Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

2007-05-02 Thread Robin Menneer
On 5/1/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 18:31 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: On 4/29/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:30 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: Does one just download the .iso file below onto the desktop,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

2007-05-02 Thread Robin Menneer
On 5/2/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:39 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: grrr...in order to release the old one for Fiesty and me grrr... As the only applications she uses are iphoto (which should come ready loaded)

[ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
Guys and Dolls, During the meeting last night on irc we discussed various marketing ideas. These included the Tux 500 [0] campaign and the firefox New York Times advert [2]. These seem to many of us to be very expensive options for marketing Ubuntu. An alternative that Hampshire LUG has used

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Stephen Garton
On 02/05/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys and Dolls, During the meeting last night on irc we discussed various marketing ideas. These included the Tux 500 [0] campaign and the firefox New York Times advert [2]. These seem to many of us to be very expensive options for marketing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loading Fiesty into Mac mini

2007-05-02 Thread TheVeech
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:00 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: IMHO, the WD Passport is a great piece of kit, especially for laptops and people who have to be mobile. Yes, I'll keep it as backup but I would at some time like to have Ubuntu on it so that I could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Wood
Stephen Garton wrote: On 02/05/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys and Dolls, During the meeting last night on irc we discussed various marketing ideas. These included the Tux 500 [0] campaign and the firefox New York Times advert [2]. These seem to many of us to be very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread TheVeech
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Guys and Dolls, During the meeting last night on irc we discussed various marketing ideas. These included the Tux 500 [0] campaign and the firefox New York Times advert [2]. These seem to many of us to be very expensive options for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:57PM +0100, TheVeech wrote: [2] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints/FlyerMasters [3] http://gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/25-Review-Software-Freedom-Day.html [4] http://misc.allbsd.de/Flyer Will take a good look at this perhaps tomorrow.

[ubuntu-uk] screencasts, was Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:57PM +0100, TheVeech wrote: About the medium, how about also getting a bunch of us to spend some quality time collaborating on a series of screencasts, then distributing them on video sites, via bittorrent and even on CDs to be handed out to the public? An

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread David Morley
On 02/05/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:57PM +0100, TheVeech wrote: [2] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints/FlyerMasters [3] http://gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/25-Review-Software-Freedom-Day.html [4]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Gregory Kirby
HI all, Following this thread with interest. I am keen to try Linux but have one big hurdle and that is the drivers for all the kit to date. I have tried searching but it appears that Canon, for example may not have linux drivers. I have Brother, Creative, Qtek, Sony Ericsson, Philips Voip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Joshua Scotton
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:48 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote: I have tried searching but it appears that Canon, for example may not have linux drivers. Link here: http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/software/linux/ I have a friend in Canon, apparently they do not consider the Linux market big

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:35:41PM +0100, David Morley wrote: This is where promoting how much the linux apps have come on is important. I'm with you popey. A good well produced piece of literature is far better accepted than just saying it's good. I think aswell it will be a good idea to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon Drivers

2007-05-02 Thread Ciaran Mooney
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:48 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote: I have tried searching but it appears that Canon, for example may not have linux drivers. Link here: http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/software/linux/ I have a friend in Canon, apparently they do not consider the Linux market big

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Harrison
Right - I'll step forward as a marketeer :-) However, in typical marketing style, I'm going to answer the question I wish you'd asked instead... hence I'm going to talk about the general flyers for use at shows issue, rather than the specifics of how to craft a flyer that explicitly has the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Harrison
BTW: Apologies if you all get this twice - I'm having trouble with my identies in Thunderbird :-) == Right - I'll step forward as a marketeer :-) However, in typical marketing style, I'm going to answer the question I wish you'd asked instead... hence I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon Drivers

2007-05-02 Thread peter
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:53 +0100, Ciaran Mooney wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:48 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote: I have tried searching but it appears that Canon, for example may not have linux drivers. Hi Though not free you could have a look at http://www.turboprint.de/english.html I

[ubuntu-uk] screencasts, was Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Not sure which thread to put this into but BBC 2's Working Lunch has done to my knowledge at least three shorts on Open Source in general for a commercial organisation, school and a what is it? I don't know about the usage of the clips or quoting BBC but in addition to what Mark was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts, was Leaflets

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 22:16 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: To an aside, as there appears to be people belonging to various LUGs on the list, and I know it's not proper here, but how about setting up a central repository on the main LUG site for all these leaflets we've done in the past? Stop