For advocacy, I've taken a similar route to that of Melodie[1] I sourced a coupler of old computers, installed lubuntu on them and donated them to the local youth centre. So, they get to use the OS :D
Old kit lends itself to l/xubuntu and the likes of bentoo. Heck, I even learned how to make a non-pae kernel for 14.04 LTS kernel :) I think doing that sort of thing is far more productive than giving lectures. Regards, Phill. 1. http://linuxvillage.org/en/ P.S. I've just sourced and shipped 10 X 100GB hard drives to linuxvillage, as Melodie had had 10 machines donated, but the company had destroyed the hard drives for data protection reasons. On 4 December 2014 at 21:55, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/12/14 21:51, Nigel Verity wrote: > >> but the few events I've attended seem always to appeal mainly to all the >> local Linux enthusiasts, so the "evangelists" just end up preaching to the >> converted. >> > > I have tried a number of times to set something up which reaches out to a > new crowd but any attempt to discuss it on here and look for ideas or > support was always shot down. People seemed to have to ability to sap my > enthusiasm quite quickly. Often saying why would we need that when the > Reading group is just down the road etc. > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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