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Re: [LUG] Software Freedom Day 2011 and more....

 

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:05:06 +0100
tom brough wrote:

> Paul and I have been checking out the new library facilities in
> Torbay. Besides a well sized hall, media room and various other
> meeting rooms they also have training facilities room.

Sounds good.

> We are planning to book the large hall for SFD (17th September 2011).
> I am also planning to book the media room for a meeting on the 6th
> November 13:30 - 15:30. This will be open to all members who wish to
> inspect the facilities and plan for SFD 2011.

Excellent!  I'll put it in my calendar.

> I have also talked to Debby Helmore regarding options for conducting
> open source awareness sessions. She has asked me to provide a outline
> of our plans.
> 
> Assuming that they will not want to have anything permanently
> installed on their PC's I was thinking of using a live cd distro for
> demonstrations / training sessions (world domination can come later).
> I know Ubuntu install disks work as a live distro, but the
> possibility of hitting the install button and accidentally damaging
> their windows installs would not foster good relations.
> 
> So I am thinking that knoppix and gnoppix will suffer from the same
> problem (an option to install), so is there a version of knoppix /
> gnoppix  (or another live distro) that has the install options
> removed?

I'll have a look at this sometime and see what I can come up with:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

Grant.

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