[Fsuk-manchester] Re: The Return of The Basement

[Simon Ward]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:12:30PM +0000, Tim Dobson wrote:
> Hi Dave
> 
> For those of us who couldn't get to FSUK-Manchester meeting, or don't
> spend much time in central manchester, perhaps you would like to
> explain what is meant by:
> 
> *The Basement
> *the IT Working Group
> *The History behind the whole thing
> *An idea of what you propose about this cluster, and FSUK's involvement in it.

The following should be a start:

    http://thebasement.clearerchannel.org/new/

> I suggest we attempt to make the proposed cluster a showcase of
> desktop GNU/Linux

You know, I’m all for free software, I advocate it where possible; the
Basement guys apparently do too.  But when you talk about making
something a showcase for GNU/Linux, I get a little put off.  You don’t
“make” something a showcase.

I’m sure plenty of opinions on that will differ here…

> Oh and if you can talk nicely to matt lee, go for it.

Already done, I believe.

Simon
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