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Northern LIG meeting in Edale

Nestling under the bluff of Kinder Scout, half way between Sheffield and Manchester , the small village of Edale seemed an idyllic location for a summer meeting of STC UK 's Northern "Local Interest Group". In the event, dreams of lazing in the summer sunshine turned out to be just that. But even in heavy rain on a cool July day, ten of us met for a convivial evening at the Rambler Inn. Over drinks and bar meals (the "Rambler Pie" was a big hit, and the cooks had clearly found some very tender ramblers) there was relaxed discussion of the merits of Word versus FrameMaker, the role of XML for a technical author and whether it is better to be a sole trader or to set up a limited company. And the competition for the most unclear sentence ever written had so many contenders that we were unable to identify a clear winner.

The evening was so enjoyable that the Northern LIG plan to hold social meetings every few weeks in Manchester or Sheffield (well, strictly speaking, in both Manchester AND Sheffield , taking it in turns).

If you'd like to join us in the totally informal Northern LIG , then send them the following URL and they can sign themselves up to the mailing list:

http://lists.stc.org/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=stc_uklignorth

(Click on the "join STC_uklignorth" button in the middle of the web page).