On 27/01/10 18:47, Steve wrote: > 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. > > I tried! Shan't be able to make it this weekend as I have other commitments, but shall try again the following one.
-Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
