[Blackpool] Micromart Letter to the Linux News section

[Tony Hughes]

Hi Guy's (this is a retry as last post bounced saying I did not have 
permission to post)

David Heyward who now writes the Linux News section in Micro Mart asked 
local LUG's to let him know what was happening in their area. So after a 
second plea in this weeks mag as he had had no reply's, I've sent the 
e-mail below, so we may get another plug in a national computer mag in 
the next month or so.

Tony


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Blackpool LUG
Date: 	Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:35:02 +0100
From: 	Tony Hughes <tonyhughes1212 at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: 	mm.linux.news at gmail.com


Dear David

OK you wanted news of local Linux groups so here goes.

Blackpool Linux User Group (BLUG) have been meeting regularly on a
Saturday morning for the last couple of years in premises kindly
supplied by one of our members who runs a local PC recycling business.

Mike had been trying to get some activity around Linux for some years
but it all started to take off when Dave, Colin, myself and Les started
to turn up regularly to keep Mike company in 2009. For a while we just
looked at distro's solved a few problems and generally shared Linux
info. But over the last 2 years we have attracted new members and
started to become involved in the wider Linux scene.

Les helped get us involved in several community events including:
Blackpool Barcamp (Blackpool pleasure beach) Software freedom day,
UCubed, and Manchester Geekgirls/OK Computer (All at Manchester Madlab)

Further events for this year we will be at/involved in, include,
OGGCamp11 in August, SFD in September, and Blackpool Barcamp 2011.

While we are still a small group and are largely unstructured we have
now started to do projects at the weekly meetings such as set up a myth
TV box (that was a fun one) or learn how to use (FLOSS) video and sound
editing software. we have a core of about 6-10 attenders some who come
regularly and others that come when they can but keep in touch via our
mailing list.

Rest asured the Fyled coast has a vibrant FLOSS/GNU Linux community at
the BLUG and always welcome new attenders. If you live in the area (or
just want to know what's happening in Blackpool LUG) check out the blog
site. You can also sign up to the mailing list to keep in touch with
what we are doing and to check that the meeting is on, as during school
holidays or if business needs prevent we can not always use the premises
but go to a local coffee shop in town to meet up instead.

http://blackpoollug.blogspot.com/


Regards
Tony Hughes - Blackpool Linux User Group


David, feel free to edit as needed as I know space for the column is
limited but wanted to let you know as much about us as I could.