Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > ----- "Paul Mellors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:26 +0000, norman wrote: >> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:04 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> > > alan c wrote: >> > > > Is it me, or something at my end here, but things seem >> uncommonly >> > > > quiet on this list for the last several days? >> > >> > I have been trying to get to grips with copying old colour >> > transparencies by using my digital camera, shooting in RAW and >> using >> > UFraw and Gimp to get a final image. >> > >> > Norman >> > >> > >> >> I just hate you all and don't want to speak to you any more ;) >> >> MooDoo >> > > Hiding. Work is very busy at the moment. > > Also, somebody commented to me a little while back (at a LUG meeting) that > the Ubuntu-UK team never seem to do much. > > So, Randomly thinking, how about we try to organise a Ubucon [0] to make up > for the lack of linux conferences this year. > > (The conference, I went to the 2006 one. It was rubbish. Most interesting > part was the .org village. I *think* its because they charge exibitors [not > .org pples] an extortionate amount of money for floor-space, i-net > connection, power etc. Small businesses can't afford it...) > > This is just an initial "what do you think" email :) > Johnathon > > [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/RunningAnUbucon
I like the idea. Please consider Bracknell Sorts Centre as a possible venue? M4/M3, easy parking. It is the venue of regular monthly computer fairs and it could potentially also be used to attract a public exhibition area. the venue- basic, hopefully cheap: http://www.britishcomputerfairs.com/cgi-bin/floorplan?vnu_id=5 (with irrelevent soundtrack...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMUAjPERZ8 -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/