[ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

[Graeme Jefferis]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Glenn J. Mason wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:45 +0100 (BST), Chadwick Longstaff 
> <chad.longstaff at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm in Aberdeen.
>>
>> Are there any others who'd be interested in getting a
>> group, or three, or four, together to cover Scotland?
>
> Hi, I'm newly in Edinburgh and occasionally make it to EdLUG meetings, 
> who are quite active.  I did get some "why Ubuntu?  Why not Debian?" 
> questions from certain other EdLUGgers (who perhaps haven't tried 
> Ubuntu?) but it's still good fun (I'm sure I can convince at least some 
> of them with demos).  I'd love to have a local-ish Ubuntu UK meeting, 
> and I'd also be interested in a "moving" meeting for all Ubuntu UK 
> members 
> -- 
> I'm from Australia originally and need an excuse to travel around the 
> UK, after all!

Hi Glenn,

I'm ashamed to admit that I've been living in Edinburgh two years now, and 
haven't got around to attending a single EdLUG meeting, although a few 
friends of mine have. I'm sure there's scope for a UKTeam/Scotland branch; 
at any rate it would be excellent if we could get a few Edinbunters 
together in town somewhere for a few small drinks and laughs one evening.

Any others in the area?

Btw, I know that at the Forest Cafe in town, they run Ubuntu on their 
public-access internet machines, so it might be worth having a chat with 
the folks in there; maybe that would also be a good place to advertise any 
meet-ups we organise.

(Oh, and hello to the list as well, while I'm at it.)

grim.