[HLUG] Hi to the Herefordshire LUG

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Dave,

On 07/11/05, Thuswise Webmaster <webmaster at thuswise.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
>
> My name's Dave, I live in Ledbury. I've just joined this mailing list,
> and I'm here to say hello.

A fellow Ledbury resident. :-)

> I'm an Electronics Engineer by trade, and increasingly involved with
> embedded Linux. A learning curve which will last a lifetime, but better
> than watching the telly :-)
>
> For the record, I'm mostly a Slackware man, and very taken with Zenwalk
> (Slack based). Just got one of those Hush boxes, and busy putting Gentoo
> on it.
>
> I'm very keen to help promote FOSS in education and local government.
> I've been trying to advocate Python at work as the ideal first language
> for school leavers (as opposed to Visual Basic). Any Python hackers out
> there?

Python is one of the few languages I've never tried, never got round to it.

> Look forward to meeting you all !

Yep, the next meetings on the 17th November, hope to see you there.

Cheers
Mark



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Mark Broadbent
Herefordshire LUG Master

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