[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1253, Issue 1

Sun Jan 30 07:34:09 UTC 2011

Hi, 

I thought I should join in the 'who is this OpenSure bunch?' speculation in person! 

We're an open source consulting, hosting and server management company, an offshoot of KeepNet. OpenSure has, inadvertently, become a husband-and-wife outfit, but it didn' t start that way - Kevin is the technical brains and I do the marketing. We live just outside Leominster but have a business partner in Oxfordshire and our servers live in a data centre in East London. I do indeed know Julian's wife Sue, as I take our youngest to a toddler group that she goes to with one of her charges and I first met her several years ago at the school gate. 

We've neglected the local business community until recently, just happening to have gained clients from the rest of the country, but now we'd like to be involved. We've got links with various groups in Herefordshire now, and HLUG seems an obvious connection for us - I'm so grateful you found us on Twitter. Sue first mentioned HLUG two or three years ago, but I didn't realise it was such an active group, and for that apologies. As I'm not the technical side of things I've suggested to Kevin that he comes along to a meeting, and we're making arrangements to get him along on the 26th March. I'm away that weekend, but if we can arrange childcare, he'll be there. A mundane consideration but an unavoidable one. 

We're very evangelical about open source and happy to do whatever we can to promote and support it. Obviously we're not averse to gaining a bit more business - we have to eat - but our espousal of open source is as much about the ethics as anything else. Whether or not Kevin can make it along on the 26th we'll publicise the event on our blog and in our newsletter. 

Heather 

Kind regards 

Heather Dontenville 
heather at opensure.net 
OpenSure - Simply do IT better. 
opensure.net support at opensure.net 
blog.opensure.net twitter.com/OpenSure 

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Today's Topics: 

1. Open Source Day and Libre Office (Sarah Chard) 
2. Re: Opensure (Julian Robbins) 
3. Re: Opensure (Meijin Linux) 
4. Re: Opensure (Sarah Chard - HLUG) 
5. Re: Opensure (Sarah Chard) 

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Message: 1 
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:15:40 +0000 
From: Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk> 
Subject: [HLUG] Open Source Day and Libre Office 
To: herefordshire <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Message-ID: <1296231341.8398.22.camel at street-desktop> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 

Details of our Hoss Awards and Guest Speaker for march 26 are now up on 
the HLUG website and the first publicity mailouts have gone out. 
So if you have any ideas for individuals or organisations in 
herefordshire who deserve a HOSS award please email hoss at hlug.org.uk 
pete is co-ordinating this. 

Paul would like peoples views on libre office and whether it should be 
included on an updated open source disc for march 26 - see section 6 on 
PP http://piratepad.net/hQ3RVGdvKc 

We have enough people who have committed to be there on the day for us 
to be able to run the event but given the number of visitors who came to 
SFD in Sept it would be good to have more help even if you can only 
commit to a couple of hours - it's quite an interesting experience as a 
real cross section of people come so whatever your level of experience 
it will be useful. If you are interested please add your name to PP 
section 1 - 

Mark Wrights talk in the afternoon should be very interesting as he has 
hands on experience of introducing open source software at Bristol 
Council and if we are lucky we may get some herefordshire councillors 
there as well so it would be good to have an informed audience for him 
-- 
Sarah 

March 26 - http://piratepad.net/hQ3RVGdvKc 

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Message: 2 
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:14:23 +0000 
From: Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Opensure 
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
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On 25 January 2011 12:48, Meijin Linux <meijin.linux at gmail.com> wrote: 

> Any of you guys know this company ? 
> 
> 
Bizarrely my wife knows about them via a local playgroup where she just 
happened to mention 'open source' one day (about me), and found that they 
are based in our village, or thereabouts. www.opensure.net Interesting site 
! 

I need to get in touch with them anyway. It would be nice to get some local 
OSS companies involved but unless its for sponsorship we have to be seen to 
be impartial as much as we can i think. There are other local OSS companies 
that may also want to be involved too. 

Still if they're willing to buy our weight in chocolate and 100 cuddly tux 
toys i'm sure we can be bought ;-) 

Any comments from anyone else on this ? 

Julian 

> Apparently the Twitter account is based in Herefordshire. 
> 
> Possible help at Open Source Day ? 
> 
> Rob 
> 
> -- 
> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
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Message: 3 
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:01:33 +0000 
From: Meijin Linux <meijin.linux at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Opensure 
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Message-ID: <4D43D76D.8040006 at gmail.com> 
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Well they have asked if they can help, though they are unavailable on 
the day.... 

