[Lancaster] meeting last night

[Wayne Ward]

I never finished work till ten
Ill read up on the notes tomorrow glad it all went well

Wayne

Rik Boland wrote:
> Hi Andy
>
> I know that I know nothing about computers but it was a great 
> meeting.  I love hear the techy gargon it was and is great to meet 
> down there as it a community building kinda sums up that open source 
> GNU Linux ideology
>
> Thanks for arranging it and sorry that you say you felt ill,  Mark 
> Keating seemed to have some great vision progression for the group
>
> Shalom Rik
>
> Rik Boland
> 15 Stanley Place, Lancaster, LA1 5PN      Mobile 07866439588
>
> We need Justice but we also need Grace and Mercy from God to do this.
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 18/2/09, Ken Hough /<kenhough at btinternet.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Ken Hough <kenhough at btinternet.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Lancaster] meeting last night
>     To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
>     Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 2:18 PM
>
>     Andy,
>
>     That pretty well sums up what I remember of the meeting. Well done and thanks 
>     for your efforts.
>
>     With the quite limited active support that the group has, for now at least 
>     it's really not feasible to plan on any definite long term programs.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Ken hough
>
>     On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:39:49 andy baxter wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > Just posting to say what happened last night. Seven people turned up,
>     > including three who were new to the group. I talked briefly about my
>     > idea of having a venue where we could meet regularly in a more focussed
>     > way, either doing technical talks, demos, or helping each
>      other with
>     > projects we were working on. An interesting but not entirely conclusive
>     > discussion then followed. Sorry that I wasn't in a better mood to keep
>     > things a bit more on track.
>     >
>     > A few things did come out of the discussion. I'll summarise what I can
>     > remember, and maybe other people can add the bits I've missed.
>     >
>     > - Most people seemed to feel that there wasn't the energy or the
>     numbers
>     > in the group at the moment to keep a fortnightly meeting going, and that
>     > if we're going to have other meetings than the monthly pub meets, it
>     > would be more realistic to think of doing these once a month or once
>     > every two months.
>     >
>     > - I'm thinking this probably means that at the moment at least,
>     it's not
>     > worth paying for a broadband account at the basement, or making a formal
>     > proposal to them about using the space on a regular basis, though
>      we
>     > could maybe consider it as a venue for occasional meetings. The main
>     > thing I wanted from the meeting was some kind of decision on whether
>     > it's worth the effort and expense of doing this, so I'm glad to
>     have a
>     > decision on this at least, even though it's not what I was hoping for.
>     >
>     > - We talked a fair bit about what the group could be doing besides the
>     > pub meets. It was suggested that we need to be fairly clear about what
>     > we're trying to achieve here - e.g. outreach to people who don't
>     know
>     > about linux is a different thing to having technical talks for people
>     > who are already interested. There seemed to be more interest in the
>     > second of these than the first.
>     >
>     > - A few people suggested talks that they might be able to give -
>     > summarising pros and cons of different distros, digital photography,
>     > advanced networking stuff like how the
>      email system works, more on linux
>     > audio, and how to install debian on a reflashable embedded network
>     > storage device.
>     >
>     > - Mark Keating suggested that another possible venue would be a room at
>     > the offices his company have on White Cross. (Thanks for this). My
>     > feeling is that this would probably be better for the moment at least -
>     > one of the reasons I was thinking of the Basement is that it is near the
>     > centre of town, so easier to find for people who might want to drop in
>     > occasionally to a regular meeting. Also that we could set up the
>     > computers there how we want, but this isn't so important for doing
>     > occasional talks as for a more regular venue. Neither of these reasons
>     > apply so much for occasional, more technically focussed meetings, which
>     > seemed to be the general consensus on what we should be aiming at.
>     >
>     > - Another thing that was
>      discussed was the idea that if we're doing
>     > outreach type activities, we should make these about open source in
>     > general rather than linux in particular, as this is an easier way into
>     > open source stuff for most people, who may be reluctant to change their
>     > OS and lose all the skills they have learned with it. As far as I
>     > remember there was general agreement that this was the right way to go.
>     >
>     > That's about all I can remember at the moment. The main positive thing
>     > that came from the meeting was that there was a pretty definite interest
>     > in having monthly or bi-monthly technical talks / demos, so maybe we
>     > could talk on the list or at the next meeting about how to get these
>     going?
>     >
>     > Thanks to everyone who came, and see you in a couple of weeks.
>     >
>     > andy
>     >
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