UK Gentoo User Group

MAL · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7

MAL, Northampton... anyone want sites hosted in Telehouse, London? :>

x3ja · n00b Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Nottingham, UK

maw · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

How come it took you so long to join the forums then? Huh? Huh? At least you did the washing up.
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uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

Hmmmm, Telehouse eh

Depending on cost we could host our own server and rsync mirror instead of going through a ISP ... PM me with the ISP @ Telehouse and we can start some communication with them.

x3ja · n00b Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Nottingham, UK

nutts · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 5 Location: London

I'd be interested, I'm in Redhill and London.

I have yet to make it to either lonix or gllug in London though... :lol:

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uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

Still waiting for feeback from the rest of the Gentoo organisation as to whether we can use 'uk.gentoo.org'.

MrOnion · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 24

I know some perl and PHP. I have made www.z-lan.com using PHP with mysql. So I'm happy to have a go at making any aspect of the site if If needed.

Also I would Like to express a concern i have about forming a UK gentoo user group. I would hate to see UK gentoo users start to use a UK forum for general gentoo problems as i feel it would fragment the community and it would mean that there would be less people to answer questions. This is different to the non-english forums as non-english speaker will not get any useful answers posting in the english gentoo forums.

So in summary (as that probably doesnt make any sense), I think it would be a good idea, perhaps even a Good Idea, that it was stressed that any UK gentoo forums are only for UK related postings and any posts for help should be refered to these forums.

ajaustin · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Surrey UK

I'm in Caterham, Surrey. I currently have 2 Gentoo boxes and I am interested in IMAP mail services. I hate pubs and smokey rooms but might want to get together with people interested in promoting GNU Linux/Gentoo locally. I work for a local computer business.

My vote was for gentoo.org.uk; isn't it easier to keep the "uk" at the end? I always steer clear of the mainstream anyway.
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georgie · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 42 Location: London, UK

> I hate pubs and smokey rooms

i love pubs and smoky rooms, but hey, it's all about choice

> My vote was for gentoo.org.uk; isn't it easier to keep the "uk" at the end

yes, until we need 2.uk, uk3.gentoo, gentoo.org.uk2 etc

what do freebsd do? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#MIRRORS-UK

*.uk.gentoo.org, no?

lok forward to meeting some fellow (gentiles?

) soon

george

seo · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 3

This is only my opinion.

There seems to be a problem with uk.gentoo.org. It is because the gentoo team is using rsync*.[country-code].gentoo.org as the links for rsync servers around the world. Therefore, for uk.gentoo.org, there might need to be a number of changes in the gentoo project IMO, which might happen, but it seems unlikely. Another possibily is uk.user.gentoo.org, which is quite long.

anyway, i prefer gentoo.org.uk

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uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

Thats a very good point :!:

Still waiting to here back from Gentoo.org about using graphics, names etc ...

philgrr · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 7 Location: UK: St Albans

Hmm,

Looks to me like this topic has gone a bit flat.

Any more UK gentoo users out there?

Bowyakka · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:14 pm Post subject:

Come on people bring this idea back
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puregenius · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 56

Well the poll is fairly conclusive...
I guess uk.gentoo.org it is.
Now we just need to create a site. Until then maybe a uk usergroup on this site should be formed. Anybody agree? Then perhaps forming a LUG. But where to hold meetings. Obviously many people live in London, but its as difficult, and can be as time consuming, to travel there as anywhere else.

So:
A site needs to be created.
An LUG needs to be inorgurated.
A usergroup formed. (yes, I know thats really a LUG in longhand, but a forums one)
A uk irc room. #gentoo_uk

I know there are plenty of LUGs but the whole purpose of them is to provide knowlegeable help. I think that gentoo is a little unique, I love it really, and so a dedicated lug is a nice idea.

The site only really needs forums. I doubt there can be that much UK specific news.

The other issue that came up was burning CDs to get around firewalls...
Could that be organised?

A little summary... and my 2p

alex
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NaN · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject:

Sounds great, I'd be interested having just installed Gentoo for the first time. It went astonishingly well and compliments to all the developers, although getting the system localised to proper English took a bit a fiddling and a couple of things are still not sorted out yet.

I'm based in the Cambridge area.

puregenius · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 56

I noticed in the weekly news that other countries/cities are arranging meetings. Maybe its time we caught on. Our profile could be raised a notch. I know thats not what its really about, but even open source guys can have some competitive spirit :wink:

So, that leads us to where?

Scotland: Glasgow/Edinburgh
England: London (most people, not totally central), Midlands( More central, fewer people)... anywhere else?

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Fallen Angel · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 27 Location: UK

I'd be up for this if it takes off......

french tony · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

so do i. i am taking some resolutions, and i am meeting the N.I. users (ie me) tomorrow morning ( as soon as i can gather myself). it should be an interesting meeting, with a lot of different views being examined ( ie: i might be a bit confused w/ myself still).

??????

puregenius · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 56

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=38528&highlight=

Also, just wondering how webby things are coming along.
We have an address, but how about hosting/web guru to do stuff/volunteers to man it/ any else.

Well, we can meet and discuss it I suppose.

Sorry to creat a new thread but I couldn't change the poll or add a new one to this thread.

alex
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pubecon · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 12:37 am Post subject:

I think I will start my own gentoo linux user group

gentoo glasgow.

It will involve going to glasgow unis union (qm/gu - whichever one I'm closest to) and getting wasted - all in the name of linux. hell yeah!

strolls · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 18

I'd be interested in coming along for some UK-based munches (meet-ups), preferably in a pub or student union. Nothing too serious.

I know of another #Gentoo regular in Milton keynes, and have seen others around here posting to this thread, so maybe there'd be more interest around here..?

sisyphus · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject:

This has all gone very quiet.

Did anything come of this or is it yet another example of us brits getting bored halfway through a project and giving up?
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charlieg · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 1:51 am Post subject:

*YAWN*

Sorry, what was that? I'm a bit sleepy... didn't catch it.
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Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi
I would be very interested!! I'm in sunny Skegness!!! (as if:D)

Ben