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Re: [LUG] Post Meeting Review Re: meeting

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> I'd like to thank Paul for organising another meeting.
>
> The venue; the Old Monastery - Berry Road, Paignton, looks suitable for
> future meetings in Paignton for larger event. The venue has good car
> parking, and wireless access. Although it does take a little finding,
> being between Berry Road and Monastery Road. Also it has a playground
> outside for occupying smaller folk.
>
> The room hire cost (35GBP) was met out of GLUG funds, so we now hold
> 97GBP, and owe Paul 5GBP of that.
>
>
> Henry has already commented on signing documents, he was also wondering
> about other aspects of signing documents, and documentation for GNUPG2
> support of S/MIME. Neil W was in Wales I fear, who is our usual guru on
> things GPG.
>
> Sam was also wondering about keeping systems responsive when handling
> big jobs. So anyone with experience of different queue schedulers, or
> ways of managing CPU, disk IO and memory on large batch jobs. A whole
> topic of it's own I'm sure, but not something I've had to deal with for
> a few years.
>
>
> After the meeting we discussed various ideas for another meeting. We
> hope to do a "One Laptop Per Child" meeting, possibly in Exeter, so
> anyone with any expertise -- otherwise we'll have to go learn about it
> before we can show it to others.
>
> Or possibly an "Art", "Drawing", based event, where people gets some
> hands on experience with various bits of software, and something to take
> away.
>
> Other ideas welcome.
>
>
>   
Thanks for that Simon,   for anyone interested in OLPC as mentioned 
above the site is


http://www.laptop.org/

Paul

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