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On Friday 07 September 2007 22:10, James Kilty wrote: > Hello all > > Any amendments to this - I propose to send it to the Penzance Chamber of > Commerce for a start. > > Thanks > > Hello > > I thought your members might be interested in these events because > moving to Free Software, even free Operating Systems would not only save > your members money but also keep them up to date with International > Standards such as Open Document Formats. It would also give them freedom > to modify and adapt programmes to suit themselves and install and copy > them to as many machines as they wish without charge. > > On October 28th and November 11th, the Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux > Users Group, in association with Penzance Computers, is offering an > opportunity to try out Free Software and some different brands of the > Free Operating System. The events will take place at Penzance computers > ecafe on Wood St, Penzance (off Market Jew St) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. > You may attend either or both meetings. > > Members of the DCGLUG will be available for demonstrations, questioning > and further support. CDs and DVDs of some distributions such as Ubuntu > and PCLinuxOS will be available for participants to take back to the > workplace or home, install and test. Tuition will be given in dual > booting with Windows or making an exclusive installation. Further help > will always be available online via the GLUG email List and web site or > individually by arrangement. As much hands on experience as possible > will be given with the participants' choices of OS or software. > > Various software will be on show, such as OpenOffice.org, the Office > suite; scribus, the Desktop Publishing programme; The Gimp, the GNU > Image Manipulation Programme. Others will be shown on request. > > If there is enough interest, User Group members will arrange a workshop > event exclusively for small businesses. > > I would appreciate it if you would draw your members' attention to these > workshops. I can provide posters if you should ask for members to > display. > > Thank you > -- > James Kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk Nice James :) Think I will attend myself ;) If that doesn't get a few of the businesses interested in at least finding out a little bit, I don't know what will! Mark -- 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