Thanks for that Joe, Would like to come along, depends on whether I am free from family commitments and also do not know a single person really from the IRC channel...so bit scarey :)
Cheers for the info Jon Reynolds . On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:47:19PM +0000, Joe O'Dell wrote: > Hey Jon, > > It;s been floating around the mailing list ever since Isabell (aka issyl0) > thought and started planning it, which must be a month or two back. > It's also at fossevents.org, and plastered on some of the Ubuntu-UK members' > blogs too. > > There is some info on the wiki at: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ScienceMuseumVisit > If you can come, do add yourself to the wiki! > > Thanks > > Joe O'Dell > 9M > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Year 9 G&T Student at Samuel Whitbread Community College > 09jod...@samwhit.org.uk > samwhit.org.uk > > On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:43, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > > This is the first I have heard of this outing. > > Just wondering how people would find out about such social gatherings? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jon Reynolds > > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +0000, Joe O'Dell wrote: > >> That is very true, but I was thinking more of someone like yourself > >> pulling out a laptop for a quick 5 minutes and saying "look at this [om > >> nom nom explain here]" > >> > >> But yes, I can understand - It was more of a "its there if you need it" > >> rather than a "we have to use it". > >> > >> As you said yourself, it's just my 2p > >> > >> Joe O'Dell > >> 9M > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Year 9 G&T Student at Samuel Whitbread Community College > >> 09jod...@samwhit.org.uk > >> samwhit.org.uk > >> > >> On 24 Mar 2010, at 14:08, Alan Pope wrote: > >> > >>> On 24 March 2010 13:55, Joseph O'Dell <09jod...@samwhit.org.uk> wrote: > >>>> Alan - I can understand, but i'm sure there is going to be something that > >>>> makes us go "I wish we'd bought laptops", so it's just a safe guard! > >>>> > >>> > >>> Sure, I just have experience of attending a fair few events. At 'geek' > >>> events where computers are intended to be used such as install-fests > >>> or Bug Jams it's common to see people with their heads-down not > >>> talking to each other because they're on IRC/IM/twitter on their > >>> laptop. Indeed at many geek fests people sit _next_ to eachother and > >>> talk on IRC rather than talk in real life. It's quite sad. > >>> > >>> At social gatherings - such as this - it makes less sense to provision > >>> such facilities because it stops people talking to each other. Part of > >>> the whole idea behind social gatherings is to get to know each other > >>> and socially interact. > >>> > >>> Just my 2p. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Al. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > > > >> -- > >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
