[Liverpool] Place to drink
Dan Lynch
biglynchy at gmail.com
Fri May 8 00:50:52 UTC 2009
That place was pretty cool actually. As long as we could get the bigger room
it could be pretty good I think. Interesting that you mention debating as
this is mostly what happened at the Wetherspoons last time. Not about open
source but mainly about films, music, which numbering system is best and
80's synthesizers. Now there's an odd bunch of topics :)
I'm sure we could mix in some open source and other techy subjects though. I
dunno how others will feel but it might be a good idea to see what the
people at the pub have to say. Can't hurt to find out and then decide if
it's the right venue
Did we get wifi in there? I can't remember but saw a few people playing with
netbooks and so on. Just curious
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Paul Leech <pleech at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why don't we approach the Roscoe Arms, and see if we can book it once a
> month. We had a good time there a few weeks ago and I noticed they liad on
> a room and provided some food for the cribbage night which the LUG duly
> scoffed. It is a snall, nice friendly pub, near the News from nowhere place
> and could become a regular haunt. I don't live in Liverpool but go to visit
> my brothers there often and would be willling to sound them out on this next
> time I am in town and let you know the outcome.
>
> Also, I think the pressure of having a full blown presentation, although
> interesting and welcome when they come about is great but we should be able
> to come up for with talking points on the massive area of open source
> software for when no presentations are scheduled. We could argue loads of
> points, all we need is someone to raise a debating area e.g Are Microsoft a
> scum sucking bastard of an organisation? to get the juices flowing. I would
> welcome some constructive criticism to add to my armoury (I have just
> converted my brother to open source software after the years of
> disappointment suffered at the hands of Micro$oft. He didn't know there was
> an alternative until I tutored him in the arts of freedom.
>
> Lets do it.
>
> See you all at the next LUG. Also, I didn't get the job I went for as they
> were still struggling with micros$hit did not see any need to change
> (peasants) so if anyone knows of any purely Linux jobs going let me know,
>
> Thanks
> 2009/5/7 <liverpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:51 +0100, Dan Lynch wrote:
>> > Sounds good, I'll be along at 7:30.
>>
>> Dan - are you popping into the Hackspace meeting first?
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>> - Richard
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>> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] [ANN] Liverpool LUG Meeting - 06/05/09 -
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>> Hi, Didn't know there was one on but I'll try and nip in to say hello. Is
>> it
>> in FACT bar again? I'll see if there's anyone about on my way to LSC and
>> perhaps on the way back too. I'll be around that area so hopefully I'll
>> bump
>> into you.
>>
>> Dan
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>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Richard Smedley
>> <smedley358 at btinternet.com>wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 12:51 +0100, Dan Lynch wrote:
>> > > Sounds good, I'll be along at 7:30.
>> >
>> > Dan - are you popping into the Hackspace meeting first?
>> >
>> > - Richard
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>> On Wed, 6/5/09, Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, Didn't know there was one on but I'll try and
>> > nip in to say hello. Is it
>> > in FACT bar again?
>>
>> Yup - FACT bar 7pm
>>
>> > I'll see if there's anyone about
>> > on my way to LSC and
>> > perhaps on the way back too. I'll be around that area
>> > so hopefully I'll bump
>> > into you.
>>
>> Well, I'm just leaving the bar, to do Small Steps to
>> Sustainability" in Gallery 1. Then I'll be back up here
>> by 7pm for the hackspace meeting, then off to drop
>> in on LivLUG, so I think we're bound to bump into
>> each other somewhere ;-)
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>> - Richard
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>> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:18:54 +0100
>> From: Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com>
>> Subject: [Liverpool] Failure of the May Meeting
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>> Well, not everything went to plan AT ALL this month. Infact I think this
>> is the biggest failure we've had
>> so far :)
>>
>> Me, Jo, Andy and Simon all got into the Ropewalks quite early in the
>> evening, we noticed the bar maid was
>> a little stressed due to drunks but we managed to stay there for a while.
>> At 7:30ish me and Jo wandered
>> over to check if any stragglers had gone LSC, only to be greeted by
>> another group who were using the
>> space. At 8pm the Ropewalks turfed us out...
