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Re: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Paul: > A few suggestions for "Useful Apps" > Spreadsheet - Kspread Gnumeric, siag. > Wordprocessor - Kword (when it doesn't crash), LyX. AbiWord, pw and I guess OpenOffice. > Graphics packages - Gimp, ImageMagic, gphoto. Sketch, Impress (possibly) > Games - Just to pander to the M$ wimps. bzflag network game anyone? :) Communications are a very strong point not to be forgotten: GNUmail, LuserNET, Mozilla, etc. Probably the small armada of server tools should be demo'd, even if we focus on desktop affairs. Anyway, we should all add reviews to the web site, shouldn't we? I've been very bad about that, too. A quick appeal, though -- please put your name on pages, especially if you're going to talk about things like "the author has never...". ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Adam: > It may be even better to call it "Linux day" to just raise profile and > awareness of GNU/Linux (although we should also perhaps be thinking of > other Free and alternative OS), just I don't like the idea of doing > installs on other peoples machines who don't know *anything* about linux OK, here's what else has been going on that I know about so far: 1. AFFS have been talking about a "GNU-Day" anyway, so I've approached them about merging the two. 2. Several people have suggested leaving it until the summer to give more time for proper promotion and being able to ride on the back of the Brum Expo. 3. I've been saying "let's promote Free Software rather than Open Source" ;) > Anyway in short lets do it, UEA would be great although should we perhaps > as a group maybe have 2 seperate meetings on that day? One in Norfolk and > one in Suffolk? I presume CamLug will be doing this also as they have had > an install day before in the basement of CB2... This is probably a good idea. Would a venue in south-/mid-Suffolk be possible? My geography has suddenly gone AWOL, so I don't know if we're using one there at present. -- MJR

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Linux Install Day 2002
by MJ Ray 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Does ALUG want to go for this? Can we do a new venue this year, or should we try UEA again? Where does May fall in the academic year? (Pretty good, IIRC) ------- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <3C7FB085.1070404(a)soton.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 16:47:01 +0000 From: John S Robinson <J.S.Robinson(a)soton.ac.uk> Subject: [lugmaster] UK Linux Install Day 2002 After the success of last year's UK Linux Install Day, Dorset Linux User Group (http://dorset.lug.org.uk) have decided to hold another regional event in 2002. As there seems to be no similar national effort so far this year, we would like to invite other LUGs to coordinate their Install Days with ours, to form a UK Linux Install Day 2002 on Sunday May 19th. National coordination will allow us to raise the the profile of Install Day events and to promote Linux and Open Source software to Businesses and the public. We aim to achieve national press coverage and sponsorship (approaches have been made to O'Reilly and Mandrake). To register your Install Day event, please mail me details (Venue, time, URL for details etc.) to marketing(a)linuxinstallday.org. Details of events will be shown on the website: http://www.linuxinstallday.org This is our chance to build on last year's success and show the public one of Free Software's most valuable facets - it's great sense of community. I'll also be contacting LUG lists directly, in case (as has happened in the past) LUGMasters aren't actually subscribed to this list! If you have any thoughts or questions, please don't hesitate to mail me at the address above, or the one in my sig below. Regards, John Robinson. - -- - ------------------------------ John S. Robinson, BSc (Hons) School of Biological Sciences University of Southampton, UK +44 (0)2380 594399 J.S.Robinson(a)soton.ac.uk - ------------------------------ ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #13 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

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A request for the Association For Free Software
by MJ Ray 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi all, I'm involved with setting up the UK's Association For Free Software and we're having some difficulties locating the following items: * A tame lawyer who at least knows what GNU/Linux is and would be willing to do occasional work for reduced rate (or free!) in exchange for an honorary title. * A Free Software accountancy package suitable for use in the UK. * A moon on a stick. As you can see, we need at least two of these, so any assistance you can give us would be appreciated a great deal. If you don't know, please ask your LUGs. You can find some more about us at http://www.affs.org.uk/ but it is early days yet. You will doubtless hear when we are set up enough to start a recruitment drive... ;-) Thanks, -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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