Fri 6 Aug: Currybeer social

On Friday 6th August, a number of us from various geek groups will be 
going out for a curry and some drinks. We'll be meeting in our usual 
venue of Hardy's Well pub at the end of Rusholme from 7pm and moving on 
to a nearby curry house after a drink or two - usually this means by 8pm 
at the latest.

Everyone is welcome to attend, so please feel free to forward this email 
to other lists and drop me an email off-list if you want a contact 
number for the evening. If you haven't been before, it would be helpful 
to know that you're coming so that we can keep a look out for you.

Hope to see you there!

Paul

P.S. You can always find details of upcoming socials at the Currybeer 
web site:

http://www.currybeer.com

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Website?

Why did the website change to blogspot? When was this decision made?

It seems like Paul Waring's hosting is still being hotlinked to from
many of the pages.

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Re: Website?

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:28:29PM -0400, Matt Lee wrote:
> Why did the website change to blogspot?

Paul informed the team that he wanted to move the blog away from his
servers.

> When was this decision made?

I took it on myself to import the blog to Blogspot last week.  Paul
notified the team he would be switching the blog off over a month ago.

> It seems like Paul Waring's hosting is still being hotlinked to from
> many of the pages.

Erk, well, I think I’ve fixed broken links in the About, Contact, etc
pages, and on the latest post.

Simon
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Re: Website?

On 08/01/2010 07:29 PM, Simon Ward wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:28:29PM -0400, Matt Lee wrote:
>> Why did the website change to blogspot?
> 
> Paul informed the team that he wanted to move the blog away from his
> servers.
> 
>> When was this decision made?
> 
> I took it on myself to import the blog to Blogspot last week.  Paul
> notified the team he would be switching the blog off over a month ago.
> 
>> It seems like Paul Waring's hosting is still being hotlinked to from
>> many of the pages.
> 
> Erk, well, I think I’ve fixed broken links in the About, Contact, etc
> pages, and on the latest post.

Okay.

If people are okay with it, I can move the DNS back to my servers, and
host the blog for you again.

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Fwd: [GeekUp] BarCamp Manchester 3

I strongly recommend attending.

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Subject: [GeekUp] BarCamp Manchester 3
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:22:37 +0100
From: Dan Hardiker <dhardiker@...>
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Hi All,

BarCamp Manchester is gearing up again for it's 3rd iteration. We will be
holding it on Saturday 21st August 2010 at MadLab & FlyTheCoop.
There'll be only 100 tickets which will be released on Wednesday at 1pm.

For more details see http://bcman3.nwdc.org.uk/

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Re: v2

Okay, maybe I'm missing something but this seems insensitive and
juvenile to me. If it's supposed to be a joke it's really not funny. I
don't believe it has any place on this mailing list.

I think Mark Shuttleworth says it best in his most recent blog post:

"We should start every discussion in free software with a mutual
reminder of the fact that we have far more in common than we have
differences, that individual successes enrich all of us far more in
our open commons-based economy than they would in a traditional
proprietary one, that it’s better for us to find a way to encourage
others to continue to participate even if they aren’t necessarily
chasing exactly the same bugs that we are, than to chastise them for
thinking differently.

On that note, let’s shake hands."

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/442

On 2 August 2010 10:00, Luke Taylor <luke_joseph@...> wrote:
> I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a software developer
> standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said
> "Stop! Don't do it!"
>
> "Why shouldn't I?" he said.
>
> I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
>
> "Like what?"
>
> "Well ... do you develop free software or proprietary?"
>
> "Free."
>
> "Me too! Are you BSD or GPL?"
>
> "GPL."
>
> "Me too! Are you GPL v2 or GPL v3?"
>
> "GPL v3!"
>
> To which I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
>
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Re: v2

On 02/08/10 16:04, Lucy wrote:
> Okay, maybe I'm missing something but this seems insensitive and
> juvenile to me. If it's supposed to be a joke it's really not funny. I
> don't believe it has any place on this mailing list.

Sorry, Lucy, but having spent an hour reading through
a flame-fest on another LUG list, I turned to Luke's
post and it made me smile :)

If we can't mock ourselves and our own community then
we will be weaker and poorer.

Regards,

 - Richard

> On 2 August 2010 10:00, Luke Taylor <luke_joseph@...> wrote:
>> I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a software developer
>> standing on the edge, about to jump off. I immediately ran over and said
>> "Stop! Don't do it!"
>>
>> "Why shouldn't I?" he said.
>>
>> I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"
>>
>> "Like what?"
>>
>> "Well ... do you develop free software or proprietary?"
>>
>> "Free."
>>
>> "Me too! Are you BSD or GPL?"
>>
>> "GPL."
>>
>> "Me too! Are you GPL v2 or GPL v3?"
>>
>> "GPL v3!"
>>
>> To which I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
>>
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RE: v2

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Re: v2

On 2 August 2010 16:41, Luke Taylor <luke_joseph@...> wrote:
>
>> Okay, maybe I'm missing something but this seems insensitive and
>> juvenile to me. If it's supposed to be a joke it's really not funny. I
>> don't believe it has any place on this mailing list.
>>
>> I think Mark Shuttleworth says it best in his most recent blog post:
>>
>> "We should start every discussion in free software with a mutual
>> reminder of the fact that we have far more in common than we have
>> differences........
>
> This is exactly what the joke is about! I don't actually have an opinion or
> really care about v2 vs. v3. This is essentially the same joke as the old
> "Judean people's front", I thought that people who have suffered BSD GPL
> holy wars might appreciate the observation :)

Okay, apologies. I still don't find it funny personally but I
appreciate now that others do.