[ubuntu-nz] Wellington Ubuntu Gathering?

[David Beale]

Hi Dan,
	I too am a new user of Ubuntu and like you also suffered from not
knowing where to go for good "newbie" advice. It was somewhat
intimidating to join an existing user group comprised of experienced and
technical members when what I wanted was help at the grass roots level.
	Like you I also intend to try and set up some sort of Newbie user group
to try and dis-spell some of the myths around Linux and to help people
to take that first step.
	I'm in south Taranaki so it is a bit of a trip to go through to New
Plymouth for the local Linux user group meeting(TLUG). If you would like
to stay in touch and share experiences/knowledge my email is
daveandgail at xtra.co.nz

regards
Dave Beale

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:23 +1300, Jeff Hunt wrote:
> Hi Dan and ubuntu-nz,
> I hope you get this off the ground. I suggest you repeat the request
> to the wellylug group (Wellington Linux Users). They are a rather
> technical group generally but they are also users and many have
> Ubuntu. Try wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz and go to their internet
> site. wellylug.org.nz (from memory). They meet regularly.
> 
> I have been trying to help older people with limited resources into
> Ubuntu for years but it is still an uphill struggle. People need shops
> and support and advice and I find that unless they are enthusiasts
> sooner or later they give up and buy a standard computer from a shop.
> 
> If you want to contact me personally to share ideas I'm jeffhunt90 at gmail.com
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 3/5/11, D F <dans.email.address.is at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Im Dan and I just recently became interested in Ubuntu. Being somewhat
> > new to working with Ubuntu I recently broke my windows 7 trying to work with
> > partitions, but thats another story.
> >
> > Anyway I was wondering if there any events, seminars, group discussions,
> > support groups etc that happen within Wellington at any time??
> >
> > If not is there any interest in setting something up? Maybe even an informal
> > gathering to start with?
> >
> > I work in a community minded organisation as a Youth Support Worker and as
> > such may be able to host a small gathering in my workplace, but this all
> > relys on a display of interest and some external support (not financial just
> > organisational).
> >
> > One of my personal ideas is to create a distribution of Ubuntu pre-loaded
> > for students in college and university that cannot afford mainstream OS or
> > software. Ive already been advocating for OpenOffice in my personal life and
> > had great responses but finding Ubuntu has opened up so many more options I
> > would love to explore.
> >
> > Anyway thats my two cents to the equation for now, if someone could get in
> > touch with me to develop the group meeting idea or put it in perspective
> > that would be great.
> >
> > Im definately an amatuer but Im keen to learn and hope I can be of some use
> > in the effort to advocate for Ubuntu.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dan
> >
>