Hello Martin
No money but have offered help in kind i.e. input from one of their
IT staff, and they have assigned a person. So some work to copy
& paste generic linux support content into a glossy PU branded
website might be a realistic ask.
CompSci is good idea. Do you know anyone there who might be
supportive?
Rod
On 20/07/16 11:16, Martin Gautier
wrote:
On 20/07/16 10:41, Rod Sheaff wrote:
Dear LUG
Thank you those who contacted me about this. My meeting with
Plymouth Uni IT honchos was much more constructive than I
expected given PU's until very recently almost exclusive
commitment to all things MicroSoft. We speculated about possible
moves towards a Bring Your Own Device, hence Bring Your Own
Software, policy in the future.
They agreed to
- support an attempt to set up a PU community of Linux users
- so over to us...
- with suitable disclaimers (i.e. users will need to rely
heavily on other Linux users and the web for support), add a
Linux section of the PU IT help pagesÂ
- with same disclaimers, also put onto PU's University-Wide
Software Self-service links to LibreOffice download, perhaps
also R (and maybe a small number of other good examples of
OS desktop software? - but we left that vague.
Suggestions?)Â
Any of you connected with PU, please feel free to contact me
direct if you'd like to be involved.
Perhaps the first task for a user group would be the Linux help
pages for use in PU?
BW
Rod
Rod
What funding are PU offering for all this work?
Yes, we should be promoting Linux as much as possible. Yes,
students will benefit from moving to linux. Yes, university staff
will benefit from moving to linux. Yes, that's what the LUG is
for.
However. The University is a profitable business. At Â9k per term
per student, I'd imagine PU can afford to fund a couple of week's
work to copy & paste generic linux support content into a
glossy PU branded website.
All cynicism aside, it may be worth contacting the marketing guys
at Red Hat (less so) or Canonical (more so) to see how they may be
able to help.
Does PU have it's own CompSci Soc? It's this what they're for? We
should hook up with them.
Martin
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