To everyone attending the Xmas dinner, at Carluccios, on 12th, we have 10 people yet to choose their menu preference ie. £20 or £30. You do not have to chose the actual meals of the menus, just one or the other. The menus can be viewed by following this link:
Christmas Menus
If you do not choose a menu you will be eating from the £20 menu. Wine can be chosen on the evening.
We also need at least half of you to pay your deposits as requested in this post:
http://www.glug.co.uk/archives/3626
In the interests of a smoothly run evening could you now choose your menu and pay your deposit.
Thanks
Charlie

I feel I should throw out a timely reminder about the comments system on the forum because I fear that there may be some confusion over how it works. We also altered this only last month meaning that not everyone will have read and understood the minutes… frankly I doubt anyone understood the live version so what hope from the minutes?!

Ok, here’s my attempt at a plain English description of how comments work.

If you put up a post on the site, you will receive an email whenever anyone leaves a comment on that post, even yourself! Those messages are now (as of last month) more friendly and don’t refer to having to ‘approve’ comments etc.

If you leave a comment on a post, you will receive an email should anyone reply to your comment.

Now, comments can be left as a ‘comment to the post’ or as a ‘reply to a comment on a post’. The latter is achieved by using one of the ‘reply to Bob’ links.

Each reply to a comment is indented and thus a cascading conversation can be built with all participants receiving a notification of each new reply.

What should be avoided is leaving a comment which (as it reads) is a reply as an existing comment as a normal comment on the post because only the post’s author will be informed and that’s unlikely to be what was intended.

Equally, the only way to contact all those who received the post (e.g. to announce something) is to post again – an issue to weigh up there… leave a comment and hope people visit the post and read it or is it too important to chance in which case a new post it’ll have to be!

Not perfect I know and I have plans… in time! But I felt it worth explaining so everyone understands who is and who isn’t going to be told about the existence of your comments when you leave them.

Cheers

Mark
(Webmaster)

http://www.glug.co.uk/archives/3461
Hi everyone.
I am really pleased that this trip is now half full which is quite exceptional, at this early stage!
As a note of caution to those of you considering this exciting trip, when the dust has settled on Xmas & The New Year, ‘Blue Seas’ will fill up quickly. Please do not miss out!

Charlie

The new trips system is now ‘live’: www.glug.co.uk/trips-page (you do need to make sure that you are logged in otherwise you will only get the list!)

Hint: Click the green ‘play’ button to interact with a trip and the ‘eject’ symbol to expand and collapse the trip details within the list.

Unfortunately this isn’t be best timing possible because this new feature is not finished and certainly not bug free however… it has to go live sometime and one sure way to find the bugs is to let people loose with it!

Before we go too far, this is a limited trial/test so if you are a trip organiser, for now please do not try to load your trips onto this new system – I’ll tell you when you can do so. The old Events system will remain live for now though I hope to not drag out the switch over too long.

I’m trialling the 2010 UK dive trips which Corinne organises on the new system first. These are now live and bookings are open. The traditional forms are avilable freely as .doc and pdf files from within the system. For the moment payment is via cheque (post or at the AGM etc) but that hopefully will be addressed shortly.

I would ask that people do register an interest or book using the new system and complete the online form. I am aware that the online booking forms are not operating perfectly and although your entries will be stored in the database, the trip organiser won’t at present have access to them – to be addressed soon.

Much of the styling is also yet to be finalised so if the colour scheme leaves you reaching for your sun glasses don’t panic!

If (or rather when) it all goes horribly wrong please do drop me an email with details of what happened (if there’s an error message copy and paste it!), what you were trying to do and which browser you were using – that way I’ll have a chance of fixing the problem.

It should ‘work’ with most browsers however you never know and for now this will remain off the iPhone themed plugin so normal safari browsing only please!

You may see a test trip (farily obviously not real) please ignore this as it’s there for my testing purposes and will appear/disappear randomly.

Now, ideally I’d be doing this at a time when I could dedicate plenty of time to fixing bugs, finishing off features and bolting on new stuff… however that’s not to be. So, while I will do me best to address any issues raised ASAP, the response times may be significantly worse than perhaps some have been use to of late.

Hopefully though you’ll all like this new feature as it is and in time I hope it will look and feel a lot more polished than it currently is… but everything has to start somewhere!

Cheers

Mark
(webmaster)

If you are booked for the Christmas Meal – we now need your deposit!

Christmas Meal deposits can be paid via PayPal. To compensate for fees charged by PayPal when using a direct link, the amount you will be charged is £10.56. For those willing to follow instructions carefully, it is possible to pay exactly £10 and avoid all fees.

For a simple life pay £10.56 for your £10 deposit using this link: Pay £10.56 via PayPal

If you have a PayPal account and will pay from your PayPal balance and/or from a linked bank account (i.e. NO credit or debt card funding!) then you can send a payment of £10 following these instructions VERY CAREFULLY to avoid fees being charged.

Login to your PayPal account

Click on ‘Send Money’

Select the ‘Personal’ tab on the form THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

Enter £10 in the Amount box

Enter in the email address box

Continue to the next step and confirm that the line ‘Glug will receive’ says ‘£10.00 GBP’

If your PayPal account uses an email address which isn’t registered on the GLUG website please use the form at the bottom to advise me who is paying!

Click ‘Send Money’

I hope all is clear!

Cheers Doug

GLUG XMAS DINNER @ CARLUCCIOS COVENT GARDEN 12TH DECEMBER 7.30pm

Hi Party People. We have now booked the private dining room at Carluccios. Below is, a definitive list of those who are coming, totaling 34, leaving a couple more places available. There are two menus to choose from. For ease of purposes, at this stage, Carluccios would like to know, which menu you prefer. Please reply as soon as possible. Vegetarians and vegans will be catered for. Thanks guys and girls.

MENUS in pdf format are available by clicking here.

DOUG Y
CHARLIE S
ANNA B + 1
TAKAKI
FIONA W
SONJA W
DEBBIE P
VAL C
MARTIN S
NEIL S
IGNACIO
MARTIN C-B
ALISON B
BEN B
ALAN L
JAMES W
HELEN B
IAN C
KARL
RICHARD
FRED
ADAM P
MIKE J
YASS
BRAIN B
PETER
JEFF
KEN
EMMA
NAOMI
TIM G
MARTIN M
MARK V

Hi all
Could someone post the link to that filter again? I’d like to download it again and I can’t find the original post or the filter anywhere else.
Thanks!
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Dear GLUGgers – I am in the process of putting together the Agenda for the AGM.

Have any of you got any points that you would like raised?  If so, please leave a comment, and I’ll try to add it to the Agenda rather than you having to wait until AOB!

Cheers

Doug

Hi GLUGgers,

The venue I have been able to book us into, if we want it is Carluccio’s in Covent Garden – very convenient considering the location of the AGM.

Depending on the number of GLUGgers going we may have a private room!  The room, however, requires a mimimum spend of, glup £1000!  Mind you – if 30 of us attend, as in previous years, that would only mean sheeling out about £35 each including drink!  Anyway, please find below the list of people that have already said they would like to come – if you would like to attend and have not yet let me know, or if your name does not appear – please do let me know asap!

Cheers

Doug

List of meal attendees (in no particular order)

Alison B

Anna B + 1

Ben B

Takaki

Alan L

Sonja W + 1

Debbie P

Val C

Martin M

Charlie S

James W

Helen B

Ian C and Karl

Richard and Fred

Oh yes, Me!

The minutes for the last meeting are now available on the Welcome Page.

Hi Fellow GLUGgers,

The AGM this year will be at 3.00pm at the Phoenix Artists Bar (where we hold our monthly meetings) on Saturday December 12th.  This will be followed by our Christmas Dinner.  Can you please respond to this post letting us know whether you will be attending the AGM, the AGM and Dinner, or purely the dinner.

The venue for the Christmas Dinner has yet to be decided – which is where you come in!   In order for us to secure a reasonable menu and price, we need to know how many GLUGgers are intending to come along – could you please let us know if you would like to come to the dinner, and also let us know what type of food would suit you – Italian, Steak, Traditional Christmas, Thai, etc, so that we can find somewhere able to take us!

As time is running out – could you please respond by the evening of Friday 6th November.

As an aside, due to the fact that we are having the AGM, there will be NO Monthly GLUG Meeting in December, and also the January Meeting will be the second Tuesday of January (Tuesday 12th).

Cheers

Doug

The agenda for the meeting tomorrow night is now available from the welcome page.

Hope to see many of you there.

Mark
(Webmaster)

For any underwater photographers who don’t already look at this online magazine I recommend it.  It’s published every two months and can be downloaded at www.uwpmag.com. (You have to register, but you don’t get any spam etc. – just an email to tell you when the next edition is available.)

I also have a short article in this edition – ‘Parting Shot’ (at the end of the mag) based on a photo I took on the GLUG trip to the Red Sea in September. 

Alan