Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
The Reading LUG are self confessed lazy people. The reason they don't have any schedule or speakers or install fests etc is because they simply can't be bothered! I think it works very well and I'm not sure I've make the 40 mile round trip to simply be lectured at. However I'm very much hoping

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Fraser
On Sunday 29 Jul 2012 10:57:13 Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Bill B.
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 10:57 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread paul sutton
On 29/07/12 11:24, Sean Miller wrote: On 29 July 2012 11:10, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I used to go to LUGOG when it was at West Camel or at Somerton when Andrew Waldrond was running them, but when he left and it went back to Glastonbury it was a bit too far for me to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Sarah Chard
O n Sun, 2012-07-29 at 10:57 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Any ideas anybody could offer as to how one could make a LUG viable in a sparsely populated area like Mid Somerset would be gratefully received. Sean Hi Sean HLUG - Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group is a small rural LUG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/07/12 10:57, Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really picture it as being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Sean Miller
On 29 July 2012 12:12, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: Not to mention that if you get a Debian user, a KDE user on another distro, a Gnome user and a Ubuntu together in one room there is guaranteed to be fireworks. We have the challenge of evangelism, people not trying to help but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 12:53, Sean Miller wrote: Problem is, Alan, that if the person who has come to the meet simply wants a solution to their problem (within the distribution they have chosen [or found on a disc]) this just makes the problem worse. In other words, instead of people trying to resolve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those problems for you - and maybe sow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, If ubuntu-uk would like some server space and the ability to hold lessons on it, I'd be happy to use one of the IPv4 addresses I have spare and set you guys up a VM on the SII server area. We already host a couple of F/OSS projects with a mix of Debian Red Hat virtual machines. I usually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Laura Czajkowski
On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread paul sutton
On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 18:50, paul sutton wrote: On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 19:36, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/07/12 18:50, paul sutton wrote: So what are the rules on using the ubuntu logos etc, there are usually trademarks. and usage restrictions to protect the brand etc. http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy See the section titled Community advocacy. Cheers, -- Alan Pope

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: Just to let anybody in the South West who is interested know that the Linux User Group of Glastonbury *is* still active, despite losing its regular venue and will be meeting at the Ridge Pottery, Queen Camel (between Yeovil and Castle Cary) on Tuesday night. We have a

[ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury

2006-11-12 Thread Sean Miller
Just to let anybody in the South West who is interested know that the Linux User Group of Glastonbury *is* still active, despite losing its regular venue and will be meeting at the Ridge Pottery, Queen Camel (between Yeovil and Castle Cary) on Tuesday night. We have a programme of speakers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury

2006-11-12 Thread Nik Butler
Sean Miller wrote: (between Yeovil and Castle Cary) on Tuesday night. Blimey I used to goto school in Yeovil, Westfield Comprehensive that is ! We have a programme of speakers etc. planned through the winter, but Cool , well you all know what a fan boy I am for the LUG.ORG.UK lot so