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> I believe the IT team at SDC do have some awareness of Ubuntu, at least > speaking to Rick at the SDC radio station, it seems they use some Open > Source stuff. I also believe they do have some Linux in-house on servers. Nice to know at least one of the IT Staff at SDC is Ubuntu friendly. I tend to leave em to it TBH. > >>> Thoughts? I offer my services as woman on the spot to talk to college >>> and see what the issues are on their side. >>> > > That's good, since you're already there you might find it easier to find the > person to speak to. > >> good idea, i am usually free during the week, but would bve worriedf >> about my new netbook getting damaged, > > I'm sure it would be fine. I second this. Most of the students here have laptops now. It somehow bypass the filters! Though I've come in today the Wifi is down, so I suspect they have finally cottoned on... > >> I am happy to help out, can the college supply some PC's we can set up >> with ubuntu on so we can demo ? Doubt it. There is a shortage of PCs anyway. But as i say lots of laptops available > > I think it would be easier if we could provide our own machines. > >> i thin 20 cd's cost about £20 from the ubuntu shop I am not sure if they >> are giving away lots of cd's any more, i did read that was stopping, there >> could be exceptions to the new policy if this exists. > > I gather they are giving out free CDs (at least single CDs) to new users, > that's not to say they may give out free CDs for a specific event. Well, if we do have Linux aware members of staff, we could probably manage fine with CDRs, > > Being a college, I'm assuming 'kiddies' means 16 upwards. > Yeah it does. I'm almost 30, doing an adult course, but most of the faces just look so young to me, I forget that 16-18 isnt really considered a kid. (Could be worse, I could have called em Monsters :P) -- 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