On 15 Jul 2014, at 15:04, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 14 July 2014 10:43:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Our next meeting will be the coming Saturday, July 19th, from 13:00 - >> 18:00, in the Broadoaks Social Club. >> http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html > [snip] >> I was expecting Paul Tansom to be giving a talk this month, but first I was >> incommunicado, and now he seems to be incommunicado, so I am not sure where >> we are. > > Paul and I are now in communication again! He will be talking on "Code > Club", > for which he is now the coordinator for the South East region. "Who we are > and what's involved in running an after school club." > > For those who haven't heard of it: https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ > > "The only thing that particularly worries me is > whether I can get Linux running on it (his brand new laptop) by Saturday or > whether I'll have the > embarrassment of running Windows 8 on it at a LUG meet (which wouldn't be > helped by the fact that I don't find the interface particularly intuitive!)." > > So, please, show him we can be gentle. You and I may one day be forced to > touch Windows 8. ;-) > > Lisi > > >
code club works around the Scratch editor which is a standard package on debian. It works like a charm on the debian pi distro and the pi is good enough for a quick demo…. It a lot easier just to flash an SD card with the factory image and boot . Than to setup a whole laptop just for a few demos. > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
