<html><body>Hi All,<br /><br />Just a quick note of thanks to Gavin for presenting his talk at Thursday's moot.<br /><br />For those who missed it, Gavin talked us through how he prepared and conducted his recent computer training sessions. These were aimed at complete beginners. He had been commissioned to write and lead a course and I believe he completed two of them, one being slightly more advanced. One of his students from the first course enrolled on the second for the follow up training.<br /><br />He explained that his students were not at all interested, in any shape or form, in the fact that the software was freely available or could be modified. They just wanted to know if it worked and helped them do stuff.<br /><br />Poor Gavin, who had prepared a little talk on this aspect, quickly abandoned those ideals in favour of the more practical stuff :-)<br /><br />They continued like this for several more weeks until they were so firmly convinced of the validity of the software (all of which could work on Windows as well as on Linux), that they became more receptive to the philosophy behind it all.<br /><br />This was a very informative and relaxed talk, delivered using **printed sheets of paper** LOL<br /><br />Welcome back to Peter, who hasn't visited for some years and sends his greetings to Steve D, Nik and others.<br /><br />P.S. Anyone is most welcome to offer up a talk. <br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>