Hi,
Firstly a big "Hello"! I joined up recently after conversations with MJR. I investigate the old Essex LUG but that seems to be dead and buried, so I was thinking of setting up a Chelmsford LUG (comedy name yet to be thought up) as I live near there (Gt. Waltham, grew up in Ford End, country boy really;) and am buying there soon.
I'm having a meeting on Thursday at D-Place in Chelmsford from 6pm for the A12 business networking club which I run on Ecademy - feel free to join the online discussions/come along to the meeting at: http://www.open4.org/joinA12club (it's free)
One of the other members has just started up a local mag "Parklife" being delivered to 10,000 residents of the new, mainly commuter estates of Chelmsford. We're having a feature on the club next month and organising a charity event for the summer, so I posted to the Linux Solution Providers list asking about installfests, and now I'm here.
So, pointers please to setting a LUG up, offers of advice or help for the summer event - prob more of a demonstration of different systems (have MDK10 on my Tosh M30-604 laptop working /nearly/ fully now which looks good and impresses people), any other advice welcome. Thinking about handing out CDs of things like Knoppix, OpenCD, SUSE Live, etc.
Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend hehe ;)
Steve Purkiss
Open for Organisations supporting open source software www.open4.org
On 2004-05-03 11:58:53 +0100 Steve Purkiss steve@open4.org wrote:
So, pointers please to setting a LUG up
With the help of a few people, I've written http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2003/howtomeet.html which may help. There's probably more ideas lurking in the site, waiting to be catalogued. I'd very happily add a "Chelmsford" location page to the ALUG site as a first step, if you tell me what needs to be on it (hint: crib from another page!). Then, meetings pages can appear.
Is it time to have main@ for a technical questions list and then other smaller lists named things like norwich, chelmsford and fenland if people want them to help get meetings together? (Maybe Ipswich-area people will announce themselves as wanting to have a meeting soon, so need a list?)
I'm going to go check the lists are properly pruned. Pass the cutters.
offers of advice or help for the summer event
Will the charity event tie in with an http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ installfest? I guess we need to get ALUG ready for that anyway.
[...] Thinking about handing out CDs of things like Knoppix, OpenCD, SUSE Live, etc.
I'd stick to Morphix for hand-outs at first: there are several versions built on a common base, so you don't have to debug too many variations to get the basics working for them. It's also committed to being totally free software, I hear, which is always good.
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MJ Ray -
Steve Purkiss