[Newark] Two things...

[Paul Mellors]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:40 +0100, Christopher Hayes wrote:
> There's just a couple of things I'd like to bring up. Firstly, are we
> planning to do anything for Software Freedom Day 2007? I think we
> should - partly because our website says that we are - and partly
> because I think that we are a small LUG, and this is perhaps the only
> real opportunity for an advocacy drive (until next year) - which
> actually has a nice reason to prop it up. Although: 
> 
> "Teams can register at any time up till 15 September 2007; the first
> 200 teams that register before 31 July will additionally receive
> supplies to support their SFD activities."
> 
> Unfortunately, as were my fears, we've missed getting any shinny swag
> for this year, better luck next year. Anyhow, what we can do is get a
> ton of Ubuntu CDs via shipit.ubuntu instead. So all's not completely
> lost. And I do have - some - swag, from LugRadio Live 2007. It does
> mean that this years' FSD wont be quite as good as it could have been,
> but then again - it reinforces the point that it wont be just about
> handing out swag and shinny badges of penguins, instead it's gonna
> have to be a proper challenge where we'll need to listen to people and
> actually talk to them about how certain pieces of Free software can
> help them. 
> 
> Anyhow - the second thing is we have a members page - does anyone want
> to have their name/website/picture/anything put on there? So far it's
> just got me, and it looks a little silly to be honest. Any views
> towards this would be great. One idea I had was to put a planet site
> up there to aggregate our blogs - but, as with the member page itself,
> currently that'd just be my blog.
> 
> Any feedback would be very appreciated! Thanks for reading. 
> 
> 
> Chris Hayes / cbhworld
> 
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Does it really matter if i'm not actually in Newark and a member of the
Nottingham LUG?  I look after there planet http://www.planetnottslug.org
so if you want you can take my feed of there and my hackagotchi [paul
mellors]  what is the url of the members page, i'll put my details on
there.

Cheers
Paul
[MooDoo in #ubuntu-uk]