[Lincs] Fwd: Lincs LUG

[Ben Francis]

Marc Mc Guinness wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Chris Lingard wrote the following on 24.06.2004 00:40:
>
>> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 23:13, Marc Mc Guinness wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Chris Lingard wrote the following on 24.06.2004 00:03:
>>>
>>>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Lincs LUG
>>>> Date: Wednesday 23 June 2004 22:28
>>>> From: Ben Francis <tola at hippygeek.co.uk>
>>>> To: chris at stockwith.co.uk
>>>>
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> I emailed you a few months ago to ask you about the
>>>> inactivity of Lincs LUG. As of Friday afternoon that spare
>>>> time I was talking about starts and I'd like to spend some
>>>> of it on the Lincs LUG.
>>>>
>>>> I mentioned the group to a few friends who are interested
>>>> and someone is starting a thread to see what active users
>>>> are still around on the list so we can go from there.
>>>>
>>>> If you still want to send me the mailing list and web site
>>>> details I'm very keen to update the web site and get things
>>>> running again. I have friends in ALUG and PLUG who have
>>>> said they will help me get this thing started again :D
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to help you getting things started again. I've
>>> got webspace and experience in Apache, PHP, CGI, MySQL and
>>> stuff. I think the web site is the most important thing to get
>>> running.
>>
I have access to a colocated server with 
Debian/Apache/PHP/MySQL/Email/IRC and a similar backup server with 1Gb 
of web space if necessary, but I'm sure the web space provided by 
lincs.lug.org.uk includes web space with all these features (except IRC 
but we could use the oftc server?). Please do correct me if I'm wrong! 
It might be nice to set up llug.org.uk or lincs.org.uk or something 
similar on our own server but this probably isn't a priority?

>>
>>
>> I have no objection to this. I started this group years ago, but
>> due the geography, we have had no meetings.
>>
>> Anybody object to handing over the controls to  Marc Mc Guinness?
>
I'm quite happy to do it if he doesn't have the time or work together to 
share the load

>
> I've got exams (studying computer networking at university in Germany) 
> at the moment, but will be back in England for August and September. 
> That's when I've got lots of time to work on a web site for Lincs LUG.
>
> If anybody thinks he has got more time and can finish basic work on 
> the web site before August, he should do it.

As I said in my original email I have lots of free time as of this 
Friday afternoon (tomorrow) as my new contract (IT Technician) doesn't 
start until September and when it starts I'll be working 30 hours a week 
so hopefully will still have time to contribute.

Let's get this thing started :)

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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