[ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

[pmgazz]

I've done a bit of this - I've demo'd an Ubuntu LTSP and also laptops at 
voluntary sector events - people don't 'get' what an operating system is 
and tend to think that MS Win is 'part of the machine'. They have to 
have a reason for considering changing OS and I find that being able to 
help the environment and save money at the same time is a powerful 
incentive to consider something new.

Paula

On 19/07/10 13:42, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 19/07/10 13:21, pmgazz wrote:
>    
>> Environmental events are good, foreground stuff like how to refurbish
>> their XP kit and keep perfectly good electronic kit out of landfill . . .
>>
>> Paula
>>      
> I agree, someone in our local LUG donated a couple of old PCs (I think
> they were around early Pentium 2's) to a local nursery, one was running
> Windows and another was running some Linux distro, turns out the kids
> preferred the Linux PC and I believe Windows was replaced with Linux too.
>
> Also in our local LUG we've installed an LTSP server and 6 client
> machines (old Dell P3's which were donated by a local business) at a
> local community centre.  The server (albeit a rather beefy, if not too
> beefy) is running as an LTSP server running Ubuntu 8.04 and the clients
> netboot.  It was great to see the machines actually being used at an
> open day, I believe they're really benefiting the community as some
> folks in the area can't afford internet access or don't have a computer
> at home and they can pop down to the community centre and get access to
> the internet and learn computer skills, and the kids (especially the
> older teens) like to go down in the evenings and browse the Internet
> giving them something to do in a safe secure environment.
>
> I'm hoping as a LUG in Devon we can start to do more of this in the
> future, I'd even refurbish machines and stick Ubuntu on them if it
> wasn't for another guy on our local Freecycle list who gets old
> machines, refurbishes them and sticks Windows XP and Office 2003 on them
> (I think he's either got a whole load of Office 2003 licenses he wants
> to give away or he's installing pirate copies of the software, however
> good his intentions are I'm sure one day he'll come unstuck).
>
> Rob
>
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