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Today's Topics:

1. Re: new PC setup help pleasse? (Max B)
2. Re: Idea for one of the meetings (David Smith)
3. Re: new PC setup help pleasse? (Neil Baker)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:23:13 +0200
From: Max B <psykx.out@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] new PC setup help pleasse?
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Could you say what issue(s) you are having?

On 24 April 2015 at 11:58, Mik Phelps <ha1ry.g1t@mypostoffice.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi, could anyone on here be able to help me for say a couple or three
> hours during this weekend here please, South West Bath, to get a New PC up
> and running with an openSUSE install?
>
> Have sort of hit a brick wall with getting this 'beast;
> up and running, also am not well which doesn?t help.
>
> PC is an Asus B85 mothrer-board with a quad core Processor, 32Gbb of RAM,
> SSD boot drive and then two Server type disk drives, also a dual monitor
> display....etc.
>
> Please Email for phone for contact info
>
> many thanks in advance
> Mik
>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:33:21 +0000
From: David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Idea for one of the meetings
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:bristol-
> bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Zak Wilcox
> David Smith wrote:
> > If you book a meeting room for, say, ?50, then that's not too bad
> > between 20 people, but if only 2 turn up [...]
>
> I suspect structured meetings would be more popular, based on anecdotal
> evidence. Another group I go to has ~4--8 people for the social meets but
> ~30 for more structured talks. The curious could probably click around a few
> technical meetup.com groups to confirm or reject this, since they expose
> RSVP numbers which are reasonably accurate.

They might be more popular, but there'd still need to be more "organised" in making sure that a minimum number of people are going to come to make it worthwhile.

>
> meetup.com might be worth considering for marketing too, but they start
> charging over something like 50 on-paper members (even if none of them
> ever turn up to anything).

Well, we already have this list for "marketing", and we could also use doodle.com which (I think) doesn't have a limit on the number of attendees.

> > I also have a DLP projector + screen if it's of any use.
>
> That could mean we can get away with a cheaper room. Some PFI-enslaved
> taxpayer-funded organisations pay per meeting and get charged
> substantially more for a room with even a whiteboard, which might be
> indicative of venue providers' pricing more generally.

You might be able to find a pub that's willing to let out an otherwise-unused function room for free provided we buy drinks and/or food; I'm sure that there are some pubs around me that would do that, but it would make travel much more difficult (except for me :) ). The one big advantage that the KT has is its accessibility for both short- and long-distance travel.

>
> Amias Channer wrote:
> > Bristol hackspace at bv studios could be a possible venue, see
> > http://bristol.hackspace.org.uk
>
> It's not very big --- AIUI Dorkbot (the parent organisation) typically holds its
> own meetings at the Watershed instead --- but it's probably friendlier to
> organise with than other options.

Personally, I don't think that the Hackspace would work - If nothing else, once we get more than about 10 people, we'd run out of chairs.

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:54:18 +0100
From: Neil Baker <neil@sgsr.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] new PC setup help pleasse?
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On 24/04/15 10:58, Mik Phelps wrote:
> Hi, could anyone on here be able to help me for say a couple or three
> hours during this weekend here please, South West Bath, to get a New PC
> up and running with an openSUSE install?
>
> Have sort of hit a brick wall with getting this 'beast;
> up and running, also am not well which doesn?t help.
>
> PC is an Asus B85 mothrer-board with a quad core Processor, 32Gbb of
> RAM, SSD boot drive and then two Server type disk drives, also a dual
> monitor display....etc.
>
> Please Email for phone for contact info
>
> many thanks in advance
> Mik
>
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> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
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Hope to be at KT tommorow.

I run SuSE and am retired, so may be able to help.



--
Neil Baker.
Tel: 0117 960 3967.
Mob: 07974 748913.

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