[Colchester] Hi guys

[Ben Griffin]

o/
Its great to hear from you all. Sorry it took so long to reply, I've
had a pretty busy weekend. I do however have some time this week to
get a little web page up.

Toby: Is a shame to hear of you're video editing issues, I use blender
to edit video. Have a look at the slug video I made with puppy precise
and blender, if you get chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSTleQaRayg

Wayland: Did you have a site? Can I look at it? Did you have any
artwork made for it? If you send me some login credentials ill get a
simple page up.

Stewart: you're video is amazing. I must learn of how you achieved
this. What is that sound at the end of the vid? did you turn you're
sub on also? I'm sure we can earn some proper colchester geek points
with your rack ;-D Might be an idea to have a little look at what the
competition are up to.

Martyn: Have you ever attended anglian lug? http://www.alug.org.uk/
they have a meeting on Monday 18 November in Ipswich, I'm gonna try
and make it.
 I too make music with linux. I use puppy studio 4
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyStudio have a listen to some of the
stuff I did in studio 4 with ardour if you can
https://soundcloud.com/the-jub

So it would be great if we could set a place, day and time for a
little meet of our own.
If anyone's got some good ideas as to recruiting more peoples then
lets be hearing it..


On 01/11/2013, Martyn <mail at martynfletcher.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
> ======================================================
>
>
> 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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