Apologies for the OT response, but I wanted to point out the following two meets you may be interested in:
If you're into Arduino or any form of hardware hacking/modding then you may enjoy SoutHACKton our local attempt to create a hackspace, next meeting is on Wednesday 7th, details:
http://southackton.org.uk/2011/09/01/next-meeting-september-7th/
If you're into talking about tech and gadgets in a pub, then you'll probably enjoy SoTech, next meeting is on Monday, details can be found in the calendar widget on the right:
http://sotech.org.uk/wordpress/
Cheers,
Benjie.
(Moderators: let me know if this is not appreciated and I shall refrain from 'advertising' in future!)
On 2 Sep 2011, at 19:57, James Bensley wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
>
> I'm new to HantsLUG and am thinking of showing my face tomorrow if I
> can, to say hello. Just wanted to introduce me self and see what goes
> on here. I'm a happy member of ALUG (Anglian-LUG) as Norwich is my
> home town, but I have 10 fingers and 10 toes (including thumbs etc) so
> don't worry. I'm a network engineer recently moved to Southampton.
>
> I thoroughly enjoyed attending ALUG meetings as they are in a pub, so
> it was always a good social time and people always brought kit to
> dazzle you after a few cold ones which is fun (normally Arduinos) :D
>
> So what's HantsLUG like, do you guys ever have socials and go to the
> pub? Or pub after a meeting? [1] Also where is the "Red Hat
> Farnborough" location of the meet tomorrow as the link on the wiki is
> broken?
>
> Thanks for reading, and hopefully see you soon!
>
>
>
> [1] At this point I think I may be giving the wrong impression like
> I'm a regular boozer, I'm not! I just find the pub to have a good laid
> back atmosphere were people aren't afraid to voice crazy ideas they
> have about running Linux on calculator and running with said idea :D
>
> --
> James.
> http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/
>
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> Please post to: Hampshire@???
> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire
> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk
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