L&D Area Network Club

23 Jun 01
St Marys Church Dunstable: Video of Midsummer Fayre with Betty Boop Band
Starlight Youth Steel Band: Video of Rehearsal
Methodist Church Dunstable: Video of Festival of Christian Music

22 Jun 01
Many thanks to the Contributing Organisations / Individuals
Revised Description of About the Club (MS Word 6)
Revised Description of Technical Summary of Wireless Networking (MS Word 6)

15 Jun 01
Kids 'n' Computers, Luton: Animations created by 6 to 13yr olds

10 Jun 01
Grove House Gardens: Video of Dunstable Salvation Army Band

3 Jun 01
Grove House Gardens: Video of Vauxhall Concert Band

31 May 01
Sent letter (MS Word 6) to 51 local schools inviting them to join network

28 May 01
Luton International Carnival: Full video coverage of the big fun day.
Also see www.lutoncarnival.co.uk

23 May 01
Revised Draft Club Constitution

17 May 01
Progress Report to Consume TheNet Mailing List

16 May 01
Discussion with Simon Bright, Luton BC Response on Consume Acceptability and Support
See entry for 12 Apr 01.

15 May 01
Checked meeting room availability/costs at Lea Manor, Hockwell, Farley, and Lewsey Community Centres.
Community Music: Recorded Lunchtime Recital by Shirley Woods and Serena Kerash (Piano duet)
Email from Adam Laurie: Consume Technical Workshop on 23 May 01

13 May 01
Discussion with Mintu (Luton Lives/LBC) and Glyn Davies (L&D Hospital Radio) about interfacing Diverse 107.7 fm Radio and Hospital Radio to Consume net and about transfer of programmes between the two local radios. Arranged to meet their engineer (Joe) to sort out technical side. Also could possibly involve Luton University Radio.

12 May 01
Setup Community Music service collection with 10Gb of local music (MP3)

10 May 01
Technical Report: Orinoco Setup and Performance Test Results Out-of-the-Box

9 May 01
Took delivery of Orinoco RG-1000 Kit and ISA Converter.

8 May 01
Community Music: Recorded Lunchtime Recital by Anthony Stuchbury (baritone) and David Philips (piano)

7 May 01
Community Video Service: Recorded Dunstable Carnival

2 May 01
Setup Community Games service collection - a freeware games library

2 May 01
Setup Community Video service collection with 20Gb of local video (mostly swimming) at 320x240 pixels (playable at fullscreen) with playback speed of 300-400Kbit/s

29 Apr 01
Placed advert for club meetings in Herald and Post and in Luton On Sunday.

23 Apr 01
Community Video Service: USS Lutonia Science Fiction Club:- Prepared 400Kbps full screen RealMedia video and audio interviews with (Spaceship) Admiral Andy Fazekas. Here's a low frame rate 56Kbps version for Internet modems Video (which will play fullscreen) and audio interview. See also www.uss-lutonia.org for club details. See also other Events to be Covered.

19 Apr 01
Investigated meeting rooms for regular club meetings. Please e-mail/phone for details of next meeting.

12 Apr 01
Email from Clive Leach: Luton BC Response on Consume Acceptability and Support

10 Apr 01
Registered with Luton Lives to get volunteers to assist with videoing and digitisation of video for the community network video service. Promotional videos are to cover all L&D clubs, voluntary organistations and their events as a free service.

5 Apr 01
Started list of Local Events to be Covered / Already Covered
Proposed Cache Service

21 Mar 01
Report on a Meeting at Marsh Farm Community Development Trust

20 Mar 01
Report on meeting at Luton Lives

19 Mar 01
Report on meeting at L&D Hospital Radio

9 Mar 01
LanDclub Provisional Terms & Conditions for Operational Membership Drafted
(Changed title from "Peering Agreement" 6 Mar 01)

5 Mar 01
To L&D clubs: "Webcast Awards" Digital Arts Competition 2001 (Word DOC)

3 Mar 01
Email from James Stevens: press, node db, node clinics

26 Feb 01
URGENT REQUEST: PLEASE JOIN THE COMMITTEE
LanDclub Provisional Statement on ISP Connection Requirements
LanDclub Provisional Statement on the RIP Issue
E-mailed reply to Kemi Odu: Wireless Integration Research

25 Feb 01
E-mail from Kemi Odu: Wireless Integration Research

21 Feb 01
Links to clubs, equipment, software and regulators added

16 Feb 01
Revised Plan

15 Feb 01
Results of test survey carried out on 15 Feb 01
Left poster in the Computel Computer Shop

13 Feb 01
Received the Swimsite networking Challenge

11 Feb 01
Help needed on the Committee

7 Feb 01
Pat Daly of Luton Borough Council phoned on behalf of Clive Leach (Head of Community Education and Development Dept): They have collected their input and are consolidating it into a reply for us.

6 Feb 01
Received Report on Consume Meeting #5 - by James Stevens

5 Feb 01
Attended Consume Meeting #5 in Lindon EC2: Agenda/Notes

30 Jan 01
Progress Report - End Jan 2001

21 Jan 01
Emailed Dunstable College IT
Emailed Luton University Media Arts
Emailed Eastern Arts Board
Emailed Reply to Luton Borough Council re. their IT Dept.

18 Jan 01
Consume produced a new List of Products and Prices (New Link)
Interim reply from Luton Borough Council:
They are passing our note to the Planning Dept
and "Luton Lives" Community Radio project.

17 Jan 01
Emailed local colleges

16 Jan 01
Emailed more Lutonians

13 Jan 01
Acknowledgement from Luton Borough Council (reply to follow)

12 Jan 01
Visted Welbeck Centre - discussed and left details
Visited Project NOAH - left details
Visited Bury Park Community Training Centre
Replied to Jerry Crick, Flitton node

11 Jan 01
Contacted by Jerry Crick, of neighbouring 'Ward Hedges One' Flitton node
Visted Lewsey Centre - left details/poster
Visited Lewsey Library - left details/poster
Visited Dunstable Library - left details/poster
Visited S. Beds. Council/Dunstable Council - left details/poster
Revised local website.

10 Jan 01
Emailed more friends asking for support.
Registered friends in database.
Checked map at 10Km. Put on Local website.

9 Jan 01
Reply from Consume (Adam Laurie) about access to software

6 Jan 01
Registered friends in database.
Report on Meeting at University IT
Emailed Andrew Lee for University Colleagues
Emailed Consume (Adam Laurie) about access to software

5 Jan 01
Visited Luton University IT Dept. - discussed and left details.
Visited Luton Library to get addresses of local clubs and organisations.

4 Jan 0
Reply from Arndale Centre

2 Jan 0
Checked about promotion in the Luton Arndale Centre.
Prepared and posted letter to Luton Borough Council. (MS Word DOC)
E-mailed Luton University IT Dept.
Visited Luton Central Library - discussed and left details.
Reply from Haynes Computer Club about request for help at Luton Computer Fair.

1 Jan 01
E-mailed some Friends requesting support.
E-mailed Haynes Computer Club requesting help at Luton Computer Fair. and again

31 Dec 00
Started Website.
Prepared Poster and other promotional material

30 Dec 00
Started Club.
Drafted Outline of Club
Consume established a Node Database and Node Mapping

15 Oct 00
Consume Mail Server set up with subscription mailing lists covering:
TheNet (general), Routing, Nodes, Resources, Announcements, CVS, Sysadmin and Archives

10 Oct 00
Started following activities of consume on their website.
The Website contains:

A "Download" of Products/Prices (now superseded)

FAQs

a cvs Software repository

and lots of speculative e-mails.

10 Jul 04