Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-03 Thread James Grabham
Ironic, isnt it, that the linux community is helping Bills "one computer on every desk" thing, whilest hes trying to sue us at the same time. On 10/30/07, Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every > Wednesday to offer free wireles

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-03 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yep, Locustworld are the source of our mesh boxes (which are damn > unstable right now, random reboots anyone?) > > We have a few problems where there are poor signal areas in the estate > so we used to provide those nifty ethernet over powerline jobbys,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Gaurav Patel
Yep, Locustworld are the source of our mesh boxes (which are damn unstable right now, random reboots anyone?) We have a few problems where there are poor signal areas in the estate so we used to provide those nifty ethernet over powerline jobbys, but those are pretty lame and don't solve all the p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > People have heard of Windows but that's where it ends. They don't know > better. However we had a lady come in a few weeks ago who came in with > a Windows 2000 CD and asked us to install it and didn't even want to > hear about Ubuntu. > > A couple which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Gaurav Patel
People have heard of Windows but that's where it ends. They don't know better. However we had a lady come in a few weeks ago who came in with a Windows 2000 CD and asked us to install it and didn't even want to hear about Ubuntu. A couple which has mixed results. The wife is really eager to learn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Barber
On 30/10/2007, Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every > Wednesday to offer free wireless Internet in an estate in Kingston, > London. > > A problem we had was that many people in this estate had very little > money and very litt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-30 Thread Gaurav Patel
I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every Wednesday to offer free wireless Internet in an estate in Kingston, London. A problem we had was that many people in this estate had very little money and very little computing knowledge. Long story short, we had to supply the comp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Barber
On 30/10/2007, Ciaran Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > There is an event that already does this kind of advocacy. Its called > Software Freedom Day. Every year around September time voluteers > organise an event all on the same day to promote free software. > Canonical sponsor the even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-30 Thread Ciaran Mooney
Hi, There is an event that already does this kind of advocacy. Its called Software Freedom Day. Every year around September time voluteers organise an event all on the same day to promote free software. Canonical sponsor the event and the official distro to hand out is Ubuntu, though you can hand

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-29 Thread Matthew Larsen
Agreed, this approach works very well. On 29/10/2007, Michael Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote > Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? > > Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how many, > a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-29 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Michael Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Guys > > We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote > Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? > > Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how many, > and what they would think of this, but: > > We gets t

[ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Holloway
Hi Guys We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how many, and what they would think of this, but: We gets tons of CD's in boxes, we get an Ubuntu jacket with big writing