<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:12pt">Yes, I can definitley feel an afternoon in a Preston coffee house coming on!<br><br>Mark</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>From:Olly Clark via Preston <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent:Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:37:01 +0100<br>To:markwalton1967@aol.com,Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Subject:Re: [Preston] A LUG needs a purpose<br><br></span>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> Hi Mark,<br>
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Long time, no see, glad to here from you again, I would definitely
be up for reviving Preston LUG. Think the idea of having an
informal meet up to discuss how proceed and in what direction as
you have pointed out there needs to be a goal which helps capture
the enthusiasm of it's members.<br>
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<b>Olly Clark<br>
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On 11/07/16 21:10, Mark Walton via Preston wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1468267829.32648.1@smtp.aol.com" type="cite">Hi
there,
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<div>I've spent some of the recent rainy weekends putting together
an LTSP server based on Linux Mint with XFCE.</div>
<div>I got there by starting with Edubuntu 14.04, then my own
build on Ubuntu 16.04 and finally working through the forums to
get Mint 17.3 to build.</div>
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<div>Now it's up and running it's ridiculously easy to host thin
clients (old Gigabyte Brix) from my equally old netbook. loaded
with all the common educational applications this would run any
Primary school classroom for KS2 and KS3.</div>
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<div>Since it was an educational distro that got me going on this
I began to wonder why the LUGs do not reach out to the local
schools and offer their help in establishing Linux as a viable
classroom alternative; given that distros like Mint are now so
new-user friendly. It can only be lack of exposure to Linux and
fear of the unknown that holds back Linux in the Edtech sector.</div>
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<div>This thought itself was a reflection on the time I spent
briefly keeping in touch with the Blackpool LUG last year, until
they moved to their new premises; they found a purpose in
"makerspace" and all things kinetic connected to Raspberry Pi's
along with 3D Printers etc. This has not only held their LUG
together, but extended their appeal by giving the group a
puropse, rather than all sitting around with old laptops and
playing with the latest distro release's which was becoming a
little stale.</div>
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<div>Which gets me to the real point of my note...would anyone on
this mailing list like to refresh the Preston LUG, have a
get-together, and maybe discuss such options as working with the
schools, or any other ideas that would give us a "raison d'etre"
to overcome this dormant state?</div>
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<div>Come on, I know you're out there...you keep buying all the
Linux Voice/User mags before I can get to them in Morrisons or
Sainsbury's :)</div>
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<div>Mark Walton</div>
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