This is the first I have heard of this outing. Just wondering how people would find out about such social gatherings?
Cheers, Jon Reynolds On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +0000, Joe O'Dell wrote: > That is very true, but I was thinking more of someone like yourself pulling > out a laptop for a quick 5 minutes and saying "look at this [om nom nom > explain here]" > > But yes, I can understand - It was more of a "its there if you need it" > rather than a "we have to use it". > > As you said yourself, it's just my 2p > > Joe O'Dell > 9M > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Year 9 G&T Student at Samuel Whitbread Community College > [email protected] > samwhit.org.uk > > On 24 Mar 2010, at 14:08, Alan Pope wrote: > > > On 24 March 2010 13:55, Joseph O'Dell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Alan - I can understand, but i'm sure there is going to be something that > >> makes us go "I wish we'd bought laptops", so it's just a safe guard! > >> > > > > Sure, I just have experience of attending a fair few events. At 'geek' > > events where computers are intended to be used such as install-fests > > or Bug Jams it's common to see people with their heads-down not > > talking to each other because they're on IRC/IM/twitter on their > > laptop. Indeed at many geek fests people sit _next_ to eachother and > > talk on IRC rather than talk in real life. It's quite sad. > > > > At social gatherings - such as this - it makes less sense to provision > > such facilities because it stops people talking to each other. Part of > > the whole idea behind social gatherings is to get to know each other > > and socially interact. > > > > Just my 2p. > > > > Cheers, > > Al. > > > > -- > > [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/
