[Glastonbury] an idea develops?

[Mike Keogh]

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Linux CAFE I meant.   I can see it now, you chatting and joshing with the 
customers!

At 23:33 01/08/03 +0000, you wrote:

>One thing I feel I must add to my previous posting: the idea of the
>Linux-only cyber-cafe was one I slipped to Mike in our conversation, as
>it figures quite prominently in my own visions of ways to developing the
>generalised acceptance of Linux within the UK.
>
>To my knowledge, there is *no* cyber-cafe anywhere at all in the UK
>dependent *solely* on GNU/Linux systems.  (Waverley Station in
>Edinburgh comes closest.)  Everyone falls at the last hurdle, with lame
>excuses like: "Well, we've got to cater for those who can only use
>Windows, you know".
>Glastonbury, with its reputation for awkwardness, deliberate rule-
>flouting, eccentricity and general desire to be perceived as
>'different', could be the ideal place to start such a venture.
>Certainly we have the tourist input of punters wanting to
>check their e-mail, contact the folks back home in Sedona or Byron Bay,
>check B&B availability, book-a-bed-ahead, etc.
>And neophyte users working as waiters/support staff might be just what's
>needed to put customers at ease with a totally new and unknown system.
>Who knows -- people might even drop in just to learn how to use it.
>(At least, that was my hope.)
>
>But this is a business venture; not a user-group project.
>Franchising an international chain of Linux Coffee Houses (with
>attendant services) is way beyond the remit of LUGoG.
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