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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
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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 aro
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n Tue, 2012-05-08 at 23:27 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
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>
> On 8 May 2012 21:22, Sarah Chard
> wrote:
>
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> >
> http://www.tuxedu.org/tell-us-how-you-get-your-pc-into-usb-boot-mode/
> > we want old and new on our list Thanks
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 eve
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 20:41 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 08/05/12 10:25, Sarah Chard wrote:
> > My experience working with teachers and running parents evening as
> > part of our Tuxedu project is that this is the main stumbling block to
> > getting people too
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n Tue, 2012-05-08 at 18:10 +0100, Andy Braben wrote:
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>
> 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 th
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> Are you sure that an Android app is the best way to do this? I would
> have thought that most who understand Android apps would have little
> difficulty getting into the boot menu. Perhaps a web site would be
> better.
well lots of peo
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 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 p
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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
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n Wed, 2011-10-26 at 11:11 +0100, George MacLeod wrote:
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>
> On 26 October 2011 10:58, Sarah Chard
> wrote:
>
> Hi
> my friend who uses Ubuntu and is a keen photographer has
> bought a new camera and is haveing
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n Wed, 2011-10-26 at 11:06 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> They're probably RAW files. Gimp has a plugin for that called
> "gimp-ufraw" which can be installed via software centre.
>
> Also there's a package called "rawstudio" which can manipulate RAW
> files.
>
> Al.
Hi Al
yes they are RAW files -
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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 q
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, 2011-09-21 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 stan
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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 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 wit
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 Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 6 September 2011 14:30, Sarah Chard 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
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 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 po
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 colle
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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
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 primar
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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 sof
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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 poste
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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 fir
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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
>
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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
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 incl
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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.
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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 workshop
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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 generatio
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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
>
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 incompa
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
http://www.youtube.com/user/HerefordshireLU
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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 ther
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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
Hi
Just a quick reminder that the Herefordshire Open Source Day is
happening this Saturday March 26 at
All Saints, High Street, Hereford HR4 9AA, 10am – 4pm. It's a free
drop-in event so if you are in the area do call in.
The HOSS (Herefordshire Open Source Star) Awards are being presented to
th
> 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
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n Wed, 2011-03-16 at 14:51 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 16 March 2011 14:47, Sarah Chard 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:
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 Ub
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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
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 download
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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?
>
> --
> alan cocks
> Ubuntu user
yes please - we are trying to put together as much info as possible for
the event
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 arg
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n Sat, 2011-02-12 at 19:46 +, alan c wrote:
> the IT department and found that Bracknell use an overwhelming amount
> of Suse Enterprise server, and are carefully aware of the non linux
> apps they still depend upon, and plan for a future with thin clients.
> I think they have been not
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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-
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n Tue, 2011-02-08 at 15:17 +, gazz wrote:
> Latest LO is stable, no reason not to use it for production? I
> do . . .
>
Just a query - do you have to uninstall Open Office completely if you
are going to try out Libre Office as I have spoken to a couple of people
who have said they have had
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
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
pe
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 HE
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 ab
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