[Newark] New ForLinux building offered for meets

[Chris Hayes]

I agree with you Steve, unless we feel that we could get a turn out of
around 10 or more, a formal meet isn't likely to be very productive.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to attending this months meet - maybe the theme
could be silly names in FOSS?

Chris Hayes / cbhworld

On Jan 7, 2008 9:32 PM, Paul Mellors <paul at paulmellors.net> wrote:

> 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"
> >     Email: steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com <mailto:steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com
> >
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> Yup agreed LUG is silly it could be misconstrued as LUG'ole [as in your
> ear....pmsl.....]......
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