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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:13 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > james kilty wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 14:40 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > > > >> > >> It might be a good idea to say... second Saturday of every month at at > >> 2pm at a certain location there will be a LUG meeting in Cornwall. > >> > > If anyone organises that - great. My own preference is to use more than > > one location. > > > At least having a regular location on the time date/time every month > means that people know what is coming up. It works both ways. Random places and times can suit many different people if one location is too far away. > I tell my other half that the > 1st Saturday of every month for me is busy time at the LUG meeting. For > me if the LUG meetings were on random days and times then I wouldn't be > able to make half as many. If it's too inconvenient some of us might make zero. It will always be a compromise. Two locations may be the key - east and west - or 3 east, - west and central. Lostwithiel came up once - perhaps our eastern friends might think that's too westerly. > That's not to say you should just stick to > one, I'm just thinking have one regular one and maybe extras in between > to cater for others. Constant 2-monthly and variable in-betweens. However, we need one first! It's easy to discuss and not act. snip > If Penzance Computers want, I'd be happy to do them a custom version of > the OpenDisc, similar to what I have done. Basically the disc would > have a link to their web site on the disc menu system and on the CD > label. That's assuming they don't mind bearing the cost of duplicating > the disc themselves (I can provide an ISO and they can make copies from > this). If they want to do this, it not only means they can get more > advertising (what we have done in Torbay is leave copies of the disc to > give out in various places such as shops and cafes etc), plus it also > raises awareness of Free/Open Source software. > > If you could mention it to them, feel free to pass on my e-mail address. I think this would work. I don't know what they charge for it nor what is on it. Interesting I saw Tesco's had a disc - it only had OOo on it. I might wrirte and suggest they put all FSW on it. > > Maybe next year when I visit Hayle on holiday I'll have to pop into > Penzance Computers (we passed it when we went for a day trip to > Penzance, but didn't have time to pop in). Good idea. They are very friendly there. They also have a branch in Camborne now but that's just a shop. In Pz there are computers (they have let us install a distro on the day) plus wifi (free to us on a FSW day) plus coffee. James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- 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