[ubuntu-uk] LUGs

[Robin Menneer]

On 3/31/07, TheVeech <theveech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:24 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3/30/07, TheVeech <theveech at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:54 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> >         > Anyway - we seem to have more women active than there are in
> >         Ubuntu-UK
> >         > (!) so we must be doing something right..
> >
> >         There's also a women's forum at Ubuntu Forums.
> >
> >         Someone posted here, mentioning that they were of a certain
> >         age group,
> >         and it got me thinking.  I tried to follow up on doing
> >         something along
> >         the lines of Linux for Seniors (a US term, I know, but...),
> >         did a search
> >         and found very little in this area, bar a talk by someone from
> >         a US LUG.
> >
> > There are at least two entirely different oldie categories - those who
> > have had prePC experience and those who have nil computer experience.,
> > even little or no keyboard exposure.  The main problem I personally
> > find is a lack of memory for even simple sequencies, and it's getting
> > steadily worse.  Being on pension one lives in fear of fouling up
> > (soft or hard damage) the machine and having to get someone in,
> > expensively.  This is why thickie support from the Ubuntu community is
> > so  essential.
>
> You're not alone.  One of my friends had a stroke a few years back.
> Consequently, his memory's very poor - the equivalent of about 128 meg
> of RAM by today's standards!
>
> I'm convinced that if you had some sort of forum that's more likely to
> appreciate the context of the challenges you face with your computing,
> you'd become less 'thickie' faster, not least because you'd benefit
> from, and be able to contribute to, its collective wisdom.
>
> I'm a bit disappointed with the apparent lack of any follow-up on this.
> I'll keep an eye out for people who might want to chase it up.  I don't
> know about you, but the seniors I know would love to have this option.
>
> I personally am happy, for the moment, to stand on the side lines of the
> exotic discussions that go on because they are sampling what may happen to
> me in the future (providing my thickie problems are solved for me when I ask
> for help).  But to someone coming fresh to the computer world, who are
> potentially the vast majority, the exotic discussions could be very
> discouraging.  Possibly the dedicated telephone support would be taken up
> more enthusiastically by the average poor communicator.  After all we all
> have to start by asking if the power is switched on at the wall.




>         I could be wrong but we seem to cover sex, religion and some
> >         occupations, but do nothing in this area.
> >
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