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[Mark Stewart]

Hi Matt,

Having serious issues with my ADSL connection at the mo with e7even, grrr.

Glad you made the meeting, wanted to go myself but was out for the day
getting a Kilt sorted!

Linux advocacy is always at my workplace, pushing the right buttons with
management helps a lot. Great report, I have forwarded to my work address
and will check out the links tomorrow.

Mark




On 19/04/06, Matt Marsh <matt at mattmarsh.net> wrote:
>
>
> >  > On Tuesday evening we will be meeting in the New Cavendish
> >  > Street campus of Westminister University at 1900.
> >  >
> >  > Our speakers for the evening will be Jono Bacon and Ted Haeger.
> >  >
> >  > Jono Bacon works for Open Advantage in the West Midlands, is a
> >  > journalist and a presenter on LUG Radio
> >  >
> >  > Ted Haeger works for Novell and is the presenter on the Novell
> >  > Open Audio Podcast.
> >  >
> >  > The talk will be on Linux Advocacy...
> >
> > I may go along to this myself too.
>
> Yesterday evening I attended this meeting of GLLUG, the first
> LUG meeting I've been to, so I thought I'd report back...
>
> The meeting there was reasonably attended with about 20 people
> turning up. I had expected that there would be more but still
> 20 is not bad and they seemed a friendly bunch. Unfortunately
> I had to head off before they went to the pub afterwards so
> I didn't get to really speak with them. They have a nice setup
> there at Westminster Uni, able to use one of the lecture
> theatres with all its presentation kit and so on.
>
> The first part of the evening by [1]Jono Bacon (of [2]LUGRadio
> fame -- you all listen to that podcast right?) was about
> open source advocacy - how to promote open source within
> the organizations that we work for and so on. It did provoke
> my thinking as to what more I can do to promote FOSS both
> within working and non-working environments... I really
> should do more. Perhaps this is something that we'll be
> able to get involved in as a LUG at some point? Either by
> doing things like attending computer fairs and manning a
> stand (eg. the [3]infopoint project that Jono setup) or by
> doing things like attending local colleges running computing
> courses to promote the FOSS thinking there?
>
> The second part of the evening by Ted Haeger of Novell
> was basically a run through of the things they've been
> building for OpenSuse. I've never tried Suse so it was
> interesting to see what they've been upto. I might be
> tempted to give it a go when the next release (10.1?)
> comes out (sounds fairly imminant). I'll find a partition
> to give it a go, but I think Ubuntu will still be my
> distro of choice on the desktop for now...
>
> Matt
>
> [1] http://www.jonobacon.org/
> [2] http://www.lugradio.org/
> [3] http://infopointproject.org/
>
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