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n Sun, 2012-07-29 at 10:57 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
Any ideas anybody could offer as to how one could make a LUG viable in
a sparsely populated area like Mid Somerset would be gratefully
received.
Sean
Hi Sean
HLUG - Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group is a small rural
LUG
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n Thu, 2012-07-12 at 14:25 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
Maybe you're right and this is why they start watching her, but that
doesn't negate the fact that she gets people interested in Ubuntu and
feeling like they're involved and a basis for learning things. They
also
stay around
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 09:08 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/05/12 23:16, Tony Pursell wrote:
All the computers I use now have an option to show a boot menu.
Usually something like Esc or F12. Sometimes this shown as an option
when the computer is starting up, sometimes not. My
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n Tue, 2012-05-08 at 18:10 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
well lots of people use smartphone apps everyday just because
they own an android or iphone but have probably never been
near the boot menu on their
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 21:12 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
On 08/05/12 21:06, Sarah Chard wrote:
we want to share it - and i will be happy to send it through to you to
put on an Ubuntu wiki once it's in usable format - I will mention your
interest to everyone in our HLUG group
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n Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:50 +, Paul Tansom wrote:
Hi there Received a reply from my MP this morning about open
standards in schools. In the reply was the following link which you
might find of interest: http://opensourceschools.org.uk
I contacted them about our schools
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n Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:39 +0100, mac wrote:
Sarah Is this the right camera? If so, GIMP + UFRaw / gimp-ufraw
plugin is the way to go on a Linux system.
mac
I assume so - I am passing everyone's comments and suggestions on to my
friend - thanks to all who have replied, you have all
Hi
my friend who uses Ubuntu and is a keen photographer has bought a new
camera and is haveing problems with it - she says
The camera i am using is the Sony a55 and i can't find any photo editor,
gimp included that can process the a55 files.
can anyone help?
Sarah
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n Wed, 2011-10-26 at 11:06 +0100, paul sutton wrote:
can the camera be set to save as a different file format, i have
never heard of a55 as a file format. or is a55 the camera in which
case does it save a jpeg or similar.
Paul
it can but she wants to save them as RAW files - for
Hi
feedback from teachers from the first school we visited as a part of our
OSSP is that they really need good quality programs that address
literacy not just letters and spelling but grammar, punctuation and
sentence construction
any thoughts?
Sarah
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n Wed, 2011-09-21 at 11:27 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Did they have specific issues with the grammar checking in OOo?
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 13:12 +0100, paul sutton wrote:
We need contextual grammar checking which is far harder, and probably
even harder when you have to deal with
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n Wed, 2011-09-21 at 12:39 +0100, James Tait wrote:
Gcompris [0] may provide some of that. I have a vague recollection of
my
eldest son playing a game where he had to put the correct word in the
sentence, but glancing over the website I don't recognise it.
Hi James
we have gcompris on
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n Wed, 2011-09-21 at 16:18 +0200, Barry Drake wrote:
Maybe not trying to answer your specific question, my own pet hate is
the insistence of teaching Microsoft Publisher in schools. I think
we
should challenge this on the grounds that MS Publisher does not
conform
to an open standard
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n Mon, 2011-09-05 at 19:12 +0100, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
Hi Sarah
Thanks for sharing this and good luck with the project. Please post
back with how it went. I would love to get our daughter's school to
embrace Open Source computing, so would be very interested in reading
any
Hi
Can anyone suggest a good open source stop frame animation program -
it's one of the requests we have had for our schools project
Sarah
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n Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 6 September 2011 14:30, Sarah Chard sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk wrote:
Can anyone suggest a good open source stop frame animation program - it's
one of the requests we have had for our schools project
There's a program called
Hi everyone,
We are now only a couple of weeks away from the launch of HLUG's Open
Source Schools Project and it has been very interesting helping to set
the whole thing up. The project is launching at our Software Freedom Day
Event in Hereford and we have a lecturer from one of the local
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n Fri, 2011-07-29 at 18:13 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
I'm
currently working on a project here in Torbay to provide a couple of
old
laptops to a local Sure Start Centre as a sort of mobile computer
suite
(well 2 laptops and a printer) and maybe something like this would
work
well rather
Hi
I wanted to let you know what is happening here in Herefordshire.
As a part of ISFD we are running an Open Source Schools Project -
partially inspired by discussions here on education and open source.
Herefordshire LUG contacted schools across the county and we now have
around 7 schools
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n Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:23 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
we have CDs, we need to get them out there,
Alan - HLUG will be happy to take some cd's - we have some left from our
last Open Source event - they are mainly 10.04 and 10.10 we have no
11.04
so it would be good to have a few more for our
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n Fri, 2011-06-24 at 19:24 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
we just need to co-ordinate efforts more.
