[ubuntu-uk] Wacom bamboo and linux...
Thank you for this I'll have a look for my pen. I gave up on that Christmas present some time ago. But I don't use wacom bamboo but a EN 202 (pegasus model?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZLHcpg5Xg On 6/10/11, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P Thanks in advance Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. As an alternative.. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253305 Ebuyer still have the HP Microserver for 237 with 100 cash back! Super cheap little quiet server. I have one at home which I've chucked 4x2TB disks in, on top of the 160GB supplied disk. Brilliant little bit of kit. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 09:49, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. They're Xeon 2.33Ghz so two cores (but not dual core). They have both been running Ubuntu until recently. Alan's Ebuyer deal sounds quite good though. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? Plus One for Popey's recommendation. I also recently bought an HP Microserver back in December. As he says, small, quiet, and (if the cash-back offers are still available), within your budget. I'm using mine as a domestic file and development server. It's running the desktop version of 10.04 flawlessly. Roger -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On Friday 10 Jun 2011 09:46:12 Alan Pope wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. As an alternative.. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253305 Ebuyer still have the HP Microserver for 237 with 100 cash back! Super cheap little quiet server. I have one at home which I've chucked 4x2TB disks in, on top of the 160GB supplied disk. Brilliant little bit of kit. I also bought one of the Microservers in December after hearing about the £100 cash back and reading Popey's write-up on his blog. Are you getting commission for all these sales? ;) -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 10:17, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: Are you getting commission for all these sales? ;) Sadly not :( Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Thanks again Simon. Al - thanks to you too, btw are you storing the entire internet in your little black box!? (think i.t crowd) :-) On Jun 10, 2011 10:00 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:49, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. They're Xeon 2.33Ghz so two cores (but not dual core). They have both been running Ubuntu until recently. Alan's Ebuyer deal sounds quite good though. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 10:34, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Al - thanks to you too, btw are you storing the entire internet in your little black box!? (think i.t crowd) :-) Only the pictures of kittens, which I believe comprises most of the internet these days. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 10:40, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Only the pictures of kittens, which I believe comprises most of the internet these days. Is that an euphemism? :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 10:48, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: Is that an euphemism? :-) Nope. http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Simon - I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if you are willing to do it, but, can you take items off of eBay once you've added them? What price were you looking for if so? Alternatively - Do you want to swap for a Joggler? Still boxed as new, it runs Joli OS from a USB stick at the minute hosting my website, but can run pretty much any Linux OS quite well. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Hi Dave - Sorry, I've said to other people that I'd rather do it through eBay (and also that I probably should have offered them on this list, but didn't think to). I think they'll be a bargain and there's only five days to go on them so it might be worth a punt. s/ On 10 June 2011 11:07, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.ukwrote: On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Simon - I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if you are willing to do it, but, can you take items off of eBay once you've added them? What price were you looking for if so? Alternatively - Do you want to swap for a Joggler? Still boxed as new, it runs Joli OS from a USB stick at the minute hosting my website, but can run pretty much any Linux OS quite well. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
Hi Sarah - totally agree! We've previously found it difficult to do stuff in schools because policy has rather dictated an emphasis on Microsoft Office skills but this is changing and we're now looking at doing work in schools - particularly to develop a new generation of programmers. Regards, Paula On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:27 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote: O n Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:44 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: And here's the problem. odf is the better format, MS Office is the better office suite. I'm not at all convinced that the traction against OOo/LO is entirely (or even mostly) down to people being used to MS Office and, much as it might well be getting better in LO, MS Office has long been the more complete, polished, stable and predictable of the two. For the majority of people doing mundane office tasks as I do whilst running my business I doubt there would be a substantial difference using Libre/Open Office or MS Office MS Office may be better - I can't comment as I genuinely have never used it - I started with Lotus (because that was on the first machine I had) then