[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

[Robin Cardrick]

alan c wrote:
> Robin Cardrick wrote:
>   
>> I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in 
>> Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty 
>> technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that 
>> there is another choice, and one doesn't have to use windows!.
>>     
>
> yey!
>
> The computer fair at the sports centre (2nd sunday of month) usually 
> has an Infopoint display for foss information and including Ubuntu 
> (yours truly).
>
> The Internet cafe next to the hairdressers (bottom of 3M tower) has 
> two PCs - they have been ubuntu for about 6 months.
>
> You did hear about the thieves and vagabonds in Princess Square last 
> summer nicking an (Ubuntu) netbook?
> see
> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/26/desperate-demand-for-the-elonex-webbook/
>
> Even *today*, a first:  I was in Princess Square mid morning in my 
> Ubuntu baseball cap, and passed someone wearing a Ubuntu fleece. I 
> just had time to say how much I liked it as we rushed past each other.
>
> I heard about the French Gendarmerie saying they saved 50 million 
> Euros by using Ubuntu, so I contacted my local councilors suggesting 
> they consider similar. I received a reply: 'Thank you for your e-mail, 
> and this interesting information. I am happy to raise this matter with 
> the Council. We are always looking for efficiencies, particularly in 
> these times.'
>
> I live in hope
> :-)
>
> There is a local contact group bracklux - sorry it is a yahoogroup, 
> but if anyone wanted to arrange local meets in town this would help
> http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/bracklux/?tab=s
>
> Also there is an entry for Bracknell in the Ubuntu user world map
> http://www.flippinsweetdude.com/maps/index.php
>
> Waterstones  in Bracknell has a number of ubuntu books. They are all 
> arranged neatly at comfortable eye level. :-)
>
> Bracknell does have things going on.....
>   


Clearly it does!
Never realised how much before. Will have to keep my eyes open in the
future. And saying about the hairdressers near 3M.... That's where I get
my hair cut... No idea the computers ran ubuntu... Learn something new
everyday (or in this case, 10 new things).


Bobbin.