[Lancaster] XMAS Bash

[andy baxter]

Just wanted to say thanks for everyone for turning up last night and to 
wayne for the food.

There are a few demos I could do:

- I could do one on midi / softsynth based linux music creation, to 
complement the audio recording and editing demo I did last year.
- I would like to show people what I have done with the midi drum pad. (see:
  http://home.ganglion.me:8000/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=synpad:home )
- could also re-run the audio recording and editing demo at some point.
- installing and using debian.
- using the command line.
- setting up an interactive website using drupal.
- basic graphics skills with the gimp and inkscape (but someone else 
might do this better, as I'm not so much of an artist).

Also, I would like to point people to this site:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/
which has some really nicely written, friendly guides to how to use 
various free software programs.

Finally, I would like to try and say a bit better what I was saying last 
night about organising the demos. I think it's great if we can get these 
going on a regular basis, but I think it would be better to start by 
seeing what demos everyone can do and wants to do and work from that, 
rather than trying to set out a program which covers everything then 
finding people to fill the slots.

So maybe everyone who is up for helping get the demos off the ground 
could post a list of what subjects they think they could cover, and then 
once everyone has said what they can do, one of us could organise it 
into a programme and post it back to the list.

thanks again to everyone for a good night yesterday. :)

andy

Wayne Ward wrote:
> Hey guys great show out last night - Nice to meet the new members for  
> the new year.
> Cheers for the guys who travelled form far to get to the meeting.
> Ive setup my new lug email address if anyone else wants one please say  
> ill set you one up and send across details.
>
> Later today im going to add a blog for the meeting minutes to the site  
> and events page.
> Any other suggestions please go ahead and mention them!
>
> Ill link it up to a twitter account and what was the other open source  
> twitter like site we talked about??....
>
> As discussed ill send out the projects we have lined up for the new  
> year so we can see if anybody wants to run the demos or add to the  
> demos.
>
> The thunderbird addons we discussed to sync with google are -  
> lightning - zindus - and provider for google calendar
> paul if you get stuck with setting these up just ask i can talk you  
> through it if required.
>
>
> Wayne Ward
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> www.lancasterlug.org.uk
> wayne at lancasterlug.org.uk
> 07957448652
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> Lancaster Linux User Group.
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