[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1253, Issue 1

Sun Jan 30 11:10:26 UTC 2011

Hello Heather,

Welcome aboard. Just a quick note to let you know that our meetings are not
purely technical, and I am often banging the drum for advocacy and outreach work
by the group.

Looking forward to meeting you both in due course.

Pete H@

On 30 January 2011 at 07:25 Heather Dontenville <heather at opensure.net> wrote:

> 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:
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> 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"
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> 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>
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTimogX8e1BUcs=8amUiZ_C10c8yjrAt1WkekxP0A at mail.gmail.com>
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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
> > List: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 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>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> 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
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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
> > >
> >
> >
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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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