Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Cheer

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Author: Peter Salisbury
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Christmas Cheer
I did give a talk a while back to a BCS group (OSHUG) about "Ownership
and Gift; Open Source and God; How a Vicar values Open Source" which
they put up on YouTube. If you ever have 22 minutes of your life with
nothing better to do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHl59C5qMqM&t=7s

Best wishes, Peter




On 17 December 2017 at 11:27, Gareth <auxinelectro@???> wrote:
> It makes me happy that the vicar of Lymington is an open source fan :-)
> makes me glad I am on this list!
>
> Happy Christmas everyone :-)
>
> Gareth
>
>
> On 16 Dec 2017 8:06 p.m., "Peter Salisbury via Hampshire"
> <hampshire@???> wrote:
>
> Thanks Roger,
> Just to complete the Open Source story, the hardware running the
> WS2812B lights (an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi) and the lights
> themselves were paid for by a Lymington Open Source software company,
> Embecosm, who specialise in super-optimising compilers for the gnu
> toolchain.
> Best wishes, peterthevicar
> Peter Salisbury, Vicar of Lymington
>
> On 12 December 2017 at 20:17, Roger Munford via Hampshire
> <hampshire@???> wrote:
>> I found myself in Lymington the other evening with a couple of hours to
>> pass
>> whilst waiting for my wife.
>>
>> As luck would have it, they were switching on the Christmas lights that
>> day
>> so I thought I would go and enjoy the carols at the church.
>>
>> As even more luck would have it, the MC was Peter Soulsby whose name would
>> be very familiar with older members of the LUG. Peter also baptised both
>> my
>> children before moving to Lymington.
>>
>> I had a few words with Peter afterwards and was pleased to find out that
>> he
>> had built an app so that anybody could choose the pattern of Christmas
>> lights on the church. Open Source of course.
>>
>> You can also do it from the website http://www.lymingtonchurch.org.uk/
>>
>> You cant keep a good lugger down.
>>
>> Seasons Greetings
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
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