On 28/01/11 20:14, Julian Robbins wrote: 
> On 25 January 2011 12:48, Meijin Linux<meijin.linux at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Any of you guys know this company ? 
>> 
>> 
> Bizarrely my wife knows about them via a local playgroup where she just 
> happened to mention 'open source' one day (about me), and found that they 
> are based in our village, or thereabouts. www.opensure.net Interesting site 
> ! 
> 
> I need to get in touch with them anyway. It would be nice to get some local 
> OSS companies involved but unless its for sponsorship we have to be seen to 
> be impartial as much as we can i think. There are other local OSS companies 
> that may also want to be involved too. 
> 
> Still if they're willing to buy our weight in chocolate and 100 cuddly tux 
> toys i'm sure we can be bought ;-) 
> 
> Any comments from anyone else on this ? 
> 
> Julian 
> 
> 
> 
>> Apparently the Twitter account is based in Herefordshire. 
>> 
>> Possible help at Open Source Day ? 
>> 
>> Rob 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
>> Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
>> List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
>> 
> -- 
> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
> List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
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Message: 4 
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:19:54 +0000 
From: Sarah Chard - HLUG <hlug at hlug.org.uk> 
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Opensure 
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Message-ID: <1296292794.1878.2.camel at street-desktop> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 

great if they can help us publicise the event 
don't forget to mention the hoss awards 
-- 
Sarah Chard 
m: hlug at hlug.org.uk 

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 09:01 +0000, Meijin Linux wrote: 
> Well they have asked if they can help, though they are unavailable on 
> the day.... 
> 
> On 28/01/11 20:14, Julian Robbins wrote: 
> > On 25 January 2011 12:48, Meijin Linux<meijin.linux at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >> Any of you guys know this company ? 
> >> 
> >> 
> > Bizarrely my wife knows about them via a local playgroup where she just 
> > happened to mention 'open source' one day (about me), and found that they 
> > are based in our village, or thereabouts. www.opensure.net Interesting site 
> > ! 
> > 
> > I need to get in touch with them anyway. It would be nice to get some local 
> > OSS companies involved but unless its for sponsorship we have to be seen to 
> > be impartial as much as we can i think. There are other local OSS companies 
> > that may also want to be involved too. 
> > 
> > Still if they're willing to buy our weight in chocolate and 100 cuddly tux 
> > toys i'm sure we can be bought ;-) 
> > 
> > Any comments from anyone else on this ? 
> > 
> > Julian 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Apparently the Twitter account is based in Herefordshire. 
> >> 
> >> Possible help at Open Source Day ? 
> >> 
> >> Rob 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> >> Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
> >> List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
> >> 
> > -- 
> > Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> > Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
> > List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
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> List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
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Message: 5 
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:21:39 +0000 
From: Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk> 
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Opensure 
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Message-ID: <1296292899.1878.3.camel at street-desktop> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 

great if they can help us publicise the event 
don't forget to mention the hoss awards 

-- 
Sarah 

March 26 - http://piratepad.net/hQ3RVGdvKc 

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 09:01 +0000, Meijin Linux wrote: 
> Well they have asked if they can help, though they are unavailable on 
> the day.... 
> 
> On 28/01/11 20:14, Julian Robbins wrote: 
> > On 25 January 2011 12:48, Meijin Linux<meijin.linux at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >> Any of you guys know this company ? 
> >> 
> >> 
> > Bizarrely my wife knows about them via a local playgroup where she just 
> > happened to mention 'open source' one day (about me), and found that they 
> > are based in our village, or thereabouts. www.opensure.net Interesting site 
> > ! 
> > 
> > I need to get in touch with them anyway. It would be nice to get some local 
> > OSS companies involved but unless its for sponsorship we have to be seen to 
> > be impartial as much as we can i think. There are other local OSS companies 
> > that may also want to be involved too. 
> > 
> > Still if they're willing to buy our weight in chocolate and 100 cuddly tux 
> > toys i'm sure we can be bought ;-) 
> > 
> > Any comments from anyone else on this ? 
> > 
> > Julian 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Apparently the Twitter account is based in Herefordshire. 
> >> 
> >> Possible help at Open Source Day ? 
> >> 
> >> Rob 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> >> Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
> >> List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
> >> 
> > -- 
> > Herefordshire LUG mailing list 
> > Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk 
> > List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire 
> > 
> 
> 
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