To pub or not to pub [Was Re: [dundee] The Pub]

[Jonathan Barber]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:36:37AM +0000, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> It was a nice idea but real life got in the way. I was thinking that a 
> pub meeting would be a nice way for some of us to get to know each 
> other. A LUG is more than just a nerdy get together where we only talk 
> about *nix and the latest rantings of Richard Stallman, my experience 
> with my LUG (http://www.belfastlinux.org, 84 current members with a core 
> grouping of 20 highly involved people) back home is a very social thing, 
> if it were just computers all the time it'd have never gotten so 
> popular. My idea of going to the pub was to try and cultivate this from 
> the start. I'm still up for going to the pub, say O'Neils at 8:30 
> tonight, if anyone still feels like coming send a reply on-list.

I'll be along at about 21:15'ish. I'll bring a penguin for easy
identification :).

As a bit of a brief computing bio., I've been using Linux/BSD for about...
umm... <counts on fingers> 5 years, and we use Linux in the lab.
extensively. I would be using it exclusively at home, but for the fact
that all the games that I (sometimes) play are Windows :).

<joke>As long as everyone admits that Perl is the one true language,
and that vim is the one true editor, I'll be no danger to anyone.</joke>

> //NOTE This is not the first offical meeting of TLUG, just a bit of a laugh.
-- 
Jon