Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users Group

Category Archives: 2025

Lug meets April 2025

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MEETINGS

The group hold regular meetings

  • 3rd Saturday (from 12) – Jitsi. Meet
  • 4th Saturday, Plymouth social. 1200 onwards at the Moments Café

69A New George Street, Plymouth, GB PL1 1RJ

Members are encouraged to arrange meetings in their area.   This is helpful due to the geographical nature of the area.

Wider Community

Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – 1st Saturday of the month,  Exeter Library

Torbay Tinkerers  – 4th Saturday of the month at Paignton, 09:30 to 12:00ish  STEAM Café and Discovery Centre, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.  Please see the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554348046709) for details.

NB;  March meeting will be on Saturday 29th March.

Open Street Map

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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open licence.  I have started to add some map info for parts of my local area.   Hopefully others can do the same.   To this end, I have included some useful links below.

OSM can be used in many areas, and both contributing or even using the data could make a useful project too.

Links

Open Street Map
Street Complete
Street Complete App (Android)
JOSM Software for map editing
Open Street Map UK Community
OSM Matrix Room
Mastodon

IRC <> Matrix Bridge

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The group IRC Chat and Matrix chat bridge is being shut down.   It is probably much easier to join Matrix as this is much easier to set up for people in generally. and can be accessed from different devices. I

 

MATRIX

Matrix An open network for secure, decentralised communication.   There is a direct link to the room.   If you are already set up then the link should go direct, otherwise you will be presented with an option to sign up to Matrix and obtain a client.

This is also presented in plain text below, as it should make it easier to copy / paste in to a browser.

https://matrix.to/#/#dcglug:matrix.org

Hope this helps