[Bradford] Project proposal for Braford LUG

[David Carpenter]

My mate Des will kill me if GreenH doesn't get a mention here.

His idea is cheap Linux computers with backup and support.

See: http://greenh.co.uk/

He sees it as a 'franchise' idea - you can sort out your hardware
supplier, or use his contacts. He has a greenh distro, that's meant to
be user friendly and windows-ish, so people don't get freaked out!

Key to the price and the project is that your local linux friendly face
will set it up for you and offer 3 hours of support in the price (around
£200 - these are recycled machines)

So Des, has done a lot of the thinking around this. It's Ubuntu based by
the way.

Not advertising, or advocating, but just to say if people are
interested, then this guy has done a lot of work and thinking about
exactly this.

Cheers
David

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 15:29 +0100, Nick Rhodes wrote:
> Oh and a telephone number because we can't assume the user will get as far
> as connecting to the internet.
> 
> Nick.
> 
> 2009/10/2 Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrsoftware.co.uk>
> 
> > Some more thoughts:
> >
> > If we supplied the PC's, we be responsible for the consumer warranty
> > (repair/returns) for atleast 12 months. The truth is new hardware frequently
> > fails, which means someone WILL have to be available
> > We need good customer service (for the sake of Bradlug reputation and the
> > general open source image), which means having atleast one person who would
> > be able to work with a hardware supplier (e.g. CCL) during office hours.
> > This is why I personally would want to avoid the providing of hardware
> > directly and only offer advice (though if others are willing to fine :)) and
> > build service.
> >
> > What ever Distro is chosen (IMHO should be Ubuntu), we need to provide urls
> > and email addresses of where to get help, a cheat sheet/quick start guide
> > and a shortish manual (like the Ubuntu pocket guide), all printed.
> >
> > Cheers, Nick
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