Re: [LUG] noob in cornwall but not to linux

On 6 August 2014 13:07, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6 Aug 2014, at 12:14, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Joseph Bennie wrote:
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>> Hi all, just a shout out to say hello and introduce myself, hope yo don't mind:)
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Looking forward to getting to know people down here.
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> 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.
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> We have over 200 members of the Devon/Cornwall LUG - so that gives us about 51 square Km each….

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> And that's the biggest issue - geographic size. And general apathy, but that's just living in the southwest.
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:) … 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.
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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.
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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).
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> So, welcome and by all means get enthusiastic and shake this list and the meetings up!
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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.

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