Hurrah for common sense. Wish I live in ChCh again. Linz in Taumarunui On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:30 +1300, Richard Tindall wrote: > Hi all, > > The first formal meeting of GNU/Linux Users (GLU) took place last > Thursday evening, at the Sydenham Community Association Hall. A report > was requested, and so follows: > > There were six participants, two apologies, and one repeat phonecall > that didn't get answered. We began with round-robin introductions, that > continued as a full and one-off discussion of what people wanted from > such a group. In the second half we had a look around Gnome running on > Ubuntu, and at some web resources useful to our theme. Although small, > the meeting was fully functional for narrowing down its goal to what is > achieveable, and named itself accordingly; BSD is beyond our core remit. > > The meeting series will follow a simple, common format, so far best > summarised as "GNU/Linux support workshops", with the emphasis on > practical use. So there'll be no organised talks - from speakers or as a > group. Instead, we'll be better famliarising ourselves with inner > GNU/Linux configuration, in an ongoing manner, by gathering around the > monitor screen. More participants will mean an extra screen (or two..). > > As far as is practical, we'll focus on the .deb packages and > apt-get-based update systems, and Debian GNU/Linux itself. But we have > no restrictions on what we will work on, being fully user-driven. > Interest was expressed in a consistent approach to fighting software > patents, understanding them viz copyright issues, and promoting social > responsibility in computing choice. There endeth the 'political' content. > > Organisation and Q&A will be conducted via the GNUz mailing list: > http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz , and intended > participants are requested to subscribe there for further information. > Thanks are due to Jim Cheetham for this facility, which keeps a minority > interest from diverting the main CLUG list. Notice of forthcoming > workshops will be posted to CLUG a week early, and again on the day. > > The next workshop is Wednesday 02 March, and all workshops will be at > 7.30pm in the Sydenham Community Association Hall, 25 Hutcheson Street, > Christchurch. The full schedule may be viewed here: > http:/www.infohelp.co.nz/glu.html . > > Feel free to join in, promoting GNU/Linux as a regular activity. > > Thanks, > Rik >
