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On 6 Aug 2014, at 12:14, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Joseph Bennie wrote: > >> Hi all, just a shout out to say hello and introduce myself, hope yo don't mind:) >> >> >> I'm Jay, a Scot now living in Newlyn, My wife is from the area and she's finally >> free from her old job shackles to move from Surrey, where we have lived for the >> last 18 years. >> >> I've been doing Lug stuff for what seams like forever, In 1998 there were 2 >> people in a pub, me and John! at some point between 1999 and 2004 I was appointed >> Lug admin for Surrey Lug until time became an issue and following our >> meritocratic ethos and I handed over to JW, JW has championed the group since >> then and fostered many a link up with Hants Lug, Portsmouth and East Sussex to >> grown the group to quite a size. Some meet ups have been in excess of 30 people >> for BaB and the mails list has around 100 active subscribers. >> >> So I'm hoping theres a big community in this part for the world, as I'm always >> hearing about good things that started in the south west. I get the feeling >> people are a little further up towards Exeter, so really I was looking to find >> out who is down this way (Penzance). >> >> I'm also looking out for hackspaces, but it looks like the local one didn't get >> any traction … assuming it's just gone underground for a bit. >> >> Other than that, I'm a full time freelance software dev that finds a little time >> to occasionally improve the open source software I use and help people who have >> converted to Linux and are stuck. >> >> Looking forward to getting to know people down here. > > Ah, Newlyn - the place where they invented sea-level.. Really, I'm 2 houses up from the chippy at Newlyn Bridge, wondering if theres a plack somewhere. > > We have over 200 members of the Devon/Cornwall LUG - so that gives us about 51 > square Km each…. > > And that's the biggest issue - geographic size. And general apathy, but that's > just living in the southwest. > :) … I thought geography might be an issue, so was just going to do local, maybe a 20-30mile radius from PZ station as a sub community of DC-PLUG came to mind. > So at the meetings .... Well, we used to get 3-4 turn up in the Shoreline Cafe in > Paignton - not sure how many at the other venues. We sort of turned them into a > Raspberry Pi jam now though - still in Paignton where we attract a dozen or so - > but still only mostly the same handfull from the list itself. > cool, I'll pop in when i can. > Hackspace - well the Penzance one looks like it's had to close. Shame that, but I > suspect lack of numbers might have been an issue, who knows. > I know the feeling, I had a coworking business in Surrey and while all the hype is there its just too specialised. It kind of reaffirmed we are a nation of bedroom & garage hackers. > Exeter has a separate LUG - almost as well attended as the general Devon/Cornwall > one. I suspect there are very few people purely in the Exeter LUG that are not in > the DC LUG. There is also a monthly Pi Jam in Exeter too - in the Library next > door to the new FabLab (as in literally the room next door, also in the library). > > So, welcome and by all means get enthusiastic and shake this list and the meetings > up! > You're really selling it :) I'm going to checkout some more venues before I setup some dates, but so far the new Tele-Graph building at Porthcurno and the co-working hub in PZ look feasible but each have caveats. (location vs costs) Is there anyone at Truro College out there … normally getting a lecture room isn't too complicated for a student? If not I'm err'ing towards the Tele-graph… a little communications history, a cafe, wifi and BaB … If i get some +1's I'll work out a date in early sept. > Gordon-- > 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