[Nottingham] Just joined ....

[Barry Drake]

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:01 +0000, Rory Holland wrote:
> We meet up once a month and drink beer. What are these things of which
> you speak?

I like the idea of a beer ...  keep me in touch.  Things?  Well, there
has been a government scheme using volunteers.  Old but serviceable
laptops are provided free of charge by the corporate (and public)
sector.  These are upgraded to Linux (usually Ubuntu), and supplied
along with appropriate training to volunteer organisations.  I'm off to
London next week to help with some training and see the scheme in
operation.

Next, one of the guys I met has been having a go at one of the barebones
suppliers - NovaTech in particular, also pcspecialist, to try to
persuade them to let one of us come in and do tests so we can list
certain models as Linux-friendly.  I e-mailed quite a few suppliers.
This morning, I had a phone call from the manager of our local Maplins
who is interested in my spending time there demonstrating Ubuntu ....

I think we can do a lot raising awareness of improved, highly secure,
and faster operating systems.  Any help folk want to give would be very
welcome.  At the moment, we're working on a transition course for folk
upgrading from Windows to Ubuntu.  It's on a wiki at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts/training  and there is some
interesting stuff developing at :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts/Research 

All the stuff on the site is available to copy if any of it is of
interest.  But most of all, I'd appreciate any help folk want to put in.

Look forward to hearing about the beer!

Regards,		Barry.
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Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team.
http://ubuntuadverts.org/