Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comunity meetups
On 27 October 2010 22:33, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 27 October 2010 00:12, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: >> Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help? > Doubt it. It searches the local LAN, rather than looking at > geographical location. > Once upon a time there was a windows only messenger system called "Trepia" which was supposed to be geolocation based. The idea being it would only list people nearby. It was pretty rubbish and generally didn't show you anyone nearby, but people in another country. However on a few occasions I "got lucky" and discovered someone in the next town to me. I still keep in touch with him now, 7 years later, via twitter, and even play scrabble with him on my phone regularly. The protocol was reverse engineered and even ported to Pidgin (GAIM at the time) so people on non-windows platforms could join in. http://www.adammil.net/blog/view.php?id=29 - "Reverse engineering Trepia " So there's certainly a market for geolocation based messenger systems, but there's not one that actually works sadly. Of course services like FourSquare and Gowalla are getting there, but it's not the same. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comunity meetups
On 27 October 2010 00:12, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > Hello All, > New to this mailing list Welcome! > [snip] > > Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help? > Doubt it. It searches the local LAN, rather than looking at geographical location. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comunity meetups
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:12:37 +0100 Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > Hello All, > New to this mailing list, just wanted to ask a quick question for the > moment. Anybody know of active ubuntu (or plain Linux) communities in > the southwest london area? Richmond or Kingston? > > Would be nice to meet up with other users and have a share: I just > casually met this guy in Clapham but it's way out of may way. > > Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help? > > > Regards, > > Andrés Muñiz-Piniella My London geography is not so good, but I did find a list of London LUGs on lug.org.uk: http://lug.org.uk/lugs/london Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Comunity meetups
Hello All, New to this mailing list, just wanted to ask a quick question for the moment. Anybody know of active ubuntu (or plain Linux) communities in the southwest london area? Richmond or Kingston? Would be nice to meet up with other users and have a share: I just casually met this guy in Clapham but it's way out of may way. Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help? Regards, Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
