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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Aaron Trevena wrote: > >> On 07/11/06, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>> I have done a bit more today about the Children In Need Linux install >>> day idea. I have asked one of the presenters at Gemini who owns a club >>> in Exeter if he could think of anywhere where we could hold an event. >>> >>> >> Why restrict it to just Linux? >> >> I imagine there are many more people who would be interested in trying >> openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, inkscape, etc on their windows >> or macintosh system - providing them with CDs with all the open source >> software they need for a small donation would surely work excellently. >> >> >> >> > > I've already got .iso images of the 'Open CD' lying around on my hard > drive so I'd be happy to bring along some discs with that on, and even > plenty more blank discs to burn as we need. The 'Open CD' really is a > good project I think and would be a great for spreading interest, using > OpenOffice.org on windows is what got me interested in GNU/Linux in the > first place and could have the same effect for lots of people :-) > > As for the efforts in devon, I'd love to do what I could to help and > would be quite happy to grab dvd images of OpenSuse (if people aren't > still angry over the whole novell-microsoft thing), FC6, Damn Small > Linux and any other distros that you might want to have around, burn > them, and post them up; or anything else you might like me to try and > contribute! > Hmm, thinking about it, it might get some more interest. I have one of the presenters for Gemini Exeter interested in giving Linux a try. I did speak to someone else and they did the usual 'oh Linux is crap' thing as they haven't tried it properly. I guess we could say charge £1 per disc with profits going to Children In Need? £1 is a lot cheaper than MS Office :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html