Dianne Reuby wrote: > Our Christmas "Challenge Santa" event will be running from 9am to 4pm on > Saturday 8th December, at the Museum of Computing at Swindon - > http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk - all welcome, admission free. :) > It's probable too late to organise a Christmas "geekathon", but ... > > We've been given the news this week that the University of Bath will be > closing their Swindon Campus next July - they've been very supportive, > and we'll miss the place that's been our home since the museum was > founded over four years ago. > > We've decided to continue the Pong to Playstation exhibition until we're > more sure what the future holds. So if anyone would like to hold an > Ubuntu-UK "geekathon", perhaps in the spring, we'd be happy to host. > > We've got a good relationship with the local press and TV, with the > Science Museum, and with our sponsors Intel, so we should be able to get > some good publicity for both Ubuntu and the Museum. > > Would anyone be interested in this sort of event? > > Dianne Reuby > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:32 +0000, Ian Pascoe wrote: >> What about an Ubuntu UK Xmas geekathon, presuming it is the Swindon >> site? >> >> Silly hats with bells or antlers, with musical socks and ties, would >> be de >> rigure of course! Certainly beat trying to elbow your way through to >> your >> favourite computer shop on a Xmas shopping day. >> >> E > > >
Oh yes, definitely. I'm hoping to visit the museum in December, I'll try and make it up on the 8th. Will we be able to actually play with some of the machines? Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
