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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc. (Steve Netting)
2. Re: Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc. (Sebastian)
3. Re: Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc. (Steve Netting)
4. Re: Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc. (cms)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:11:38 +0100
From: Steve Netting <steve@track3.org.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc.
Message-ID: <b6355a46-24a2-20ef-c09c-894e65798e9f@moonfoundation.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
I'm considering FOSDEM but have yet to book flight/hotel.
Also, it's probably worth mentioning our IRC channel on the Facebook
group/description as this is where most of the chat seems to happen
(albeit predominantly SCART based).
Steve
On 25/10/16 12:58, Sebastian via Bristol wrote:
> Hi
>
> Our event last Saturday for Linux Presentation Day (
> http://linux-presentation-day.org.uk ) was mostly nice and
> successful. Although did end up with a few issues to sort out at the
> event etc, but nothing major, such as to do with the USB's. We also
> had a good turn out of about 20 people from the general public, and it
> seems that most event visitors enjoyed themselves.
>
> The USB issue was that well in the end actually got 50 or so offical
> Ubuntu USB's sent, even though had been told that woudn't get them,
> since a logisitcs issue, on IRC before by someone from the Canonical
> Community Team. However then I found out the evening before the
> event, that they were actually blank, nothing on them, so some or
> more, had Ubuntu 16.04 put on them at the event. The moral of the
> story is to check at least some of the USB's, if not all of them,
> before an event, when being sent them like that.
>
> The plan is to run another two Linux Presentation Day events next
> year, probably in April and probably in October as well, but maybe May
> and November instead. Linux Presentation Day events are ideally meant
> to be twice a year. Anyway it turns out that next year this LUG is
> going to probably actually have three events, yes THREE, with membes
> of the LUG behind them, (,which is impressive considering what our LUG
> is like in general), with one of our other fellow members having ideas
> for something bigger, and that also won't be for LPD. He would like
> to mainly organise an event that's bigger, and one where actually have
> speeches as well. Public speaking awesome! Nothing has been decided
> properly yet, and I don't have proper details, but its looking like
> that event will probably be in July, if it is to happen.
> Going back to Linux Presentation Day it seems that most event
> visitors came in, because of the paid Facebook advert that had been
> running for about two weeks. Would have been like three weeks, but
> originally had issues setting it up properly and as a result keeping
> it running. I know it probably won't get used much, but there's also
> now as of today a Facebook group for our LUG on Facebook as wel.
>
> Events, events, are usually fun! However no OGG Camp (
> http://oggcamp.org ) this year, so its looking like my next tech event
> will be the AWESOME FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developers European
> Meeting) again, for my sixth time, since been going every year since
> 2012 like with OGG Camp. FOSDEM is sarting to feel like its coming up
> again already, but currently isn't that near, since its the first
> weekend of Februrary. For anyone who is into open source enough, be
> that as just mostly a user like me, or as a developer, FOSDEM is an
> awesome expereince! However one that does not happen in the UK, but
> rather in (or near) Brussels Belgium. FOSDEM is probably also at least
> a bit more awesome when got people to meet over there from a proper
> project, like with myself, and Sim from Jolla who was at the LPD on
> Saturday. However yes its the kind of event that certain famous
> people in the open source / free software world will go to as well,
> and I even got to meet and breifly chat to and shake hands wih Mark
> Shuttleworth this year. No I didn't ask him how his trip to space
> went when meeting.
>
> With FOSDEM and OGG Camp, I went with someone else the first year
> (not a techie), but all other years done all the travelling there and
> back on my own, so would be awesome if could actually do that next
> year with at least one person from the LUG, but its looking like there
> may be a person or two already, who may seriously be inerested in
> going. Also it seems going by the mailing list archeive that in 2008
> or whenever it was a group of people from the LUG actsually went and
> did FOSDEM together. Anyway who would be seriously interested in
> going to and back from FOSDEM next year with me, and why? FOSDEM is
> massive people have differnet interests etc, so whilst over there
> won't always be together of course, but can probably also get you into
> to the Mageia meal on Saturday night, assuming that Mageia will be
> there again as usual.
> Friday night starts off with a MASSIVE Crazy beer event, with the
> conference itself being Saturday and Sunday at a massive university.
