I am in Swindon and would be happy to help. Steve <div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/3 Andy Loughran <<a href="mailto:andy@zrmt.com">andy@zrmt.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Alan, I'm not in the Swindon area - but would be very interested to hear more from this person.  I'm also not on the edubuntu lists - any chance you can post this response to the list for me to pass on my details? Regards, Andy Loughran <div class="Ih2E3d"> alan c wrote: > I see in the edubuntu users list that there is a request for initial > help from a school in Swindon - they are considering starting to use > ubuntu (edubuntu) > > <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > I have also pointed them to this uk list, although anyone in this list > who is in th eSwindon area might like to be aware? > > [extract from edubuntu list] >  >> I have talked to the schools >  >> senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly >  >> interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open > source >  >> (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the > idea >  >> to staff and students already. >  >> >  >> The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with > people >  >> on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the > next >  >> such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting >  >> ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. > [end extract] > -- </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>