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tom wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > A big thank you to all those that attended / helped out at the SFD2008 > event. Special thanks to Paul and to Rob. > > Attendance was low. However three young gentlemen from Torbay Boys > Grammar School and two technicians from local schools did manage to > attend, we also managed to pick up a passer by who was interested. > > The link to the Cameroon via video camera was successful, if a little > brief. Unfortunately the video feed link from the Cameroon to us was > only noticed near the end of the session when we needed to pack things up. > > For the most part the technology worked although it would have been nice > to have had a higher spec LTSP server, it functioned for the most part > adequately. > > Many thanks to the two schools technicians it was interesting to hear > what they had to say. It does really seem that there needs to be a lot > of work done in order to get school curriculum specific software in > order and workable in the GNU/Linux environment. The sticking point as I > see it seems to be Teacher participation or the lack there of. > > Thanks also to Chris ? for the donation. > > > Tom. Agreed, and I also send thanks to everyone to helped, dropped in, to chat etc, if anything new contacts were forged, which is always a good thing, a chance to chat, problems shared and solved, etc Lets all keep the momentum up, I think there are more people out there that have used / heard of Linux and or OSS than we realise Paul -- 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