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Re: [LUG] meeting friday + update

 

This sounds a lot more promising then we have been hearing recently.

I'll probably be coming on sats, because other people i do things with
on Sat have been remarkabley unreliable of late.

On 11/02/2011, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/02/11 18:15, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> With regard to a meeting suggested by rob beard next friday evening
>>
>> neil from the lighthouse is happy for us to meet up on friday at 7:30
>> there is a gig on that evening so i am trying to work out how we can get
>> in without being changed but at the same time they have a duty to know
>> who is in the building, (fire regs mainly i guess) when lucy gets back
>> to me on my suggestion i will report back.
>>
>
> Didn't think of that bit, I'm giving my step-daughter a lift, I'm not
> sure if she'll have any friends with her (I will have to confirm) but I
> may have one or two seats left for lifts from Torquay. :-)
>
> Maybe we could get some names put on a list or something?  I have a
> photo ID for work I could use possibly, and I'm sure others of us will
> have say photo driving licences, passports etc if they are that worried
> about it.
>
>> been busy to day sorting through all the computer bits up stairs also
>> moved the lug pc's up to the same place so we now have room we can work
>> in, neil is going to get hold of some power supplies so we should have a
>> few more pc's in addition to the ones we know work there seems to be
>> enough ram to get things up and running, the one that needs rambus now
>> has 256 mb ram, not much but i am sure we can use that pc for
>> somethingl. not sure what yet. but it works.
>
> That sounds promising.
>
>>
>> he is also happy for us to meet on a saturday, (discuss friday perhaps)
>> that will mainly mean dan (lives in the flat) can open up lets say at
>> 11am on a saturday we meet with neil briefly, do what we want to do
>> during the day and at an agreed end time say 3pm and dan can meeg with
>> us and lock up neil may be able to meet so we can report what we have
>> done and ask questions as to the next step.
>
> Okay that's good.  Over the next couple of Saturdays I'm going to be
> busy, we have the LUG meeting at Exwick on 26th Feb, not sure what I'm
> doing on the 19th, I may be busy then and I'm away one weekend in March
> in Cardiff doing some work and another weekend in Cornwall.  I'm sure
> though we could make some real progress in just a couple of Saturdays
> (or even maybe just get it all done over one weekend since there's going
> to be a couple of us doing stuff).
>
>
>> there is now a time scale for all of this as the internet cafe is linked
>> to a project for teaching music, (using macs which they either have or
>> are getting) once that is set up funding will be released. neil is going
>> to put all the cat 5 stuff in place inc conduit and in the short term
>> run a multiway socket from out side that upstairs area, where we met the
>> first time all met up at the lighthouse. once funding is released they
>> can get someone in to put electrical cable in to the conduit, so should
>> be a quick job.
>
> Sounds good.  Maybe if we can get some more machines we could introduce
> them to Studio64 and Ardour (as it happens Ardour is available for MacOS
> X and Linux, but not Windows).
>
>>
>> i will let neil explain further, on friday
>>
>
> Okay.
>
>> hope this helps
>
>
> Yep sounds good, as long as they don't expect too much from the Internet
> Cafe (for instance video editing on every PC, and things like that) then
> I'm sure it'll be fine.  If it's just advertised as an Internet cafe (so
> Internet access, Facebook, Twitter access etc) then I'm sure it'll work
> quite well, and if they charge for access maybe they could use some of
> the funds to upgrade the kit.
>
> Thanks for sorting this out Paul, it's a real help that you're involved,
> I have had hardly any time this week to think about much so it's a great
> help, it's good that things are progressing. :-)
>
> Rob
>
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