UK Gentoo User Group

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TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:12 pm

would be nice to have 1 meeting with everyone in the uk there, at least once, then we can organise regional things

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:14 pm

sounds sensible

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:33 pm

nope i pulled it off as a bad thing.

i would just have got a cjb.net account to somewhere free temporarily until a true domain could be produced.

gentoo-uk.org is free, we just need hosting now... (i would host but i have a rubbish ISP and a semi slow connection)

robmoss · Post by **robmoss** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:24 pm

psharp wrote:
klieber wrote:Oh COME ON people. Only THREE votes so far, and one of them is mine! That's a pretty sorry showing for a group of Gentoo fans, don't you think?

Is that really the best you Brits can do?

--kurt
These things can't be rushed into. We've got to sit, have a cup of tea and mull it over for a bit.

Right. Having had around 600 cups of tea and many, many months mulling over this, I've finally come to a decision.

I'm in

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:44 am

what so u just want bto ignore me?

Deebster · Post by **Deebster** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:49 am

Great to see this thread has risen, Pheonix-like, from the ashes.

And jaz9090, cheers for doing something, even if we don't use the name... It would be a bit weird to have a Gentoo fan site not running on Gentoo, though

roo_ · Post by **roo_** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:51 am

Ignore u?!

Eh?? Who's ignoring you? I have seen plenty of responses to your posts..

roo_ · Post by **roo_** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:55 am

[quote="Deebster"]Great to see this thread has risen, Pheonix-like, from the ashes./quote]

Yes it is

Everyone should DEFINATELY check out the IRC channel:

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gentoo-uk on irc.freenode.net

I'd never really used IRC before, i just emerge xchat(1) and logged on

(1) Insert preferred irc client here.

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:52 am

Fair comment Gentoo server would be better i guess! No i meant the fact that nothing was being done, and then i decided to get it going and now im being complained at because the name isnt right

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:07 pm

ok logos finished, i know the K is dodgy but it's the best i can do.

might add shadows to the U and the K, what does everyone think?

(keep in mind this is just one choice of logo)

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:25 pm

I like it, i just think that the UK looks a bit cartoony, just my opinion.
BTW my idea is whats displayed at http://www.gentuk.org what do people think, tho 2 use it ill ahve 2 get permission from the person who did the main part, seeing as it uses one of th backgrounds from this site

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:38 pm

yeh i know but my SVG skillz are not the greatest

and cartoony is good

anyway i thought yours was a bit offtopic, it's more of a Gentoo UK wallpaper than a logo

ooh, GUK wallpapers....

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:44 pm

dw, it was just an observation not a critisizm, but yeh i suppose maybee mine is a little too wallpaperish, but its just ideas

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:46 pm

yeh, i feel like were both trying our hardest to say what we think without insulting each other, lol

jaz9090 · Post by **jaz9090** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:58 pm

I know, dont wanna insult fellow Gentoo users

So, we seem to be getting along well with the graphics, any ideas for the website? ppl dont seem to want me do do anything seeing as im on a windows server, but i can see this project gtting forgotten again if i dont do something soon

Deebster · Post by **Deebster** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:51 am

Where did we end up on uk.gentoo.org? No (because of rsync-related hassle?)?

I've got an idea for a design, I'll have a play if I don't get distracted (which I probably will). What content will we have though? Obviously we don't want to duplicate any work done on the official site, but it'd be nice to have something other than just a place-holder or a few irregularly updated pages.

roo_ · Post by **roo_** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:23 am

Content is a good question.

What can we (uk gentoo users) offer on our site to other people and other uk gentoo users that cannot already be found easily on other gentoo sites?

I can't really think of much :s

ciaranm · Post by **ciaranm** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:16 am

Here's a pretty little map: *CLICK*. Please read the text below, and don't post your locations to this thread. Thanks

lizardloop · Post by **lizardloop** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:22 am

Could you put Sheffield on that map? It would help me greatly in placing my dot.

stu · Post by **stu** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:55 am

Greetings all. My dot is on the map around the Darlington area.

Also, I own the gentoo.org.uk domain name and can make it available for this if it's wanted.

ciaranm · Post by **ciaranm** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:32 pm

lizardloop wrote:Could you put Sheffield on that map? It would help me greatly in placing my dot.

Blech, I just nicked a public domain map from wikipedia. I suck at UK geography, so anything other than co-ordinates or "two pixels to the left of the London star" is too confusing

Deebster · Post by **Deebster** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:20 am

I just went to Multimap, stuck my postcode in and zoomed out.

boroshan · Post by **boroshan** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:10 am

What ho! Sunderland, going on Stockton-on-Tees.

I'd be up for a gathering sometime, or at least I'd try and get there anyway.

I can't see much scope for a website other than as a social calendar for the group. I mean it's not like gentoo runs differently in the UK, there's little in the way of language issues and I18N to consider. There might be scope for some news items - gentoo related projects and happenings in the UK, maybe some political discusion.

I can't think of much else that wouldn't be of interest to the wider community - and if is of interest to the wider community then it probably belongs on the forums.gentoo.org boards.

Just my two haporth, obviously

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