switched to open source programs and finally made the move over to Ubuntu as an OS - my business has been running on Ubuntu for several years now. And that is the point - people use MS office because it's what is on their machines when they buy them and get used to using it. Most people don't want to change - I was interested in open source for a range of reasons and enjoy experimenting with programs but I know most people find it very boring. Because M$ have a monopoly the open source office programs are ham strung as they have to play catch-up trying to get their programs working easily with the closed M$ formats - which their users will need the programs to do as they will daily deal with others using MS office. If the open doc formats were enforced by govt - it would help to level the playing field and it would be easier for larger organisations to start a switch to open source in front offices. I'm sure you all know the arguments That's why getting schools to teach about Open Source and explore the alternatives is very important - then we may not need to 'convert' users. Sarah -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
No problem Simon, Just thought I'd pop the question. Well, thanks for your help and I'll be sticking a bid in shortly so we may get the opportunity to meet in person. Dave On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Dave - Sorry, I've said to other people that I'd rather do it through eBay (and also that I probably should have offered them on this list, but didn't think to). I think they'll be a bargain and there's only five days to go on them so it might be worth a punt. s/ On 10 June 2011 11:07, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.ukwrote: On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Simon - I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if you are willing to do it, but, can you take items off of eBay once you've added them? What price were you looking for if so? Alternatively - Do you want to swap for a Joggler? Still boxed as new, it runs Joli OS from a USB stick at the minute hosting my website, but can run pretty much any Linux OS quite well. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
O n Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:15 +0100, gazz wrote: We've previously found it difficult to do stuff in schools because policy has rather dictated an emphasis on Microsoft Office skills but this is changing and we're now looking at doing work in schools - particularly to develop a new generation of programmers. Regards, Paula Paula We've talked about this quite a bit at our LUG meetings and have put special emphasis on contacting teachers and students for our open source events - we had some success at our March event as we had a number of students from the local 6th form college who attended. we are looking to build on this for our event in sept for software freedom day - so any ideas gratefully received I would be interested in developing material to make it easier for teachers / students to get started - it would be useful to have a resource that local LUGS and others could then tap into if they are trying to get interest in schools and colleges in their area. Sarah -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity gimp
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 00:01 +0100, Andres wrote: hi since we are on the subject i tried to add a bash script to the launcher with no luck googled for a bit and found something else: http://maketecheasier.com/easily-create-quicklist-for-ubuntu-unity-launcher/2011/06/06 haven't tried it but looks really neat to use the submenus of the launcher to do more stuff on a single icon. -- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents plain txt or pdf are prefered. - Original message - On 9 June 2011 15:54, gazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Oh super+w rocks - ta! If anyone else is scratching their heads about how to make Unity do what it's told without having to read the entire F* compiz manual, just found Ubuntu Geek lists the main kb shortcuts: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-ubuntu-unity-keyboard-shortcuts.html - my fellow memory-challenged peeps might appreciate wallpaper which lists the vital shortcuts and mousetricks: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/ubuntu-unity-keyboard-shortcuts.html I'd recommend giving people a direct link to the askubuntu page rather than those blog posts. http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts Al. grinning yes, it's great - almost as good as having gnome classic back! My launcher is still showing two bash script launchers that were on my old gnome panel with their icons but I'm not feeling overwhelmed with joy about having to find ways of painstakingly rebuilding gnome panels out of the Unity launcher :( Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:43 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote: O n Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:15 +0100, gazz wrote: We've previously found it difficult to do stuff in schools because policy has rather dictated an emphasis on Microsoft Office skills but this is changing and we're now looking at doing work in schools - particularly to develop a new generation of programmers. Regards, Paula Paula We've talked about this quite a bit at our LUG meetings and have put special emphasis on contacting teachers and students for our open source events - we had some success at our March event as we had a number of students from the local 6th form college who attended. we are looking to build on this for our event in sept for software freedom day - so any ideas gratefully received I would be interested in developing material to make it easier for teachers / students to get