[Gllug] london hackspace news / Cheap 2nd hand rackmount servers

[David L Neil]

On 04/04/2011 01:07 AM, Nix wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2011, David L. Neil uttered the following:
>> On 04/03/2011 12:36 AM, Nix wrote:

>> (sadly one can't have 'everything': attending GLLUG meetings is a wee
>> problem!)
>
> There are GLLUG meetings?

You (?carelessly) invite me to point-out, in true FLOSS-y style, that 
there would be, or could be - it's simply a matter of someone(s) 
scratching their 'itch'!
(or, my even making that a personal invitation!?)

Sorry I can't be there to contribute any more. Guess you won't accept my 
increased vitamin-D levels as sufficient excuse/apology - nah, you're 
only jealous!

Back-when, we formed a 'gang of four' to organise regular meetings, with 
the idea that (a) no one person would have to 'do it all', eg Sean would 
sort out the meeting room while someone else arranged the speakers... 
and (b) when someone became temporarily (or semi-permanently) 
'unavailable' the other three would/should be able to carry-on. I can't 
believe the absence of me-Mum's favorite son* should cause the 
carefully-oiled machine to stop-dead...

* she would point-out that having only one son, he is also her least...


Certainly I see that Rich contributed to this thread earlier, and he 
continues to do interesting things with virtualisation, his 
(unusual/weird - to me) choices of programming languages, and more 
recently was 'published' getting into DHCP on/for VMs (IIRC) - and he's 
by no means the only one of you GLLUG members big-enough and ugly-enough 
to offer a talk that will be both informative and provocative (of a 
lively round of post-talk (technical) questions and user-enquiries, 
comparative packages...)!

Similarly if the CentOS crowd can get over their leadership issues and 
actually publish v6, there's a couple of guys who could make 
contributions...

Prior to departing LON's delights, I left a list of potential speakers 
who had been sounded-out for giving talks - someone merely had to close 
the deal with a date-time... Others seemed to have numerous 
irons-in-the-fire...

I had seen email notice of occasional meetings being organised, but 
mainly in pubs. What happened to 'the other' LON LUG, because that 
seemed to be Tushi's modus operandi (see also Perl-Mongers)? It's not 
much more effort to organise a (proper) formal meeting, given someone 
who can 'sponsor' a decent-sized room (either through his/her contacts, 
or in literal pounds-sterling terms)... (see also the LON Python group)

Little, old Auckland (population somewhat over 1 million souls (mostly 
non-Linux and non-geek, they think)) manages a (much fewer attendees, 
but) monthly LUG meeting with speakers in one of the FLOSS-supporting 
companies' offices, an overlap/interface with the "Tangleball" 
workshop/creative space group, plus the Uni also has regular meetings 
(hearsay: I'm not on their email list)...

-- 
Regards,
=dn
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