Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-11-05 Thread Kevin Elaerts
Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 20:54 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jan Claeys: > Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 11:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Christophe > Vandeplas: > > People don't want change if they like what they use. > > Right, but I get calls/questions from elderly/retired people who don't > like

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-11-04 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 04-11-2007 om 11:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Christophe Vandeplas: > People don't want change if they like what they use. Right, but I get calls/questions from elderly/retired people who don't like Microsoft OS'es, and they really love the Ubuntu philosophy... :-) -- Jan Claeys

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-11-04 Thread Christophe Vandeplas
Pierre Vorhagen wrote: > You are most certainly right. It is that I have never really had an occasion > to completely "convert" someone older than 30 to Linux... I don't have a lot > of experiences with elderly people willing to accept changes, so once they're > actually used to an OS and have t

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-11-04 Thread Pierre Vorhagen
Kevin Elaerts a écrit : > The best example I have seen off people getting interested in Ubuntu, > was an 70 year old retiered lady, who just bought her very first pc, > second hand and without an OS. > The grandson comes to her house and brought with him, indeed an Ubuntu > disk, granny got intere

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Elaerts
Op dinsdag 30-10-2007 om 14:45 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jan Claeys: > Op maandag 29-10-2007 om 20:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Pierre > Vorhagen: > > You see, it is maybe (probably), an error from my side, but I tend to > > think that the first "targets" should be students. For many reaso

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 29-10-2007 om 20:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Pierre Vorhagen: > You see, it is maybe (probably), an error from my side, but I tend to > think that the first "targets" should be students. For many reasons, > but mainly because they are in general more quickly OK with trying out > som

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-10-29 Thread Pierre Vorhagen
Hi, I'm not blaming LiLiT for anything, be sure of that. I'm not blaming anyone and I'm confused when I see that it was taken like this... (OK, I do blame N-Hitec a wee bit, but they had a lot of difficulties so it's no problem, they are forgiven :-) When I talked of LiLit "dying out", I meant

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-10-29 Thread snulkid
(I kept most of Pierre's message for LiLiT commitee members in CC, so sorry for the long email but don't worry : after that, I'm starting to hibernate ;-) Le lundi 29 octobre 2007 13:28, Pierre Vorhagen a écrit : > > (...) the "Liege branch" of ubuntu-be has a problem... > Yes, the Liège branch

Re: [Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-10-29 Thread Pierre Vorhagen
Hello, snulkid a écrit : > Conclusions : > * obviously, the "Train Action" advertising was unefficient, maybe > because you cannot get students on Saturday, as Laurent Sibilla said. > I wouldn't say that. It was less efficient than we hoped, as it didn't bring people to the LIP... but then a

[Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

2007-10-29 Thread snulkid
Hello Some feedback about the Gutsy Install Party in Liege last Saturday : * Bawet had prepared a local ubuntu mirror and some scripts, to be able to manage a lot of installations with few volunteers. Leaving aside the pro/con compared to the use of a proxy, at least it works and they will re-u