RE: Earle Beason, 07May07 I'm normally just a reader of KCLUG but, after reading that particular post, I'd like to put in my pocket change worth of comment. I don't understand code either and am probably a "least common denominator user" but, after spending many years wrangling around with the Gates Empire software, it has been a joy and an education to work and play in the open source code world. Thanks to KCLUG and Oren Beck in particular, I have learned more about computing in less than a year than I ever did in the lifetime prior to my inroduction to Linux. I don't have any particular axe to grind concerning Windows, just the observation that, after experiencing both Windows and Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux, I'll happily take Linux any day. In the short time I have been reading this digest I haven't really observed anything truly hateful directed at Bill Gates/Windows, just a variety of opinions and/or comparisons, so I feel that Earle's "nasty attitude about window users" comment both inaccurate and unjustified. And to everybody in the KCLUG community, thank you for your ongoing dedication to the spirit of freedom! Rev C.E. Aldinger gonzogone@gmail.com
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Today's Topics:
- Job Opportunity (Steven Danz)
- Fwd: Ubuntu ShipIt (Justin Dugger)
- Re: Fwd: Ubuntu ShipIt (Jonathan Hutchins)
- Re: Ubuntu ShipIt (David Nicol)
- Re: Kclug Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3 (Earle Beason)
- Re: Kclug Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3 (Jonathan Hutchins)
- Re: Ubuntu ShipIt (Monty J. Harder)
- Free to good home... (Steven Danz)
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:29:34 -0500 From: Steven Danz steven-danz@kc.rr.com Subject: Job Opportunity To: kclug kclug@kclug.org Message-ID: 463F700E.8060802@kc.rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
All,
For anyone looking for a Linux sys admin (and more) position, this just came up where I work:
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=Aviation+Weather+Center&...
If you have any questions, just ask!
Steven
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:14:40 -0500 From: "Justin Dugger" jldugger@gmail.com Subject: Fwd: Ubuntu ShipIt To: KCLUG kclug@kclug.org Message-ID: 816bc7510705071214w74e309e6jf32efbbe41797b0@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
A few lunches ago, someone jokingly suggested putting an Ubuntu CD in every dorm room as a way to get rid of all my spare CD-Rs I'm never gonna use. Since the people present were receptive to the idea, I decided to follow up on it. The Ubuntu people responded positively, but balked at the number we'd need.
So at this point we have a few choices:
- Make do with the 200 they've offered
- Make our own from CD-Rs and labels
- Ask for more from the right people within Ubuntu
- Find sponsorship from local and Ubuntu related interests (ie Canonical,
maybe Dell)
So what's needed from the LUG now is opinions on the options, and of course alternative suggestions.
Justin Dugger
On 5/7/07, Marilize Coetzee <info@shipit.ubuntu.com > wrote:
Hi Justin
Thank you for contacting us.
This is a wonderful idea, but unfortunately we cannot send you such a large number of CD's. The best I can do is 200. If you are interested, place an order on Shipit and use my name as reason for ordering. https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Kind regards Marilize
Hi,
I'm a member of Kansas State University's LUG, and we were thinking about promoting Linux usage on campus via Ubuntu. Personally, I use Ubuntu on all my computers and at the research lab, but our LUG is more diverse, involving gentoo devs and users of various other platforms. Still, the entire LUG seems to agree that Ubuntu is a great match for people new to linux, and we've handed out Dapper and Breezy CDs at previous events. We're thinking of doing something far more massive, potentially using over a 1000 CDs. We'd like to see about getting an Ubuntu CD placed in the care package the dorms place in students rooms at the beginning of the school year. Do you think our LUG needs to form a LoCo subgroup first to be considered for something on this scale? One thing I want to avoid is converting our LUG into a tool to promote a single platform, even if it's very good for some of our purposes ^_^ I of course realize that this bulk request of CDs may be rejected as inefficient and AOL-like. The original idea came up as a way to dispense with the bulk CDs we've all purchased but realized we'll never use, and it occurred to me that shipIt might be a viable avenue for this, with excellent labels and inserts to boot. Justin Dugger