[HLUG] November Meeting Notes

[Miyamoto Musashi]

Correctomundo.......Rob it is.

Yup - good to meet up.

Shall be along next time.

Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
> "a captive audience" Oh dear... Was that a pun that found its way in there?
>
> As for the meeting, was a lot of fun, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am glad the
> wi-fi worked with no issues, because we could just put down the computers
> and try to help each other out and just have a bit of a chat.
>
> Also, I believe the new guys name was Rob?
>
> Mo
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just to let you know how our November meeting went.
>>
>> 6 of us made it - Me, Mark, Graham, Morven, George, and our new member
>> whose name I can't remember !! - sorry !!
>>
>> The hall had a decent carpark and although not especially easy to find,
>> is probably no harder than the finding your way around the one way
>> streets to get to the Day Centre.
>>
>> The room was a good size, far larger than the room we had at Preston on
>> Wye. The wifi worked straight off - no problems this time, and nice and
>> fast too ;-)
>>
>> We will probably use the same meeting room for now, and can probably
>> setup or at least attend a CAP meeting too there, so we can sell the
>> joys of Linux and Open Source in these recession hit times to the good
>> folk of Burghill if we wish. Working through the CAP may be a good idea
>> , as we will have people interested in computing that we can demonstrate
>> Linux to too, a captive audience so to speak. Early days though, first
>> we need to invite the CAP organiser along, and see how it goes -
>> although Graham said that he was keen to try out Linux.
>>
>> After a discussion, no one had a firm ideas of where to have our annual
>> Christmas meal, so it'll probably be voted for on this list in a couple
>> of weeks - very democratic .
>>
>> Our new member, who had recently tried Ubuntu Intrepid, was pleased that
>> his laptop seemed to work so well, after nearly giving up with Hardy as
>> the wifi didnt work. Now his wifi works fine.
>>
>> We also discussed and explained the issues with the hosting at lug.org.uk.
>>
>> I suggested that as our numbers are slowly rising we perhaps can try
>> putting on some more short sessions on software or applications that we
>> want to demo to the group. Hopefully, we can do this for our January
>> meeting.
>>
>> Julian
>>
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