[Colchester] Hi guys

[Martyn]

Hah!

I've simply hit reply to this email and hope it gets there. 8)

Just wanted to say hi Ben and to let you know you're not the only one 
wanting more contact with local Linux users. I'm out on the coast at 
Walton on the naze and suffice to say it's not just the linux scene out 
here that's dead.
I'm probably one of the older guys on most of the forums and irc 
channels I frequent having been in the Army for 12 years, in IT (MCSE) 
for almost 17 years and ran my own business for a few years. I found 
linux back in the mid 90's when I was given a Caldera linux disk. I 
approached a work colleague with an issue and he introduced me to 
slackware (I didn't stick with it). I'm currently the proud owner of not 
one but four linux distributions on my PC, openSUSE for work, Mint as a 
fallback for work (I keep breaking things), Ubuntu Studio (I write music 
and play a little guitar and keyboards) and my main distro for playing 
and experimenting is Manjaro (I was formerly an Arch user).
I would most definitely join any meetings and/or events arranged and 
would also like to help on any forum or irc channels that we could 
frequent. I wholeheartedly back any moves to kick the Colchester branch 
back into motion. It's been very quiet since I joined a couple of months 
back.

hoping to hear more responses.

O7

Martyn

irc name Nytram on freenode #manjaro, #arch, #suse and #linuxmint

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On 01/11/2013 15:10, Ben Griffin wrote:
> o/
> Hi, I'm Ben and I'm a slackware user most of the time, although I find
> puppy linux very interesting because its secure and highly portable.
>
> I've noticed that the colchester.lug.org.uk page is not available. Is
> there a reason for this? I did Internet at collage, maybe I could help
> maintain it? I spoke to the guys in #lug.org.uk at  irc.lug.org.uk and
> they said colchester lug can have some hosting space on lug.org.uk
>
> My main reason for reaching out to this group is to meet up with other
> linux users in colchester. Its easy to find people to chat with online
> about linux but near impossible to find anyone to chat to in person.
>
> These raspberry pi things look great but I've never seen one in real
> life :(  I've often thought it would be sweet if I could run a
> realtime kernel on one and run rakarrack on it and have it as a
> portable guitar fx pedal ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rakarrack/
> )
>
> My life outside of being a very mediocre linux sys admin consists
> mostly of being a musician. I am playing tonight in colchester town at
> the hole in the wall pub. Its a bit of a long shot but if any of you
> guys are near then it would be great to chat to you. I'm gonna need to
> kill a few hours between sound check at 7pm and playing the gig at
> 10pm. You wont be able to miss me, I've got one massive 4 year old
> unix style beard.
>
> You can often find me hanging out on irc at freenode as the-jub, I've
> just started frequenting the #colchester-lug there, also you may find
> me as just jub on irc.lug.org.uk in #linux or somewhere
>
> \o
> Ben

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