> Saturday night various project meals will happen. FOSDEM is so massive
> that always going to miss something speechwise, that may be of
> interest, but they video quite a lot of speeches as well. It's a
> great event for stocking up on tech t-shirts as well, nearly every
> stand will have t-shirts, and a few stands give away decent free
> ones, but otherwise they sell for about 10 euros usually. I have made
> the mistake of not being early enough to certain stands a few times
> before though, to get a certain t-shirt, or get it, but in the right
> size. However there is a main building of stands with two floors of
> stands, plus another building, etc.
>
> The other year I belive it was 2015, by coincidence whilst going
> around some of the stands at FOSDEM, there was a guy at one of the
> stands, that I started chatting to a bit, since he sounded English,
> and turns out he was from Bristol. Apparantly he had actually been in
> the audiance as well, when I spoke at the IT Mega Meet the first year
> it was on in 2012. Anyway FOSDEM weekend he had no proper plans for
> the Saturday night, but was able to get him into the Mageia meal.
> Anyway we were going to meet up again at the first LUG meeting after
> the event it seems, but I didn't go, and we lost contact as well. If
> the person I am reffering to just happens to be reading this, I would
> be interested in meeting you soon again at a LUG meeting.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:14:14 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>, <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc.
Message-ID: <d7698176-f308-4775-96fd-670f6d59cc3e@gmx.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Hi
Yes FOSDEM is definetly worth it, so many interesting people that can come
across, who share the same kind of interests, etc. It can be like going to
a differnet world as well, or be out of this world as the saying would go.
I don't know about you, but in daily life, I am mostly in contact in
person with people who aren't into Linux etc. Also our LUG meeting is
hardly anything compared to a massive event such as FOSDEM. Oh and I
actually did the big European event first, before going to a LUG meeting,
although arleady knew that a LUG existed in Bristol, for quite some time.
Generally it seems most people go to their LUG meeting first, before a big
event, where as I did it the other way around, a big open source event
first, that just happended to have been one of the biggest in Europe as
well.
With FOSDEM they don't have a register of the amount of visitors, but
its gets about 5000 each year, and from lots of different counteries,
USA, Canada various counteries across Europe, etc. It's internationaly
recognised. It's the biggest developer focussed event in Europe. To be
clear FOSDEM is for all types of contributers to open source projects, and
users. However most of the talks that happen there wil be rather technical
and to do with software development. They have a main stage, where I have
seen talks before from people such as the guy who started System D, and
then are lots of dev rooms there as well with their own agenda/progrmme on
the Saturday and Sunday as well. Cross desktop dev room, Cross distros
dev room, Legal issues dev room. Mozilla dev room, dev rooms for varous
programming langauges, embedded dev room (I think), BSD, etc, etc. I
won't go to most dev rooms, because I am not actually a programmer or Linux
distribution packager.
I think if we are going to do IRC seriously, that should have a channel on
Freenode. Freenode is where it's mostly at for tech IRC channels, I
rarely go on any other networks in general.
By the way not qute sure who you are, even though just looked and yes seems
you been on this mailing list, for quite a long time.
As for the hotel and flight indeed same here nothing booked yet, all a bit
early really, but soon inside the Mageia project the discussions will
properly begin I expect, and we will find out if a Mageia stand has been
accepted again or not. Regardless of that, I am still intending on going
to FOSDEM again next year. Where I been staying the last five years, is
good enough really as a hotel, altough can be a bit run down etc. Got
another two hotels in the same area one is the expensive hotel across the
road, the other is a small hotel wih a more being in a home feel to it,
since it was converted into a hotel from old flats. Was thinking of
possibly staying there instead next year, however the hotel that been
staying at actually pick up and take back to the air port no problem, once
booked (for a fee of course) as well, which makes getting there and back
easier, plus it has quite a lot of rooms, which should make it eaiser to
stay there in differnet rooms.
Heh FOSDEM, if meeting someone else from England there, and saying to them
that actually went on a plane to get there, may get the why didn't you go
on the train response from them. However indeed from down here, flying is
way more convienent since can go from Bristol air port. Going to where the
train to Brussels goes from is a what two hours or so journey already.
Once the plane goes only takes about an hour and a bit.
