Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users Group

Lug Meets – May 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

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.

Please ask on the mailing list for details on lug meets, so those who are attending can keep an eye out for you.

Gopher

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I copied this over from my blog., This may be of interest to a wider audience here.

There are still some servers out there, some are new, and offer services such as HackerNews, Project Gutenberg and others. Thanks to Anthk @anthk@paquita.masto.host who has made a list of some of these Gopher servers

Does the web allow you to do this at 2.7 KBPS?

  • Gutenberg gopher://gopher.icu/7/gutenberg
  • Internet Archive gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
  • Huge portal gopher://magical.fish
  • News, blog and more gopher://1436.ninja
  • Reddit gopher://gopherddit.com
  • HN gopher://hngopher.com
  • Google Maps (text) gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir
  • Podcasts: gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
  • Dictionary: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict Blogs:
  • gopher://sdf.org
  • Weather (finger):
  • gopher://graph.no:79/0/London

There are still clients software out there, and yeah you can all this with good old plain text.

apt search gopher

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