[ILUG] ILUG @ ICT Expo ... and a POTD

[Niall Walsh]

Hi all,

as I said previously, ILUG will have a small stand this year at the ICT 
Expo where you can all come along, meet up, peruse the show (including 
the OpenIreland talks 
http://www.openireland.org/sections/openireland-online/2006_04_28_ict-expo-talks) 
and perhaps make a donation to ILUG?

On the stand we will have a few machines demonstrating remote desktops 
in a similar fashion to what is used in one of our Third Level colleges 
where it was initially implemented simply as a solution to poor webmail 
solutions.   We will also be reminding people about the fact there is an 
active FOSS community in Ireland by doing a little cross promotion of 
the upcoming Akademy conference in Trinity.

We will also have a wide range of iso images available for people to 
burn on the stand along with some Ubuntu CD's for the less particular or 
more impatient masses.   This will include a good few DVD iso images 
(such as KNOPPIX, CentOS and Debian).   Anyone coming along who wants to 
make a simple donation could drop us some discs, cd's or dvd's.   Any 
surplus will be available for future ILUG events.   If you want to bring 
us along some pre-burnt discs of your favourite distro go right ahead.

After wrapping up the show on Friday I'm proposing a POTD in Pembroke 
Cricket Club just across the Dart-Line from the RDS:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=&near=&t=h&om=1&ll=53.326003,-6.220622&spn=0.01056,0.023539 


On this map, you can see the RDS on the left and Pembroke on the 
right.   From the RDS head south/east along Merrion Road until 
Sandymount Avenue, cross the dart line (Sandymount Station is here) and 
take the first right on to Wilfield Road, at the end of which is a gate 
into the grounds.   If you are driving (or coming from Synday Parade 
dart station) the entrance to the grounds is on Park Avenue (the other 
side of the ground) beside St Johns.   To any rugby players the grounds 
are shared with Monkstown Rugby club and to anyone who was there in the 
past the bar was renovated last season :-)    For an added bonus, if the 
weather allows it, you should be able to enjoy the background of our 
Womens 1st XI playing their first friendly of the season.   Of course 
the real highlight is the extra change you will get at the bar compared 
to the local pubs.

See you all somewhere along the way I hope?

Niall Walsh