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Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Aug 2014, at 17:23, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 06/08/14 12:14, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Joseph Bennie wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, just a shout out to say hello and introduce myself, hope yo >>> don't mind:) >>> >>> >>> I'm Jay, a Scot now living in Newlyn, My wife is from the area and >>> she's finally free from her old job shackles to move from Surrey, >>> where we have lived for the last 18 years. >>> >>> I've been doing Lug stuff for what seams like forever, In 1998 there >>> were 2 people in a pub, me and John! at some point between 1999 and >>> 2004 I was appointed Lug admin for Surrey Lug until time became an >>> issue and following our meritocratic ethos and I handed over to JW, JW >>> has championed the group since then and fostered many a link up with >>> Hants Lug, Portsmouth and East Sussex to grown the group to quite a >>> size. Some meet ups have been in excess of 30 people for BaB and the >>> mails list has around 100 active subscribers. >>> >>> So I'm hoping theres a big community in this part for the world, as >>> I'm always hearing about good things that started in the south west. I >>> get the feeling people are a little further up towards Exeter, so >>> really I was looking to find out who is down this way (Penzance). >>> >>> I'm also looking out for hackspaces, but it looks like the local one >>> didn't get any traction â assuming it's just gone underground for a bit. >>> >>> Other than that, I'm a full time freelance software dev that finds a >>> little time to occasionally improve the open source software I use and >>> help people who have converted to Linux and are stuck. >>> >>> Looking forward to getting to know people down here. >> >> Ah, Newlyn - the place where they invented sea-level.. >> >> We have over 200 members of the Devon/Cornwall LUG - so that gives us >> about 51 square Km each.... >> >> And that's the biggest issue - geographic size. And general apathy, but >> that's just living in the southwest. >> >> So at the meetings .... Well, we used to get 3-4 turn up in the >> Shoreline Cafe in Paignton - not sure how many at the other venues. We >> sort of turned them into a Raspberry Pi jam now though - still in >> Paignton where we attract a dozen or so - but still only mostly the same >> handfull from the list itself. >> >> Hackspace - well the Penzance one looks like it's had to close. Shame >> that, but I suspect lack of numbers might have been an issue, who knows. >> >> Exeter has a separate LUG - almost as well attended as the general >> Devon/Cornwall one. I suspect there are very few people purely in the >> Exeter LUG that are not in the DC LUG. There is also a monthly Pi Jam in >> Exeter too - in the Library next door to the new FabLab (as in literally >> the room next door, also in the library). >> >> So, welcome and by all means get enthusiastic and shake this list and >> the meetings up! >> >> Gordon > Welcome Joseph - don't worry about geography. The post office tells us we will > have personal telegraphs and things soon so we should be able to communicate over > that it the pigeons get eaten by the foxes! > Tom te tom te tom > dam post office, i was hoping the morse code exhibit would be nostalgic :| > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq