alan c wrote: > Robin Cardrick wrote: > >> I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in >> Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty >> technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that >> there is another choice, and one doesn't have to use windows!. >> > > yey! > > The computer fair at the sports centre (2nd sunday of month) usually > has an Infopoint display for foss information and including Ubuntu > (yours truly). > > The Internet cafe next to the hairdressers (bottom of 3M tower) has > two PCs - they have been ubuntu for about 6 months. > > You did hear about the thieves and vagabonds in Princess Square last > summer nicking an (Ubuntu) netbook? > see > http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/ > > Even *today*, a first: I was in Princess Square mid morning in my > Ubuntu baseball cap, and passed someone wearing a Ubuntu fleece. I > just had time to say how much I liked it as we rushed past each other. > > I heard about the French Gendarmerie saying they saved 50 million > Euros by using Ubuntu, so I contacted my local councilors suggesting > they consider similar. I received a reply: 'Thank you for your e-mail, > and this interesting information. I am happy to raise this matter with > the Council. We are always looking for efficiencies, particularly in > these times.' > > I live in hope > :-) > > There is a local contact group bracklux - sorry it is a yahoogroup, > but if anyone wanted to arrange local meets in town this would help > http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/bracklux/?tab=s > > Also there is an entry for Bracknell in the Ubuntu user world map > http://www.flippinsweetdude.com/maps/index.php > > Waterstones in Bracknell has a number of ubuntu books. They are all > arranged neatly at comfortable eye level. :-) > > Bracknell does have things going on..... >
Clearly it does! Never realised how much before. Will have to keep my eyes open in the future. And saying about the hairdressers near 3M.... That's where I get my hair cut... No idea the computers ran ubuntu... Learn something new everyday (or in this case, 10 new things). Bobbin. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
