Re: [Scottish] Next Meeting

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Thorp
In previous years we have always gone for the Thursday before, although there has often been an additional, informal, meet on one of the other days. I am not a student, but will be spending my Christmas day in Yorkshire, with my family. Had I been spending it in Glasgow, I think my wife would

Re: [Scottish] Next Meeting

2003-12-09 Thread Willie
On Monday 08 December 2003 21:39, Tony Dyer wrote: > How about we leave it at the last Thursday of the month. This LUG caters > for more than students! The bah humbug factor in me says "Sod Xmas. We'll have it on the last Thursday as per usual". However sense (for once) prevails and it would be a

[Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread William Anderson
Willie wrote: [snip] OK not everyone is near Glasgow and like it or not, whether we call ourselves the Scottish LUG we are effectively the Glasgow LUG. Although by all accounts a successful LAN party was held through in the mysterious east at the weekend. Is it time perhaps to rename ourselves t

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Thorp
Unfortunately I don't have access to IRC from work, and I'm not always free in the evening :o( However, I will try and attend more. I posted a topic with some suggestions for talks/topics for the next 6 months on the webpage. It went something like this: Jan - Bring your favourite Linux Book

[Scottish] Date of next meeting

2003-12-09 Thread Tony Dyer
Sorry for being grumpy. I forgot that it was Christmas Day. Tradition say it should be the Thursday before Christmas when Christmas falls on a Thursday. I've been feeling that the group has lost focus on serving the broad community and its advocacy role and turned into a cosy excuse for a gettog

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Phil Deane
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 14:40, William Anderson wrote: > > Is it time perhaps to rename ourselves the Glasgow LUG? Also, the Scottish > LUG could be reused as an umbrella organisation, perhaps uniting the other > LUGs in Scotland to form a larger community ... This could be an excellent > way of g

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Ian Ruffell
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 3:58 pm, Ben Thorp wrote: > Feb - Debate - will Linux be ready for the desktop in 2004 > Tony has advised that he doesn't think that a debate is a good idea, so we > can change that one. I don't know about a debate as such, but it would be handy to have a discussion

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Allan Whiteford
Ian Ruffell wrote: > (e.g. my major concern still is the Access replacement - both Rekall and > Kexio are getting there, perhaps) but also to do with institutions and > processes. Ian, What's Kexio? I'm guessing it's a tyop since google only returns 9 results, none of which seem relevant or mayb

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:40, Allan Whiteford wrote: > Ian Ruffell wrote: > > > > (e.g. my major concern still is the Access replacement - both Rekall and > > Kexio are getting there, perhaps) but also to do with institutions and > > processes. >

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:03, Phil Deane wrote: > On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 14:40, William Anderson wrote: > > > > > > Is it time perhaps to rename ourselves the Glasgow LUG? Also, the > > Scottish LUG could be reused as an umbrella organisation,

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Colin McKinnon
First off, apologies Tony, I forgot that when you reply to a post on the list it goes back to the original poster. > On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 14:40, William Anderson wrote: > > Is it time perhaps to rename ourselves the Glasgow LUG? Also, the > > Scottish LUG could be reused as an umbrella organis

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Ian Ruffell
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 9:42 pm, Kyle Gordon wrote: > I believe he was meaning Kexi, from http://www.koffice.org/kexi/ Yes, ahem, sorry. My bad. (There's a [non-free] Latin grammar program called Flexio which is on my mind at the moment for various reasons: one of my copious-free-time proje

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread Kyle Gordon
Ben Thorp wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't have access to IRC from work, and I'm not always free > in the evening :o( However, I will try and attend more. > > I posted a topic with some suggestions for talks/topics for the next 6 > months on the webpage. It went something like this: > > Jan - Br

Fwd: Re: [Scottish] Next Meeting

2003-12-09 Thread Willie
-- Best Regards Willie Fleming--- Begin Message --- i'll knock up a quick howto, as i have plenty of time on my hands. also i think there are free java applets that could be added to the website and set to automagically join the scotlug channel. if anyone is interested in that i'll look into