[Nottingham] Just joined ....

[Martin]

Barry,

Welcome to the group!

On 8 February 2011 16:26, Barry Drake <b.drake at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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

There's talk and beers tomorrow Wednesday in Ye Olde Trip 7:30pm. See:

A New Year’s Linux (continuing… ;-) )
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/01/new-years-linux-2/146

You'll be very welcome along.


> 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.

Looks like a good initiative. I'm sure worth chasing up. Speak further
tomorrow if you can come along?


Cheers,
Martin