[Lancaster] few things

Sun Nov 11 16:12:22 UTC 2012

Oops, just realised I replied to Wayne only with this...

Hey,

As far as the site goes, I'd like to think we could give any confirmed 
members author access, but full admin should be limited to just a couple 
of people, with any major changes being ok'd by discussion once the site 
is stable. I think having the main home page static as it is, but 
allowing people to blog about relevant stuff would be cool. Have you 
tried any of the google+ plugins yet? Theres some good ones out there to 
link back to the G+ LUG page, and also for each member to have the 
author tags automatically put in and linked back.

My name is down for the Steam beta, but no word yet on access. I did get 
steam running under wine, but half the games wouldn't work. :(

I'll have to decline the xmas meeting. No idea what I'm going to be up 
to, but it usually involves hiding from anything to do with the dreaded 
season! (cue scoffs of Humbug, etc.)

On the topic of meetings, does anyone know how much it is to hire the 
gregson function room? I know it'll be a lot easier to do presentations 
there if its not too expensive, and they have a projector and such like 
set up already.

Darren.

PS. Installed steam from Wayne's instructions, and it does work rather 
well. Can't get Team Fortress 2 tho'.

On 09/11/12 15:56, Wayne Ward wrote:
> afternooooon :)
>
> its not expensive in the tavern and ill make sure they have the coal 
> fire lit so its all nice and cosy, they do cheap ales
> i can get sarnies or i can get us big plates of chips with bread and 
> we can make a load of chip butties!!! they are lovely !
> i  also noticed they have a projector if anybody wants to give a demo 
> or we can have a good few beers and a geek chat!
>
> memebers of the group can you let us know (even the silent ones) if 
> you are for a LLUG xmas bash :)
>
> ill probably change the theme a tad and add a links page and get the 
> contact form working as soon as i get a jet pack activation back!!
> the spelling will be bloody awful and want looking at and the blog 
> posts will be great to show a active runnng lug!
> i was just worried that somebody could start changing it all over like 
> addding pages and content thought it might be better if we deceided we 
> wanted say another page or somebody didnt like certain wording that we 
> discuss it first otherwise we could end up in trouble! so if anybody 
> wants access please let me know i can set up accounts, i think itll be 
> good ill add theLLUG wordpress to my phone and can snap some shots at 
> the next meeting which will fire them direct into the blog!!!
>
> i think you can use it with out signing up by following this pal...
>
> In order to enjoy the Valve on Linux Beta early users have been using 
> the following steps...
>
> From Terminal:
>
> wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb 
> <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.steampowered.com%2Fclient%2Finstaller%2Fsteam.deb&h=JAQGsT7YM&s=1>
> sudo dpkg -i steam.deb && sudo apt-get install -f
> Then From Unity Dash Do:
>
> Launch Steam App
> Login to Steam
> You will get a message saying you aren't in Beta close this.
> Finally from terminal run "steam steam://open/games" 
> <steam://open/games%3F> without the quotations and you will experience 
> Steam on Linux providing you have all the package dependencies and 
> follow the above steps.
>
> wayne
>
> i think you can
> On 9 Nov 2012, at 15:34, Dave Leack <david.leack at veraz.co.uk 
> <mailto:david.leack at veraz.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>> Arrrrfternoon Wayne,
>> I've not tried Steam4Linux as I didn't actually register for the beta 
>> (silly Daves).
>> Tavern looks nice. I'd be up for a Christmas jolly if everyone else 
>> is (and it's not too pricey ;) ).
>> Re: lancasterlug.org.uk <http://lancasterlug.org.uk/> - I wouldn't 
>> mind blog access and would probably post something interesting every 
>> now and then. Also, if I had a full edit account, I promise I'd only 
>> use it for tidying up typos (Lancaster, Lancashire and the United 
>> Kingdom deserve some capital letters dude ;) ).
>> Site's looking good though.
>> If I'm absolutely honest, I didn't actually see it before now, so 
>> I've nothing to compare it to, but it does look nice :D
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Wayne Ward 
>> <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk 
>> <mailto:wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     hey guys good meeting the other night few things..
>>
>>     im half way through changing the LLUG website over to a
>>     wordpress, its installed and content back and just setting up the
>>     jetpack for various required plugins. Ive created the blog page
>>     and can give access to the blog or the whole thing to users of
>>     the group question is who needs access who will be blogging to it
>>     and does anybody need full access?... the worry i have got if I
>>     give the access and if we start getting major changes IE page
>>     content and themes im thinking its probably better if changes are
>>     discussed etc - thoughts on this please....
>>
>>     i see we have one more meeting before xmas that we could do we
>>     mailing the details out on the list as it was mentioned that
>>     there wasnt one till after xmas ....   now if you are wanting a
>>     xmas meeting i can organise - the tavern at scale hall, food and
>>     wifi for a xmas treat as i did it last year i dont mind doing it
>>     again this year to get into the xmas spirit HO HO HO ... thoughts
>>     please :)
>>
>>     on a lighter note anybody tried steam on linux yet :)
>>
>>     Best Regards
>>     Wayne
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dave Leack
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