Hi, Luggers! At the January LUG meeting, I volunteered the S7 Project to host the February LUG meeting. This meeting will take place at S7 (in Namuwongo) on Friday Feb 22, at 4 pm.
To my eyes, our LUG has actually been acting as more of an LPG (Linux Professional Group) as opposed to a Linux User Group. The purpose of the Feb 22 meeting will be to discuss how the LUG might sweep more users into the day-to-day Linux fold. S7 offers a two-year Linux-based computer studies curriculum (among other curricula). We also host Jet Internet Cafe, an Ubuntu Internet cafe. Both Jet and S7 are interested in getting more people to USE Linux as their day-to-day computing environment. We also host COSS.UG, which has similar interests. We'd like to open Jet and S7 up to the Kampala Linux community to discuss ways in which we might get more people to use Linux. Some of the things we've been thinking of offering at Jet include: * Ubuntu conversions: bring us your Windows machine and we'll back up your data and convert your machine to Ubuntu. * Ubuntu lessons: this is an obvious choice for us, though in our experience it may not be as necessary as you'd first think. New customers at Jet sit right down at our Ubuntu boxes and use them without having to ask any questions. Once someone knows Windows, learning Ubuntu is trivial. * Ubuntu technical support: this would be free along with a paid conversion, and would be a paid service afterward. We'd like to show off S7 and Jet at the Feb 22 meeting, and welcome your ideas on how they might be opened up further to the Linux community. Thank you, Robert Orenstein S7 Project Executive Director http://www.s7project.com/ _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
