[Nottingham] Greetings!

[Steve]

If you wish to run any Linux oriented activities and events, I think the 
computer science society at the university would be willing to help.

S C Kuo

Jonathan wrote:
> Hello! Thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself.
>
> I've just moved down from Leeds to pursue a mathematics degree at
> Nottingham University. Having been partially active in the WYLUG (if
> having given a talk a few of years ago on gentoo linux and going to
> most monthly meetings me qualifies as active!), I'm enthusiastic to
> get involved in NLUG.
>
> As far as I'm aware, there is no linux society at the University. I
> have however, managed to persuade a few of my flatmates to give OSS a
> shot by installing OpenOffice and a few other applications. My
> reasoning is once they see the practical benefits open source offers
> it will be easier to woo them into trying out a fully fledged linux
> system (I've got a few Ubuntu boot disks stashed away). A few have
> already commented their amazement at the stability and superiority of
> it compared to Microsoft Office, all for free!
>
> You need around 20 people to start a society, so I'm going to try drum
> up some interest and root out the people on campus already with an
> interest in linux (any on this mailing list?) and figure out the best
> way forward...
>
> Look forward to seeing you guys at the next meeting. Regards, Jonathan.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nottingham mailing list
> Nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham
>