Marcel Hecko wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to announce that we have given away 30 refurbished PCs with
Ubuntu to the people in Middlefield area in Aberdeen for free to use
with free Internet access. This project is partly funded by Aberdeen
City Council to bridge digital divine and tackle digital inclusion issues.
I would really like to know how big you you recognize our Linux
community - are there any more projects like this one in Scotland or do
you know about any other bigger community of people using Linux as their
primary OS? Please mind that none of these people have used Linux before
and so far they are perfectly satisfied with the service.
Is it possible that this might be the biggest Linux community in
Scotland, maybe even in Britain?
I don't understand the question. Giving away 30 Ubuntu-laden machines,
while excellent and laudable, is a drop in the ocean of Aberdeen's
200,000 population. Surely the best way to gauge how popular Linux is
in an area (on a strictly superficial basis) is to visit a LUG? No real
metrics on this sort of thing are being collected as far as I know, so
it's a very intangible thing to ask how big a Linux community is in a
specific area.
There are more than 30 people who attend ScotLUG, so there's a bigger
community right there ;)
-n
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