>>
>> Anyway, we eneded up in the Welkin (Wetherspoons) and stayed there for the
>> rest of the night. We suspect
>> the Ropewalks has changed to old management and they're shutting at 8pm
>> again as usual.
>>
>> I'm currently talking with LSC to see what happened to the booking, and I
>> think the Welkin will serve well
>> as a after meeting pub, unless anyone else has any suggestions.
>>
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>> w: http://tensixtyone.com/
>> e: andy at tensixtyone.com
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>> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:46:37 +0100
>> From: Simon Johnson <simon.johnson at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Liverpool] Talk Proposals
>> To: Liverpool Linux User Group <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> About a month ago I said I was planning to do a talk on simulating
>> computers
>> in Python. Most people said there's no way I'd have that done in a month
>> and
>> they were right!! In fact, I'm probably further away from having a useful
>> talk than I was last month :)
>>
>> It turns out that as you get in to the nuts and bolts of trying to
>> simulate
>> the circuitry of a computer using software that there is rather a lot to
>> it.
>> As you might expect, the circuit is pretty complicated.
>>
>> The upshot of this is that to try and communicate how the whole circuit
>> works in a single 40 minute slot is pretty tough. Instead I would like to
>> do
>> two talks.
>>
>> In the first talk I'm going to focus on the circuitry of the machine. The
>> outline is given below. Rather than tackling the whole circuit, I'm going
>> to
>> focus on a few interesting parts of the circuit.
>>
>> - A brief, high-level description of the computer and its parts.
>> - The ALU - the bit that does the computation.
>> - The program counter.
>> - A simple memory circuit.
>> - An overview of the input and output devices.
>>
>> At the end of the talk we'll have a little program running on the machine
>> that says: "Hello World!"
>>
>> In the second talk, I'll walk through the steps required to build a
>> compiler
>> that targets the machine. The initial plan is to make a "Python-like"
>> language that compiles down to machine code for the simple computer I've
>> put
>> together.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simon
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>> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:57:13 +0100
>> From: Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Failure of the May Meeting
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>> I must have missed you by a fraction at the Ropewalks, when Richard and I
>> got there the door was open but the barmaid was kicking everyone out.
>> Didn't
>> see any Luggers there. Good job you sent me a txt or I'd have been lost.
>> The
>> Welkin seems a decent pub but it might be good to try and find something
>> nearer to the venue if we can. I'll have a think. Problem is a lot of the
>> pubs around Bold St are either really small or not suitable. I went to
>> Tabac
>> at the top of Bold St with the Script Frenzy group a couple of weeks ago
>> and
>> it was great. There were about 8 of us. Not exactly a pub but very
>> comfortable and it was quiet, they even had cake and a nice area with a
>> big
>> projector screen. I don't know how they'd feel about 15 geeks turning up
>> but
>> I reckon they'd be fine. As long as you're buying drinks they don't
>> care...
>> unless it's the Ropewalks of course :)
>>
>> It's only just up the road from LSC and FACT. Just a thought. Might not be
>> suitable I dunno
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Well, not everything went to plan AT ALL this month. Infact I think this
>> is
>> > the biggest failure we've had
>> > so far :)
>> >
>> > Me, Jo, Andy and Simon all got into the Ropewalks quite early in the
>> > evening, we noticed the bar maid was
>> > a little stressed due to drunks but we managed to stay there for a
>> while.
>> > At 7:30ish me and Jo wandered
>> > over to check if any stragglers had gone LSC, only to be greeted by
>> another
>> > group who were using the
>> > space. At 8pm the Ropewalks turfed us out...
>> >
>> > Anyway, we eneded up in the Welkin (Wetherspoons) and stayed there for
>> the
>> > rest of the night. We suspect
>> > the Ropewalks has changed to old management and they're shutting at 8pm
>> > again as usual.
>> >
>> > I'm currently talking with LSC to see what happened to the booking, and
>> I
>> > think the Welkin will serve well
>> > as a after meeting pub, unless anyone else has any suggestions.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Andrew Williams
>> > w: http://tensixtyone.com/
>> > e: andy at tensixtyone.com
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