[Newark] New ForLinux building offered for meets

[Khismett Riddle]

What do you mean by "Multimedia on the desktop"? Is that having the right
codecs to play stuff, or merhaps you mean literally playing videos on the
root window or am I getting the wrong end of the stick? Eitherhoo, nice of
ForLinux to offer their office as a venue.

Unrelatedwise, LUG is a silly word, as my sister observes, it is reminiscent
of 'lug hole'. Why is it that next to nothing in FOSS sounds good? The one
thing that does sound good, people debate over intent on making it sound
-less- good. By that, of course, I mean 'Linux' pronounced lie-nuks not
lin-nuks and certainly not guh-noo-slash-lin-nuks. We have an image editor
called the GIMP, a desktop environment that names things in the same way the
KKK did and the alternative's namesake is the least appealing mythical
being. We shouldn't be called a LUG, we should be the Newark Tech Model
Railroad Club in homage to MIT's TMRC.

Tom

On 07/01/2008, Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Chris Hayes wrote:
>
> > Also, I'm interested to know any ideas that anyone has  to make use of
> this
> > wonderful offer.
>
> Indeed, a great offer for a venue for formal meetings/presentations should
> we
> organise any, however, I also like informal settings, particularly if food
> and
> drink are involved. I wouldn't like to totally lose a social feel though.
>
> It's about time we starting thinking about the next meeting I guess.
>
> I'm really not sure there'd be enough of us for a presentation just yet
> (I've
> given presentations to groupd of 4 or 5 before, and it's not a thrilling
> experience). However, if we can get a turnout of 10, then it would
> probably be
> more productive and worthwhile talking to the group as a whole in
> presentation
> form, before finding something to eat and drink afterward.
>
> Unless anyone wants to organise something else, a repeat of last month
> would
> still be ok (last Friday of the month, 8pm until whenever, in a local
> pub),
> although for those of us who've already introduced ourselves to each
> other, it
> might be worth having a "topic for the evening", so that we can share
> hints,
> tips, thoughts and ideas on a common subject, rather than have me retell
> my
> lame stories about university life in mid-Wales. A few ideas I've had on
> this,
> "Making the command line less scarey", "Sharing files with Windows", and
> "Multimedia on the desktop".
>
> Steve
>
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