Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Wycombe LUG

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
I didn't really picture it as being something so formal as having speakers really. At Reading nothing like that goes on and it's a very casual atmosphere. Especially if the uni was used as a way of getting people involved very quickly I can't imagine the people we'd get responding to that sort

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
The Reading LUG are self confessed lazy people. The reason they don't have any schedule or speakers or install fests etc is because they simply can't be bothered! I think it works very well and I'm not sure I've make the 40 mile round trip to simply be lectured at. However I'm very much hoping

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Fraser
On Sunday 29 Jul 2012 10:57:13 Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Bill B.
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 10:57 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread paul sutton
On 29/07/12 11:24, Sean Miller wrote: On 29 July 2012 11:10, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I used to go to LUGOG when it was at West Camel or at Somerton when Andrew Waldrond was running them, but when he left and it went back to Glastonbury it was a bit too far for me to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Sarah Chard
O n Sun, 2012-07-29 at 10:57 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Any ideas anybody could offer as to how one could make a LUG viable in a sparsely populated area like Mid Somerset would be gratefully received. Sean Hi Sean HLUG - Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group is a small rural LUG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/07/12 10:57, Sean Miller wrote: We need to get LUGOG (Linux User Group of Glastonbury) going again, haven't had a meeting for a couple of years, but the challenge is exactly this... On 29 July 2012 10:18, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't really picture it as being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Sean Miller
On 29 July 2012 12:12, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: Not to mention that if you get a Debian user, a KDE user on another distro, a Gnome user and a Ubuntu together in one room there is guaranteed to be fireworks. We have the challenge of evangelism, people not trying to help but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 12:53, Sean Miller wrote: Problem is, Alan, that if the person who has come to the meet simply wants a solution to their problem (within the distribution they have chosen [or found on a disc]) this just makes the problem worse. In other words, instead of people trying to resolve

[ubuntu-uk] Unity Web Apps

2012-07-29 Thread Gus Binnie
Hi folks, I've encountered a problem with Web Apps. I went to view a Youtube video and when it asked me if I wanted to add it as a web app, I answered yes. The icon duly appeared on the launcher and I locked it there. The problem is that now every time I click on the launcher it opens at the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those problems for you - and maybe sow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, If ubuntu-uk would like some server space and the ability to hold lessons on it, I'd be happy to use one of the IPv4 addresses I have spare and set you guys up a VM on the SII server area. We already host a couple of F/OSS projects with a mix of Debian Red Hat virtual machines. I usually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Laura Czajkowski
On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open minded and may solve all those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread paul sutton
On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice

[ubuntu-uk] using laptop (11.10) thru tv (VGA)

2012-07-29 Thread pete smout
Hi all, I'm using ubuntu 11.10 (12.04 won't install on it!) when I plug it into my tv via VGA out on laptop to the VGA input on my tv the resolution is all wrong and no matter what I try I can't put it right! with the laptop screen turned off (fn F6 on my laptop) the desktop appears on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 18:50, paul sutton wrote: On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/07/12 19:36, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote: On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote: Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival. The people you meet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/07/12 18:50, paul sutton wrote: So what are the rules on using the ubuntu logos etc, there are usually trademarks. and usage restrictions to protect the brand etc. http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy See the section titled Community advocacy. Cheers, -- Alan Pope

[ubuntu-uk] Stickers, Was: Linux User Group of Glastonbury

2012-07-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29/07/12 19:36, alan c wrote: I originally had in mind car window flags, and also a larger flag to hoist at various non tech camping type rallies. I've always wanted an Ubuntu sticker for the back of my car. I had a Debian one on there for some years, but it was on the outside and thus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using laptop (11.10) thru tv (VGA)

2012-07-29 Thread Jim Price
On 29/07/12 19:18, pete smout wrote: Hi all, I'm using ubuntu 11.10 (12.04 won't install on it!) when I plug it into my tv via VGA out on laptop to the VGA input on my tv the resolution is all wrong and no matter what I try I can't put it right! with the laptop screen turned off (fn F6 on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stickers, Was: Linux User Group of Glastonbury

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 20:54, Alan Pope wrote: On 29/07/12 19:36, alan c wrote: I originally had in mind car window flags, and also a larger flag to hoist at various non tech camping type rallies. I've always wanted an Ubuntu sticker for the back of my car. I had a Debian one on there for some years,