[HLUG] November Meeting Notes

[Julian Robbins]

Miyamoto Musashi wrote:
> Correctomundo.......Rob it is.
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> Yup - good to meet up.
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> Shall be along next time.
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Pleased you enjoyed it. Now that Morven mentioned it - I remember your
name ... Rob ..

Julian
> Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
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>> "a captive audience" Oh dear... Was that a pun that found its way in there?
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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