[Lancaster] Last night's meeting . . .

[jonath]

Andy,

Don't worry - it's fine. I'm happy to organise 'something', but I'm
not entirely sure what 'something' is, if you follow. I kinda wanted
to 'give something back to the community', as I'm sure a lot of people
out there would benefit from a virus / trouble free PC, running some
kind of Linux. But yeah . . . I didn't really know where to start . .
. Perhaps some kind of open evening, where we hold our monthly meeting
at this room in the Gregson, but publicise it a lot more . . . I'm
talking flyers and the like. Didn't someone once design a load of
flyers like this? Have we been down this road before, but with little
success? Or maybe it was successful . . . I just don't know. I was
hoping to fall back on the knowledge / experience / wisdom of the
fellow members of LLUG.

jonath

On 22 June 2011 13:00, andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi jonath,
>
> Sorry not to reply to this sooner, but my life has been a bit chaotic lately
> and most of my geek energy is going into keeping my part time job together
> and doing a bit on my own projects.
>
> I think something like this would be great, but at the moment I don't have
> much spare energy to help get it together. I could do some bits, but
> probably not that much.
>
> Like you said, a couple of months ago I was thinking about setting up a
> wordpress training course, to be run by myself and a friend, but I'm going
> to have to put this to the back of my mind a bit. I did get as far as asking
> the Gregson what they thought about the idea of putting out an advert for
> people to donate 2nd hand laptops to them, to be set up by us and used as a
> community resource, as well as for the training sessions, and the person I
> spoke to was pretty enthusiastic.
>
> Sorry not to be more enthusiastic, but I'm having to be careful with what I
> take on at the moment.
>
> andy
>
> On 02/06/11 09:30, jonath wrote:
>>
>> Me, Andy and Dave turned up. Mark popped in briefly. So at least I can
>> put three names to faces, as it were.
>>
>> Anyway . . . it seemed like much was discussed last night but the main
>> thing:
>>
>> Andy was talking about setting up some kind of Wordpress training
>> sessions, just covering the basics of setting up a web-site, perhaps
>> aimed at the novice users. I then mentioned my idea of setting up some
>> kind of computing help and support session, and perhaps how Andy's
>> Wordpress training idea could emerge from that. Andy could probably
>> elaborate further as to his plan, but I'll go into detail about this
>> 'help and support session' idea that I've come up with.
>>
>> For a start, it probably needs a snappier title but the idea is this:
>> we hire out a room somewhere (The Gregson?!) for an evening where we
>> have some kind of open session, whereby people can wander in with
>> their computing problems and we try to help them out. We'll have a few
>> PCs / lap-tops set up and working with some flavour of Linux; I reckon
>> Ubuntu, as that seems to be the easiest to get set up and working.
>> Perhaps also we have a few very basic PCs available for sale . . . I'm
>> thinking the kind of PC that people usually take to the tip, but which
>> would work perfectly well with Linux installed . . . although perhaps
>> if we've obtained these PCs for free, we can give them away for free
>> too (?!). See, I reckon there must be hundreds of people in Lancaster
>> for whom: can't afford a PC, have some kind of hideous virus/malware
>> infested Windows-based PC, have a PC but want to do more with it, etc.
>> I guess being a Linux User Group, we would be highlighting the
>> benefits of using Linux, but I wouldn't want this to be the focus and
>> if people had problems / queries about their Windows-based PC, we
>> would try to help out.
>>
>> When I explained the above to Dave and Andy, Andy mentioned that
>> similar things have been set up in other cities (I think Manchester
>> was mentioned), so it might be good to arrange a trip out.
>>
>> Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone else thought of this idea.
>> Bad idea? Good idea? Is it possible? Worthwhile?
>>
>> jonathan
>>
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