On 24/06/11 13:47, Alan Bell wrote:
stuff not in London is probably a bit of a weakness. London is kind of convenient by train from everywhere so it is generally a reasonable place to do things, but I think it would be great for people in other cities to organise things local to them. That might be pub/cafe meetups, geeknics, installfests, talks at LUG meetings etc.
I would say London is inconvenient for me, yes there are reasonable train links, but I'd rather not spend 3 hours on a train there and another 3 hours back.
So having something a bit more local would be great. At the moment we have LUG meetings in Devon (now covering areas which are accessable reasonably well from all areas of Devon and into Cornwall). We're finding that we are getting new members at near enough every meeting (at the last Paignton one, someone saw a poster where we were meeting and came and spoke to us).
Hopefully as we go along we can include install fests (we've done a couple of installs in Exeter but came across a problem of the desktop we were installing on didn't have wifi, so we had to end up doing a home visit).
Would be great if we could get some visits from other Ubuntu-UK members too (although I'd guess if you happen to be on holiday in Torquay with your family the last thing your other half would want is you going to a geeky LUG meet!).
Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