I agree with Paul -
the wiki pages seem to have a lot of out of date info - which is quite
off putting if you are coming in looking for an active community.
it would be great to have more poster
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n Tue, 2011-06-21 at 14:04 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote:
Out here in Herefordshire our next event is 17 sept software freedom
day
and we usually target schools and get a few teachers and educators
through on the day - but I am wondering this year if we can make more
of
an effort to get schools
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n Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:41 +0100, Bea Groves wrote:
Can I say I'm teaching a full-length (i.e. 10 x 2 hours) unaccredited
course for adults entitled 'Introduction to Linux' for North Tyneside
Adult Learning Alliance next year. Date and time are still to be
confirmed. This will be the first
there has been quite a bit of talk on the lists about schools, school
websites and teaching lately - this weekend it's not only Glastonbury
Festival but also
The Sunday Times/Wellington College Festival of Education
http://www.festivalofeducation.org.uk/
in Crowthorne Berks - lots of speakers
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n Tue, 2011-06-21 at 14:25 +0100, suprengr wrote:
Two identical laptops running side by side. One running MS only
software, the other running Ubuntu and equivalent software.
Stuck [prominently] to each laptop is a price tag ;)
Bill
yes that's a neat way to show cost factors - of course
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n Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:27 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Well I was thinking perhaps I should approach them and offer to do
them
a new website (my contribution towards PTA and all that) :)
I think a very simple Drupal installation would be worlds apart from
what they have today.
now
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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
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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
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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
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:12 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for
ordinary
users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which
are
becoming more and more
Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 20/05/11 00:01, Daniel Case wrote:
know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can I
educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a
project over it? (I make my income from this stuff!)
if you would like to listen to the speaker at HLUG's Open Source Day on
Saturday - Dr Mark Wright talking about his experience of Open Source in
local govt and the Q A that followed
then here it is - filmed by Paul one of our members - it's in 4 parts
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n Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:24 +, Paul Sutton wrote:
What do you do regarding insurance at these events, in torbay if we
wanted to use the library we have been told that
all computers need to be PAT tested
we also need public liability insurance or something
just wondered if you have
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n Sat, 2011-03-26 at 19:42 +, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
Following Sarah Chard's posting of 23rd March, I attended the event in
Hereford today. The LUG members were all extremely enthusiastic and
did an excellent job of explaining the merits and benefits of FLOSS.
In my view there were
Al
thanks for the suggestion
I already looked at this - my problem is I cannot revert to the .22
version without removing the .24 version and then getting the broken
package problem (i have tried twice)
it looks as if this java issue with Ubuntu 10.04 10.10 is a Bug
#724217 which
Hi
I run a database using Open Office Base in Ubuntu 10.04 (i also run it
on my laptop with 10.10 and have the same problem) - the database has
become increasingly slow (i had the same problem with libre office which
i want to switch to in the long term) research tells me that it's an
issue with
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n Wed, 2011-03-16 at 14:51 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On 16 March 2011 14:47, Sarah Chard sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk wrote:
Is it possible to add in the .22 version and then just choose it to use
within base?
You can, but it's easier to set it system wide..
https://help.ubuntu.com
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 11:51 +, Sean Miller wrote:
So I think that the argument that Councils will automatically save
money through moving to FOSS is one that doesn't always stand up to
scrutiny.
Ultimately we should be promoting Linux on its merits, rather than on
costs.
The argument
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n Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:38 +, alan c wrote:
Hi Sarah
Would you find a FOSS leaflet (double sided A4) based on the
OpenDIsc useful?
If so can I email it to you?
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Ubuntu user
yes please - we are trying to put together as much info as possible for
the event - we
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:04 +, Paul Sutton wrote:
On 13/02/11 19:17, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
the CDs and flyers would be useful for my meeting as well, could I get a
copy
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer
CyberKing Solutions
www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk
i downloaded the iso file
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n Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:37 +, Rob Beard wrote:
Sarah
Sarah, are you using the updated menu system on there (I believe it's
the one where everything is compiled into one file), or is it the
original OpenDisc CD Menu which had individual HTML files?
Ta,
Rob
Rob
One of
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n Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:04 +, gazz wrote:
Yes, I removed OOo first and installed from the LO ppa. This is what I
did to remove openoffice and install LibreOffice:
sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice*.*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get
Hi everyone
Herefordshire LUG is organising an Open Source Day on Sat March 26 as a
follow on from the very successful Software Freedom day event we ran in
Sept.
It's a free drop-in event open to everyone - we demonstrate Linux
operating systems, OS cross platform software and promote and inform
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 19:20 +, Will Bickerstaff wrote:
I'll try my best to get there (though very close to baby due day) and
would hope a few more from your neighbours in Worcestershire will be
to.
Will
I hope you can make it - understandable if you can't!
We will be sending the info out
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 10:24 +, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Erm, I bet Tesco/PC World buy a shedload more machines than Linux
Emporium could ever do and so will get much better volume discounts
on
the hardware even before you take into consideration the crapware
kickbacks I mentioned above.
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:41 +, Sean Miller wrote:
In which case there is something amiss, is there not?
Because they could buy a laptop retail from PC World for £299 by
simply walking in, spend 5 minutes restoring a disc image and then
sell at £399, £450 or whatever they do with a
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