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---------- From: MJ Ray[SMTP:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk] Sent: 18 April 2000 20:32 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [alug] ALUG 1up -- regularising things

Hi all, to both the 20 or so that made the Aylsham meeting and the rest of you out there on the mailing list, (yes, you can probably consider yourselves all "members" of ALUG, whatever that means!)

After ALUG28, some of us hung around and discussed where the group should go from here. It's now a year since a few of us started tentatively making connections and organising the first meeting at Woodbridge, and there's a general feeling that we should start to gear up as Linux is beginning to hit the big time. There's also still the equally strong conviction (from myself and BJ at least!) that we still need to avoid committee-ism and keep this thing running in the vaguely anarchic Open Source spirit.

One of the main points suggested is to make the meetings regular monthly affairs. I think we're currently intending to hold them on the third Sunday afternoon of each month, alternating between UEA Union House and Syleham Computer Club at first. I'll confirm Union House tomorrow hopefully. BJ? If anyone else has a venue we can work into the routine, shout now.

Talks were another strong suggestion. Probably at most two talks of at most 20 minutes at each meeting. Hopefully, this way, we can cover common questions like dialup, printing, sound, desktops, getting started, etc I'm tentatively prepared to do some... can we put a "talks wanted" and a "talks offered" form on the site, Andrew?

In the organisation, we need to divide up the major linux publications and websites between us and make sure that all of them get each meeting announcement. If you're up for being an ALUG rep to one or more places, shout now. The other side is to print more posters for each meeting. Gareth foolishly said he could get some posters designed and uploaded as PostScript -- we'll hold him to it and then we can print them off and put them in local computer shops, etc. Of course, we'll need to keep track of where they've been posted. Another web form, Andrew? ;-)

OK, that'll do for now. Discussion to the list. Flames to /dev/null. Abuse to me ;-)

MJR

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