BradLUG Meeting - Weds 25th Aug 2010

[Bradford LUG]

I can't remember if the August or the September meeting is our official 2nd birthday - perhaps Dave C or Dick can enlighten us?

The only birthday plan so far is that there will be cake (the cake is not a lie) - any more suggestions for the birthday party?

[johnhudson]

September according to the official history.

[Bradford LUG]

Oh well, I may just have to do some practice cakes for August anyway. I doubt there would be too many complaints

[johnhudson]

I've just looked back through my calendar and find I have a Bradlug meeting in my calendar for 20 August 2008 - so is the history inaccurate or was that just one of the preliminary meetings?

[caprenter]

I've always thought as the September one as being the proper first meeting, cos we had more than 3 people! There was a pub meeting, and one at C8 with just 3 of us, and I think it was September when suddenly we had 10 people in a room.

I'm not 100% sure, but seems as though it'll do.

[xpd259]

there were quite a few meetings before every one else joined in
I remember David C, Rich B and my self for a few months alone at C8

according to the wlug mailing list
mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wylug-announce.mbox/wylug-announce.mbox
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Friday 4th July, 8pm
Myrtle Grove Pub, Bingley (Wetherspoons, Bingley Main Street)

A few weeks ago I asked if there were GNU/Linux-y people in the Bradford
Area that wanted to meet up - and there were, so...

Just a reminder that there will be a meeting this Friday, 4th July at
8pm.

I don't really have a good venue at the moment, but we're going with the
Myrle Grove Pub in Bingley (It's the big Weatherspoons opposite the
Bradford and Bingley building)

I know it's probably not the best place on a Friday night at 8pm, but
I'm a bit stuck for alternatives.

I plan to get to the next WYLUG meeting in Leeds, so I can take word
from Bradford to that.

I'll be hanging around the entrance with a red and black Karrimor
Rucksack/backpack and I'll try to make sure there's a penguin on display
somewhere.

Hope to see people there.

All the best
David Carpenter

so we have missed out real birthday but I guess we could have more then one

[richardb]

I remember the one in bingley as the first meeting
I think it was myself David C and dick but I may
be wrong.


rich

[Bradford LUG]

Details of this month's meeting then:

http://http://bradlug.co.uk/?p=524

HTML 5: The Hype and Some Alternative Realities – Dave Fisher
What’s Actually New in HTML and What Isn’t in it at all

Unsurprisingly, they often got the wrong end of the stick; misled by corporate PR hyping browser and platform capabilities with only indirect relationships to HTML5.

As a consequence, both end-users and coders may be forgiven for conflating clever graphical tricks in CSS3 and JavaScript with HTML5. As may the multimedia professionals who mistakenly believe that HTML5 is some kind of H.264-based Flash-killer.

This talk attempts to clarify what HTML5 actually aims to do, what browsers can currently do with it, and what a wider range of software could potentially do with it.

The talk will identify the evolutionary and revolutionary differences between HTML5 and the current standards for HTML and XHTML. In so doing, it should enable both web developers and open source advocates to get a better grasp of the decisions and conflicts that lie before them.

[Bradford LUG]

And there will be the usual socialness before the meeting too:

4.30 onwards - Caffe Nero on Market St in Bradford, look out for the penguin and/or the geeks

6.00 onwards - Pizza Pieces on Market St in Bradford

7.00 - BradLUG meeting at Bradford CVS (http://www.bradfordcvs.org.uk/html/BCVS_about/contact.html)

Post-meeting pubbery (yeah, I made that word up) in the Sir Titus Salt (http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-sir-titus-salt)

See you all there!