Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs (Ashley Hooper)

2007-01-04 Thread Mr W. F. Vening
Well it seems like this idea is possible, mabe it should be added to the line up in the next discussion? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs (Ashley Hooper)

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:52 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote: Well it seems like this idea is possible, mabe it should be added to the line up in the next discussion? Added:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20070110Meeting signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs - Meeting

2007-01-04 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:52 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote: Well it seems like this idea is possible, mabe it should be added to the line up in the next discussion? Added:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20070110Meeting I will try to be with the meeting,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-04 Thread George MacLeod
I run a small charity (www.clacksnet.org.uk) and we are about to start a scheme where local community groups, charities and the low waged can get a fully functioning PC with Ubuntu inatalled as well as all the useual Open Source s/w for a small donation. The idea came about as I work at the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:03 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote: Hi, Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them to schools, youth clubs etc who couldn't afford to buy them? I am a member of Hampshire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread Robin Menneer
Neil As a new comer to Ubuntu, I find that it is unnecessarily sophisticated. What I need is an operating system that will run Open Office and similar freeware on a simple turn-key basis, and not all the facilities that I seem to have on my downloaded version of Ubuntu - which I had to get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew East
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Alan Pope: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:03 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote: Hi, Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them to schools, youth clubs etc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread john levin
Mr W. F. Vening wrote: Hi, Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them to schools, youth clubs etc who couldn't afford to buy them? I know there are a few systems like this already but this is a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs Hi, Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them to schools, youth clubs etc who couldn't afford to buy them? I know there are a few systems like this already

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread Ashley Hooper
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:03:14 + From: Mr W. F. Vening [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Donation of Old PCs

2007-01-03 Thread Mr W. F. Vening
Hi, I am not quite sure on exactly what you mean. Do you find that using Ubuntu for day to day use is too complicated or was it just the initial installation of Ubuntu? One more thing, what version did you have installed for you? Neil On 1/3/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil