meet at the Standard and I got the impression several people
were put of their curries as a result.<br>
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Now, I'm not really sure if this is right but I get the impression that
there have been more fallings out than the one between Dan and
myself. I can't see how anyone can justify that. This
is surely intended to be a forum for the benefit of the greater and
local Linux community? Don't we all have our own lives in which
we can find frustration?<br>
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I know that as LUGMaster Jono has done a better job than many of
organising regular friendly meets, but Mr Dave Morley apparent
LUGMaster elect, I look to you to make some serious changes around
here. Please, lets find a regular meeting place where the
primary resource is focused on proper talks and people
actually being able to hear each other speak and see demos
without the need to shout down the table. If food is
essential, I'm sure we can do better than sharing a huge room with all
the town.....<br>
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My one positive suggestion here would be that I am sure (have already
asked), if we regularly took occupation, the City Bar in Kings St would
be willing for us to fit a wifi system to provide a good facility for
meets. All we need is one or two Lugers who would be willing to
share their domestic broadband for such a link.....<br>
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