[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

[David Carpenter]

Do'h done it again...so..

These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so
they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:

1) Present them with the problem - XP end of life - no internet
2) Try/Demo a linux alternative and get feedback

>From this we should be able to gather their pro's and con's and work
out where the difficulties in migration might lie.

My hope is that
a) some people will be genuinely interested in Linux any way
b) some people will be interested because they have XP at home
c) on the balance of things, there may be enough people that start to
be persuaded that Linux could be the way to go for the station as a
whole

I do think they have an opportunity to be the first station to run
entirely on free and open source software, and that this would bring
attention/funding/support (e.g. from Canonical perhaps?)

BTW BCB are not aware of these plans yet so it may not happen, but if
people are interested I'll put it to them later this week.
Cheers
David

On 5 February 2014 10:33, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeah, my pitch for the BCB days is this:
>
> These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so
> they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:
>
> 1)
>
> On 4 February 2014 16:56, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>> One that I am doing is an Acer which always comes with two partitions;
>> so I'm doing a dual boot, leaving all the XP files where they are with
>> strict instructions not to use XP for the Internet. I am hoping that
>> this way everything can be imported to Linux; if not, I will do an
>> intermediate install of Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows and get them
>> to harvest everything and then save it for use on Linux. Will report
>> back on how it goes.
>>
>> I still have a free version of Partition Magic which will copy the
>> user's folder and all its contents to a USB stick without the need to
>> resort to the command line for other cases.
>>
>> John
>> --
>> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 15:54 +0000, David Spencer wrote:
>>> Yeah I'd be up for doing something!
>>>
>>> Someone I know is vaguely wondering what to do about XP, the concern
>>> being that they've paid for Photoshop and other stuff, and don't want
>>> to be taken to the cleaners all over again, so there is a bit of
>>> public awareness out there.  I think what I would try would be Mint
>>> and Wine.  (Thank goodness they didn't call it Linux Mistletoe).  Big
>>> worries would be backups; carrying forward a decade of files spattered
>>> around the 'c drive' and so forth; and not losing web logins etc.
>>> Doing a nice job doesn't necessarily scale, and that's one of the
>>> worries of a public event.  Some other concerns would be liability,
>>> flakey hardware, and how to look the other way when you find someone's
>>> stash of pr0nz.
>>>
>>> It would definitely be good fodder for both the radio and Linux Voice,
>>> which gets us out of most of the worries ;-)
>>>
>>> We probably need a guinea pig.
>>>
>>> Tarra
>>> -D.
>>>
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