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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Johnson wrote: > > So how did the meeting go? I'd like some feedback as well. Everything planned happened (except there wasn't much interest in the key signing... we were a little short on regulars!). Alan gave a 50 minute talk on the Met Office move, I found it fascinating although necessarily fairly superficial, moving the Met Office IT is clearly not a one hour kind of project. Afterwards I got several compliments on Alan's talk. Seems we had a contingent of people learning about IT neworking at St Loyes' College for whom it struck all the right notes. Mark went through a little of the networking at St Peters', which he clearly has closely monitored using Netsaint. I've seen many companies with more money and IT systems with less monitoring. Rick and Neil S. must have got lost, or gone to the music concert first, as they managed to turn up long after the people (me, and the students taking tickets for said music concert) giving directions to the classroom had gone. About 20 people in all I think, I didn't count, a few arrived late (maybe 7:00 is too early?), about half were professionally involved in Education, and some of those were very much the kind of people my talk was aimed at. I think all but one had some exposure already to Linux, mainly server side by the sounds of it. The only bits that went wrong were in my demo of the Educational Software CD from Freeduc - I forgot to plug my Internet connection in (after hassling Mark for it), failed to get one of the maths programs to differentiate, and killed my toolbar whilst demonstrating "Destroy Windows" (aka GUI to xkill, Destroy Window clearly worked okay). But as demo's go, it was went better than the one I gave to Sainsbury's top IT staff when my network card failed! Neil W, managed to organise and run a raffle, raising 20 GBP. So accounts are; Raffle 1: +67.00 Raffle 2: +20.00 Owing to school: -30.00 Nominal Balance: +57.00 (Actual balance 87.00 held by me for the group) Mark, can you make sure I know who to send the cheque to, or they have my (personal) details for invoicing, please? All 10 of the Freeduc CD's went, so even if my demo was flawed in places, the product quality shone through. We overran a little, despite me stamping on a couple of interesting discussions (sorry guys) to try and get things wrapped up at St Peters' by 9. At a net cost of 10 GBP to DCLUG, I think it was a good evening. Thanks to Mark Evans for his help in organising, to Alan for his speech, and Neil for his help. I still think a regular venue, and regular meetings would help. People were a little rowdy when David Bowles was trying to speak, probably my fault for not shutting them all up, sorry David. Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+hSyKGFXfHI9FVgYRAk6PAJ91XojvghZl6s7X1sUjdhIjOFaT7gCghaO9 4p10WtFAtvWb0YvVFB40kE0= =1Cvx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.