Re: getting help - UK List

In our area, there are at least two experts who travel around the area giving help, installing repairing etc on the spot face to face- there are many computer literate elderly who benefit enormously from this service (Windows only)- pay is roughly £30.00 per hour.  These 'experts' come with no qualifications of any sort.
There is also a local college giving a range of online classes and face to face classes in the various applications (Windows) to the range of adults needing it. 
Perhaps wherever any Ubuntu team members are based, they could simply stick up a note in the local post office or equivalent noticeboard, or offer to run a 'taster afternoon' in the local FE college to introduce people to Ubuntu. We also have a cafe that does classes of different types in an upstairs room.

Caroline

On 29/01/07, Alan Pope <alan-ARoKIbVt0xkAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> > is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
>
> There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
> very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face to face help is a
> very important type of help which is much more difficult to find for
> Ubuntu than it should be.

How would you envisage such a list operating?

Would this be a "not an Ubuntu official partner, but willing to help"
type list?

Who validates who is on the list? Or is it just a list "buyer beware"?

I'd certainly be interested in putting myself on the list.

Cheers,
Al.


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