[plug] Perth Branch of Computer Bank has a web-page

[Paul Wilson]

> If we share the work amongst a big enough group of volenteers, the
> workload on each person should be relatively small - in any-case, I
> enjoy using Linux and extolling the benefits thereof to all who will
> listen to me (just ask my wife?? ;-) )... (I am thinking that one way we
> could operate is to gather a group of people who are willing to be
> rostered on to either run small training classes (open to any persons
> interested in computing) and/or (assist on a one 2 one basis) to persons
> who request assistance.  This would then work seperately but in
> conjunction with computer bank in that, we offer one service offering
> linux hand-holding for newbies interested in gaining Linux knowledge in
> conjunction with the computer bank which gives away computers to
> disadvantaged groups (with a really big (A4) advert attached to each
> computer given away saying ring this number to learn about the new
> system you've just been given - and explaining briefly about the
> computer-hand-holding service (I wouldn't call it that though) ;-)

If all the machines that we give away get built with X, Apache and
Netscape, we can copy/write a fair amount of documentation or background
material and make it easily available 'on screen'. I know that doesn't
always help (when the machine's down for example), but it's a pretty good
start.

Paul