[klug] Meeting day / time

[Hannah K]

Hi everyone,

I must apologise for not coming along to the meeting.  I am very keen to
become involved, but as things worked out that last meeting was not
possible for me.  In general, however, the first Thursday of every month
should be fine.  Is the next meeting going ahead on the 5th of October?

I won't really have a whole lot of knowledge to contribute as I am more
of an enthusiast than an expert.  Something I would like to be able to
help with is promoting linux as an alternative to M$.  

Also, a pressing issue for me is that I would like to see if the group
could help with the cursed winmodems.  I did an install on a friends AMD
laptop (Ubuntu) and all went well apart from the modem.  We tried
installing drivers from the linuxant website but came up with errors
when they were trying to install.  There was no reason given in the gui,
just "installation failed".    

I guess the best thing would be to take her laptop to a meeting and see
if any of you more knowledgeable types could see what the problem is?
My wireless card works fine in her machine, so it is not a hardware
issue as such... (She does not want to get broadband at this stage).  I
had a similar problem when installing Ubuntu on my laptop last year, but
the linuxant drivers sorted that out. 

Anyway, I look forward to meeting you all soon.

Hannah
 

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 09:47 +1200, Steve Withers wrote:
> Hi All 
> 
> I wasn't at the meeting on Thursday night for a couple of reasons, but
> chief among them was my (mis?)-understanding that we were discussing
> what day of the week to hold the meetings. 
> 
> The 'usual' had been the first Thursday of each month and that was OK
> for a while. It's not good for me now, and *may* (dunno) not be good for
> others judging by the low attendance. 
> 
> Did we all agree on a day / time? 
> 
> I saw Hannah asked where / when and lance replied with a time....but not
> a day...and that appeared to be as clear as it got from my reading of
> the last half-dozen e-mails to the list. 
> 
> To be honest, the drive to Raumati will be a challenge for me as I do
> shift work and it takes 50 minutes each way from Foxton.....and I often
> have to be in bed by 9:30pm.....which doesn't leave much time for a
> meeting if I'm to get enough sleep and be up by 4:30am. Evening shifts
> take me out of contention completely....so it wouldn't matter what day
> the meeting was on. :-)  
> 
> Can we confirm / reconfirm the day of the meetings? 
> 
> Ta. 
> 
> Steve 
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