started - it would be useful to have a resource that local LUGS and others could then tap into if they are trying to get interest in schools and colleges in their area. Sarah Hi Sarah - OK sounds good! I need to look for some funding to develop this - we're working on doing an Ubuntu-basics course for our non-profits and this could be adapted for schools. We're also looking at doing some programming basics workshops for schools. It's in the very early stages (and I keep getting sidetracked cos we lost the bulk of our funding in April and it's been a bit hellish) but I'll keep you posted. Let me know if you happen to visit London, maybe we could meet up? I think we're doing pretty similar work. Also, I'm in the process of setting up a women's FOSS advocacy network with Anna from Open Computers in Manc (who's also doing similar work) - I'll send you details when we get under way? By the way, do you know Richard Ross-Langley who used to be the circuit rider? He has good contacts with the VCS and comes down to the FOSS Fridays frequently. Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
Hello Gazz,Sarah : I'm also interested in developing materials in the area of introducing Ubuntu, as a non-profit. So please keep me in the information loop. I would like to contribute. Microsoft have embedded themselves in the schools/ university networks. Spending a massive amount of resources in maintaining a presence in these organisations. However many of the schools and universities are still using XP, largely because of the cost of upgrading. In the current economic climate they are certainly interested in at least benchmarking Ubuntu with Win 7. I know of one Uni seriously considering switching from Sage Quicken to GnuCash as well as to Gimp from Adobe Photoshop. With the biggest source of resistance being Sys Admins qualified in Windows networks. Its also worth remembering that in most schools / universities they are still not aware of the higher usability of Ubuntu for early users. John On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:17 +0100, gazz wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:43 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote: O n Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:15 +0100, gazz wrote: We've previously found it difficult to do stuff in schools because policy has rather dictated an emphasis on Microsoft Office skills but this is changing and we're now looking at doing work in schools - particularly to develop a new generation of programmers. Regards, Paula Paula We've talked about this quite a bit at our LUG meetings and have put special emphasis on contacting teachers and students for our open source events - we had some success at our March event as we had a number of students from the local 6th form college who attended. we are looking to build on this for our event in sept for software freedom day - so any ideas gratefully received I would be interested in developing material to make it easier for teachers / students to get started - it would be useful to have a resource that local LUGS and others could then tap into if they are trying to get interest in schools and colleges in their area. Sarah Hi Sarah - OK sounds good! I need to look for some funding to develop this - we're working on doing an Ubuntu-basics course for our non-profits and this could be adapted for schools. We're also looking at doing some programming basics workshops for schools. It's in the very early stages (and I keep getting sidetracked cos we lost the bulk of our funding in April and it's been a bit hellish) but I'll keep you posted. Let me know if you happen to visit London, maybe we could meet up? I think we're doing pretty similar work. Also, I'm in the process of setting up a women's FOSS advocacy network with Anna from Open Computers in Manc (who's also doing similar work) - I'll send you details when we get under way? By the way, do you know Richard Ross-Langley who used to be the circuit rider? He has good contacts with the VCS and comes down to the FOSS Fridays frequently. Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
O n Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:17 +0100, gazz wrote: Hi Paula OK sounds good! I need to look for some funding to develop this - we're working on doing an Ubuntu-basics course for our non-profits and this could be adapted for schools. We're also looking at doing some programming basics workshops for schools. It's in the very early stages (and I keep getting sidetracked cos we lost the bulk of our funding in April and it's been a bit hellish) but I'll keep you posted. please do keep me up to date with that Let me know if you happen to visit London, maybe we could meet up? I think we're doing pretty similar work. Also, I'm in the process of setting up a women's FOSS advocacy network with Anna from Open Computers in Manc (who's also doing similar work) - I'll send you details when we get under way? If I am down in London I'll let you know - it tends to be fleeting visits but it would be good to meet and I would be very interested in the women's FOSS advocacy network - keep me posted on that as well By the way, do you know Richard Ross-Langley who used to be the circuit rider? He has good contacts with the VCS and comes down to the FOSS Fridays frequently. No don't think I know Richard Sarah -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Call for testing help.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2011-June/004819.html Please see above mail to the translators list. There's some en-gb changes that have been made in natty-proposed (so you'll need to be on 11.04 and have the -proposed repo enabled which is detailed in the mail) to test this. Many thanks, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
