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On 23/02/14 22:40, Rob Beard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:28:39 +0000, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 23/02/14 09:53, Rob Beard wrote: >>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:16:20 +0000, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/devon/ >>>> at this moment has link to >>>> > http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Exeter-Raspberry-Pi-jam/story-20684793-detail/story.html >>>> Tom te tom te tom >>> Interesting but... >>> >>> /me goes into average end user who has just picked up a Pi for their > kids >>> to use: >>> >>> "What's IRC?" >>> >>> I'm guessing the article on the Herald Express was written by someone > on >>> the list? >>> >>> Are we now able to submit stuff to the Herald Express ourselves without >>> having one of their journos writing an article about it? >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >> Me is guilty, sorry. the lug website does explain IRC however. >> >> You can set up an account on the website and then go to >> http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/get-involved.html >> >> You can sign in with facebook, twitter and g+, it seems a bit of a >> faff to do that but once it is set up just login and add content. >> >> you can then write articles or create events etc, and comment on other >> articles. >> >> If people do that, or at least comment it at least shows people are >> reading the articles, if you can do as one of the reporters did , she >> commented and explained further what a raspberry pi is, which was >> helpful. >> >> Paul >> > Ahh interesting. So I guess in a way it's kinda like a blog then. :-) > > Rob > We can just submit articles , so write ups on Pi jams, gets the word out, the same login works for the express and echo website so we could between us work on a article for what we are doing at the Exwick ark. To me this doubles up as advocacy, if people see pi jams have interesting demos then more people will hopefully come along, plus with the current move to computer science then it puts related activities in the public eye. Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam 8th March 2014 - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq