[wellylug] March Meeting Notes

[Colin Klenner]

The Meeting last night (10 March) at LANPlace was certainly different to past
meetings. An impressive number of people (35+) turned up to see the new location
at LANPlace.The largest number so far for the LUG.
The first order of business was to explore what the facilities offered. There
were enough screens, LAN connections, and power sockets to satisfy the whole
crowd if need be, as well as projection equipment and individual lighting. All
that is required is the boxes, keyboards, mice, and enthusiasts to bring it
all alive.
Refreshements were located from vending machines at the back of the venue, so
tea/coffe may be a thing of the past.
No charge was made last night as the venue is free, but Jamie did come up with
Name Tags for people to use. Unfortunately only a few took advantage of the
offer. It would eb great to easily identify who one was talking to.
Quite a number of people were new to Linux, and some had not been for a few
meetings or more, so it was great to see everyone turn up.
We had a short introduction covering people who had brought along some machines
- a couple of small footprint models and a range of others with various issues
to be addressed. this was followed by an introduction to parsing rules using
one or two tools readily available.
Getting onto the network is apparently a simple matter of switching to DHCP.
some work is required to establish what we can access freely, and maybe put
the suggestion to Clear and Paradise and any other local ISP's to update their
distributions so we can access then quickly through this venue.
Discussion round the tables was varied from Gentoo, social, to (in one corner
failing to connect to the network) Win2k.
All in all a great start to the new venue. Next month we have been promised
a presentation to start the evening on getting onto the network, followed by
setting up a firewall on your machine. If you think you can contribute to these
then please come prepared to stand and be seen. If you have other demonstrations
in mind - I heard email clients and servers as one session, hard drive tuning
practical, sound servers, and printer troubleshooting as examples so if you
can, it's your meeting too.
Please bring the latest distrobutions as well as applications for others who
have machines to build/update. 

- Colin - 

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