Hi,
Well, wrt attendance, I think two responses in less than an hour is pretty good ... ;)
I have about six or seven people interested so far ... so counting yourselves, that would nearly break us into double figures. I think there are plenty of linux dabblers who are based at BT's Adastral Park research site so I'm hopeful we shouldn't have a problem getting enough together to at least get some social meets going ... I'm not looking any further than that and a mailing list/site at the moment, until I get a feel for the number of people attending.
We were thinking of the Milestone as a pub - third Monday of every month, mainly because this place is fairly roomy (should accommodate quite a few) and also has free wi-fi which might also prove handy for PDA/mobile/laptop access.
Plan is to have the first meet on th 19th Feb, but I haven't publicised it yet whilst I get the mailing list and web sorted out. Hence the question about whether to piggyback on ALUG or to roll our own.
Thoughts?
Sam.