MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
- 1984 marks 20 years of the GNU project (the film reminded us of this),
so how about a 20th birthday installfest in the new year? (March?) We could do a "mini-InstallFest" later this year for practice/testing. Need at least 10 installers to help.
Damn, does that mean that we've missed the 20th anniversary by 20 years <G> or did you mean 2004 marks 20 years of the GNU project? But otherwise, sounds like a plan, now, if only I could remember how to do an install that's not a debian net install ;)
- Keith is interested in a Debian-themed meeting, maybe Syleham
in November, as Big John is interested too and we can try to drag a developer kicking and screaming from Norwich.
Ohhhh, maybe someone should draw up a list of topics about debian systems? what the hell is apt? what are these packages? where did it all start? how do you build debian packages? what's the prefered method of kernel compiles?
- Quite a few people are interested in a "from boot to halt" themed
meeting explaining the boot process, shutdown process and so on. Just what do all those messages scrolling past actually *mean*? What causes them to do that? How do we change them? Perhaps we could have a short overview talk and some people taking aspects of this with posters so we can still play with kit. MJR is gullible enough to offer to help: who else? Is it possible to do this in Norwich?
Hrm - that's not a short topic, and are we specificifying it or trying to keep it general?
- Get our spare kit to people who have offered to hold kit (Colin?)
'Spare Kit'?!
- Sort out meeting transport and travel in groups. Encourage lurker
members to come and swell our numbers. Organise further ahead to get more publicity.
Cough, I suppose I should say sommit like "I'm available to take people from Norwich" here, and I should be going to more of the meetings again now. Though definately not doing the Ely social on Thursday, doing a curry night in Norwich instead with some random other people.
- The web site is really simple to add pages to now. Just download the
file http://www.alug.org.uk/alug.html.template, copy it and edit with your favourite tool. Then upload it somewhere or send it to me.
w00t. have we got a list of missing features yet? does anyone have any funky ideas?
- Meet up at London Olympia Linux Expo in October?
Hrm - that involves some planning, may get there, just don't know day yet. Will confirm closer to the time.
Next event is drinks in Ely on Thursday evening, not counting IRC tonight.
Have fun you lot ;)
Next weekend meeting that I know of is in Norwich in late September. See you there?
Probably ;)