[Lincs] Ubuntu CDs

[Marc McGuinness]

Nice to hear from you, Grahame!

I'd like to support you all on arranging another meeting wherever it's 
possible! On our meeting in September we promised to plan a meeting 
somewhere near Lincoln, but we haven't found a venue yet! Any ideas?

There are still very interesting talks to be held on our next meeting. 
Iain was going to give a talk on Audacity and Kopete and Grahame 
couldn't give his talk on GIMP last time. We should probably have more 
time for individual problems and discussions next time. What are your 
opinions about an install party? It would require a good and stable 
power supply...

We're looking for volunteers for the following web page tasks:
a) The administrators of lug.org.uk didn't like my idea of running an 
irc bot to log the events on our irc channel. We'll have to remove the 
IRC log part from the web site.

b) Over the last couple of month I had to manually remove several 
advertising posts from the database... We need PHP code to check the 
user posts on http://www.lincs.lug.org.uk/add_profile.php and on 
http://www.lincs.lug.org.uk/Contribute.php

c) We have to let users modify their profiles and locations. Any 
suggestions?

Bye for now!

Marc

Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk wrote the following on 18.03.2005 13:57:
> Hi all,
> As part of my ongoing project for the LLUG website I've been looking
> into a number of different distros. I'm currently in the process of
> finishing part two - where I cover Ubuntu (unashamedly my favourite
> distro ever) and Knoppix, this will be published in the next week or so.
> 
> Thanks to Ubuntu's scheme of shipping official CD's free of charge I
> will very soon have 10 copies of Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) to give
> away. These CD's are due to arrive mid April so if you would like a copy
> please let me know via email.
> As the LLUG mailing list has been so quiet later I thought it may be a
> good idea for everyone who is still receiving mails from the LLUG list
> and who are still interested in the LUG to reply back stating so - just
> a head count.
> With Marc in Germany and Iain having to deal with real-life issues (nice
> to see you back Iain) interest in the LUG seems to have dropped to a
> near non existent level... it's time to get some impetus back!
> To this end I want to get into motion the idea of a LLUG specific distro
> (this was mentioned last year in a couple of posts - Chris Lingard in
> particular seemed to be interested) back on track - any ideas,
> suggestions or offers of help would be gratefully received!
> How about a slight revamp of the website? People must have suggestions
> and ideas on how to improve the site... lets get involved we had a
> pretty good thing going up to our first meeting last year since then
> entropy seems to have set in, no ones perfect and we all have lives
> outside of our interests but it would be a shame to see this LUG go the
> same way as the last one.
> Talking of meetings... lets arrange one! Lincoln? Boston? Somewhere in
> between?
> Till then...
> Cheers,
> Grahame