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</div>By charging them for support? Why not just organise a car pool to the<br>
usual meets?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>You're missing the point</div><div><br></div><div>What Jake is working on is a short introduction course to linux. Regular sessions to cover the basic needs of a user either switch from windows to linux or with very little computer experience to begin with. These are not aimed at uber geeks or power users of either linux or windows. Think ECDL but with a Linux slant.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The usual klug meets probably aren't the right place for this. Talks on xen, hackable laptops and ebook formats are way over the head of users who just what to check their email and play a movie. IMHO mailing lists and IRC are also pretty useless for this kind of user (I think their are several lurkers on this list who will agree with me). It's a different target audience and one that is growing thanks to the exposure of distros like ubuntu and mint, and due to the popularity of netbooks. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If further down the line klug gets some more members as a result of this then even better and certainly klug will try to support and help out were possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Jake is charging to cover the room hire as finding suitable free places to meet is incredibly hard. Anyone who has actually tried to find a room for klug will agree with this. </div>
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