[Gloucs] Meetings + Suggestions

[Guy Edwards]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 16:22, john mckeown wrote:
> Yesterday's turnout was up on March, with 4 new people.
> Discussion/demo/talk topics included:

Sorry for absense, clean forgot as I've been v.busy (see bottom of post)


>    July
> Crickleigh Park, outdoors; maybe open to families? 
> more social - I plan to bring some picnic snacks
> (alt. Robinswood Hill, not so easy to get to?)

Mountain bikes are banned from Robinswood hill aren't they? I'd prefer
t'other place.


> Other talks in pipeline? Suggestions or offers please...
> Smoothwall and firewalls    tbc

Have just got Marks post as I was writing this. I'm running IPcop on 2
machines at Gloscat and Smoothwall at home. 

> Radical suggestion:
> we should actively seek Mac OS X members (e.g. any Unix user)
> as some Mac users interested in using their under-the-hood Unix 
> and advertise  meeting to Macintosh people (e.g. via the Gloucs
> Apple Centre people and other media)


I can see where you're coming from but it isn't Linux. Maybe my
thinkings a bit weird but Linux is also a kind of a way of doing things
- one of the most famous pieces of open source software - whereas I
thought Apple Mac tend to have an extremely opposite business approach,
eg even more closed than windows. 

(re-reads it) whoops, do you mean try and recruit them or do you mean
cover Unix and Mac OSX inthe meetings too?


> Re: University
> I'm suggesting an Open Day at Park Campus in November;
> as a joint venture between University Unix Club (UUC).and GLUG
> + UUC presence at Freshers' Fair advertising Open Day
> + student members hopefully establish UUC as a Uni. Society
> by end of May, then book Freshers' stall + room for Open Day
> Jill? Matthew? Any student reading this?
> I volunteer if need be to stand behind a Freshers' Fair stall.
> (a University Unix Club could just meet e.g. once a term)
> 
> And/Or would GlosCat do something similar (in Gloucester?)

Yes I should think the bean-counters are interested in anything that
might boost their public profile. I'll suggest it. 

For anyone who might be mildly interested, the reason I was busy is I've
been redoing all the computer labs. I've setup Windows XP clients on a
samba PDC (no problems yet) and we have had the last of our HP machines
delivered which are all going to be Linux based. 

<spam> 
For unix (HP/Sun) hardware we (the college) got our stuff from here
http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/unix.html
Just thought it might interest people as I know Hemplan always get a
mention for cheap x86 stuff. 
</spam>

I noticed the latest part-time courses leaflet came out last week or so
for Gloscat with no mention of the 2 new beginners Linux courses running
in September. Grr! They _are_ going ahead it's a fact. One will be in
September, the second after Christmas.

Guy