alan c wrote: > 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 >
The idea has been floated before, and there's a wiki page for you to add to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/IdeasPool/UbuCon_UK John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
