2004-01-29

From ScotLUG

Bob Kerr gave an enthusiastic talk about his efforts to bring Free Software to Scottish libraries.

What started (in his own words) as a five minute talk became a lively hour with several interesting questions posed.

Afterwards, things returned to the scheduled program, with a passionate (and sometimes heated) discussion about the future of the LUG, and our role in the wider scheme of things.

Once we had retired to the pub, things became a bit more relaxed, we had a fairly large group (around 30), and took up most of the "family-area".

The discussion about Bob's evangelism continued, with some attempt at distilling a plan to convince Glasgow school libraries to take on OpenOffice for lending to pupils, and other likely candidates were discussed, both people/organisations to approach, and software that could be distributed.

We had a few new faces, as always, and Kyle and Chris engaged him in a discussion about Samba and the lack of documentation.

Edward continued his WikiPedia evangelism.

By around 11pm, people were drifting off, Bob Kerr made his last train to Edinburgh at 11:30, with the suggestion that there should be more communication between Scotlug and Edlug (he has proposed a pub-crawl) and promised he'd get us into the inner circle that is Edlug.