[Klug-general] KLUG October Meeting Synopsis

[Matthew House]

Just to say that it was great to meet people at the Linux expo, and I'm
looking forward to attending future meets around the Canterbury/Whitstable
area :)

cheers all

Matt

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, here is a brief synopsis of KLUG's October meeting.
>
> This month we meet up on Saturday 25th October at the Linux Live Expo held
> at Olympia, London.
> Mike, Colin, Dan (Monseuirle), Spode, Nathan and Guilaume meet at Starbucks
> in Charing Cross at 9am for coffee and breakfast and then moved on via the
> tube to Olympia.
> We got there in time for the 'Key Note' speech by a Ubuntu employee, which
> we mostly enjoyed.  During the Key Note we had a new member 'Matt' delurked
> which has kept up this years record of delurkers at meetings.  During the
> next talk from IBM, which was about IBM allowing employees to use any OS
> they wanted and how Lotus Notes works well on Linux, we meet up with Paul
> and a new KLUG member Gavin.  Then at midday we meet up with Dan (Danbuntu).
>
> The Expo was not as large or busy as many of us would have hoped for, but
> there were many free CD's and leaflets to collect and nerdy T-shirts to buy
> :-)
>
> The KLUGGERS did their own thing in London for the afternoon, until 6pm
> when Mike, Spode, Dan (Monseuirle), Peter, James (a new member) and Colin
> meet up again at Charing Cross to look for a place to eat and drink.  The
> suggested pubs were too packed for us to enter (obviously good pubs) so Mike
> took control of the team and lead us to a wonderful watering hole under
> Waterloo Station, which was called 'Wellington at Waterloo'.  It served good
> food and some great ale called 'Wicked Witch' which we all seemed to enjoy.
> So much so they ran out just before last call.
>
> Please add your own comments and links to photos and videos of the day.
>
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