[Beds] Moving forward

[Lee Larcombe]

You've got my vote

Lee


On 30/8/06 15:40, "Stephen Newey" <stephen at freakymousemats.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Thanks for everyone who's replied so far to my little survey, seems
> we're up to 10 so far, including myself.
> 
> To summarise the results so far...
> 4 in Bedford, 2 in Leighton Buzzard, 1 in Dunstable and the rest with
> an interest in or spiritual connection to the county :)
> 
> Slackware, Fedora, RedHat, Debian and Ubuntu seem to be the preferred
> distros (in no particular order I hasten to add!). A nice mix I think.
> 
> What we seem to want from the LUG is some socialising, exchange of
> tech ideas and support, bit of career beneficial networking, and
> explosive soft drink experimentation amongst other things.
> 
> David Pashley's comments about the Beds LUG not previously having a
> suitable venue strikes a chord. Physical meetings in a pub are great
> for the socialising aspect of the group, but prefacing it with
> meeting up at a more well tooled venue technology wise seems like a
> good idea.
> 
> The University of Bedfordshire has recently formed with the
> University of Luton merging with the former DMU Polhill Campus in
> Bedford. I notice from their website they have a Linux computing lab:
> http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/computing/facilities/cis-labs
> I suspect this will be at the Luton campus. It may be worth
> approaching them and finding out if they would be amenable to us
> holding future meetings at one of their sites.
> 
> Before we do that though, I think we perhaps need to grow the numbers
> and come up with compelling reasons to hold meetings in person.
> 
> To that end, I'd like to get access to the mailman admin for this
> list to see how many people are subscribed to get an impression of
> the potential size of the group as it stands. I think it'd also be a
> good idea to get a new website set up at the beds.lug.org.uk address
> to promote the group.
> 
> Is everyone happy for me to contact the lug.org.uk guys and apply to
> become admin of the group so that I can move forward with the above?
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
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