Re: [LUG] Plymouth Uni - over to (some of) us?

[Martin Gautier <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/07/16 10:41, Rod Sheaff wrote:

Dear LUG

Thank you those who contacted me about this. My meeting with Plymouth Uni IT honchos was much more constructive than I expected given PU's until very recently almost exclusive commitment to all things MicroSoft. We speculated about possible moves towards a Bring Your Own Device, hence Bring Your Own Software, policy in the future.

They agreed to

1. support an attempt to set up a PU community of Linux users - so over to us...
   
2. with suitable disclaimers (i.e. users will need to rely heavily on other Linux users and the web for support), add a Linux section of the PU IT help pagesÂ
   
3. with same disclaimers, also put onto PU's University-Wide Software Self-service links to LibreOffice download, perhaps also R (and maybe a small number of other good examples of OS desktop software? - but we left that vague. Suggestions?)Â

Any of you connected with PU, please feel free to contact me direct if you'd like to be involved.

Perhaps the first task for a user group would be the Linux help pages for use in PU?

BW

Rod

Rod

What funding are PU offering for all this work?

Yes, we should be promoting Linux as much as possible. Yes, students will benefit from moving to linux. Yes, university staff will benefit from moving to linux. Yes, that's what the LUG is for.

However. The University is a profitable business. At Â9k per term per student, I'd imagine PU can afford to fund a couple of week's work to copy & paste generic linux support content into a glossy PU branded website.

All cynicism aside, it may be worth contacting the marketing guys at Red Hat (less so) or Canonical (more so) to see how they may be able to help.

Does PU have it's own CompSci Soc? It's this what they're for? We should hook up with them.

Martin

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