[Sussex] Moot Attendance List April 29 - now £3

[Gavin Stevens]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:12:43 +0100
Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk> wrote:

> The last Thursday is nearly upon us, so:
> 
> Please add your name below if you would like to attend the April
> moot.
> 
> I have been advised by the manager of the Holbrook Club that the 
> entrance fee will now be £3. Here is what Tim has to say:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Fay,
> 
> I trust your meeting went okay yesterday?
> 
> As it has been some years since the original agreement for your group
> to use The Holbrook Club was negotiated, I believe it is now time to
> review the arrangement.
> 
> With this in mind, and whilst we are very happy for your group to
> continue to use our facilities, we do need to increase the entry
> charge
> from £2.00 per person to £3.00 per person to help cover the cost of
> the
> room hire and facilities usage your group enjoys.
> 
> I trust this increase will not prove too onerous and that we will see
> you all again in April as normal
> 
> Can you please brief your colleagues that the entry charge with
> effect
> from your April 2010 meeting will be £3.00?
> 
> Thank you for your co-operation and support. Tim
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> I sincerely hope this will not put anyone off attending. The Holbrook
> 
> club has served us well and has good facilities.
> 
> Now, more than ever, we need to devise a good series of talks.
> 
> We are still without a mootmaster to arrange these and direct the 
> moots. Gavin has been holding the fort in this area and I have been 
> helping a little.
> 
> I am happy to remain as attendance list manager. The prospective 
> mootmaster would provide me with the list of talks to promote.
> 
> In the meantime, here is the tentative schedule I am proposing:
> 
> For the next three months: a main talk, followed by short segments on
> 
> three ongoing projects we seem to have in common, or vice versa.
> 
> 1. Demonstration of MonoDevelop.
> Mono is the Open Source implementation of .NET and MonoDevelop is 
> a development front end that enables you to create applications.
> I will demonstrate a simple console game that causes images to move 
> around on the screen. The player must click on the images and the app
> 
> must be programmed to work out what is going on.
> Even if you've never programmed before, you will see how simple the 
> concepts are. MonoDevelop is a joy to use.
> Why not download Mono and MonoDevelop and bring them to the moot 
> with a usb drive?
> You can copy the game, I will show you how to make simple changes
> (like 
> speeding up or slowing down or altering the number of images) and you
> 
> can see the results in your new game version.
> 
> 2. Internet access in meetings: how best to share wifi access.
> 3 MythTV: what hardware is needed? What are the best buys?
> 4. Ekiga: How to set it up. Any tips on sound issues.
> 
> I will post these last three up as several topics to see if we get
> any responses
> 
> When replying with your name, please only include the text below this
> point..
> 
> Next moot:
>      Thursday 29/04/2010
> 
> Location:
>      The Holbrook Club
>      North Heath Lane
>      Horsham
>      West Sussex
>      RH12 5PJ
> 
> Talk / Presentation this month:
>      1.. Demonstration of MonoDevelop
> 
> Mini Issues 
>      2. Internet access in meetings: how best to share wifi
> access.
>       3. MythTV: what hardware is needed? What are the best buys?
>      4. Ekiga: How to set it up. Any tips on sound issues.
> 
> Confirmed so far:
>      Fay Fleming
Gavin Stevens
> 
>  Best Regards,
> Fay
> East Grinstead Linux User Group
> www.eglugorg.uk
> 
>