As announced on BBC Radio Lincolnshire by our very own Dave Harding on Monday, we’re having a party!
What kind of party you ask? Well, it involves beer, linux, geeks and a koala. Yes, I can see you’re tempted by that koala, and rightly so!
The beer sadly isn’t free, but the geeks are and so is the koala, in the form of Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala. We’re having a release party baby!
Not just any old release party though. This will be the first of its kind in the region and one of the very few Ubuntu release parties being held in the UK outside of London.
Our plans so far for the afternoon include a live install demonstration or two, having several machines running the new Ubuntu available for people to tinker with, plenty of Ubuntu and Linux related chatter and a bunch of geeks on hand to answer any questions people may have. Oh, and did I mention the (unfortunately not free) beer?
If you’d like to join us for an afternoon of fun, get yourself along to The Old Grey Mare, Cottingham Road, Hull on Saturday 31 October 1pm. We expect the event will run to 5pm but I’m sure there’ll be a few (possibly drunken) geeks hanging around for some time afterwards as well.
Please keep an eye on, and point people to the party page on the website for specific details. More information will be added to that page shortly.
Everybody is welcome to come along, whether you’re new to Linux and/or Ubuntu, an experienced user, or are just curious to find out what all this Linux stuff is about.
Many thanks to Dave for his tireless and sterling work for the LUG and for being brave enough to announce the event on live radio (if you missed it there’s a recording on Dave’s own site).
We’d also like to take the opportunity to thank Paul of Peckhams.com for kindly donating a bunch of blank CD’s for the party, which we plan to magically turn into Ubuntu 9.10 install discs to hand out during the event. Many thanks to you Paul!
In the meantime, join in the fun on the forum thread, and we’ll see you all there!
