[Infopoint] Unofficial InfoPoint

[Tony Whitmore]

Evening,

We've been approached by Jamie's Computer Club[1] to run an InfoPoint at 
one of their sales. The "club" is a project run by the Society of St. 
James, a charity for homeless people, which holds regular sales of 
second-hand and recycled computer equipment. One of the members of our 
LUG is involved with them on a volunteer basis, and many LUG members 
turn up to their sales to pick up everything from MIPS boxes to PIII 
server units. In atmosphere, it is very much like a computer fair, 
except with slightly older kit. The sales are also frequented by a lot 
of the local student population.

As we're still waiting confirmation of a table for the computer fair on 
29th of this month (and this looks unlikely, from what I understand), 
this opportunity has proven a good target for us to work towards. What 
we are doing is documented here:

http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints/5thDecember2004

Those members that have volunteered are looking forward to it, and I 
hope if this one is successful we'll be able to encourage more people 
from the LUG (or other related FLOSS bodies) to contribute.

Tony

[1] http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/sales/sale_days.shtml