Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

Just to clarify with people, ManLUG have not held a meeting at the University of Manchester since before the construction works. There was talk of starting meetings again but at a different location. Manchester Free Software held a fairly large event there for Software Freedom Day (same building),

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 18:43 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip] > > Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest > > starting with some moderately advanced topics like "how to package an > > app for Ubuntu". > I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

Matthew Daubney wrote: > In the interest of experimentation, I'll be at Costa Coffee on > Northbrook Street in Newbury (Berkshire) this Saturday from 2PM-3PM. > > I've stuck this on the Hour wiki and will try it for a couple of weeks, > see what kind of response I get. Feel free to come say hello

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

Thanks again Simon for sending the email out. I've just looked at the dates and I've realised I won't be able to make one of the days! I agree that MadLab would be a good place to hold it and I'll see if I can speak to someone this weekend. Failing that, I think the BBC might be good, but it wou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

Rob Beard wrote: > Personally I'd like to go to a trip to the Museum Of Computing in > Swindon :-) You're always welcome! Bring your friends :) We'll be celebrating PacMan's 30th birthday on the Big Screen in May. Not sure if the Science Museum are having an event at Wroughton this year, but if t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

In the interest of experimentation, I'll be at Costa Coffee on Northbrook Street in Newbury (Berkshire) this Saturday from 2PM-3PM. I've stuck this on the Hour wiki and will try it for a couple of weeks, see what kind of response I get. Feel free to come say hello, I'll take a stuffed Penguin t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

On 18/01/10 20:34, Dave Etheridge wrote: > How about a training on basic Linux security such as monitoring server > access, failed access attempts etc. Preferably without taking a desktop type > user through Nagios, Munin and Monit. > > Has any thought gone into the delivery method yet such as Clas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

On 17/01/10 12:37, alan c wrote: > Tony Pursell wrote: > >> Conversion is a marketing job. >> > +1 > > Surely by educating users we will help stem a lot of the negative press and the uneducated retail staff problem though? >> Training can only >> be aimed at people who are already co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

On 18/01/10 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: > >> On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: >> > [snip] > > >>> In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide >>> deck as trainees will promptly forget the content.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

Quoting YaManicKill : > Sounds fantastic. I love the idea. With such large loco areas, lots of > people would feel like they don't feel really as "included" as others. Such > as in UK, a lot of stuff is London central, which is fine, but this sort of > thing would allow a lot more "local" stuff to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

Quoting Paul Sutton : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Beard wrote: >> That sounds like a great idea, I bet something like that could work at >> LUG meetings, or in our case down in Torbay, possibly at one of >> Paignton's new venues which will hopefully in the next cou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

MadLab would be perfect for this. If you contact Dave Mee d...@madlab.org.uk and Asa Calow a...@madlab.org.uk they can provide times they have available. There's space on the 2nd and ground floor and they are *very* open to having "geek" events going on. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Cert

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

> > This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam > > in Manchester. Fantastic idea - we've had very successful launch parties the past few releases so there's definitely going to be enough interest. > I shall be endeavouring to provide my assistance at every corner! one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:18:52PM +, Simon Wears wrote: > So far no date/venue has been planned, so if you think you know a suitable > place, post it up. Some things to remember about the venue is that it needs > plenty of power available, and an Internet connection, and preferably a > place t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

I've done a bit of looking around myself and found the Manchester Linux Users Group . It seems they were holding meetings every month through 2008 have had none since last January due to construction works at the Kilburn building. They had an installfest planned for October

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

> I would like to hear your views on this, the general consensus was that it > was a good idea from what I caught up on of last night's meeting... if anyone > feels the need to > elaborate on what I've said or contribute some more ideas/information, please > of course feel free to do so! Obviou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

+1 from me on this. Liverpool based, so Manchester not a massive hassle. P. > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:13:35 + > From: simon.ben...@student.manchester.ac.uk > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam > >

[ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

I'd be very interested in attending this. Maybe there's something the university could offer. I know the Killburn building houses the Manchester LUG group once a month. -- Simon Bennie Mchem Ph.D student Theoretical chemistry group School of Chemistry The University of Manchester M13 9PL Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

I agree that a bar/pub wouldn't be an ideal place for this. I did think the universitys would be ideal, I know the computing block in Manchester Met uni is fairly decent. There's plenty of power, internet, and the refectory just downstairs, which sells food & drinks. There's also a lot of computers

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK IRC channel off-topicness

Hi, Further to the mails from Laura and Dave earlier, I was tasked with sending this mail at the last meeting.. The LoCo IRC channel #ubuntu-uk on freenode has recently (over many months) been seeing an increase in users, and a marked increase in massively off-topic rambling discussions. The Ops

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-UK IRC thoughts

Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha, > > I'm in the Ubuntu-uk channel always and I love the channel and find for most > of the time it to be a very enjoyable place to hang out, chat to people and > get help. However, when it comes to your IRC meetings, it's like the cages > are unleashed and politenes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:18 +, Simon Wears wrote: > Hello everyone! > > This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam > in Manchester. > > As the Ubuntu Wiki puts it, "an Ubuntu Jam is a local event, where > people meet to do something with Ubuntu. The point is to ha

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-UK IRC thoughts

Aloha, I'm in the Ubuntu-uk channel always and I love the channel and find for most of the time it to be a very enjoyable place to hang out, chat to people and get help. However, when it comes to your IRC meetings, it's like the cages are unleashed and politeness and manners that I see everyday i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 09:23 +, Isabell Long wrote: > 2010/1/19 Dave Morley : > > You might like to get onto the museum before going much further and > > enquire about rate for guided tours, lunches etc. > > Yep, I was planning to later! :) > > > > I partial organised a trip to the computer mus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010/1/19 Dave Morley : > You might like to get onto the museum before going much further and > enquire about rate for guided tours, lunches etc. Yep, I was planning to later! :) > > I partial organised a trip to the computer museum and the guided tour > brought the whole thing to life. they also

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:16 +, Isabell Long wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:45:19PM +, Alan Bell wrote: > > well that sounds like a cracking idea to me :-) Looks like the Easter > > holiday dates are from the 1st to the 18th of April. Maybe a doodle poll > > would reveal a good date for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

Presumably if you got a coach together you'd be coming fairly close to the Linux User Group of Glastonbury area -- perhaps people in my LUG would be interested in coming too and (this is pure speculation, but worth exploring as a possibility) there could be two or three "pick up points" along the w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

On 18/01/10 21:47, Isabell Long wrote: > Hello there, > > As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my idea > of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. > > So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and came up > with Science Muse

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:45:19PM +, Alan Bell wrote: > well that sounds like a cracking idea to me :-) Looks like the Easter > holiday dates are from the 1st to the 18th of April. Maybe a doodle poll > would reveal a good date for everyone. They are indeed. Yep, I will do a doodle poll late