[Lincoln LUG] Overview of October's LUG meeting

[Happibun]

Thanks for taking the time to do a lovely write up of the meeting Bex,
I'm looking forward to the next one already.

Cheers, Jo

On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 23:18 +0100, Rebecca Newborough wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> Lincoln LUG held their second meeting on 19th October, and this time
> the venue was the recently re-furbished Ye Olde Crowne pub in Lincoln.
> Dave, Steve and Jon from Hull LUG made the journey down to join us
> again, and as well as Neal, Philip (hubby) and me attending, we were
> also joined at this meeting by Carl and Jo.
> 
> Once the introductions were out of the way, and the food and drink
> ordered, we all quickly settled into discussions about our work;
> favourite distro's; favourite podcasts; shared interests and our
> favourite sci-fi viewing. Jo and I even talked about knitting and
> crocheting, and I put her in touch with my friend Hanna, who has a
> shared passion for all things wool-related. There was the usual tech
> out on display, and being the resourceful lady that she is, Jo also
> brought an extension lead which was heavily utilised. We did a quick
> straw poll on who had updated to the new and shiny Ubuntu 11.10
> Oneiric Ocelot release which then prompted Carl to tell us about how
> he was still using Slackware as his distribution of choice. We really
> are a diverse bunch!
> 
> The beer and food were excellent, and the bar owner even brought over
> an extra bowl of chips for us. He did make the mistake of asking us
> who we were and what we were doing, and I watched his eyes glaze over
> as I mentioned Linux and open source - I really must improve on my
> marketing/selling skills! :D
> 
> All too quickly closing time was upon us and it was time to say our
> goodbyes and leave, but not before we had agreed to go back to the
> venue for November's meeting which will be on Wednesday 16th November
> starting at 7.30pm. We all agreed that for the next meeting we would
> try and sit in either the Library bar area or the tiered seating area,
> as it was too cold sitting by the door!
> 
> Thanks to everyone for coming along; hope to see some more of you soon.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Becky Newborough
> 
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