Im fairly fortunate in that I am a Parish Councillor for Roffey North. As a result I get the opportunity to provide some input into content and conversations in the local parish newspaper, thuogh i am in no way an editor or would intend to use it as a "platform" . We also have a local "open access" Internet room at the Parish Hall ( heh I sound quite parochial here ! ) which I hope will be happy to carry some OSS CDs for people to take away.
Pretty much every town and village in the UK has some form of local governance that will consist of community members and they may be very much unaware of what Open Source software is doing and how well it works. If you ( like Alan ) are feeling that you are getting blocked by one method of access whilst talking about OSS then you might consider talking to your parish councilors about the possibility of providing OSS software to the community. There are so many ways to approach our own local communities ( in the non OSS term ) that every one of us here must have some experiences of what has worked. Bear in mind though that what fails or was a problem for one person may really take off and work well for another so dont let someones stories of failures and problems deter you from having a go, were all different in our approaches and successes. Nik -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
