[HLUG] Any interest in working with Presteigne Repair cafe installing Linux and open source?

[Roy Meddings]

Hi Julian,
Not Interested but, if they want help at any time maybe we should be 
positive,

------ Original Message ------
From: "Julian Robbins via Herefordshire" 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group" <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 13 Jul, 22 At 08:37
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Any interest in working with Presteigne Repair cafe 
installing Linux and open source?
Hi all
Just a follow up to see if there's any interest, or at least opinion 
about
the above?
It may be that lug members aren't so keen on a project like this, but it
would be good to know this  and look at alternative ideas for our Linux
group to consider.
So please can members reply with ideas that they would like to see the
group getting involved in.
We're still hoping to put on a workshop event in September / October but
this has been delayed a bit by Charlie's busy work schedule.
So open to you 😃
Thanks
Julian
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, 21:33 Julian Robbins, <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all
Hope you're all doing well. It's warm on holiday for us at the moment 
but
looks like it will be nearly as warm in the UK when we return home. 🌅
Things have been a bit slow without too many events in the LUG for 
obvious
reasons the last couple of years, but hopefully now we should soon be 
able
to start putting on our own workshop style events and more.
But it's also good to work alongside other groups. Before COVID struck 
we
looked at whether we could form an alliance with a repair cafe type 
group
to 'repair' computers/ phones with Linux.  We wouldn't necessarily fix
hardware or anything we don't want to tackle as this is a free service.
Perhaps consider working on older windows machines where these devices 
no
longer run very well due to viruses or just old and overloaded
operating systems.
Working with another group makes it easier to get started with events 
with
less effort and people needed than events just put on by ourselves.
The other week I went along to the Presteigne Repair Cafe to see what 
they
were up to and see if we could perhaps get involved. It was quite busy
there and I got a warm welcome from the repair group members.
The group were especially happy to hear from me as they don't have any
digital device fixing / improving skills at all and would welcome our 
HLUG
help if we were to wish to get involved.
The repair cafe is held monthly between 10 and 12pm in the town so it's
not very onerous timewise especially if a number of us get involved.
Something they pointed out is that some items are brought in on the day 
to
be fixed there and then, for say simple fixes (mains cables) but the 
group
are also keen to get people to drop off devices earlier in the week 
which
could be fixed and returned at the monthly repair cafe event, so this 
saves
having to necessarily work on the machines there and then if not 
preferred.
I appreciate Presteigne may be a bit out of the way for some in our 
group,
but I guess if we were to contact another repair cafe say in Ledbury or
Malvern that the same situation would also prevail. Also other groups 
often
have PC / digital skills available and then they may prefer to just fix 
a
pc by reinstalling Windows or just trying virus removal whereas what we 
can
offer is quite different. We're not stepping on anyone's toes so to 
speak
with the Presteigne repair cafe.
We will need to get an idea of numbers of who might be interested in 
this
idea before I speak to the Presteigne folk again, but obviously it's 
early
days and no-one will be asked to do anything they don't want or could no
longer be able to offer to do. it's all supposed to be a bit of fun, to
help the community and to tell people about what they might be missing 
out
by trying out Linux and Open Source.
So what do you think? We need to be clear on what we would to help with
and more specifically what we don't want to work on (fixing phone 
screens !
😃
Please reply with any let's thoughts and ideas on the above before we go
any further.
Thanks and enjoy the good weather..
Julian
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Regards, Have a nice day.
Roy
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