[Sheflug] Re: Linux Install Day

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Chris

> Did anyone know about this? Linux Install Day, April 29th (this
> coming Sunday), nationwide. First I knew was small article in
> Independant's Network section.

Yep, I've spent six weeks and more talking to Mandrakesoft, SuSE Ltd 
and Red Hat Europe to see if we could get some money together for a 
venue.  They all said that there ain't no money available.

Last week I went to Manchester for the Kylix seminar.  One of the 
directors of Mandrakesoft told me that "his battery had gone flat" on 
his palmtop after I sent him some e-mail.  After that I didn't get 
anything back from him.

> It's basically there to allow people who have never used the beast
> before to bring their machine along, and have people that know what
> they're doing (hopefully) to install it for them.

Yes, we've done loads of it at Blackwell's over the past two years.  
ShefLUG is/are the crowd of people who pioneered this kind of thing 
in the UK.

The biggest problem is the fact that it's on a Sunday.  I've had more 
than a slight suggestion that some sort of religious group are not 
happy about this.

Don't know what that might be about but there you are :)

So, after dragging myself around all the software companies only to 
find that they tell me that they aren't supporting it then I have at 
last given up.

We did at one point consider PC World at Meadowhall.  But, after 
careful consideration we decided that it wasn't worth the effort of 
putting pen to paper only to have the letter chucked in the bin.

Thanks

-- 
Richard
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