[ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party

[Lucy]

2009/3/25 Gordon Allott <gordallott at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:57 +0000, Lucy wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has
>> booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the
>> Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will  start at 7pm and
>> go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another
>> pub on Oxford Road).
>
> Fantastic news, plenty of rail connections to oxford road so that
> shouldn't be a problem. what about projectors/speakers? it might be nice
> to have a showing of big buck bunny or something
> (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ - open source short film made with open
> source software on ubuntu machines)

That's good idea. There's a projector and free wifi available. I'll
try to remember to bring a copy, but if someone with a better laptop
could bring theirs along that would be great too.

Someone mentioned about having a local apt repository. Is it possible
someone could set that up on their laptop before the day?