Re: [free-software-melb] FSM- Games night

2012-08-19 Thread Dennis K
I was thinking of going to Games Masters, but the price put me off it, as I only wanted a quick look at it. Is it worth going if you are not an all round gamer, that is, you have niche genres you are interested in? On 20/08/12 16:24, Sven@GMX wrote: Hi, in regards to the games night mention

[free-software-melb] FSM- Games night

2012-08-19 Thread Sven@GMX
Hi, in regards to the games night mentioned at the last meeting, there is a live distro called lglive and comes in two flavours, one is DVD size and the other one CD size (suitable for children and older hardware). http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=download I reckon using this also at FSD is gonna

Re: [free-software-melb] Michel Bauwens - info

2012-08-19 Thread Dennis K
People like that scare me. On 19/08/12 11:38, Kirsten Larsen wrote: Hi again At the meeting this week, Serenity and I mentioned the upcoming visit to Australia of this chap who we think is awesome and will no doubt be of interest to many of you (it's not just free software, it's a revolution ;

Re: [free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread George Patterson
On 20 August 2012 09:58, Chris Samuel wrote: > On 20/08/12 08:58, Adam Bolte wrote: > >> I wonder if there are other competitions people in our free >> software group would be interested competing in? > > Archery? > > Hey, nobody mentioned it had to be a computer competition.. :-) > > cheers, > Ch

Re: [free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Samuel
On 20/08/12 08:58, Adam Bolte wrote: > I wonder if there are other competitions people in our free > software group would be interested competing in? Archery? Hey, nobody mentioned it had to be a computer competition.. :-) cheers, Chris (No, I've not had coffee this morning. Yet.) -- Chris S

Re: [free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread Graeme Cross
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Hi Folks, > > You'll be please to know that our Sydney correspondent Matt Giuca joined > Ben Finney, Ben's friend Pete and I in the Australian Python > conference's "codewars" programming event on Friday night. Our team, > named "Free Softw

Re: [free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread Alex Fraser
On 20 Aug 2012 08:58, "Adam Bolte" wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, 22:47:53 EST, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > I wonder if there are other competitions people in our free software group would be interested competing in? > There's the global game jam at the end of January. It's ridiculously good fun! Yo

Re: [free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, 22:47:53 EST, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > You'll be please to know that our Sydney correspondent Matt Giuca joined > Ben Finney, Ben's friend Pete and I in the Australian Python > conference's "codewars" programming event on Friday night. Our team, > named "Free Software Melbourne

[free-software-melb] Team "Free Software Melbourne" at PyCon Australia

2012-08-19 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, You'll be please to know that our Sydney correspondent Matt Giuca joined Ben Finney, Ben's friend Pete and I in the Australian Python conference's "codewars" programming event on Friday night. Our team, named "Free Software Melbourne", beat off around a dozen other teams (including many