<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">TheVeech</b> <<a href="mailto:theveech@gmail.com">theveech@gmail.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 Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:54 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:<br>> Anyway - we seem to have more women active than there are in Ubuntu-UK<br>> (!) so we must be doing something right..<br><br>There's also a women's forum at Ubuntu Forums.
<br><br>Someone posted here, mentioning that they were of a certain age group,<br>and it got me thinking. I tried to follow up on doing something along<br>the lines of Linux for Seniors (a US term, I know, but...), did a search
<br>and found very little in this area, bar a talk by someone from a US LUG.</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I could be wrong but we seem to cover sex, religion and some<br>occupations, but do nothing in this area.
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