[Lancaster] Last night's meeting . . .

[Wayne Ward]

sounds good sorry coudnt make it stuck onsite till 10 last night :)

Wayne 
On 2 Jun 2011, at 09:30, jonath wrote:

> Me, Andy and Dave turned up. Mark popped in briefly. So at least I can
> put three names to faces, as it were.
> 
> Anyway . . . it seemed like much was discussed last night but the main thing:
> 
> Andy was talking about setting up some kind of Wordpress training
> sessions, just covering the basics of setting up a web-site, perhaps
> aimed at the novice users. I then mentioned my idea of setting up some
> kind of computing help and support session, and perhaps how Andy's
> Wordpress training idea could emerge from that. Andy could probably
> elaborate further as to his plan, but I'll go into detail about this
> 'help and support session' idea that I've come up with.
> 
> For a start, it probably needs a snappier title but the idea is this:
> we hire out a room somewhere (The Gregson?!) for an evening where we
> have some kind of open session, whereby people can wander in with
> their computing problems and we try to help them out. We'll have a few
> PCs / lap-tops set up and working with some flavour of Linux; I reckon
> Ubuntu, as that seems to be the easiest to get set up and working.
> Perhaps also we have a few very basic PCs available for sale . . . I'm
> thinking the kind of PC that people usually take to the tip, but which
> would work perfectly well with Linux installed . . . although perhaps
> if we've obtained these PCs for free, we can give them away for free
> too (?!). See, I reckon there must be hundreds of people in Lancaster
> for whom: can't afford a PC, have some kind of hideous virus/malware
> infested Windows-based PC, have a PC but want to do more with it, etc.
> I guess being a Linux User Group, we would be highlighting the
> benefits of using Linux, but I wouldn't want this to be the focus and
> if people had problems / queries about their Windows-based PC, we
> would try to help out.
> 
> When I explained the above to Dave and Andy, Andy mentioned that
> similar things have been set up in other cities (I think Manchester
> was mentioned), so it might be good to arrange a trip out.
> 
> Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone else thought of this idea.
> Bad idea? Good idea? Is it possible? Worthwhile?
> 
> jonathan
> 
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Regards,
Wayne ward

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