[LUG]Re: Jit.si meetings

[Eion MacDonald <maceion@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From Eion MacDonald (U3A) <maceion@xxxxxxxxx>

Dear folk, those of us 'well adrift' from the south can only attend 
'virtual' of Jisi meetings or follow by email.
I have never met folk 'in person' but I have learned a lot from the LUG 
members.
20250422  at 20.48
 approx

Nowadays I also speak over 'Google Meet' with two folk in Ukraine to 
help them speak with 'native English speakers'. They email me about a 
couple of hours before we speak on their Friday evening (about 5pm UK time)

My major problem, is old age 'forgetfulness' of when meetings are taking 
place.  I had not appreciated how bad it gets until you are there.
With their persons in front of me I still mix up my daughter and son 
names! Ah!
A reminder email arriving on Saturday mornings would help jog the memory 
and avoid me getting the wife's shopping at that time.

I feel most regretful that I have not played a fuller part in the LUG, 
which got me started in Linux Distro use such a long time ago.

Let us do our best.
I can use email and VoIP meetings but regret I am not up to your 
continuous input steam program (name I forget).

Thank you for considering me.
12 noon Saturday

Kindest regards
Eion Macdonald



On 22/04/2025 15:18, Paul Sutton via list wrote:
> On 21/04/2025 09:51, Ben Guest wrote:
> > The time before I was the only one there as well.
>
> To be fair,  the virtual meetings came about mostly due to Covid and 
> social distancing,  so we could go back to physical meetups,  in fact we 
> can then integrate a virtual element so Eion and others can still 
> attend,  the venue would just need internet access.
>
> Face to face meets may also help with getting new members on board, it 
> makes it easier in a way to deal with technical issues, demonstrate 
> things etc.
>
> The Matrix and IRC channels are open 24/7 anyway,  anything posted to 
> Matrix will be picked up quickly.
>
> If there is a consensus for that, then I will remove jit.si from the lug 
> website.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul

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Regards
Eion MacDonald

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