[SWLUG] Ideas, suggestions, plans and what non-attenders missed

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:34:16PM +0000 or thereabouts, Philip Downer wrote:
> At the last meeting in Cardiff a piece of paper was passed around asking
> for ideas/suggestions on future events.

Oops. Here's the list that came back. I've bunched it into various
groups. For example "group trip to..." has about four possible
destinations :) 

  * Group trip to Linux Expo in Birmingham in February 2003.
    This is Under New Management and generally in flux: 
    http://www.linux-expo.co.uk/

  * Go on LinuxBierWanderung in 2003, 2004, etc.
    http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/

  * Geek skiing trip. Can't imagine who mentioned that one, Gareth.
    http://www.swlug.org.uk/pipermail/discuss/2002-October/000341.html

  * Group trip to UKUUG meeting (Presumably the summer one)
    You have to join to be allowed to attend, but if you're a 
    member it's free. http://www.ukuug.org/events/

  * There's some kind of national Install Day (in April?)
    Do something about it then.

  * Workshop day?

  * Geek talks. Example: new distribution reviews.

  * Talks on legislation changes impacting Linux

  * Compile a list of resources like computers or bits of computers
    we have that can be used for test installs

  * gnome-cy: get started translating GNOME to Welsh

  * Mass wardriving/walking

  * Adopt-a-penguin event (eg at Bristol Zoo)

  * WLAN with hostap (??? can't read that so I'm glad Phil is
    already on this one) driver for Prism II

  * Plan ahead more long-term: ie, put meeting dates up
    in good time, start planning other things in advance, etc.

  * More things listed in advance on website.

  * How about a day event on a weekend?


Note the "planning ahead". I think if we want to do something
for April, we should start thinking very soon about (for example)
where. Phil and I are also hoping to get up to Linux Expo in
Birmingham for a GNOME booth there, and we have already started
planning. (Anyone else up for this, do say, but if we're going
for a booth we shall be there a day early to set up, be warned.)

Anyway, whilst I can't see myself skiing, and won't be organising
the penguin thing (it is a pain to organise, but someone should:
the zoo is getting quite used to these fools who adopt an entire
penguin instead of just a piece of one and then want a URL as the
donor name) most of these look fun to me.

So, who wants to give a talk, then? And what facilities would they
need? I know a couple of people have suggested that _given adequate
notice_, they can scare up a room for us.

Other things we talked about: Why We Should Have Booked (!); languages
(the human sort, not computer ones); Fran's opinion of RH 8.0; how
you might stream oggs around rooms (something like 'obsequian' was
mentioned here); neat HTML attributes like "title" and "longdesc"
(abbr title="Free Software Foundation">FSF</abbr> will get you a
tooltip expanding FSF, and <img (blah blah) longdesc="url-goes-here.html" />
lets you explain an image in more space than "alt" allows); and
doubtless more. Twenty people means a lot of conversations going
on at once. Whee.

Telsa