[ALUG] Ipswich LUG

[Brett Parker]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0000, samwise wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With 2007 now upon us - a new year, new start etc., I've been thinking
> about starting up an Ipswich Linux User Group.

I'd skip that part - forming lugs is just boring ;)

> I found ALUG in my web research, and attempted to email Tony Dietrich
> who is listed as a contact for Ipswich, but the email bounced.
> 
> Soo ... does anyone have thoughts they'd like to share?
> 
> I'm particularly interested in what the benefits are of piggy-backing
> on the ALUG, in terms of mailing list and website hosting are ...

Why piggy back? Assuming the general nature of topics for the mailing
list would be linux related, there's no reason that you couldn't just
use the main at lists.alug.org.uk list for that. For social events, there's
nothing wrong with using social at lists.alug.org.uk and joining that (and,
you know, occasionally there might be events on those 2 lists that you
might want to go to, or know someone that might be interested in going).

WRT the website, I believe that David and Simon are currently working on
making that more community based, with that in mind there may be a
possibility of your own section of the site, maybe (I don't know, but
hey, worth putting it out there now ;)

Your Ipswich meetings are now officially the closest meetings that I
could get to! (But living in Brighton, it's fairly unlikely that I'll
make 'em, don't be offended, though - I'm fairly useless at turning up
to most things. Before you ask, I've been an ALUG member for a fair
number of years, since somewhere around 99 or 98 or, oh, sometime, and
even though I've moved out of East Angular, ALUG is still the right LUG!
Though, it's probably time for another BLUG meeting soon... hmmm... must
be getting on for a couple of months).

Right, err, so that's absolutely none of your questions answered and a
random amount of stuff written. I'll shut up and get back to playing
with workflows in APLAWS.

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker