[Glastonbury] here we stand... on a rocky shore...

[Alistair Parsons]

My 2p's worth
> Mailing list dead, as far as I can see.
well it cant be because were all replying to it :-)


> Meetings not well attended BUT you're the only Linux group in
> your area - it's winter etc.etc.
personally i have time and transport problems making meetings in glastonbury

> Leaflet drop in town? Linux install day? Linux experts on hand
> in the Assembly Rooms? Kubuntu setups to run an internet cafe
> for tourists/"folk"?  O'Reilly bookstore at the next meeting

If someone could make the leaflets, id be happy to distribute from microbitz
every week i get get on my soapbox and try to convert the unwashed
a leaflet would help in my struggles

I quite often show people a quick spin of my Suse9.3 internet cafe type PC
but it would be good to give people some lugog details easily, we had
quite a few people collect leaflets for the bristol demudi thing

i think i supplied and installed OOo to about 5 customers last week,
all very happy with not having to pay oodles for new MS licenses, also
we are installing firefox quite frequently, this makes the transition
so much easier

side note, i now have a good supplier of bare laptops with no OS, they
arent as cheap as Acer laptops etc, BUT they do have serial (for
external modems) port and proper LPT ports ( ive had a lot of grief
with the USB to LPT adapters under linux for use with old but good
Laser printers) and run perfectly with Ubuntu, which is by all
accounts the best distro for use with laptops. If anyones interested
ill dig up a price,

> (the lady concerned brings books at 30& discount or so)?
> Demo days to Strode students / Millfield?
talking of demos, im setting up a demo box with Clark connect for use
with small buisness to try and keep customer overheads down, based on
red hat but extremely simple admin

>
> Collaborative project? [Radio clubs often have a "club kit build"
> with an expert on hand to help you build the chosen kit - the
> LUGOG could do the same to build e.g. a router/firewall up from scratch
> from old components - you get to keep what you build.]

i could help with the PCs for routers, i have about 10 going at the moment
(same price as normal: a donation to a charity pot or an email from
tim saying youve donated to the assembly rooms)


Alistair
(who is sorry for not ever attending a meeting and has only met a
couple of people on the list)