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On 30/04/12 11:02, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Just a quick posting about what I got up to on Saturday - I visited > the ucubed un-conference in Manchester at a place called Madlab. It's > a rather interesting place with lots of space, demo areas, > lecture/talk space, a workshop, library and so on. > > UCubed is (was): http://ucubed.info/ > Madlab is: http://madlab.org.uk/ > > Some photos of the event: (not mine, but spot me ;-) > > http://www.flickr.com/groups/1687774@N22/ > https://plus.google.com/photos/102569475330772729673/albums/5736561443578718225?authkey=CMnsu7rrxci2DQ > > > I think it would be good to have something like this in the South West > at some point - although the issues we face is that of geographic > size! However Exeter is easy to get to (relatively speaking) so why > not... I agree, we certainly have a few IT companies around here, hardware and software as well as hosting companies and such like. It may put the south west on the map a bit more too. We may even be able to blag some goodies from Canonical too, I am working on this open source dvd for windows, so if that can be polished its something that can be given away. Could be a good way to promote the lug and Exeter lug too. > > Does anyone here go to the hackspace in Exeter at all? I went last > year a couple of times, but wasn't impressed - wondering if it's worth > while going along again to see what they're up to now, however in the > absence of that, then .... > > I probably was the furthest travelled to that event in Manchester but > there were a good bunch of folks from Blackpool and surrounds, so if > we could get something going we might well attract people from much > further afield... Certainly something to think about for the > (hopefully not too distant) future? I agree, the first and second lug meets at Exeter Uni (thanks to Simon W for arranging that) were a great mix of Hands on and Talks over about 3 rooms, one for talks, one for hands on and a more communal area where we were playing 1/2 life on Wine., and this was way back in 2001/2. > > Oh, and I was put on the spot too - walking back to the station with > Alan O'Donohoe (http://about.me/alanodonohoe) I was pretty shattered > at that point, but he asked me for a audio boo blog thing on IRC - > laugh at me here: > > http://audioboo.fm/boos/776548-drogon-explains-what-internet-relay-chat-is-irc-post-ucubed > > > > Cheers, > > Gordon > -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq