On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:45:12PM +0100, John Levin wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've recently setup a group for my local LUG on welovelocal.com, and I > > wondered if it was worth someone setting up a group for Ubuntu too. > > > > Basically welovelocal.com is a bit like a cross between Facebook and > > the Yellow Pages web site (from what I can see). It allows it's users > > to submit reviews for companies and also for companies to advertise > > for free (at least it appears to be free). > > > > Something similar is the mysociety-backed Groups near you > http://www.groupsnearyou.com/ > worth putting lugs on there perhaps. >
They are town/city centric. Most LUGs are county-sized. As a result it's not easy to marry the two up on groupsnearyou. When the site first started I asked them about this and it was basically dismissed as a feature. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
