Hey Jon, It;s been floating around the mailing list ever since Isabell (aka issyl0) thought and started planning it, which must be a month or two back. It's also at fossevents.org, and plastered on some of the Ubuntu-UK members' blogs too.
There is some info on the wiki at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ScienceMuseumVisit If you can come, do add yourself to the wiki! Thanks Joe O'Dell 9M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Year 9 G&T Student at Samuel Whitbread Community College [email protected] samwhit.org.uk On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:43, Jon Reynolds wrote: > 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/
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