[EdLUG] May Meeting | Emulators talk, EdLUG's online visibilty

Thu Apr 18 16:22:46 UTC 2019

On 18 April 2019 17:13:05 BST, tengo at tutanota.de wrote:
>Hi,
>
>the latest meetup was the first I have attended and it was nice to be
>welcomed by everyone I spoke to. Thank you.
>
>Here' some suggestion for the EdiLUG online presence...
> 
>Event planning/listing:
>https://gettogether.community/about/
><https://gettogether.community/about/> - There doesn't seem to be much
>for Edinburgh listed. However,  they're open-source and appear to have
>nice goals.
>
>Online presence:
>https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors <https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors> -
>Like twitter, but not :)
>
>Online community:
>IRC? I don't have much experience using IRC, and most of what I do have
>has only been recently, but there are still a lot people using it and
>many mobile apps to choose from.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>J.
>-----------
>
>
>
>8 Apr 2019, 17:56 by dch.tai at gmail.com:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In this mail:
>>
>> * Meetups / venue
>> * May talk
>> * EdLUG online presence
>> * EdLUG online community / chat
>>
>> TL;DR =
>>
>> 1. We're at the Royal Dick for the next three months, booked into the
>private room
>> 2. May's meetup is a talk, about writing emulators for the NES and
>Atari 8800, and how fun it is :-)
>> 3. Is there anywhere we can have presence online that helps us gain
>visibility, and that also chimes with our "open and free" ethos?
>> 4. Slack or Riot.im ? Have you used either or know groups who have
>used them for community building?
>>
>> +++ Venue
>>
>> There was a good turnout last week for the April meetup, thanks
>everyone who attended, hope it was enjoyable for all! I was able to
>attend in person after all, and book us in formally for the next few
>months - so we're sorted for May, June and July.
>>
>> When we were in, we happened to coincide with a gig night somewhere
>else in the building, and most of the people going to it were in the
>bar, making for a loud atmosphere. A couple members highlighted that
>this would not be convenient for talks.
>>
>> I've had a talk with the bar manager and booked us in therefore for
>the next three meetings to use the private room. I've even bought a
>portable projector screen, and I have a portable HDMI projector to use
>with it. Fingers crossed, this setup will work *flawlessly*. *ahem*
>>
>> +++ May meetup: talk
>>
>> I had more or less planned to do a talk myself for the May meetup
>around the changes to the website ; however that plan has changed.
>>
>> An exchange student from Canada, Rhys, whom I met at March's
>TechMeetup, was there too, and was showing us some stuff he had done
>with emulators, all very fascinating stuff which got much attention. I
>asked if he could do a talk, and the last month he could do was May,
>after which his exchange programme ends and he will be returning to
>Canada.
>>
>> Therefore, I've pushed back my talk - I will probably do it in June -
>and Rhys will be taking the May slot. Look forward to it!
>>
>> Event details on Open Tech Calendar [1]:
>>
>> Writing an Emulator to Run Ancient Software on a Modern Computer
>>
>> Writing an emulator that can run 30+ year old software on a modern
>computer is incredibly fun, and easier than you'd think. This talk will
>give an overview of how emulators work, and include demos of emulators
>for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Altair 8800, going over how
>they work at the source code level. No knowledge of computer hardware
>will be assumed.
>>
>>
>> +++ Online presence
>>
>> I've been wanting to find a way of giving better visibility to the
>events that we do (currently, meetups and talks, but more perhaps
>later).
>>
>> I've set up a "facebook page" [2] and hope to garner more interest
>from that front, but it feels.... wrong to be on that platform, given
>our "open and free" ethos. Is there a better place for us to be, that
>has visibility? Our presence on the Open Tech Calendar is a good start,
>where else can we be?
>>
>> +++ Online community
>>
>> The other part of this query is, I've been wanting to explore having
>a more "lively" online resource where people can easily come to talk,
>share information, tips, and generally create a more active online
>community around EdLUG, perhaps even giving rise to even more informal
>and impromptu gatherings -- without swamping the mailing list with
>inbox noise.
>>
>> Slack is popular for this purpose, but is non-Free.
>>
>> A more open solution is Riot [3] (requires an account on a
>third-party instance, by default Matrix.org), which also allows users
>to host their own server as an option. I'd still have to do some
>research on whether one can take one's data with them when switching
>instances, but Matrix.org does have a good Privacy Policy [4], which
>implements Right to be Forgotten
>>
>> I'd be interested in people's thoughts here, whether anybody has
>chosen to use either Riot.im or Slack for building an engaged community
>or know of any who have.
>>
>>
>>
>> Both this and the previous question come from the idea of EdLUG
>having stated its purpose as being to "promote the use of Linux and
>Free Software in the Edinburgh community." Let's get this goal back to
>front and centre!
>>
>> +++
>>
>> Thanks all, hopefully see everybody next month for Rhys's talk, and
>keep those penguins running!
>>
>> [1]: > https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8227
><https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8227>
>> [2]: > https://www.facebook.com/edinburgh.lug/
><https://www.facebook.com/edinburgh.lug/>
>> [3]: > https://about.riot.im/ <https://about.riot.im/>
>> [4]: > https://matrix.org/_matrix/consent
><https://matrix.org/_matrix/consent>
>>
>>
>> ===
>> Tai Kedzierski
>> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
>>
>>
>> I use > LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/>>  , a free,
>Freedom-respecting replacement for MS Office
>>
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>>  > https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
><https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software>

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