Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
Ashley, On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:03 +0100, Ashley Whetter wrote: > I've just been into stockport andu there is no wifi! Plus I had a > quick search for cafes that did and found none! There is good 3G > though so I may just tether my phone. OK, let's give it a try and see how we get on. There are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Ashley Whetter
I've just been into stockport andu there is no wifi! Plus I had a quick search for cafes that did and found none! There is good 3G though so I may just tether my phone. I'll be taking a laptop and may or may not use it. The wiki says you should "Wear something with the Ubuntu logo or have a visibl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Ashley Whetter
I've just been into stockport andu there is no wifi! Plus I had a quick search for cafes that did and found none! There is good 3G though so I may just tether my phone. I'll be taking a laptop and may or may not use it. The wiki says you should "Wear something with the Ubuntu logo or have a visibl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
Ashley, I live in Stockport, so I'll try and come along to this. Do Fresco have free WiFi? Anything I should bring along? Regards, Tony. > On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote: > > Hi, > > Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in > > Stockport, Cheshire. It will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread pmgazz
On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote: Hi, Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in Stockport, Cheshire. It will take place every other Saturday starting 23rd October 2010 at 3pm-4pm at Fresco (The cafe in the middle of Merseyway Shopping Centre). I've put this

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-09 Thread Ashley Whetter
Hi, Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in Stockport, Cheshire. It will take place every other Saturday starting 23rd October 2010 at 3pm-4pm at Fresco (The cafe in the middle of Merseyway Shopping Centre). I've put this on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour as well. Dep

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK: Report on first session

2010-01-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 27/01/10 18:47, Steve wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:09:50 -, alan c > wrote: > > >> alan c wrote: >> >>> Alan Pope wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK: Report on first session

2010-01-27 Thread Steve
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:09:50 -, alan c wrote: > alan c wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: >> [...] >> >>> We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I >>> wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be >>> somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK: Report on first session

2010-01-27 Thread alan c
alan c wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > [...] > >> We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I >> wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be >> somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about >> Ubuntu Hours around the UK. >> >> https://w

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

2010-01-21 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: [...] > We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I > wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be > somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about > Ubuntu Hours around the UK. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour Hour

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

2010-01-19 Thread Rob Beard
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] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
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] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-19 Thread Rob Beard
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

2010-01-19 Thread Rob Beard
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] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the >> end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks >> was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabi

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

2010-01-18 Thread 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 happen. Sounds great. Ymk On

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

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Beard
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi, > > I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the > end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks > was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed > the problems of organising major events with venues and

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed the problems of organising major events with venues and other facilities, and dilute