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Re: [LUG] Not for profit group

 

Paul Sutton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Further to the project me, rob and tom are involved with,  On tuesday
> I am down at Hayes Day Nursery,  installing software on their
> computers,  old P200 computers,  I have already installed Open
> office.org and will upgrade this as I did this for them a while back, 
> I will also install latest versions of things like tux paint, tux
> typing, tux math,  (it's used by the after schoool club sometimes). 
> and whatever else I can put on a cd between now and tuesday morning,  
> They are using Windows 98 at the moment.  However it's a good
> opportunity to expose children to free software, and the quality of
> free software.
>
> I have also printed a few debian posters which I found on the debian
> web site, so will see if i can put them up, the kids may like the
> penguin picture,   But hopefully they will remember something,  (not
> sure if they can even read yet some of them - pre school),  But will
> try and get one up at Paignton College,
> What is there in terms of Funding for this type of thing  as we will
> benefit ALL members of the community in some way, through various
> projects.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> Matt Lee wrote:
>
>> On 10/12/05, Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:47 +0000, Tom Brough wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> It would probably be better if we formed a Not For Profits group, and
>>>> started organising a proper campaign, showing how the voluntary
>>>> sector
>>>> (and regional commercial interests (Rob?)) could improve Rural
>>>> development here in the D&C.
>>>>     
>>>
>>  
>>
>
I did get some stuff from Business Link before xmas, I'll have a look
through and send it off list.

I should be able to make a meeting in the evenings assuming it isn't on
a Monday.

Rob


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