With September’s meeting being on the day after the Bank holiday, I was expecting a much reduced turnout. Although a lot of our regulars were away, we still had another excellent turnout. When I arrived shortly after 8pm, there were over 20 people there (and a lot of new faces), and during the course of the evening more people arrived.
We had a bit of an install-fest going on at the meeting, amongst our normal netbook fanboi’s (and girls), 2 or 3 people had brought along their laptops which had become infected with a terrible virus called Vista 
. Of course Ben was kept busy for a lot of the night resolving those problems by setting them up for dual-booting with assorted derivatives of Ubuntu.
If you want bring your laptop along to future meetings to install something, it’s a good idea to make sure that you’ve backed up your existing data first (ideally somewhere else), and make sure that your battery is fully charged. Also If there’s a specific distro that you want to try, but don’t have the ISO disc, please let us know, and we will do our best to bring one along.
It was interesting to see that of the ½ dozen or so netbooks that were being shown off around the tables (yes that’s right we were spread out a lot better this month), there was only one that I saw that still had it’s original operating system.
We now have Hull LUG t-shirts, and these are available at the special price of £13. They are white shirts with the LUG logo on the front, and the site url on the back. PM me on the forums if you want one. These are essential wear for geeky events such as LUG Radio Live, which some of us are going to. If you want to join us for a weekend away in Wolverhampton next month, tell us on the forums. Don’t worry about transport, as we should have enough cars going down to accommodate you (for a share of the petrol costs).
When I announced the meeting a couple of weeks ago I did suggest an extra mid-month meeting. Although to date I haven’t heard anything from the absentees, a few people on the night were saying they were keen on a night out during the month. If you’re still up for this, start a thread in the forums, also say whether you fancy another night in the Old Grey Mare, or perhaps we could try something more ‘beer-orientated’ round town?
29th October is the release date for Ubuntu 09.10 ‘Karmic Koala’. To celebrate the event, (and to make sure that propriety OS’ that are released at that time don’t get a disproportionate share of publicity) we are looking at having a release party. Check out the ‘Let’s have a Party’ thread, and please, if you have any ideas, suggestions or can help I any way (no matter how small) please add your two-penny-w’th.
The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 6th October. As ever it will be from 8pm in the Old Grey Mare – that’s the pub opposite Hull University’s main campus
