Nick Atkins wrote:
Would anyone be able to report on how successful your kit-meet was?
It's all the other side of a haze... 17 people turned up. There are some photos. There was real coffee and tea and cake and cookies and crisps. Not much kit or repairing of kit (perhaps MJR would care to explain the problem with the aged machine? I wasn't watching). Some things were brought along for swapping, and there were magazines and CDs to share. Mike was teased for arriving in workclothes... labelled PCWorld. There was chat about free software and politics. Matthew talked to various people about his plans for a one-day conference and workshops at UEA. We discussed starting a uni soc. JT expounded his plans for world domination through robot mice, for which he needs much meccano - please give generously. There was mention of ALUG tshirts. JT was, as usual, tormented for being a professional spammer (though afaik they spam the mobile phones of people who have signed up to dodgy services, and it sounds like a good thing to me).
It was an afternoon event starting at 2pm, and finishing with some people going to the bar, so it may have gone on all night but I went home.
It wasn't the most coherent of meets, but it was good socially, and there were several attendees who were new to ALUG. I hope they felt welcome, and will come to the monthly pubmeets too.
-- sfr