Monthly LUG Meeting 4th August

We had a really good turn-out tonight, I certainly haven’t so many people at a LUG before.  I did a quick head-count and I think there was about 20 of us in all, I’m sure I speak for all the committee in thanking you for your growing numbers and support

It was especially good to see Dave & Sean from ScunDoG LUG.  They’ve agreed to do the next Computer Fair with us on 15th November.  That said Tony and I are likely to be twisting a few arms to get helpers as the event gets closer.

Speaking about the Computer Fair, it looks as though the last one was a success for us, as there were a few new members that came along as a result of it.  A copy of Linux Format magazine was also being passed around the tables (yes that’s right – there were so many of us, we were spread over four tables), which had attracted another person.  In addition a couple of people mentioned that they had heard our mention on Radio Humberside this morning.

I tried to have a word with everyone, especially the new folks, but it was just impossible.  If I missed you out I’m sorry it wasn’t deliberate.  If you poke me in the back at the next time I promise not to leave you out!

Is it really is time for us to to find an alternative venue?  I noticed that we had a reasonable amount of privacy where we were tonight, in the room of the back the Old Grey Mare.  Would it be worth our while if I had a chat to the landlord with a view to their letting us use that for our meetings?  After all It meets all of our criteria, and I’m sure they’d turn the TV off for us for the meeting.

I know that people are looking for some more structure to the meetings, and to get a little more from them than what we are offering at the moment.  However we need an idea of the sorts of things that you are interested in.  If you would like speakers is there anything that you would like to hear about specifically.  If you would like workshop sessions, again please let us know what you would like to lean from them.  For example would something on command-line be of interest?  Does anyone have an interest in open-source web-building?  Have you started a project that you would like to tell us about?  Perhaps you’ve started a project but would like some feed-back to make it better?

These are all things that as a LUG we can can all help you with, because this is as much your LUG as it is anyone else’s.  Please use the forums to post your ideas, and also post any feedback you have from tonights meeting.  As a committee we rely on you telling us what you want.