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On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 19:39 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > Many years ago I contacted my > then-local Adult Ed people about *ME* running a Linux course and I got > exactly the same treatment as James. I would have asked you to be one of the guys offering a session then as we were neighbours more or less - was it Helston by any chance - the IT guys would have been the same and vetoed it. How do we get round this other than by asking people to bring laptops in or having lots ourselves? I imagine different reasons would be given - it would be nice to couple up to the Internet to download updates etc. and demonstrate the how-to but they's probably say Linux was insecure. James > snip > But, I'm now teaching at a new FE College, so there's renewed > opportunities! How is it going then - any warmth? James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- 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