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Talk at GLLUG

I've just got home after spending yesterday in London. I went along to a meeting of GLLUG, the Greater London Linux User Group, to give a talk about Debian. The slides are online (and remarkably similar to my last talk!) for those who may be interested. Then we adjourned to the pub; after all, GLLUG sounds rather like an incitement to drink (*grin*). I got caught up in some really good discussions at the meeting, and even found a couple more people who want to sponsor Debconf. Yay!

I forgot to take my camera along, so I'm afraid I have no photos to share. Doh...

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LinuxWorld Expo in London, 25-26 October 2006

We had a good, successful show again this year. The show itself seems to be continuing the trend of fewer visitors each year, but we're still seeing a good number of visitors at the Debian stand. Not many wanted to buy DVDs this year, another continuing trend. As Noodles found ("Use Debian! It's great!"), a large number of those visitors were already Debian users. The common questions were predictable:

• When's Etch due?
• What do you think of Ubuntu?

Phil, Neil and I also took the opportunity to wander round the hall to try and pick up some more sponsors for Debconf next year, and this was very useful.

Thanks to all the people that helped, either by turning up on the stand or by organising the .org area. After all these years, it's still fun to turn up and help people find out more about Debian. :-)

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What day is it again?

Another year, another party bigger than last year's. By my count, we had 56 people (and a dog) in my house and garden at the peak on Saturday evening. It was excellent to see people from all over: .fi, .nl, .no, .be, .it, .ch. And .uk, of course. Even the gods of weather were kind to us and held off on the rain that was forecast for Saturday. As far as I could tell, everybody enjoyed themselves; I know I definitely did!

Same time, same place next year I guess... :-)

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There was a BBQ, and it was good...

Despite looking like it may rain on Saturday, the weather was fine for the weekend. We had 44 people and a dog turn up on Saturday, and most of them stayed / returned for Sunday too. Lots of slightly-burnt meat, lots of beer, lots of geeking. Good fun all round!

Simon and I have just about finished cleaning up; time to sleep soon...

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Debian UK Society startup

As Robster posted, we've set up a society in the UK called Debian UK, to allow us to create a proper bank account. I've just announced the details to the Debian-UK mailing list. The initial constitution and minutes of the founding meeting are up on the web too, (temporarily) here.

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Debian UK BBQ days 2 and 3

It's been a long weekend. And fun. Thanks to everybody that turned up; everybody seems to have had a good time, and several people managed to get some work done in between the food and tetrinet games.

See you all again at the Expo in October.

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Debian UK BBQ day 1

04:30, and I'm going to bed. ~25 people for the day, and 8 crashing here tonight. Good party, and more tomorrow...!

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UK party at my place

Continuing in the long-standing tradition, I'm going to hold a barbecue at my place in Cambridge on the last weekend in August. As that's a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, it'll give us time for two days of eating, drinking and hacking...

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