Don't book any hotels or travel just yet, but doing so early enough should
make it cheaper for the flight anyway. I was thinking that if some of us
are to go from the LUG, that we can also go there and back on same dates,
and stay in the same hotel as well. I usually would stay in the same hotel
as where certain Mageia people would stay, which has been the same one the
last five years, however really was less of us staying there this year,
because of certain reasons, including the fact that not all Mageia
contributers who come to FOSDEM stay in the same hotel, in fact some seem
to keep it more secret generally from the rest of us, as to where they
will be staying. Mageia is also a mostly French project.
Sometimes going early on the Thursday for FOSDEM, makes more sense or more
recently, because may be something else happening on the Friday before the
beer event for example, possibly a Richard Stallman talk, but had issues
the last two years trying to get to that, however ah well had already
expereinced him speak like three years ago in Bath.
2014 was the first time I went early on the Thursday evening, but that was
since I could, and was specifically going early to mett someone from San
Diego for a first time, who's in the Mageia project, however been going on
Thursdays since. The first year I went since who I was wit,h had to go
back on the Sunday evening after the event, but I don't like going back
home on the same day an event like that finnishes be that FOSDEM or OGG
Camp, I am one of those go back the next day people or ideally.
Regards
Sebastian
On Tuesday, 25 October 2016 17:11:38 BST, Steve Netting via Bristol
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm considering FOSDEM but have yet to book flight/hotel.
>
> Also, it's probably worth mentioning our IRC channel on the Facebook
> group/description as this is where most of the chat seems to happen
> (albeit predominantly SCART based).
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 25/10/16 12:58, Sebastian via Bristol wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Our event last Saturday for Linux Presentation Day (
>> http://linux-presentation-day.org.uk ) was mostly nice and
>> successful. Although did end up with a few issues to sort out at the
>> event etc, but nothing major, such as to do with the USB's. We also
>> had a good turn out of about 20 people from the general public, and it
>> seems that most event visitors enjoyed themselves.
>>
>> The USB issue was that well in the end actually got 50 or so offical
>> Ubuntu USB's sent, even though had been told that woudn't get them,
>> since a logisitcs issue, on IRC before by someone from the Canonical
>> Community Team. However then I found out the evening before the
>> event, that they were actually blank, nothing on them, so some or
>> more, had Ubuntu 16.04 put on them at the event. The moral of the
>> story is to check at least some of the USB's, if not all of them,
>> before an event, when being sent them like that.
>>
>> The plan is to run another two Linux Presentation Day events next
>> year, probably in April and probably in October as well, but maybe May
>> and November instead. Linux Presentation Day events are ideally meant
>> to be twice a year. Anyway it turns out that next year this LUG is
>> going to probably actually have three events, yes THREE, with membes
>> of the LUG behind them, (,which is impressive considering what our LUG
>> is like in general), with one of our other fellow members having ideas
>> for something bigger, and that also won't be for LPD. He would like
>> to mainly organise an event that's bigger, and one where actually have
>> speeches as well. Public speaking awesome! Nothing has been decided
>> properly yet, and I don't have proper details, but its looking like
>> that event will probably be in July, if it is to happen.
>> Going back to Linux Presentation Day it seems that most event
>> visitors came in, because of the paid Facebook advert that had been
>> running for about two weeks. Would have been like three weeks, but
>> originally had issues setting it up properly and as a result keeping
>> it running. I know it probably won't get used much, but there's also
>> now as of today a Facebook group for our LUG on Facebook as wel.
>>
>> Events, events, are usually fun! However no OGG Camp (
>> http://oggcamp.org ) this year, so its looking like my next tech event
>> will be the AWESOME FOSDEM (Free Open Source Developers European
>> Meeting) again, for my sixth time, since been going every year since
>> 2012 like with OGG Camp. FOSDEM is sarting to feel like its coming up
>> again already, but currently isn't that near, since its the first
>> weekend of Februrary. For anyone who is into open source enough, be
>> that as just mostly a user like me, or as a developer, FOSDEM is an
>> awesome expereince! However one that does not happen in the UK, but
>> rather in (or near) Brussels Belgium. FOSDEM is probably also at least
>> a bit more awesome when got people to meet over there from a proper
>> project, like with myself, and Sim from Jolla who was at the LPD on
>> Saturday. However yes its the kind of event that certain famous
>> people in the open source / free software world will go to as well,
>> and I even got to meet and breifly chat to and shake hands wih Mark
>> Shuttleworth this year. No I didn't ask him how his trip to space
>> went when meeting.
