Hi,
Great meet yesterday. For me, it was good to get to meet some of the people from the wider region for the first time.
I'm eager to hear the results of the in-depth study into Linux Virtualisation, especially KVM, that was in progress ... I was also astonished to see a Silicon Graphics workstation being used, ironically, as a neat headless workstation - which was only brought to life after some hardcore fiddling with paperclips, a soldering iron and minicom. I was in awe ... ;)
I also got some useful background on the history of ALUG and it's members from BigJohn - thanks for hosting, btw!
Had lots of discussions to participate in, including lots of info on media PVRs and Sky Plus hacking, knowledge transfer on SIP and internet telephony gear, talks about blogging engines, CMS' and - inevitably - the ALUG wiki (speaking of which, I've updated the Syleham entry with the postcode to aid those of use using SatNav!).
Plus, there was a SCSI scanner floating around causing some grief which, it was concluded, was probably lacking a terminator ... I chatted about Bookcrossing around the region and I also got to hear about the upcoming DebConf7 event (Debian Project's developer conference) which is being held in Edinburgh this year, along with the suggestion of an organised ALUG showing of "Revolution OS" - a 2001 film I vaguely remembered hearing about, which charted the development of open source and free software and was infamous for containing Richard Stallman's Free Software Song, which I found when I got home, to my delight, on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
Awesome. But, having watched it, I still contend that it's not even close to the complete abomination that is the Star Wars Holiday Special [starwarsholidayspecial.com]. I can arrange viewings of that for anyone wanting to destroy their childhood memories (it makes the prequel trilogy look good).
All that and plenty of free kit offers as well - I'm sure there was plenty of other stuff going on that I missed but, all in all, not a bad way to get through a Sunday hangover ...
Thanks, everyone!
Peter.