[Fife Linux Users Group] Meeting Marketing

[Chase]

On Thursday 04 Aug 2005 23:13, Jim McLaren wrote:
> Well, I work part time for Glenco Development Solutions who were the
> commercial arm of Glenrothes College. We are now part of the IT institute
> of Adam Smith College, and I suspect Glenco as an identity will disappear
> in the next 18 months or so, as we are very much a commercial square peg
> being rammed into the round hole of an academic structure. However, I am
> not here to talk politics, so I'll stop now :-)
>
> Our website is being redone (http://www.glenco.org) so the current offering
> is a bit out of date. We offer courses in Linux admin, and Open/Star
> Office. The Linux courses are taught by yours truly and are based on the
> LPI syllabus. I'm qualified to LPIC1 and am working towards LPIC2, although
> that appears to be considerably tougher. As I said earlier I am
> co-ordinating a project to introduce OSS into SME's in this area. This is
> European funded, and is being run over 3 years. We are just starting out,
> and so I am in the process of drawing up plans and so forth. To give you an
> idea of the sort of thing I hope to be doing, take a look at OpenAdvantage
> (http://www.openadvantage.org), as they are doing something similar. I may
> well take you all up on offers of help as I see how things develop, so
> thanks for offering.
>
> I had hoped to get to the last meeting, but my other job (arable farmer)
> got in the way with harvest starting :-)

I am sorry your first post was lost, whats your user name on the site?

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