Just to clarify with people, ManLUG have not held a meeting at the University of Manchester since before the construction works. There was talk of starting meetings again but at a different location. Manchester Free Software held a fairly large event there for Software Freedom Day (same building), but I know they had to jump through many hoops, which included doing risk assessments. Unfortunately, the changes at the University extend to policy as well physical updates :/
2010/1/19 Tommy Pyatt <[email protected]>: > I've done a bit of looking around myself and found the Manchester Linux > Users Group. It seems they were holding meetings every month through 2008 > have had none since last January due to construction works at the Kilburn > building. They had an installfest planned for October but no mention as to > whether or not that took place. Maybe someone on this list knows of this > group or has been involved with them? Seems they have contacts at the > university and experience with Linux meetings, and there will probably be a > number of them that would be interested in an Ubuntu Jam. > > Anyone know anything? > > Tommy > > 2010/1/19 Simon Wears <[email protected]> >> >> I agree that a bar/pub wouldn't be an ideal place for this. I did think >> the universitys would be ideal, I know the computing block in Manchester Met >> uni is fairly decent. There's plenty of power, internet, and the refectory >> just downstairs, which sells food & drinks. There's also a lot of computers, >> which means that people who don't want to bring / don't own a laptop can >> particiapte too. The only downside is that the Internet requires you to log >> in, but I can always talk to the relevant people at the university and see >> if there's a way round this for a day. There's also a projector in every >> room, which would be useful for demonstrations. >> >> It might be worthwhile to do it during the global jam then, instead of on >> a weekend by ourselves? >> >> >> 2010/1/19 Gordon Allott <[email protected]> >>> >>> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:18 +0000, Simon Wears wrote: >>> > Hello everyone! >>> > >>> > This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam >>> > in Manchester. >>> > >>> > As the Ubuntu Wiki puts it, "an Ubuntu Jam is a local event, where >>> > people meet to do something with Ubuntu. The point is to have fun, >>> > meet great people, learn something new and make Ubuntu better in a way >>> > that you like and enjoy." Essentially, it will be a group of geeks >>> > with computers meeting up, socialising, and making Ubuntu better >>> > through bug fixing, documentation, translation, etc. to help make >>> > Ubuntu 10.04 be as good as it can be. >>> >>> I shall be endeavouring to provide my assistance at every corner! one >>> thing we need sorted is a venue, good wifi is a must, not especially >>> fast, but stable. I'm not sure a bar/pub is the best place for something >>> like this either, its really about getting constructive contributions >>> done which would be hard to focus on in a noisy bar. >>> >>> Just to note the date - the next global jam is listed for the 26th -28th >>> of march, which is the last weekend in march. Just in time to get those >>> last minute bugs for lucid :) >>> >>> If anyone interested would like to bring up any specific skill-sets they >>> might have that would be great, if your a great packager for example it >>> would be wonderful to spend some time teaching others about the >>> mysteries and conundrums of debian packaging ;) >>> >>> What are peoples thoughts on these? >>> -- >>> Gordon Allott <[email protected]> >>> Canonical >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Simon Wears >> http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky >> MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
