[Klug-general] University Of Kent (Canterbury)

Tue Feb 2 17:05:21 UTC 2010

If there is any way I can help with that campaign personally, I'm happy to.

Spode

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>wrote:

> I apologise if this isn't the sort of posts allowed in the group, but
> there is a fledgeling Free Software Society at the University of Kent
> properly set up but without many members.
>
> Would KLUG consider holding any of its meetings under the joint
> auspices of the Society, or help in providing speakers?
>
> Despite having the mirrorservice servers on its campus, where
> repositories for all the major distros can be found, students are
> required to provide work in Microsoft formats.  A major campaign which
> we are getting underway now is to try and get .odt accepted
> alongside .doc and .docx formats, to enable students who want to use
> open source software to do so for submissions.
>
> We want to raise students' awareness of Linux and all that it can do,
> so I hope we can join with KLUG's activities in some way.
>
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> Graham Todd
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