Manchester BSD User Group - May
Paul Robinson
paul at iconoplex.co.uk
Thu Apr 26 12:26:08 UTC 2007
The next Manchester BSD User Group meeting is this coming Tuesday, May 1st.
Communists and Pagans amongst you will be aware that this coincides with
International Workers' Day or May Day respectively. As such, this
month's meeting will include the following:
- Going on strike! Well, for as long as it takes to sing a satirical
version of The Red Flag, anyway
- Morris dancing, as led by Bob using bags of crisps in lieu of bells on
the knees and pint glasses in place of sticks
- Offerings to the great daemon 'init' from which all the (BSD) World is
spawned
- Cider. Please beware of the John after three pints.
- BSD May Queen. This year the tipsters can't call between Richard and
Paul Johnston: whoever is wearing the nicest dress on the night will
clinch it
- Fertility rites: get the commands to burn your own FreeBSD ISOs
tattooed onto your forearm
- Maypole dancing: actually, it'll be a bar stool, and it'll be more
like stumbling rather than dancing, but it's the thought that counts
- The Green Man: a man covered in vegetation will walk through the city
centre as part of a traditional ceremony before arriving at The Briton's
Protection. Actually, it'll just be me without having a shave for a few
days and some mouldy kebab juice in my beard and on my clothes, but
it'll look almost the same
I am of course making all of this up[*]. Unless people *really* want to
do any of these things, we will as usual sit around talking nonsense at
each other about what we've been up to in the way of systems
administration and weird development.
[*] Except for the bits about cider and kebab juice, probably.
What/Who?
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The Manchester BSD User Group is a group of people who meet once a month
in a pub in central Manchester. It's a friendly/social event and we
don't do talks or presentations. We chat about various technical things
that matter to us, but mostly it's a chance for people to hang out more
than anything
Where?
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The Briton's Protection pub on Great Bridgewater Street, in central
Manchester. We normally occupy a large-ish area in one of the rooms
around the back, but now the evenings are getting lighter if it's warm
and sunny we may head out to the beer garden.
The Briton's is a traditional English pub with real ale, quality lager,
a range of soft drinks and an excellent selection of crisps. I believe
they do food of a high quality, but don't know what time they stop serving.
When?
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We always meet on the first Tuesday of each calendar month. The next
meeting is on Tuesday the 1st May, and June's meeting will be held on
the 5th June. We normally drift in to the place around 7:30pm, and most
people drift off sometime between 9pm and 10pm.
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