[Preston] Meet-ups and what-not

[Guy Heatley]

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Alreet.
I'd be up for another meet up of PLUG.

If anyone out there used to come to the meetings at the Uni nigh on 10
years ago, it was me that sorted out the venue.
I still work at the Uni.

But ... with the passing of the eons I find I have less time to organize
stuff like this (I have 3 kids), so I wouldn't like to be singly
responsible for the organization of a LUG.

But ... I would attend and contribute when I had the time to do so.

I noticed Stephen and Gareth (Uni computing students during the glory
days of PLUG) were discussing a 10 year anniversary meet up a few weeks
back.

Hey! What about today's new-fangled social networks?
Peer-maintained NSA sponsored surveillance systems, you say!?

But wait! Anyone use Diaspora? I quite like it ... for a social network.

Diaspora:-
 - Is decentralized (like email), not corporately controlled and in
theory you can host your own server (or "pod" as they are termed).
 - Requires very little personal information to create and account
(Nickname + email)
 - Allows for tagging of contacts e.g. you can post status updates to
"metal_fans" invisible to "grannys_baking_group", and vice-versa.
- - Runs on Free Software (Ruby on Rails underneath)!

Or, in the words of a colleague:
"It's the shit version of Facebook, that only geeks use".
And if that doesn't convince you ...

Anyway my Diaspora Id is here: geeb [at] pod [dot] orkz [dot] net

I'll cease to rant about it.
I thought it may be a slightly more sophisticated way to communicate
than a mailing list?
I would totally understand anyone's mistrust of social networks though ...

But, yeah, meet up is good.

Cheers!
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Guy
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