Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

Hello Adam

I would like another Hursley meeting, a multi lug meeting sounds good.

Ian

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:48 +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you know we were invited by some nice people down at IBM Hursley to go and
> hold a meeting there. I think it went very well and they have invited us back
> again (in principle). At the moment we are working out when that would be (see
> my previous email).
>
> It has long been an idea of mine to hold a multi-LUG meeting, a sort of
> miniature conference with our neighbouring LUGs. It is possible that IBM
> Hursley may be willing to hold such an event. I've emailed some local LUGs and
> asked if they would be interested and the response has been positive, some
> people would be prepared to travel from far and wide if we were to organise
> such event.
>
> My plan for such an event would be two talk streams, with an opening plenary
> talk and a closing lightening session. APress have said they are willing offer
> freebies and I've already received a generous cash offer from one person.
>
> Alan Pope has said that Canonical may be willing to (be persuaded) do
> something as the proposed event would be near the the Lucid Lynx launch. I
> have no axe to grind so if people with contacts to other distros could get
> something from them then that would be better still.
>
> My hope is that we could have a home/office/application talk stream and a more
> technical stream. The home/office talk would include more application and user
> type talks and the technical talk stream would be more guts if the technology
> style - giving a wide coverage.
>
> There is plenty of space at Hursley so we can have room dedicated to
> installing the latest distro of your choice. There is a nice club house on
> site with food and beer. I'm also hoping the uupc could be persuaded to do
> interviews, and we'd get some coverage from the Linux magazines.
>
>
>
> Is this something that we want to do?
>
>
>
> If it is, then I will formally start talking with IBM and the other LUGs.
>
>
> PS If anyone has a decent list of LUG chair emails that would be nice too, I
> only have contacts for a few.
>
>
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