[ubuntu-nz] Wellington Ubuntu Gathering?

[D F]

Dan again,

Do I just reply to the list email address for now and it'll reach everyone
so far??? Confused...

Anway heres an update: I just fired off a copy of this whole convo so far to
the Welly list and will update you with any replys. Im still looking at
gathering support and interest and trying to learn what would be most useful
and productive at a meeting as I am quite amatuer with Ubuntu and Linux
myself but my facilitation skills are alright.

At this stage Im thinking a casual discussion and install meet could be good
and my work is quite centrally located in town. Pre meeting to organise a
larger meeting also seems like a good idea. Thanks to Jeff for the advice.
These are very conceptual thoughts as I have no idea whats going on, but
hopefully further contact and advice can set me straight to organise
something useful.

As a side note I ended up wiping the recovery partition on my laptop, so Im
a little nervous about messing with it until my technical knowledge is a bit
better. Have been considering an old desktop of trademe to play around with,
any advice or models to avoid???

Anyway cheers for your enthusiam so far, I look forward to hearing from you,

Dan

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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