Greetings all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Glenn Reed and I have been watching this list with interest.
I am new to the South Island (not to Linux) so I am interested in coming along to your meeting. I started the Waikato Linux users group years ago and since then disappeared into obscurity ;) The way they ran their first meeting of the year was primarily to have a brainstorming session about the kind of seminars people would like to see happen and then look for people who would like to speak about that particular topic. If new people wanted to see what Linux looked like I could bring along a laptop with a knoppix CD (a version of linux which runs from a CD). The laptop itself has windows installed :( However there is something wrong with the battery charging part of the laptop so it needs to be plugged into the power. Sometime during the year I may be able to do a presentation on linux text-to- speech using the free software from the Festival project and also demonstrate some applications I've written using the software. However they will have to be some time later as it only runs on my Linux desktop computer. (Knoppix doesn't include festival in its distro). Well, I am looking forward to the new meeting. Cheers Glenn > Happy new year, > I can't help noticing that the next CLUG meeting date: Wednesday 29th > January is getting rather close. As far as I am aware we have no agenda! Any > ideas in 'list' for this meeting might be appropriate I think? (better than > ideas are volunteers :-) > The December meeting was a workshop. Leaving this January meeting as a more > formal type meeting (usually but doesn't have to be). > Personally I would like to see more guest speakers come to our meetings this > year. So if anyone knows someone that they could ask, again let this 'list' > know!....Please. > > cheers, > NickE > > Post script: > CLUG has no executive committee or formal management. It is run and > organized by and large in this mailing list. CLUG has no joining fees or > subscription fees. If you are subscribed to 'list' you have the same rights > of membership as anyone else and the same say. Any sensible contributions > are always welcome. > > further reference: > http://canterbury.lug.net.nz/ >
