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This sounds a lot more promising then we have been hearing recently. I'll probably be coming on sats, because other people i do things with on Sat have been remarkabley unreliable of late. On 11/02/2011, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/02/11 18:15, Paul Sutton wrote: >> With regard to a meeting suggested by rob beard next friday evening >> >> neil from the lighthouse is happy for us to meet up on friday at 7:30 >> there is a gig on that evening so i am trying to work out how we can get >> in without being changed but at the same time they have a duty to know >> who is in the building, (fire regs mainly i guess) when lucy gets back >> to me on my suggestion i will report back. >> > > Didn't think of that bit, I'm giving my step-daughter a lift, I'm not > sure if she'll have any friends with her (I will have to confirm) but I > may have one or two seats left for lifts from Torquay. :-) > > Maybe we could get some names put on a list or something? I have a > photo ID for work I could use possibly, and I'm sure others of us will > have say photo driving licences, passports etc if they are that worried > about it. > >> been busy to day sorting through all the computer bits up stairs also >> moved the lug pc's up to the same place so we now have room we can work >> in, neil is going to get hold of some power supplies so we should have a >> few more pc's in addition to the ones we know work there seems to be >> enough ram to get things up and running, the one that needs rambus now >> has 256 mb ram, not much but i am sure we can use that pc for >> somethingl. not sure what yet. but it works. > > That sounds promising. > >> >> he is also happy for us to meet on a saturday, (discuss friday perhaps) >> that will mainly mean dan (lives in the flat) can open up lets say at >> 11am on a saturday we meet with neil briefly, do what we want to do >> during the day and at an agreed end time say 3pm and dan can meeg with >> us and lock up neil may be able to meet so we can report what we have >> done and ask questions as to the next step. > > Okay that's good. Over the next couple of Saturdays I'm going to be > busy, we have the LUG meeting at Exwick on 26th Feb, not sure what I'm > doing on the 19th, I may be busy then and I'm away one weekend in March > in Cardiff doing some work and another weekend in Cornwall. I'm sure > though we could make some real progress in just a couple of Saturdays > (or even maybe just get it all done over one weekend since there's going > to be a couple of us doing stuff). > > >> there is now a time scale for all of this as the internet cafe is linked >> to a project for teaching music, (using macs which they either have or >> are getting) once that is set up funding will be released. neil is going >> to put all the cat 5 stuff in place inc conduit and in the short term >> run a multiway socket from out side that upstairs area, where we met the >> first time all met up at the lighthouse. once funding is released they >> can get someone in to put electrical cable in to the conduit, so should >> be a quick job. > > Sounds good. Maybe if we can get some more machines we could introduce > them to Studio64 and Ardour (as it happens Ardour is available for MacOS > X and Linux, but not Windows). > >> >> i will let neil explain further, on friday >> > > Okay. > >> hope this helps > > > Yep sounds good, as long as they don't expect too much from the Internet > Cafe (for instance video editing on every PC, and things like that) then > I'm sure it'll be fine. If it's just advertised as an Internet cafe (so > Internet access, Facebook, Twitter access etc) then I'm sure it'll work > quite well, and if they charge for access maybe they could use some of > the funds to upgrade the kit. > > Thanks for sorting this out Paul, it's a real help that you're involved, > I have had hardly any time this week to think about much so it's a great > help, it's good that things are progressing. :-) > > Rob > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq