[Ubuntu Chicago] Team Project Ideas

[Rich Johnson]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Jim Campbell wrote:
| There was a meeting for Free Geek Chicago last night, and one of the items
| that came up was how Free Geek wants to provide some sort of education and
| support services for their new computer users.  As it stands now, people
| learn how to tear down computers, test out the components, put the computer
| together, and install the OS . . . But they aren't told about how to do
| basic stuff like how to install software and update their systems on
| X/Ubuntu.  They also don't have info on where to go for support (e.g. the
| forums and such).
|
| I think this would be a great place for us to help out, and there are
| number of things we could do:  documentation, educational sessions,
| providing info about ubuntu-chicago, maybe even putting a trouble-ticket
| system on our website, and providing support through that.

I need to get down there and start lending a hand myself.

| I'm not sure if something like this would qualify as a "project" for our
| team in terms of what we've talked about on this thread, but it's a
| worthwhile endeavor, and would involve advocating ubuntu in the community.

It could definitely be one of our projects. A project is a project, whether it 
is a coding project, a support project, or an advocacy project. The Free Geek 
project would kill 2 birds with one stone :)

-- 
Rich Johnson
nixternal at ubuntu.com
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