On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:09:50 -0000, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> alan c wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: >> [...] >> >>> We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I >>> wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be >>> somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about >>> Ubuntu Hours around the UK. >>> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour >> >> Hour scheduled in >> Bracknell on >> Saturday 23rd, 11am >> South Hill park and Wilde theatre, Terrace bar >> >> Initially a single event then hopefully ongoing monthly. > > Happy to say this took place. > > I had circulated it also to a local computer club, and what do you > know? One email apology for absence (but would come another time), one > in-person acknowledgement (at an unrelated meeting I happened to > attend) of an install being done on the person's friend's computer, > and above all, one person actually turned up! > > I would not have been surprised if nobody had turned up. I was > surprised by the actual flurry of interest. The attender had > unsuccessfully tried gnu/Linux some years ago and wanted to try again. > He was impressed by what he saw on my eeepc - xandros, UNR and Ubuntu > 8.04, multi boot etc. > > Ubuntu Hour is an good method of low investment local contact. Great > scheme. > Not a bad start, slightly more than Matthew Daubney managed. From little acorns... Once my weekends become free again I’ll shall give it a go. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
