David, You are absolutely right. The focus of the events is to two different crowds. BTW, the Jaunty release will be available on the mirror hosted in Malta which now should have extra bandwidth. Finally people with > 2Mbit can download updates and ISOs using the full potential of the broadband they paid for.
I am not a Ubuntu user but hope that the Jaunty release is a major upgrade to the Ubuntu experience. Cheers, Raphael On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:35 AM, David <dm10...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <raph...@...> writes: > > > > April 23rd is very close the MLUG monthly get together and Linux Live. We > can > combine the two. Don't forget we are meeting up next Sat ;) > > > My preference would be to not combine these meetings as they have very > different > formats, cater to different people and have different objectives. > > The MLUG meetings have a committee format with minutes, specific topics to > discuss, a chairperson etc, and are held in the morning in a garage. They > are > aimed mainly at people interested in furthering the uptake of Linux and > open > source in Malta. > > The Linux Live event, as far as I understand, is due to have a conference > format > with speakers and an audience. Apart from the breaks there will be little > chance > for interaction. The aim is to inform a wider group of people, mainly > students, > lecturers and business people, of the merits of Linux and open source. > > The Ubuntu parties, based on the one event so far, are social events held > in a > restaurant in the evening where Linux enthusiasts can chat and have fun. > Not > wishing to knock the garage in any way but it's warm, there are enough > chairs to > go round, there's no agenda, there's food and drink and there's a toilet. > > All the formats are valuable for their own objectives but I don't think > they can > be combined as they are not substitutes for each other. > > Alan and I were, I think, the only regular attendees of the MLUG meetings > to go > to the Ubuntu party. It would be good if we could have the pleasure of the > company of more MLUG members next time. I don't think that using Ubuntu is > a > prerequisite - everyone is welcome. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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