[Newark] New ForLinux building offered for meets

[Paul Mellors]

Khismett Riddle wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
> 
>     --
>     Steven M Caddy, MEng
>     ------------------------------------------------------
>     "Hardware - the part of the computer you kick when the software fails"
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Yup agreed LUG is silly it could be misconstrued as LUG'ole [as in your 
ear....pmsl.....]......