Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley

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Author: Anton Piatek
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] IBM Hursley
What was the last flame war there about?

On 18/10/2009, Andy Random <andy.random@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think the key thing for that would be setting a date early and making
> sure it was publicised far and wide.
>
>> 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.
>
> Certainly sounds like a plan to me, though getting enough talks lined up
> for two tracks to run all day would probably require some drum beating and
> perhaps a little press-ganging...
>
>> There is plenty of space at Hursley so we can have room dedicated to
>> installing the latest distro of your choice.
>
> I'd definitely be in favour of having some space with tables and chairs
> set aside for working on PCs rather than just the comfy chairs in the
> lobby area as we had last time.
>
>> Is this something that we want to do?
>
> Dates and schedules permitting I'd certainly be interested yes.
>
>> PS If anyone has a decent list of LUG chair emails that would be nice too,
>> I
>> only have contacts for a few.
>
> lug.org.uk provides a list of LUGS with contact information, specifically
> for the South East try:
>
> http://lug.org.uk/lugs/south-east
>
> Though I don't know how up to date it is. As an alternative you might want
> to consider posting to the LUG Masters mailing list, they could do with a
> new flame-war (we haven't had one there for a while:)
>
>    Andy

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