[plug] Newbie Night

[Shayne O'Neill]

Orrite traveling brother! Spread the faith!

newbie nite:
Knoppix yes.
vanila debian no.
Open office yes.
emacs no.
Tuxracer yes. (If you have something that'll do it)
nethack no.
Frozen bubble yes.
xkillbill *maybe*

And dont blind em with science. blind em with wow.

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-Aesop.
Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Onno Benschop wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Seeing that I'm in Tasmania and (most if not all of) you are not,
> perhaps it is presumptuous of me to suggest the idea of running a
> regular newbie night, but I'm going to anyway...
>
> <http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/15/2223237>
>
> There is another aspect to this, and that is the trip I'm on around the
> country...
>
> Let me elaborate.
>
> This trip is about two things, a change of life-style and an attempt at
> returning some of the gifts I've been given thanks to mailing lists like
> this one - and countless other experiences since I came on-line in 1990.
>
> I have during this trip spent a week in a rural primary school building
> their school web-site (with the whole school - all 24 students from year
> 1 to year 7). According to both staff and students it was a roaring
> success.
>
> Also, I've run a community computer fix-it day, which was not as
> successful as I'd like to have seen, but the idea was: "Bring your
> computer in and we'll fix it."
>
> Now, a newbie night that comes to a local community, that is something I
> can do with what I have in the back of my van.
>
> So...
>
> Firstly, this thread is an attempt at sparking discussion about the
> process of running a newbie night, perhaps even run a few in Perth, then
> find a way to "streamline" the process and run regular ones on the road.
>
>         What kind of things would you show?
>         What would you leave out?
>         What is a really *wow* kind of demo?
>         What distribution would you show and Why?
>
> Remember, I'm attempting to spark discussion, so, any controversial
> contributions are welcome, but keeping it to the topic would be
> appreciated...
>
>
>
> Onno Benschop
>
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