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Simon Waters wrote: > I'd like to thank Paul for organising another meeting. > > The venue; the Old Monastery - Berry Road, Paignton, looks suitable for > future meetings in Paignton for larger event. The venue has good car > parking, and wireless access. Although it does take a little finding, > being between Berry Road and Monastery Road. Also it has a playground > outside for occupying smaller folk. > > The room hire cost (35GBP) was met out of GLUG funds, so we now hold > 97GBP, and owe Paul 5GBP of that. > > > Henry has already commented on signing documents, he was also wondering > about other aspects of signing documents, and documentation for GNUPG2 > support of S/MIME. Neil W was in Wales I fear, who is our usual guru on > things GPG. > > Sam was also wondering about keeping systems responsive when handling > big jobs. So anyone with experience of different queue schedulers, or > ways of managing CPU, disk IO and memory on large batch jobs. A whole > topic of it's own I'm sure, but not something I've had to deal with for > a few years. > > > After the meeting we discussed various ideas for another meeting. We > hope to do a "One Laptop Per Child" meeting, possibly in Exeter, so > anyone with any expertise -- otherwise we'll have to go learn about it > before we can show it to others. > > Or possibly an "Art", "Drawing", based event, where people gets some > hands on experience with various bits of software, and something to take > away. > > Other ideas welcome. > > > Thanks for that Simon, for anyone interested in OLPC as mentioned above the site is http://www.laptop.org/ Paul -- http://www.openoffice.org http://www.linux.org -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html