* From: James Green jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk
In message 370C6FC5.BeroList-2.5.9@stu.uea.ac.uk, alug@stu.uea.ac.uk writes
- From: Mark J Ray h089@uea.ac.uk
- From: Andrew Savory A.Savory@uea.ac.uk
I've thrown together some VERY basic web pages,take a peek at: http://www.cpc.uea.ac.uk/alug/
I do like the logo, I must say. Dunno if we should add a Tux to it?
I'll have a go at creating a site over the next few days - I'm getting Apache up and running here so once everything's ready I'll give you all a URL. I'm pleasantly surprised at the speed in which the aforementioned site has gone up - blistering!
What I'd like to do is incorporate stuff like /. and freshmeat headlines in the front page and stuff suitable for all Linux users like links to major distros and websites, and make ALUG a headline link off it. I'll see how I progress then we can merge ideas and colour schemes :)
These are just an idea of a framework that we could all knock into shape.
OK, I'm knocking: No to web forum: a mailing list archive and an openFAQ would be more useful, I feel (even though SF2 is my code ;) )
A web forum might be more useful if we announce date/times when we meet and invite people over during these 'virtual' meets. Might be useful for newbies in uk.comp.os.linux when they need help and don't know about #Linuxhelp. This is however a side issue.
I assume we'll get our own box with appropriate s/w - PERL/CGI access, etc?
And I think moving the mailing list to lug.org.uk's majordomo ASAP is the best thing to do.
Agreed. UEA isn't know for it's uptime - at least in the dept. I know of ;-(
I think we could also do with throwing together some form of press release that we can send out to all the local papers; something that gives them enough background info to give us a bit of free advertising.
Good idea. Have we any experienced press release writers in the list?
OK - here goes:
PRESS RELEASE
Announcement of new Linux User Group for UK Anglia region.
The Anglian Linux User Group (ALUG) is pleased to announce its formation in April 1999. LUGs are groups of people who share an interest, however deep, in Linux, the Open Source Operating System built by Linus Torvalds and many programmers around the world.
ALUG's fifteen starter members wish to invite anyone who has an interest in Linux and who reside in the Anglia UK region to join our group and share their experiences (good and bad) with like-minded people. Very often the Internet is used for supporting Linux users around the world and it is the intention of ALUG to provide localised support to Anglian Linux users in the form of regular meetings, details of which can be found at our website ______, posted to the Internet newsgroup uk.comp.os.linux, and posted to the alug-announce mailing list which is supplemented by a more general mailing list for members to communicate on.
We hope that ALUG will grow in time to provide it's members with the best possible information, localised support services and offerings of cheap (and free!) Linux software, plus educative discussions and speeches at our meetings.
ALUG's first meeting will take place on ____ at ___. See you there!
For more information on ALUG, please visit us on the web: http://_______ or e-mail ________.
For information on Linux and other Open Source initiatives, please visit the following websites: http://www.linux.org http://www.opensource.org (?)
Press Contact: _________.
major dissent, so do we go for some time over Sat 1st/Sun 2nd/Mon 3rd May?
Afternoon of the 2nd?
Weekends are good for me. I live in Norwich but am a student in Colchester so bear in mind I may have to travel up on a train back home and grab a car to come on Sat or Sun, then hit reverse.
If no-one else is silly enough to volunteer, I'll sign up to co-ordinate the first meeting.
Gotcha!
I'll also happily stump up the 47$ to make us a member of "Groups of Linux Users Everywhere" (GLUE - http://www.ssc.com/glue/) in the hopes of getting some freebies to give away at the first meeting. Does this seem like a good idea?
OW! What kind of freebies?
No idea. I'd quite like the idea of getting cheap distro CDs with updates though. Anyone got a CD burner? I'm sure we could get a good deal on blank CDs.
Also, we should get listed at lugww.nllgg.nl as soon as the domain is up. It's rather more international than GLUE, I think.
Get listed everywhere :)