On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:45:16PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-06-29 10:01:53 +0100 Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
[...] As for demos, well, weren't we supposed to have a demo/talk on the alug website tools on Sunday? Weren't you one of the many that didn't turn up? Weren't you going to give that talk?
Yes, yes, yes.
(I know you didn't turn up, you told me to make your appologies via sms, I don't know *why* you couldn't turn up, but as you seem to be the one making the large prods towards more kit meetings and talks, it seems strange that you don't even turn up to one that was organised).
I'm not going to publish why I didn't turn up. I did try to let you all know, using the only contact I had to hand (there wasn't one in the meeting announcement). Even so, I didn't think there would be much interest from the people going, as it wasn't mentioned in the meeting announcements, nor was the web page mentioned. Was I wrong?
Have we got any real contact method for the group as a whole other than the mailing list?
Anyway, I want to *see* interesting kit and demos, not just try to show all the time. The Norwich meetings mainly consist of sitting around chopsing and - while I like you, Brett - it is over two hours driving or just under four hours public transport for a few short chats during the evening, unless I can combine the trip with other purposes. Now things here are busier, I'm more tired than I was.
*WHAT* Interesting things do you want to see? Giving such a vague outline means that no one knows what anyone wants, maybe it's time to get a list of things that people want demonstrated or talked about done? and perhaps even do some kind of structured meetings, but until the turnout is looking better, or we have some interesting topics that someone can talk about, then we're stuck, aren't we.
Maybe it's worth the interesting demos being published on the interweb so that people can view them at their own disgression, and feedback to the author and discuss points on the list?
If someone wants to offer kit and demos (Linux-FT is "heritage", eh?), please do so now for Syleham.
I would, but my kit is dying, and I've nothing to demo (most work has really been *work* recently, and so not really open source, or redistributable in any way, or come to think of it, interesting).