[Bradford] Report from sunny Spain

[John R. Hudson]

In which case the local Linux distro is Guadalinex, an Ubuntu based
distro.

John

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 14:20 +0100, Brian A wrote:
> Costa del Sol
> 
> 
> On 17 March 2014 12:31, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> wrote:
>         Which Costa?
>         
>         I would expect more response from the Spanish who have lots of
>         regional
>         Linux initiatives.
>         
>         My parents who worked in India commented that the ex-pats in
>         India were
>         always a generation behind what was going on in England - so I
>         wouldn't
>         expect most of those in Spain to be up-to-date in this area.
>         
>         5 turned up to the first BradLUG meeting - see
>         http://www.bradlug.co.uk/about/
>         
>         
>         John
>         --
>         On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 11:42 +0100, Brian A wrote:
>         > It's getting warmer here. The wind has dropped, it is very
>         sunny and
>         > the sea is glistening.
>         >
>         >
>         > My efforts to start a LUG here on the Costa:
>         > I contacted 4 of the free English language newspapers. So
>         far only
>         > only one, "The News", has responded. However, they did push
>         the boat
>         > out by printing all the blurb from the web site and
>         crediting me with
>         > the article. It is on page 14. I didn't supply the image or
>         the
>         > comment with it.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         http://issuu.com/thenews-virtualpaper/docs/the_news_newspaper_-_issue_268
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > I also contacted 3 English language commercial radio
>         stations. One
>         > responded very quickly but wanted 100 Euros. What that tells
>         me is
>         > that anyone who is wanting to get information about local
>         groups isn't
>         > going to get it from the commercial stations as they have no
>         sense of
>         > community.
>         > I also emailed several organisations and sent texts to some.
>         > After all that I have just 3 takers so far for the LUG, that
>         have
>         > emailed me, though one can't attend the first meeting. None
>         of the
>         > media gave any publicity to the Werewolves group so I am not
>         expecting
>         > anyone to turn up there.
>         >
>         >
>         > So, the LUG is on Thursday. I might get more people yet -
>         fingers
>         > crossed.
>         >
>         >
>         > How many turned up to the first BradLUG?
>         >
>         >
>         > Brian
>         
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