[dundee] regarding the webtrust talk last night

[Keir Lawson]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 19:38, Robert Shand wrote:
>  > would somebody mind telling me what was discussed and what conclusions
>  > were reached?
> 
> Yep I said I'd do this, but I've been busy since the meet.
> 
> As has already been said, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank 
> Angie for coming to talk to us yesterday evening.  I'd also like to say 
> that it was good to see a couple of new faces!
> 
> As for what was discussed, these are the points that I can remember 
> (please feel free to add things that I have forgotten and correct me if 
> I'm wrong)
> 
> 1) Lack of understanding what GNU/Linux is within the charity sector and 
> how it could potentially help. (eg save money on license fees, make use 
> of that old donated box)
> 
> 2) Lack of good (non technical!!!) documentation for various programs 
> and distributions.  For those of you that read the training material 
> Angie passsed around it was clear that no or very little computer 
> knowledge can be assumed.
> 
> 3) Discussed the possibility of providing Live CD's so that charities 
> could see what types of programs are on offer.
> 
> 4) Discussed plans to get a draft letter to be put into the local news 
> letter for Dundee charities.
> 
> 5) Possibility of use getting out collective skills down somewhere, so 
> we can see what services we could provide.
> 
> 6) Talked about providing support for people who begin to use GNU/Linux 
> at charities.  It was mentioned that we could maybe use IRC to provide 
> support.
> 
> I can't think of much more off the top of my head, and I'm sure I've 
> missed something out :)

sounds good - count me in on anything

keir