[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/New Technology Event
Hi All, This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu event. I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of dates - Ferneham Hall in Fareham, Hants The venue has capacity for 600+ people, Wifi, Bar and extremely good acoustics ( used for concerts ). There are a few proviso's for this: . We have to provide a section dedicated to Educational benefits of open source software, complete with demonstrations and presentations. There will be educational representatives attending from around the Portsmouth/Southampton area as well as a few local councillors. . We have to cover Ubuntu combined with low power consumption computing aimed at businesses ( but not limited to ). Secondly, I have been in a meeting this morning at work with Asrock. In passing I mentioned the possibility of this event and was greeted with an offer of sample hardware for the event as well as an array of their cutting edge hardware releases to help us demonstrate the abilities of Ubuntu. I am also in the process of getting the local newspaper ( The News ) to cover the event. My main lackings for such an event are: . People to give presentations . People with sufficient knowledge to control the educational section of the event. . General help with the on-the-day event. Any other suggestions/helpful hints or offers of help please let me know. Regards Rhys Morgan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/New Technology Event
All the dates I have been given are in July, I have a choice of any Saturday/Sunday 7am - 3.30pm I am open to suggestions subject to key people's availability -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Liam Proven Sent: 04 June 2010 13:59 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/New Technology Event On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Rhys Morgan rhysmorgan1...@aol.com wrote: Hi All, This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu event. I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of dates - Ferneham Hall in Fareham, Hants The venue has capacity for 600+ people, Wifi, Bar and extremely good acoustics ( used for concerts ). There are a few proviso's for this: · We have to provide a section dedicated to Educational benefits of open source software, complete with demonstrations and presentations. There will be educational representatives attending from around the Portsmouth/Southampton area as well as a few local councillors. · We have to cover Ubuntu combined with low power consumption computing aimed at businesses ( but not limited to ). Secondly, I have been in a meeting this morning at work with Asrock. In passing I mentioned the possibility of this event and was greeted with an offer of sample hardware for the event as well as an array of their cutting edge hardware releases to help us demonstrate the abilities of Ubuntu. I am also in the process of getting the local newspaper ( The News ) to cover the event. My main lackings for such an event are: · People to give presentations · People with sufficient knowledge to control the educational section of the event. · General help with the on-the-day event. Any other suggestions/helpful hints or offers of help please let me know. Regards Rhys Morgan I could possibly talk about the admin and licensing-cost angles of FOSS in education, although my personal background is the SME arena. Contact details below! -- Liam Proven Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 Cell: +44 7939-087884 Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
I am inclined to say that Daubers is the best mockup i have seen so far. Along with the podcast remake that Popey showed. I agree that MichealH's #1 Was the best of his bunch but prefer the above. Rhys -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Daubney Sent: 03 June 2010 15:35 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:30 +0100, micheal harker wrote: snippety Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated. http://daubers.co.uk/~matt/mockup.png -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
Millions steer well clear in my opinion takes months longer to activate the connection and especially if you have a netgear router. Also there are multiple problems with dns servers which can be resolved by setting them yourself. - Original Message - From: Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 13:14 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP? On 24/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an ADSL connection through Tiscali. I personally hate the service and would change if I had any better options. Their technical support is absolute crap. Second this - Tiscali are rubbish! I'm with them at the moment but am considering a move to TalkTalk, which appears to be outstanding value and available in my area: any horror stories with them? -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
Virgin is definitely the one for cable and ive never had any trouble with pipex for adsl. Is anyone using sky as i will be moving to sky in my new house apparently between 8 and 16mb. Rhys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal
Whilst my linux experience is limited to setup, configuration and use i would like to be of use in any other way. I have 2 spare 1.2ghz laptops which you would be more than welcome to use if needed. regards Rhys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] EdUbuntu
On the subject of edubuntu i have just introduced it to a early learning centre/nursery that my cousins wife works in and they are over the moon with the useability and more importantly the cost i.e nothing. Anyway they have branches nationwide and have asked me to write some more copies of edubuntu to send to the other centres. One thing they did ask was would there be more variations of the learning apps? or maybe upgradeable questions/skillsets. Rhys Morgan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV
Anyone know of a decent quality 42 right at the bottom of the price range? Looking at about £600 a bit too optimistic though i think. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu jobs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have more computer related intellect than the majority of comp science degree grads. No offense, but saying things like that does not get you a job and does not make you automatically better than people with CS degree's. Regards, Sorry did not mean to be arrogant, like I said it was just a rant really i have been searching for weeks for jobs which from experience i have done better quicker and more competently than people who have degree level qualifications and falling at every hurdle some would say its my own fault for not going to university and gaining said qualifications but at that age I decided to join the parachute regiment instead and now have a wife and baby ( wife is in uni studying to be a midwife ) so its not viable for me to go back to education. Anyway apologies to any CS grads that I have upset I was not presuming to be better than you just speaking from the experience of CS grads I have met in the past ( and their errors I've had to correct ) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu jobs
Hi, Going back a few days i remember someone posting a website for ubuntu jobs i am currently looking for an IT ( preferably unix/linux ) related job and am having great difficulty due to lack of qualifications. Hoping to find an employer that will give me a chance to show them i have more computer related intellect than the majority of comp science degree grads. Anyway rant over but if anyone could remind me of the url i would be much appreciative. Regards Rhys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where to find good labour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way i see it, there are 2 types of compter poeple: Geeks, and Comptuter Experts. (and no offence to those who dont like the term geek) A Geek doesn't like to be told how/why things work - he/she like to figure things out... so probably no university degrees etc. A Computer expert has done 5 years in university and has a list of expertise etc... When it comes to crunch time, sit the two of them in front of two machines with the same problem: 1. The geek takes 30 minutes to fix it. If the expert has studied the problem, he can fix it in 10 minutes. If he has not, he cant fix it. Thats a rather big generalisation... but it gives caution to the hiring process when half of your systems run a lot custom built apps/server software. I much rather hear from a potential that he/she had put ther first computer together at the age of 10, and was writing DOS batch scripts to free up the extended memory in order to start games on an old 486 etc..., than to hear that they have studied point-and-click techniques (courtesy Paul) for the last 5 years, and know it like the back of their hand. I think you just described me to a tee including the 486 remark or it may have been a 386 but close enough and i was actually 9. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where to find good labour
I can certainly relate to the hardship of breaking into the IT industry, I personally am not qualified to any sort of recognisable level in IT specific qualifications/certifications but on the other hand i am far more knowledgable than 90% of people i know with degrees in IT related subjects. I think a lot of people tend to look at IT as an easy way to make money in a job instead of actually being interested in the work involved whereas I think the best IT job candidates are people like myself who enjoy the challenge of discovering how things work and making them better ( adapt, improve, overcome ) . Anyway just my 2 cents. Regards Rhys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam for Ubuntu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Stean wrote: It's fine - that's the model I have - works with Kopete and with aMSN no probs - the mic is a bit crap on mine though but it depends from unit to unit I understand, I use a desktop mic instead Pete Thats good, I have been looking for a VGA resolution camera for ages. I'm actually tempted to pick one up myself as the 'generic' rebranded cameras are a bit hit and miss from my experience. Rob My camera technically works but only shows as a blue and white image sort of like a negative picture. Ive tried using easycam but it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
