Would anyone be able to report on how successful your kit-meet was? I'd love to have made it but couldn't. I'd be interested to know how it went, how many turned up, how long was spent, were there any interesting moments where kit was saved from the trash can, any new inventions take flight, did you enjoy it, what would you do differently next time? etc. etc. I have never done anything like this before and it struck me that if you were meeting quite late then it would be midnight before you knew it, but then maybe you worked through the night? I very much look forward to any contributions, Nick Atkins, South Norfolk
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
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:12:42PM +0100, sfr wrote:
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.
http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-10-ALUG-Kit-Meet/
J.
It's a bit late(!) but I've discovered from photos that I took back in 2000 of one of the ALUG meets at UEA. They can be found here:
http://www.martyn-drake.info/photos/v/Alug2000/
M.
[...] Not much kit or repairing of kit (perhaps MJR would care to explain the problem with the aged machine?
Was it aged? It spends most of its time strapped to a workbench, so it was in an unusual (lack of) case.
Anyway, it was kernel panicking instead of powering down neatly. Nearby guru Jonathan McDowell stroked his laptop then splattered apm=realmode-power-off into the lilo.conf to make it work. I'd not heard of that option. There was some cursing of Mandrake's graphical boot because no-one knew how to enter kernel options for testing.
There was an IBM machine with a "hardware" modem. Well, it was a modem and there was some hardware, but it seemed to be a winmodem of some sort... anyone got the full details? We also couldn't do much because it didn't like the aged monitor, wasn't running getty and didn't stop at the lilo prompt at all.
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.
I think Sionide, Mike and another were there after Dave Cooper and I left, but ALUG talk had given way to recording quality and pay.
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 23:12 +0100, sfr wrote:
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...
Sorry I didn't make it on the day. The morning's activity went on well into the afternoon, by which time it was too late to come up to Norwich.
At least you didn't have to put up with "that noisy old computer emulation" again ;-)
I'll try harder next time.
Peter
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