Fwd: Pine Rivers Computing April Club Night.

[Jared Norris]

Good evening all,

Geoff has contacted me below to see if anyone is available to help the Pine
Rivers Computer Club (to the north of Brisbane) with their migration from
Windows XP to Ubuntu. With Geoff's permission I've forwarded his email
below with all the details.

I will be unable to attend myself but thought I'd see if anyone else was
available to help Geoff and the Club out. If anyone has spare time on the
27th of April I would recommend contacting Geoff directly to see how you
can help out with their workshop day.

I hope you're all preparing for the upgrade to 14.04, I made the switch
yesterday and found it very smooth. If anyone wants to hold a release party
it's not too late, just send an email to the list with the details.

Regards,

Jared Norris


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Geoff Isaac <geofhazel7 at optusnet.com.au>
Date: 8 April 2014 10:53
Subject: Pine Rivers Computing April Club Night.
To: Jared Norris


 Hello Jared (Ubuntu Aust.),

Pine Rivers Computer Club had a presentation night of Open Source systems
after much research over past months trying to ready Members for the
Windows XP support closure by Microsoft.  MS has been a hard nut to crack
owing to the contentment of MS products that many Members had not thought
further in their minds that one day product support would alternatively
change one's thinking.

Club President Mike Dodds pointed out that Microsoft was not leaving 'us'
but changing their support basis of products to Tablet and more of Mobile
Phone development, plus their recent software development like Window 8, of
which some Club Members were experimenting with.

Mike demonstrated Ubuntu and Linux Mint 16.  A Member mentioned how he was
happy to be using Linux Mint 15 along side his Windows Xp.  Some Members
have expressed interest of obtaining Ubuntu and other Open Source programs
for evaluation. (Jared, your donated Ubuntu product is now finding more
acceptance as a result of Club Night.)

So, Jared and Matthew, we think we may have 'cracked the nut' in changing
Members perceptions about a wider range of IT products.  In some way, you
both have played a part in this and for that I thank you.  I certainly have
learnt much from our contact!

Our Workshop Sunday Apr.27  will feature demo of Ubuntu product and Linux
open Source systems as well as sorting out more Window problems that
Members seem to keep for such a Workshop day.

Please feel free to drop into our Club Night first Monday of month, and
Workshop Sunday (forth Sunday of month).  We look forward to seeing you.

regards Geoff.

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