On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:38:42PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2003-12-15 11:05:48 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
It would be good to try and get some face-to-face meetings in Ipswich going again.
Hi Chris,
Welcome to the group. It sounds like you're one of the group's more experienced members. When did you pick up GNU/Linux? Does your Sun have GNU tools on it? flexlm? ;-)
I just started using Linux on my home machines as a way to get 'Unix at home'. I think I used RedHat first, around version 5, then went with Mandrake for a while, then SuSE (7 and 8) and lastly Slackware 8.1, 9 and 9.1.
It is great that we have quite a good number of people near Ipswich who want to have meetings there again. Now it just needs someone, or a few people, to pick a venue and call a meeting. Some suggestions written by myself and a few others are linked from the Ipswich page, at http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2003/howtomeet.html (more suggestions welcomed). Who will do this next step? (or should that be NeXT GNUstep?)
Well I have one obvious possibility for a venue, my house. It's a very big house and rather underoccupied at the moment. The biggest room in the house can fairly happily accomodate 12 to 20 people. The main disadvantage is that we're rather out in the sticks at Newbourne so the only sensible way to get there is by car.
I can even provide another attendee as my son Ben is a computer[ish] person too.
How does Newbourne grab Ipswich people as a venue?