Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-05-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
The impression I got was that the impression the person doing the asking got was more actively hostile towards us Linux people. The original people setting up NEARFEST made some initial noise about how they wanted it to be more HAM and less computers, but this was quelled by others in the forum

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-30 Thread Shawn O'Shea
GNHLUG doesn't have a table or other official presense at this weekend's NEARfest . I know a number of GNHLUGgers have mentioned in recent meetings that they'll be attending, so you've got a chance of bumping into some Linux geeks :) -Shawn On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Bill Ricker [EMAIL

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will GNHLUG be at NEARFEST this weekend ? There's nothing official planned, but other than our bored^W Board meetings, GNHLUG doesn't really have *anything* official. (Yet. We're working on that. But that's a topic for

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-30 Thread Bill Ricker
It was also reported that the NEAR-Fest organizers seemed to be less receptive to the computer stuff, wanting to focus more on traditional radio stuff. True. Perception of recent Hoss Traders was there were more big layouts of small buckets of PCI cards and cables than of RF connectors,

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-30 Thread David Hardy
I'd like to help out with any of this if I could, as a former HossTraders attendee at the Hopkinton, NH site. Saw maddog there, but way too shy and awe-struck to talk, even though a fellow former DEC slave. Here's the deal: I work and live in Montpeculiar, Vermont, but we have some Linux shops

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's also been reported that they may be coming around on that score. Hams need computers too ! Just don't want to drive the radio resellers back to eBay again. The impression I got was that the impression the

Re: NHVT (Was: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?)

2008-04-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 30, 2008, at 22:03, David Hardy wrote: Is there some way there could once again be cooperation between the great Granite State and the Green Mountain State, perhaps a mutually convenient site for this sort of enterprise? What did you have in mind? There's some cross-pollination

Fwd: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Ricker
Will GNHLUG be at NEARFEST this weekend ? If so, would GNHLUG like Ubuntu LoCo support vis-a-vis the recent 8.04 Hardy Heron release ? I note the recent Ubuntu Newsletter #88 featured a Hamfest outreach by LoCo (see below). If I can get a few boxes of Gutsy 7.10 CDs and some Hardy Heron 8.04 CDs