Jorge, Alan, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:28 PM, John Abbott <fewcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jorge, > > I am not inclined to rock the boat. I can only speak for our group > here in the Tip of Texas. Of the 18 of us, 11 began testing Ubuntu > 9.10Alpha #1 the day it became available. Not many of us have room for > additional hardware so most dual boot with 9.04. We've turned in a lot of > trouble reports. > > When I made the initial request to become a LoCo I may have shot myself > in the foot by mentioning that we are probably the oldest aged group on > Ubuntu. I live and teach in a retirement resort as well as the community > Library. Our oldest Ubuntu User is an 84 year old woman who had never owned > a computer before moving here in 2005. > > It the qualifying that is the hurdle for most of my members. None of > them have a programming background and it took me two years to get them to > use the terminal and command lines. When we planned our launch party we > determined to hold it in the party room of the biggest pizza parlor in > Southern Texas. We will have free pizza - free as in FLOSS! and we will > have local TV Network coverage. We'll do it as the ToT-LUG. > Is there still anyone who doesn't consider this worthy of becoming LoCo??? This one beats the hell of "My mom uses Ubuntu!", that's more of "My grandparents using Ubuntu!" style. I like it. John, you are my hero now. Alex.
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