[ubuntu-uk] looking work placement/voluntary option

fatma oymak bedizma at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 5 14:20:54 GMT 2007 

dear all

currently i am using ubuntu.....

i am living london and looking some placement or voluntary work with 
linux....
do you know any place....please let me know

all the best
fatma

>From: "London School of Puppetry" <lspinfo at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: info at londonschoolofpuppetry.com,British Ubuntu Talk 
><ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
>To: "Robin Menneer" <robinmenneer at gmail.com>
>CC: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu sophisticated
>Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:12:01 +0000
>
>Robin
>Thanks I will try-Can I ask someone something else- why does open Office
>crash when I try to paste something out of it into an email? Sorry I am so
>new to this and I appreciate all you with so much practical knowledge.
>Caroline
>
>On 05/01/07, Robin Menneer <robinmenneer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Caroline
>>I assume that you are at the same level of simplicity and find that the
>>help facility is like the curate's egg, good in parts.  You type your
>>message in open office then save as, under file type, click on windows XP
>>which gives you a .doc suffix.  Microsoft should understand this.
>>Robin
>>On 1/5/07, London School of Puppetry <lspinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Robin, I am a recent convert? to Ubuntu- which I find great- and I am
>> > useless at this klind of thing. the Help stuff is clear- ish - except 
>>for
>> > some terms are hard to understand- But the biggest problem I have is 
>>sending
>> > files to colleagues who use Microsoft- and they say they can't open
>> > them.Caroline
>> >
>> > On 05/01/07, Robin Menneer < robinmenneer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Toby
>> > > If Ubuntu is to be as successful as has been mooted, the package 
>>needs
>> > > to be lubriciously simple so that complete beginners with nil 
>>knowledge can
>> > > take advantage of the secondhand machines which are said to abound.  
>>For
>> > > instance I would advocate a starting screen, after loading, of a
>> > > typewriter-only facility with the keyboard control &c keys suitably 
>>locked
>> > > sofly,  So the newboy can, unless he uses the one menu which gets him 
>>out of
>> > > it, can only use the machine as a typewriter with save, print and new
>> > > facilities.  Then when he has mastered typing (or sooner) he can 
>>elect to
>> > > move another stage towards open office etc etc.  Many of the people 
>>coming
>> > > into computing are those who have either been bypassed or actively 
>>rejected
>> > > computing and are possibly candidates for open-source coupled with 
>>cheap
>> > > secondhand machine, but a simple step-by-step initiation is needed.  
>>What is
>> > > simple to you is impossible to most of them.  I envisage a pensioner
>> > > attending a charity meeting being given a machine and being told just 
>>to
>> > > take it away and use it.  Comparing its procedures with windows is 
>>not
>> > > useful.  Dumbing down ridiculously is what's needed to get ubuntu 
>>being
>> > > favoured by the masses.
>> > > Robin
>> > >
>> > > On 1/5/07, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:29 +0000, Robin Menneer wrote:
>> > > > > Alan
>> > > > > Yes - cash book, address book &c.  I didn't have a cd and had
>> > > > never
>> > > > > made one, nor had the facilities.  I didn't need a cd for suse 
>>but
>> > > > I
>> > > > > do not know what Novell have done with it since they took it 
>>over.
>> > > > > You fall into the trap of comparing installing ubuntu with 
>>windows
>> > > > > instead of the real world whch does exist outside windows.  Yes 
>>it
>> > > >
>> > > > > should get better if it's going to be much more widely used.  I
>> > > > want a
>> > > > > package that I can click on on the web, chose the thicky
>> > > > (beginner's)
>> > > > > version and go away and leave it for half an hour, returning to
>> > > > find
>> > > > > the opening page offering help.  Other more expert versions I
>> > > > would
>> > > > > possibly like to delve into later but would be happy ot go again
>> > > > to
>> > > > > the web so as to get the latest version.
>> > > > > Robin
>> > > >
>> > > > Hmm... I'm not quite certain what this means. I'm also unsure as to
>> > > > what
>> > > > you find sophisticated. It always all seemed perfectly clear to me.
>> > > > Could you elaborate some more, please?
>> > > >
>> > > > > On 1/4/07, alan c < aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>> > > > > > Robin Menneer wrote:
>> > > > > > > Alan
>> > > > > > > Cornwall.  You can see some of my interests on
>> > > > www.cornishhedges.com.
>> > > > > > > (comments welcome).   Yes, I agree about different needs - 
>>all
>> > > > one
>> > > > > > > needs is a simple menu offering switchable facilities by
>> > > > function
>> > > > > > > rather than by name
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Email, Word Processing, Internet Browse,  (more?)
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Protection should be inbuilt with user status.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I believe this is already there.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Surely in the 21st century we do not need an install person
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > You said you got someone else to install for you. Installs are
>> > > > about
>> > > > > > as easy as I could imagine now. Insert cd, say yes take over
>> > > > hard
>> > > > > > drive, ok, english ok, then have a few cups of tea. Knowing 
>>that
>> > > > > > nobody in their right mind installs windows themselves (quite
>> > > > > > difficult), I think ubuntu does pretty well and will probably
>> > > > get
>> > > > > > better too.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >  Aged
>> > > > > > > late-departed mother in laws should not have to be daunted by
>> > > > install
>> > > > > > > problems.  I gather one Ubuntu difficulty was with the 
>>display
>> > > > which
>> > > > > > > turned out to be merely a deficit in programming.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > The only display problem I had in many various installs was 
>>with
>> > > > a
>> > > > > > dell laptop inspiron 1100 - this model was produced with a
>> > > > display and
>> > > > > > bios communication problem. It was easier to install linux
>> > > > (ubuntu
>> > > > > > etc) than XP even though I was using the original Dell CDs!
>> > > > > > --
>> > > > > > alan cocks
>> > > > > > Kubuntu user#10391
>> > > > > >
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>> > > > >
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>> > > >
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