>>
>> With FOSDEM and OGG Camp, I went with someone else the first year
>> (not a techie), but all other years done all the travelling there and
>> back on my own, so would be awesome if could actually do that next
>> year with at least one person from the LUG, but its looking like there
>> may be a person or two already, who may seriously be inerested in
>> going. Also it seems going by the mailing list archeive that in 2008
>> or whenever it was a group of people from the LUG actsually went and
>> did FOSDEM together. Anyway who would be seriously interested in
>> going to and back from FOSDEM next year with me, and why? FOSDEM is
>> massive people have differnet interests etc, so whilst over there
>> won't always be together of course, but can probably also get you into
>> to the Mageia meal on Saturday night, assuming that Mageia will be
>> there again as usual.
>> Friday night starts off with a MASSIVE Crazy beer event, with the
>> conference itself being Saturday and Sunday at a massive university.
>> Saturday night various project meals will happen. FOSDEM is so massive
>> that always going to miss something speechwise, that may be of
>> interest, but they video quite a lot of speeches as well. It's a
>> great event for stocking up on tech t-shirts as well, nearly every
>> stand will have t-shirts, and a few stands give away decent free
>> ones, but otherwise they sell for about 10 euros usually. I have made
>> the mistake of not being early enough to certain stands a few times
>> before though, to get a certain t-shirt, or get it, but in the right
>> size. However there is a main building of stands with two floors of
>> stands, plus another building, etc.
>>
>> The other year I belive it was 2015, by coincidence whilst going
>> around some of the stands at FOSDEM, there was a guy at one of the
>> stands, that I started chatting to a bit, since he sounded English,
>> and turns out he was from Bristol. Apparantly he had actually been in
>> the audiance as well, when I spoke at the IT Mega Meet the first year
>> it was on in 2012. Anyway FOSDEM weekend he had no proper plans for
>> the Saturday night, but was able to get him into the Mageia meal.
>> Anyway we were going to meet up again at the first LUG meeting after
>> the event it seems, but I didn't go, and we lost contact as well. If
>> the person I am reffering to just happens to be reading this, I would
>> be interested in meeting you soon again at a LUG meeting.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>
>
--
Sent using Dekko from my Ubuntu device
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:36:16 +0100
From: Steve Netting <steve@track3.org.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc.
Message-ID: <c5af88d2-7c8d-c665-3312-48304b86a7bb@netting.org.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
On 25/10/16 19:14, Sebastian via Bristol wrote:
>
> I think if we are going to do IRC seriously, that should have a
> channel on Freenode. Freenode is where it's mostly at for tech IRC
> channels, I rarely go on any other networks in general.
>
We have a well established channel on irc.perl.org. It's not a network
I typically use either, but #bblug has existed there for as long as I
can remember; probably since the mid to late 90s. It's probably Dave or
cms's fault. Blame them :)
> By the way not qute sure who you are, even though just looked and yes
> seems you been on this mailing list, for quite a long time.
>
Long time member, since the 90s, attended some of the early meets in
Bristol, ex RedHatter, amateur radio enthusiast, Amigan (hey the 68k
port of debian has been revived!), part time SCART consultant and LUGBOT
maintainer. Nowadays I mostly lurk in #bblug but can be tempted out
with beer.
Steve
M0SPN
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:39:31 +0100
From: cms <cms@beatworm.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Events! LPD, FOSDEM, etc.
Message-ID: <418dd41f-7cb0-ad7b-026b-9972920a61fa@beatworm.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
On 26/10/16 09:36, Steve Netting via Bristol wrote:
> We have a well established channel on irc.perl.org. It's not a network
> I typically use either, but #bblug has existed there for as long as I
> can remember; probably since the mid to late 90s. It's probably Dave or
> cms's fault. Blame them
I think it was Shevek! I expect I have the announce mail somewhere in an
archive
--
Regards,
Colin M. Strickland, cms, 'that guy'
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