[Klug-general] Kent Digest, Vol 316, Issue 2

Mon Mar 14 18:01:52 UTC 2011

Luc, you can count on my attendance for Medway meets just 
remind me on M$N etc or something incase i forget because
my memory sucks like that. But will defo attend.

Reece.

On 14 Mar 2011, at 13:58, kent-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:

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>   1. Kent BCS event - Washing Away Cave Paintings	(Animation and
>      Games Development) (David Halliday)
>   2. Re: Venue Offering (David Halliday)
>   3. Re: Venue Offering (Dan Attwood)
>   4. Re: Venue Offering (Dan Attwood)
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:26:23 +0000
> From: David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Klug-general] Kent BCS event - Washing Away Cave Paintings
> 	(Animation and Games Development)
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> Not sure if Kent LUG people are interested in this or not, but this looks
> interesting from the Kent branch of the BCS: http://www.kent.bcs.org/
> 
> Not sure if you would like this sort of thing added to the LUG calendar or
> not or if we should look to form a tie of some sorts with Kent branch of the
> BCS?
> 
> Anyway, it's this Thursday in Canterbury:
> 
> Washing Away Cave Paintings (Animation and Games Development)
> 
> Event details
> Date: Thursday March 17th 2011
> Time: 18:30 start. Refreshments available from 18:00
> Venue: Room SW101 School of Computing, Building J3, University of Kent,
> Canterbury, CT2 7NZ
> Cost: Free (and open to non BCS members)
> 
> Synopsis:
> In this talk Ian Hughes will share some of the history of human
> communication and how the current wave of emerging technology in virtual
> worlds, inputs and outputs to systems and the increasing social and game
> related concepts being applied, are the catalyst for massive cultural
> change.
> 
> Speaker:
> Chair of the newly formed BCS Animation and Games Development SG, Ian Hughes
> is also the Director of Feeding Edge Ltd, a company he formed a year ago,
> having spent 20 years in IBM in emerging technologies, and is credited as a
> Metaverse Evangelist, having brought big business into virtual worlds from
> 2006 onwards, including creating the Wimbledon Championships as a virtual
> world experience.
> 
> Ian Hughes is a recognised public speaker, blogger and social media
> activist, and shares his experiences of the growing virtual worlds industry,
> the use of game principles, the changes in culture, personal experiences of
> challenging the status quo, also has participated in many TV and press
> interviews and numerous publications.
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:44:06 +0000
> From: David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Venue Offering
> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> I can remember that my uni used to do a ?1 a pint night on Saturdays, this
> was about 7 or 8 years ago... Oh! I feel OLD!
> 
> The uni bar was almost empty on Saturdays so they practically gave the beer
> away to get people in. Although I suspect that the Euro fizz they sold was
> watered down. At least it tasted like it.
> 
> On that note, I'm a big fan of ale and this advert speaks volumes:
> http://wwwusers.brookes.ac.uk/08025399/images/beer.jpg
> 
> 
> On 14 March 2011 06:38, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 March 2011 23:30, George Prowse <george.prowse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13/03/2011 22:43, Luc Tidy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Some of those may have already seen this in the Medway Social thread,
>>>> but I shall clarify here to everyone is on the same page.
>>>> 
>>>> I am beginning machinations towards expanding my society over at the
>>>> Universities of Medway Student Association at the Chatham Maritime
>>>> campus, part of this expansion will be a general computer based entity,
>>>> as well as looking to work in conjunction with KLUG. As per what we can
>>>> offer, given a time frame of two weeks to allow for room bookings:
>>>> 1. Technical Meetings with presentations, allowing for guests.
>>>> 2. General Saturday meetings, show and tell with presentations.
>>>> 3. Social meetings over at the campus pub, which given time I can
>>>> organise an area of the pub set by for KLUGers.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> ~Luc
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Campus pub... as in 50p pints? w00t!
>>> 
>>> 
>> In your dreams, When I was a Uni the Campus Pub had pints that were around
>> the same price as Weatherspoons back then about ?1.20 but that was 10 years
>> ago....
>> 
>> I suspect the price's are still the same as Weatherspoon's give or
>> take.....
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:47:07 +0000
> From: Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Venue Offering
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> can't beat a pint of the goblin - or anything else wychwood brew
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:46:20 +0000
> From: Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Venue Offering
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> On 14 March 2011 13:44, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I can remember that my uni used to do a ?1 a pint night on Saturdays, this
>> was about 7 or 8 years ago... Oh! I feel OLD!
>> 
>> The uni bar was almost empty on Saturdays so they practically gave the beer
>> away to get people in. Although I suspect that the Euro fizz they sold was
>> watered down. At least it tasted like it.
>> 
>> On that note, I'm a big fan of ale and this advert speaks volumes:
>> http://wwwusers.brookes.ac.uk/08025399/images/beer.jpg
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 March 2011 06:38, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 13 March 2011 23:30, George Prowse <george.prowse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 13/03/2011 22:43, Luc Tidy wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some of those may have already seen this in the Medway Social thread,
>>>>> but I shall clarify here to everyone is on the same page.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am beginning machinations towards expanding my society over at the
>>>>> Universities of Medway Student Association at the Chatham Maritime
>>>>> campus, part of this expansion will be a general computer based entity,
>>>>> as well as looking to work in conjunction with KLUG. As per what we can
>>>>> offer, given a time frame of two weeks to allow for room bookings:
>>>>> 1. Technical Meetings with presentations, allowing for guests.
>>>>> 2. General Saturday meetings, show and tell with presentations.
>>>>> 3. Social meetings over at the campus pub, which given time I can
>>>>> organise an area of the pub set by for KLUGers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> ~Luc
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Campus pub... as in 50p pints? w00t!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> In your dreams, When I was a Uni the Campus Pub had pints that were around
>>> the same price as Weatherspoons back then about ?1.20 but that was 10 years
>>> ago....
>>> 
>>> I suspect the price's are still the same as Weatherspoon's give or
>>> take.....
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>>> 
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