[Durham] any volunteers for an installfest / skill-share?

[mark]

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Hi all,

It was great to meet you on Tuesday evening.

I've been thinking for a while about getting some sort of community
project going in Durham, with a primary aim of helping people to get
started with Linux using unwanted old desktops & laptops.

I did this when I used to live in Leeds and it worked pretty well; the
necessary ingredients being a room in a community centre (or anywhere
really) with decent wifi, a handfull of volunteers who would enjoy
liberating windows users for a few hours, a bunch of installation
media (perhaps offering a choice depending on different use-cases /
age of hardware) and a bit of social media plus traditional forms of
publicity to get to the target audience.

This seems like an ideal time to do it, with WinXP nearing the end of
its life, people wondering if they can afford a new machine just
because the OS is dying, not to mention the increase in awareness of
privacy and security issues due to Snowden, etc.

So, who wants to join in? Has anyone tried this kind of thing around
here before?

Cheers,
Mark
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