Setting up North-West LUG

McClane

Hey i am trying to get in contact with people interested in joining a North-West LUG. I have contacted several people already and hope this might attract more.

Basically we hope to deal with the North-West meaning mainly Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim and anyone close who wants to join. Its all in the prelimery stages yet but we hope to have a website soon. Anyone interested please contact me at mcclane @ eircom.net

Thanks.

flamegrill

McClane wrote:

Hey i am trying to get in contact with people interested in joining a North-West LUG. I have contacted several people already and hope this might attract more.

Basically we hope to deal with the North-West meaning mainly Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim and anyone close who wants to join. Its all in the prelimery stages yet but we hope to have a website soon. Anyone interested please contact me at mcclane @ eircom.net

Thanks.

I'm making this a Sticky on McClane's request.

Goodshape

Heh, there really isn't much of a north-west 'scene' on these boards, is there?

From Donegal myself and I'd be intereseted in this only I'm off to Prague on Monday for a good half a year, so there's not much point.

That said, if you need hosting space I might be able to help out. You making much headway?

angelofdeath

i asked the committee at linux.ie for hosting for the homepage and a mailing list, just waiting for a reply

Pinhead

Sounds good. I haven't tampered with Linux in over two years but I've been waiting for an excuse to get back into the swing of it. Let me know how the plans go.

jer1ch0

Count me in - an occasional aand curious Linux user in Castlebar.

aolXFT

I'm actually in Dublin for the next few months, but I'm from Mayo, so I'd be interested, in partaking upon my return. At the very least I'd like to keep tabs on how you're getting on.

oscarBravo

This raises the question: are there almost as many Mayo- as Sligo-based people involved in this (in the loose sense that anyone is "involved" in it)? If so, should we look at dividing meetings up between Mayo and Sligo? I know I've only been to one, and a combination of short notice and the fact of having to travel goes a long way to explaining this.

aolXFT

I'm not sure such a 'formal' split would be such a good idea. I reckon it would be a better idea t o have a NWLUG, that just happened to have meetings in different places. Maybe have pubmeets in Sligo, Castlebar(or Ballina), and Letterkenny on different weeks/days/months/whatever.

I think any central organisation should take place in Sligo however, since it's probably the most central point. It takes about two hours to get from Ballinrobe(South Mayo), or Letterkenny(mid-Donegal), to Sligo, so you could only really expect people to 'go-central', maybe once or twice a year.

oscarBravo

Sorry, I wasn't clear: that's what I meant. s/dividing/alternating, if you will.

Ballina works for me.

McClane

Hey lads sorry i haven't checked this in awhile, can anyone interested email / pm me ?

Email is preferable. Cheers.

jaqian

Well whats the status with your LUG did you manage to get it up and running?

The enquiring public need to know.

JIZZLORD

count me in, though i demand sligoness, and on weekends i'm not working.
only joking...

Bob the Builder

Westport, I'll PM you tomorrow...

knm

Anything happening with this?

Spunkypoo

What's a LUG?!?!?!

nuada

Linux User Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_User_Group

PogMoThoin

So has this happened, or is this going to happen?

sobriquet

Wow, this is old. I went to a couple of meetings nearly two years ago now, nothing really became of them, though there were a few interested heads. McClane is out foreign for the forseeable future so I don't think he'll be resurrecting it.

PogMoThoin

I work for oscarBravo, i'll ask him if he's interested. Can anyone else who's interested/ not inerested please post their opinion here.

bandit197

Im in if this is going ahead. Linux user based in Charlestown.

knm

Yea, still here. Part time Linux user.

PogMoThoin

So any more interested in reviving this? How about sometime the end of jan?

knm

Just to fill ye all in. I have switched to the Apple Mac now but am still very interested in Linux.
No chance of a LUG/MUG then?

markmcg

I'm from donegal. I'm interested.

Galen

I'm from Mayo and I'm interested but is anyone else still interested in setting up a North-West Linux user group?

jer1ch0

Jeez, this thread dates from 2004.
At the very least we should agree to start up an online LUG with maybe a Google group or site.

Galen

Lost cause, I guess.

bettlebrox

The place to start may be at Linux.ie:
http://www.linux.ie/community/

They host sites for the Dublin, Cork, & Midlands LUG's.

There's also LUG's in Belfast & Derry. For Donegal people it might make sense to join forces with the Derry LUG, and also try and get NW LUG going (and maybe join forces or work with the Midlands LUG).

If people are interested in creating a Google group that's easy enough to do, but ye all need to decide what to use it for?

rfrederick

Is the (London)Derry* LUG still active? I may be in the neighbourhood late February and would love to drop by a meeting.

*Being American I want to be as neutral as I can be** as far as the city's name goes.
**I'm admittedly a good bit nationalist leaning.

Darkphenom

Did anything ever become of this? A website/online group/something?

Galen

Many of us would love to see something become of this but sadly nothing seems to be happening with it.

spannerotoole

I'm from Dublin and I think a LUG in the NW would be a great idea. Check out heanet.ie if you want to get the distros.