Spring in Hull LUG

Posted on 23 April, 2012 by Dave Harding

Things have been pretty eventful for the LUG over the the last few weeks, and it looks as though it’s not going to slow down in the immediate future.

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you’ll be aware that for the last couple of months we’ve held our meetings at Mustard Cafe Bar on Princes Avenue. The general concensus has been that Marian and her team can privide us with what will be our home for the foreseeable future. Of course we’ve had fun checking out other places over the winter, particually Xanders who provided a great venue for our Festive Feast in December.

With this in mind, our next meeting will soon be upon us. The first Tuesday of May falls on 1st May, and as promised there’s an event marked up on our Facebook page. As ever reminders will go out from the mailing list and on Twitter (@hulluklug).

Linux Format Magazine normally hits the newsstands on the first Thursday of the month. There will be a write-up about Hull LUG in the Linux User Groups pages (normally around page 14), in the forthcoming issue (released on or around 3rd May).

If there’s anything that you want to do or bring to Hull LUG, let us know, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.

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Facebook Group Page

Posted on 22 April, 2012 by Dave Harding

We’ve done a cleardown of the old Hull LUG FaceBook Group page, as a result if you were a member of it, you should find that you aren’t any more…and you should no longer be able to see it.
Because of the way Facebook works it is not immediately obvious how to delete a group page, but that page it is now hidden away so that it’s not immediately obvious and shouldn’t be confused with this group page that we are now using, which is more suited to our needs

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I’m Going to UCubed

Posted on 25 March, 2012 by Dave Harding

On 28th April I’m going to UCubed:

UCubed is an event that focuses on Ubuntu and Debian based distributions, and encourages users to become more involved in the community.  It’s a free event, with workshops, presentations and an environment conducive to group working, all you need to do is attend with your ideas.

I’m thinking of taking the train, and at the moment an advanced booked return ticket is about £25, leaving about 7.30am and getting back into Hull just before 9pm.

If you’d like to go, tickets are available on the Eventbright website  – and of course let me know and we can all travel together.

Full Details of Ucubed on their website http://ucubed.info

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March Trip to Lincoln LUG

Posted on 25 March, 2012 by Dave Harding

As has become habit Jon and I made our monthly pilgrimage to Lincoln LUG last week.  Steve wasn’t able to come along, but we took instead his apologies.  Becky has written a report of the proceedings, which came out on their mailing list earlier today:

 Hi everyone

I failed miserably last month and neglected to do a write-up of February’s meeting. This month I have decided to write up the meeting as it happens!

We have been joined tonight by Alistair, a new face for the LUG meeting but already a contributor via the mailing list. Welcome Alistair, and Many Happy Returns for your birthday. Jon and Dave are here, as is Kevin, Jo, Neal, Philip, Adrian, Linda and of course, me :D

Most of us decided to sample the pub food tonight and we were all suitably impressed with the quantity and quality. I can heartily recommend Ye Olde Crowne club sandwich (served with a bucket-load of chips), and of course, the beer selection here is always top-notch.

The Linux Ladies took over a table to themselves and we proceeded to sort out Linda’s partitioning to default load from grub into Linux Mint, and we got her set up on facebook so she can connect with her daughter and her online gaming community friends. Once she was logged into Yahtze, we never heard another peep out of her all evening – another satisfied customer. :-)

The guys discussed Linux servers in schools; the pro’s and con’s on owning an i-Pad; the latest budget announcements and the impact on us as individuals; the merits of wordpress over drupal and lots, lots more. Alistair showed off his Zalman ZM-VE200 external HDD case, and Glenn Ambler (@gambler2073 on twitter) also connected with us via Twitter to promote an event he is involved with – White Hat Rally. If any of Lincoln LUG members are interested in participating, please contact Glenn direct.

A great night was had by all, and some of us are doing a return trip to Hull LUG on 3rd April 2012. The next Lincoln LUG will be on 18th April, normal time and venue – see you there!

Regards

Becky

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What We Did At Mustard – March’s LUG Meeting

Posted on 11 March, 2012 by Dave Harding

We Talked Linux and Ate Pies

Despite plague and petulance hitting some of the LUG, we had a reasonable attendance at this month’s meeting which for the first time was held at Mustard Cafe Bar on Princes Avenue.

Ellie joined us for the first time, as did Daniel, and Damian came along for what he told us was the first time for about three years.

We passed the evening discussing the usual geek related topics, as well as billing and cooing over each other’s new additions to their tech collections.

After a bit of head scratching (and Google-ing) we managed to get Adrain’s negative scanner working (after a fashion), by running it with Cheese. There were a few problems with compatibility, for example it did generate a very strong blue tint to images, which we were able to correct using GIMP. The scanner was a relatively inexpensive piece of kit, so not much would have been lost if it didn’t work on a Linux distro.  However it is worth bearing in mind when thinking about buying peripherals, to check or do a search for compatability issues before commiting yourself to sending your money.

Marion and her team at Mustard kept us fed and watered with their varied selection of beers, and excellent choice of pies from their extensive menu. In addition she put together a number of tables so we had lots of space to spread out.

The general consensus was that this is an excellent venue for future meetings, and the same area has been booked for our next meeting, which is on Tuesday 3rd April 2012 at 8.00pm. The location is, of course:

Mustard Cafe Bar
Princes Avenue
Hull HU5 3QX

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