[Klug-general] Kent LUG is alive!

[Kevin Groves]

On 21/02/13 20:14, Peter Childs wrote:
>
> Maybe its time to encorage other forms of meet. We have irc but its 
> deathly quite and this list has only got busy over the last week.....
>
IRC could be worth a go but textual forms can be confusing. I 
teach/lecture a lot in both voice and textual form and it takes tighter 
control for text. Not impossible but has its problems.

> We went through a stage of having pub meets in Maidstone once.
>
Yes. I never went to any of those but I think they were OK.


> I had a look at openconference a few weeks ago. Would some kind of web 
> based conferencing be used. Basically to try and engage better 
> communication.
>
Quite agree there. You have a point. I know we tried some forms but the 
scale is the key, some of them failed when more came in. I will take a 
look at that tech, what did you think of it?
>
> I did hear somthing from someone at medway universities a few months 
> back so maybe that's worth looking at.
>
That went quiet.
>
> Part of the issue is our high venue requirements. Ie easy to get to, 
> free, and has Internet access.
>

Yes we do have high requirements. When I can get my act together at work 
we can make use of those offices with lots of room, although lacking 
projector.

Kev,

> Peter
>
> Yes it's a struggle at the moment finding venues that are free. Dan is 
> looking at one for me, I had thought Maidstone Library were out of the 
> running but suddenly I've heard from them after a month or so and they 
> can now do it for free I think. They want me to visit to discuss but 
> seeing I'm in east Kent and they wanted to do this during the working 
> week that is not going to happen. I need to sort out one Saturday 
> instead to go up to see them so that may be in the next month or so as 
> I don't tend to go that part of the county often.
>
> Other than that no other venue options so no meets can be planned 
> until we have some. :-(
>
> Will keep my ear to the ground. Hopefully might get a chance to 
> network over this weekend as I'm mentoring for work's EPIK coding 
> weekend so if I can find any other locations then I will give them a go.
>
> Kev
>
> On 21/02/13 16:24, Dan Attwood wrote:
>> we're working on it!
>>
>>
>> On 21 February 2013 16:09, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:lentonp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'd be interested if there were meetings, lectures etc!
>>
>>     On 21 Feb 2013 15:56, "Brian Reay" <brian.reay at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:brian.reay at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I am amazed, KLUG alive ;-)
>>
>>         Are there ever any meetings, technical lectures, .... etc.?
>>
>>         Brian
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