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Rob Beard wrote: > Ed Rackham wrote: > >> * <mailto:eddster19@xxxxxxxxxxx>*Jonathan Roberts wrote: >> >> >>> Aaron Trevena wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 07/11/06, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have done a bit more today about the Children In Need Linux install >>>>> day idea. I have asked one of the presenters at Gemini who owns a club >>>>> in Exeter if he could think of anywhere where we could hold an event. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Why restrict it to just Linux? >>>> >>>> I imagine there are many more people who would be interested in trying >>>> openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, inkscape, etc on their windows >>>> or macintosh system - providing them with CDs with all the open source >>>> software they need for a small donation would surely work excellently. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I've already got .iso images of the 'Open CD' lying around on my hard >>> drive so I'd be happy to bring along some discs with that on, and even >>> plenty more blank discs to burn as we need. The 'Open CD' really is a >>> good project I think and would be a great for spreading interest, using >>> OpenOffice.org on windows is what got me interested in GNU/Linux in the >>> first place and could have the same effect for lots of people :-) >>> >>> As for the efforts in devon, I'd love to do what I could to help and >>> would be quite happy to grab dvd images of OpenSuse (if people aren't >>> still angry over the whole novell-microsoft thing), FC6, Damn Small >>> Linux and any other distros that you might want to have around, burn >>> them, and post them up; or anything else you might like me to try and >>> contribute! >>> >>> >>> >> I could help out by possibly donating a few hundred blank CD's or DVD's. >> How many would you need of each, and what type (i.e. printable, >> full-face, non-printable, doesn't matter etc...). >> >> Cheers, >> >> *Ed Rackham | EDSA Designs >> **Unit 9, Torbay Business Park, Woodview Road, Paignton Devon TQ4 7HP >> * >> Web *www.edsadesigns.com >> *Phone +44 (0)701 4216 500* >> * <http://www.edsadesigns.com/>*Mobile +44 (0)7706 823 866** >> Messenger eddster19@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:eddster19@xxxxxxxxxxx>* >> >> >> > Hi Ed, > > I have an Epson R200 printer with one of those CISS systems so I would > be happy to print off a load of CD labels. Printable (either full face > or normal printable) CDs and DVDs would be great! :-) > > Rob > > Haha, cool... next thing is that you're gonna tell me you bought both the R200 and CISS system from SVP? I work for SVP 4 days a week as their lead (and only) programmer, hence why I can probably get some cheap discs! Just so you guys know, SVP know's that the way forward is Linux, and so far, I've built an internal phone system on Asterisk using a local Ubuntu server :) Cheers, Ed. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html