[backstage] DFEY-NW Meeting - August 15th

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Dobson

Details for the next DFEY-NW are enclosed...
Please forward this to anybody or any lists you think might be interested.

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DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education  Youth - North West) is a group 
aiming to provide a social space for young people interested in 
technology, issues of freedom and technology in relation to education.

www.dfey.org

When
  Saturday August 15th 2009 12:00pm - ~3:30pm

Meet
  Because the venue is not amazingly easy to find, we'll meet at 
Piccadilly station and we'll walk over there (it's about 5minutes on foot).

  Meet on the seats between platforms 1 and 2 in the main concourse.
  Look for people with laptops and perhaps some funky DFEY signs. :P

Where
  Substance.coop offices, Northern Quarter
  (the guys who helped us get to the 2morro festival)

Attending?
  if you are thinking of attending please add your name to the wiki page
  http://dfey.org/wiki/Manchester,_August_2009#Time
  or feel free to email us on t...@nw.dfey.org to let us know you are
coming...

Young Rewired State
  Many people from DFEY will be attending Young Rewired State - an 
event about building stuff using government data.


It's being held at Google HQ in London on the 22nd and 23rd August 2009 
and there will some assistance with travel and accommodation for those 
wishing to attend!


Please add your name to the DFEY wiki page:
http://dfey.org/wiki/London,_August_2009 and/or email t...@dfey.org

To find out more about the event visit:
http://rewiredstate.org/young

From the website:
How about we give you Google's offices in the heart of London, 
technology and a tonne of the country's best programmers and hackers to 
help and teach you along the way? We'll also give you food and drink to 
keep you going.


If so, and you're aged between 15 and 18, we'd love you to come to our 
free weekend to see what you can come up with. We think we're all in for 
a big surprise.


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In case you need it, here's some contact information:
  Tim's mobile: 07922334403
  Email: t...@nw.dfey.org

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DFEY-NW Community:

Web:
  http://www.dfey.org
Mailing list:
  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dfey-nw-discuss
IRC:
  #dfey on irc.freenode.net
Identi.ca  Twitter:
  #dfey  #dfeynw
Forum:
  http://www.nw.dfey.org/wiki/Forum
Facebook:
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24304402298

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Re: [backstage] very simple re-imaging of a ubuntu build from a USB stick for schools

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Dobson

Phil Lewis wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone here know of any open source software solution that will
allow me to image an Ubuntu laptop on to a USB stick so that it can be
used by a technophobic teacher to rebuild a laptop when one goes bad? 

The reimaging has got to be REALLY SIMPLE - e.g.: 


1) Plug in usb stick
2) Power up netbook
3) Click or type 'yes' to confirm
4) Wait for a while
5) Plug out usb stick
6) Repower netbook


Is the hardware identical?

Similar is good, identical is better.

It makes loads of difference here :)

Tim
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