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 Engineeri

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 w

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 surprise

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 m

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

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 p

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 all

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 p

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 a

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

2012-07-29 Thread alan c
On 29/07/12 11:39, paul sutton wrote: Mention Linux and kernel and you lose people so lets keep it simple even if we by doing so are not technically correct, we can address that later with people. Yes I have been of this opinion for some time. Part of the advantage of Ubuntu is that, like the

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 t

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 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 rather convert,

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

2012-07-29 Thread Bill Baker
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:12 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: "difficulty getting quorate" I'm not surprised - there's no such thing. quorum ~ nounvery rare 1. a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organisation to conduct business ;) -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -

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 wrote: I didn't really picture it as being something so formal as hav

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

2012-07-29 Thread Sean Miller
On 29 July 2012 11:40, Bill B. wrote: > Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent I have a huge "Tux" that I won at the UKOUG Conference many many years ago... was made by SuSE and is about the size of a 10-year-old child :-) > [above or below] and set up at the next Gl

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

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 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 travel. > Indeed... i

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 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 11:10, Mark Fraser 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 travel. Indeed... it never really "went back to Glastonbury", thoug

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 wrote: > > I didn't really picture it as being som

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

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

2012-07-29 Thread Sean Miller
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 wrote: > I didn't really picture it as being something so formal as having speakers > really. At Reading nothi