[HLUG] Special Meeting 'Beginners Linux' June 24th, Leominster

Tue Jun 9 06:42:15 UTC 2015

Hi Paul and everyone else in our LUG

The Education Room at Grange Court in Leominster is free and I'm presently
getting the room booked. It's taken a while as they have had a changeover
of staff since last year.

The room will house a maximum of 25 I believe, so please tell your friends
and anyone else that may be interested about the event. It's on 24th June,
so not too long to the date.

Please can someone publicise this on our website please - George ? I don't
have too much time outside of work to spend on this, so would appreciate
any help that LUG group members can offer both now and on the night.

Please note our Etherpad, just like an online collaborative pad is present
here https://pad.odoo.com/p/hlug-note.note-STR1TPSCJR - please add ideas,
suggestions, or any further publicity etc that you have made about the
meeting. We will keep all our working notes on it.

Julian

On 3 June 2015 at 18:21, Paul <paul at paulnjulia.co.uk> wrote:

> Being a REAL beginner (well almost), I wonder if some people ( and this is
> NOT aimed at Steve) over think things.
> I guess there are two "starts",  one is having a windows PC and wanting to
> partition it to take Linux and the second is buying a pc with no system on
> it and installing.  I have done both, once! and whilst i do know how to
> find some answers online, I am not really the person with the inside
> track.   Both situations went relatively smoothly, although the first
> attempt to install Ubuntu on my windows system in a virtual set up resulted
> in me partitioning the disk and having dual boot up, so perhaps I should
> stay away on the 24th!!  The new machine install with Linux Mint, off a
> magazine cd was heaven!
>
> But well done to Julian for setting this up, looking forward to see how it
> all comes out in the wash
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> *Paul*
>
>
> /_Sent from my desktop - can't afford A-Phone_/
>
>
> On 02/06/15 23:26, Steve Horsfield wrote:
>
>> *We plan to show how easy it is to install Linux by doing this on the
>> evening as part of the event,*
>> Ubuntu remains the most popular distribution and has been characterised
>> recently by two different known and acknowledged installation faults*. *In
>> the first fault the automatic scripted partitioning process fails and it
>> is
>> necessary to use GParted manually from the files available on the
>> installation USB stick and that means you need to understand the
>> partitioning process first*, *because Ubuntu no longer manages it for you.
>> Should you have the misfortune to attempt to use the automated
>> partitioning
>> process you might find you have a very long wait.
>>
>> In the second known fault the USB stick boots to "Not a COM32R image"
>> and leaves
>> you high and dry until someone with the inside track tells you to hit the
>> TAB key.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve Horsfield
>>
>> On 2 June 2015 at 22:28, Julian Robbins<joolsr1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  Shame, whenever we hold it someone wouldnt be able to go though ..
>>>
>>> I've added a few ideas about the evnt and what we need to do on the
>>> etherpad - so please take a look and help if you can -
>>> https://pad.odoo.com/p/hlug-note.note-STR1TPSCJR
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>> On 2 June 2015 at 22:26, Tim Spivey<tim.spivey at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  I won't be able to make it, having said I would. I am going on holiday
>>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>>> day after so shall be packing I am afraid.
>>>> On 2 Jun 2015 10:23 pm, "david winterton"<davidwinterton at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Count me in
>>>>> On 2 Jun 2015 22:16, "Julian Robbins"<joolsr1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi everyone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As previously agreed at discussed at our last LUG meeting last Weds,
>>>>>>
>>>>> our
>>>>
>>>>> survey pointed to a strong liking for the topics 'Beginners Linux'
>>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>
>>>> 'Linux distro choice', so we will have a special event with both of
>>>>>>
>>>>> these
>>>>
>>>>> topics later in the month. Charlie has agreed to host this with help
>>>>>>
>>>>> from
>>>>
>>>>> others on the evening. We plan to show how easy it is to install
>>>>>>
>>>>> Linux
>>>
>>>> by
>>>>
>>>>> doing this on the evening as part of the event, amongst other topics
>>>>>>
>>>>> so
>>>
>>>> it
>>>>>
>>>>>> will be aimed at real beginners to Linux and Open Source perhaps keen
>>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>> move from Windows, or new to computing entirely.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The plan is to hold this on our normal 4th Wednesday of the month, ie
>>>>>>
>>>>> June
>>>>>
>>>>>> 24th.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We considered holding it in the usual place at the Courtyard, but on
>>>>>> occasion it can get a bit noisy, so we decided to hold it at another
>>>>>>
>>>>> venue
>>>>>
>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The previous event on 'Open source and the professional audio/visual
>>>>>> environment '
>>>>>> we held in Leominster at Grange Court went well with great
>>>>>>
>>>>> facilities,
>>>
>>>> but
>>>>>
>>>>>> unfortunately due to a glitch with the lug.org.uk mailing list, no
>>>>>>
>>>>> mails
>>>>
>>>>> reminding everyone of the event and on the day itself went out to our
>>>>>> members so we had a reduced turnout for this reason.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have emailed the Grange Court folk if we can book the same room
>>>>>>
>>>>> last
>>>
>>>> time, which was fine for us, not too big and not too small.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the organisation details for the event I have started on this
>>>>>>
>>>>> Etherpad
>>>>>
>>>>>> here :-
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://pad.odoo.com/p/hlug-note.note-STR1TPSCJR
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ie event details, publicity, what's happening on the night, etc etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This
>>>>>
>>>>>> is meant to be an open and collaborative space to concentrate our
>>>>>>
>>>>> plans
>>>
>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>>> ideas for the event - so please click the link and help. There is a
>>>>>>
>>>>> chat
>>>>
>>>>> facility too
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are looking for *any* help that anyone can provide to help
>>>>>>
>>>>> organise
>>>
>>>> the
>>>>>
>>>>>> event and make it a success both in the prep and during the evening.
>>>>>> Hopefully we should be able to use the brilliant flashy large
>>>>>>
>>>>> touchscreen
>>>>
>>>>> we used last time which worked great with linux too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone is able to publicise the event to other groups they are
>>>>>>
>>>>> part
>>>
>>>> of
>>>>
>>>>> please do. The entry is open to anyone not just LUG members and will
>>>>>>
>>>>> be
>>>
>>>> subject to a small charge, to cover the hire of the venue only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Further details to come shortly
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Julian
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