In our area, there are at least two experts who travel around the area giving help, installing repairing etc on the spot face to face- there are many computer literate elderly who benefit enormously from this service (Windows only)- pay is roughly £30.00 per hour. These 'experts' come with no qualifications of any sort.
<br>There is also a local college giving a range of online classes and face to face classes in the various applications (Windows) to the range of adults needing it. <br>Perhaps wherever any Ubuntu team members are based, they could simply stick up a note in the local post office or equivalent noticeboard, or offer to run a 'taster afternoon' in the local FE college to introduce people to Ubuntu. We also have a cafe that does classes of different types in an upstairs room.
<br><br>Caroline<br> <br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Pope</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:<br>> On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:<br>> > is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts<br>><br>> There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
<br>> very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face to face help is a<br>> very important type of help which is much more difficult to find for<br>> Ubuntu than it should be.<br><br>How would you envisage such a list operating?
<br><br>Would this be a "not an Ubuntu official partner, but willing to help"<br>type list?<br><br>Who validates who is on the list? Or is it just a list "buyer beware"?<br><br>I'd certainly be interested in putting myself on the list.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Al.<br><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>---<br>London School of Puppetry<br><a href="http://www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com">
www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com</a>