[ubuntu-nz] Wellington Ubuntu Gathering?

[Jeff Hunt]

Hi guys,
I don't get out in the evenings (in my sixties and start work very
early in the morning) but if you would like to meet at my house in
Khandallah, Wellington next Saturday to discuss a start-up Wellington
Ubuntu help group I'm prepared to offer some hospitality. I would tell
the Wellylug members and try to involve them, but it needs to be done
by mainly non-techies with a teaching bent.

Another approach would be to ask for a special Wellylug meeting to
deal only with this idea.

Or we could meet in a cafe or at at D. F's   work as he suggests.

There is a history of installfests in Wellington, but I don't know
whether the new users from those are still active with - or known to -
the Wellylug group that runs them.

Any enthusiasm?

On 3/5/11, David Beale <daveandgail at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>>
>
>
>
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