[Nottingham] [Talk] *TODAY* Thurs 07/01/2010 A GUI Past & Future

[Martin]

Folks,

*TODAY*

Also note the new sexy computer/software/electronics goodies now being
pushed for the New Year...


See ya later,

All welcome,

Cheers,
Martin


> For the first Thursday meet of the year, we have:
> 
> A GUI Past & Future
> ===================
> 
> 
> Whilst doing the Christmas rounds, I was in discussion with various
> people about how we 'play' with all things players, computers, and
> machines. A lot is what we as geeks are totally immersed in and take for
> granted. However, /most/ people are still left bewildered and lost.
> There's no point in us enjoying GNU freedom in our little software niche
> if people are 'locked out' because of GUIs...
> 
> So what is there? Or "so what" even?
> 
> And desert island natives do perfectly well without any GUI at all!...
> 
> 
> I'll also be putting together a few ideas to post a calendar of talks
> for the year. What would you like to hear? What interests?
> 
> And are there any volunteers to revamp our long dormant website? (A lot
> of work was put into the old drupal site. Either resurrect that or at
> least retrieve the content?)
> 
> 
> 
> All at our usual Navvy to navigate a few stories and a few beers:
> 
> 
> The Navigation
> 
> http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
> 
> *Thursday 07/01/2010*
> 
> Meet:	19:30
> (in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
> 
> Talk/Questions/Discussion:	20:00
> (in the room upstairs)
> 
> Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
> 
> The Navigation Inn
> 6 Wilford Street
> Nottingham
> NG2 1AA
> Tel: 0115 9417139
> 
> http://www.pub-explorer.com/notts/pub/navigationinnnottingham.htm
> http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=52.948&lon=-1.1518&scale=10000&icon=x
> 
> 
> We head up to the large room upstairs at round abouts 8pm.
> Unfortunately, no WiFi access until their adsl gets reconnected!
> 
> They likely have food available by now.
> 
> 
> To find us, just look for any penguins or a cluster of netbooks!
> Or ask the friendly bar staff.
> 
> All welcome,
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 
> GUI: Graphical User Interface
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
> 
> GNU: GNU is Not Unix
> http://www.gnu.org/



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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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