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Overnight accommodation in a room for 12 or more, now there's a vivid imagination!! I will get a short article written up for the Upottery parish magazine with the intent if enough interest is shown to set up a Saturday around March time. Being new to linux/Ubuntu myself and without serious computing skills, will be wording it to encourage those with a obsolete or spare computer to give open source systems a try. It would be helpful to know if the practical exercise of partitioning is a sensible route to include in such meetings? Guy On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 18:38 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > On 07/01/11 17:56, Roland Tarver wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Paul Sutton<zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 07/01/11 13:20, Guy Backhouse wrote: > >>> Can't help but wonder with the amount of hotels in the Torbay area why > >>> there is the need to pay for a room hire, for example a while ago on > >>> heading home (near Dunkerswell) after one of the meetings at Paignton I > >>> called in at the Monkton Court Hotel > >>> http://www.monktoncourthotel.co.uk/ on the A30 about a mile East of > >>> Honiton. They were glad to offer a room for free and showed me one that > >>> would accommodate a group of 12 or maybe more, perhaps free because I > >>> pointed out those attending would have drinks and maybe snacks. There > >>> would be car parking free too. > > Do you mean they would offer a small conference/meeting room free? > > When I first read it I thought they would offer over night accommodation > free :-) (which got me thinking, maybe we could get other folks from > other LUGs and maybe actual FLOSS organizations to visit). > > >>> It may be appropriate here to explain my thinking at the time; I am not > >>> aware of many LUG members in this area but would like to encourage > >>> others to move over to Ubuntu or any other flavour that interests and > >>> considered placing an article in the Upottery 'Parish Pump' to see if > >>> some serious interest could be drummed up amongst a few then it may be > >>> worth trying to drag some of you capable chaps over this way (we > >>> contribute to fuel) to help those interested get started and do > >>> installs. It is unlikely people would be up and properly sorted after > >>> one session up here and suspect at least 3 would be about right. > >>> > >>> wochafink! > >>> > > I think it sounds like a good idea. Maybe start with a demonstration > session. My fear is that if we set them up then they would get home and > possibly struggle, hence maybe have a taster session for them so they > can see, use, touch and feel Linux (okay maybe not touch and feel). > > >> Sounds good for a mid devon venue, > >> > >> Given I can't personally do anything between now and April can I leave > >> this in your hands, perhaps looking at the dates we have paignton > >> meetings and the north devon meet, that leaves quite a few saturdays > >> (assuming people want to do saturdays for this) to book something. > >> > > Saturdays are probably a good day. I'm not sure what's happening in > Exeter, I haven't spoken to Rick in a while but hopefully he might get > some enthusiasm to get a regular monthly LUG meeting going in Exeter > (actually I think he has some enthusiasm, just possibly not a whole lot > of free time). > > >> I have quite a few Ubuntu cd's and also appreciate that not everyone on > >> the list supports Ubuntu However my argument is that Ubuntu IS pretty > >> well supported as a community project, and we know there are members who > >> can use it, so support is less of an issue the more local users you have. > > Not so sure about when April comes round with the Unity changes, they > sound like they're going to be reasonably big changes, from what I saw > when I tried the Ubuntu Netbook Remix it really put me off, maybe it > might work on a Netbook, but it really put me off and made me question > if Ubuntu was going in the right direction for me (hence why I'm using > Mint now but it doesn't feel as well polished as Ubuntu). > > To be fair though, maybe the Unity interface in Ubuntu is a step in the > right direction for folks who just want something that just works, say > for web browsing mainly with a bit of occasional Office stuff too? > > Or I could be wrong again and maybe it's just for die hard style fanatics. > > >> lets give it a go, There are several of these local mini magazines > >> around so signposting people to the dclug site may also be a good idea, > >> esp if its directly to the events page. I think getting things > >> published in these is pretty easy as they are always looking for content. > >> > >> I would still support the fund raising idea though it does give us that > >> breathing space should we want to do a bigger event, and need the > >> capital to rent somewhere. or simply buy resources e.g blank cd's > >> > > Yeah, I'm sure a few of us from around the area (especially those of us > in Torbay) could make it along. > > > > > Paul, there was mention of that church in Newton Abbott. I believe a > > lug member knows the folks that look after it and that we could meet > > there for free. > > > > It was Rhia's friend Steve as far as I know, things seem to have gone > quiet on that front. > > Rob > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq