Hi Adam,

-"Is there a Linux Users Group (LUG) where you live ? A school of IT ?"

Down here in Dominican Republic, we have a Free Software Foundation :

http://www.codigolibre.org/

it gives courses, and is also pretty much like a LUG... It has an IRC
channel at irc.freenode.net (#codigolibre)

Very happy to use Dyne ;o)

M.



2006/10/24, Adam Bogacki <afb@???>:
> From one island to another .. greetings from Aotearoa / New Zealand !
>
> Kia Ora !
>
> Is there a Linux Users Group (LUG) where you live ? A school of IT ?
>
> Local LUG's have gotten me out of various problems over the years.
>
> If not, perhaps it's time to start a Kingston or Jamaica LUG. If that's not
> possible, keep in touch with other LUG's, or sources of support you may have an
> affinity with - such as this list. I stay in touch with the Sydney Linux
> Users Group [SLUG], a friendly bunch.
>
> We all start from somewhere, we are all learning, and the scene
> keeps changing.
>
> A wise man (Socrates ? Bob Marley ?) once said, the first step to wisdom
> is to realise how little you know.
>
> If we can break things down into doable chunks, we might get somewhere.
>
> It comes down to familiarity with the technology. Keep playing with it.
>
> For user-friendliness, try Ubuntu 6.10 - the final release of Edgy Eft comes on
> 26th October .. see <
> http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+Edgy+Eft&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
> >
>
> Dynebolic, like Xubuntu, uses gtk rather than gnome for more economic
> use of memory ..
>
> Kia Kaha ! [ Stay Strong ! ]
>
> Adam Bogacki,
>
> adam(at)bogacki.net
> afb@???
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:21:24PM -0400 or thereabouts, Richard Hamel-Smith wrote:
> > Hey Jaromil, Jah love, bro.
> >
> > Greetings from the Third World.
> >
> > Trinidad, actually, West Indies.
> >
> > Don't know if you have a lot of correspondents from these parts, but
> > reaching out in love and appreciation.
> >
> > A few words. I love this distro and it is a work of art. True love, true love.
> >
> > The thing is, I have this meet set up with this lady artist on
> > Saturday. Her and the project manager for this ghetto project. I'm
> > trying to sell them on the concept you are sharing. She does work
> > sharing skills among the youth, so I think your distro would be a GOOD
> > THING for her to use.
> >
> > So I've been going through the apps and trying to figure them out.
> > It's been a rough ride. The quality of the user interface varies so
> > much from app to app. It really brings the whole thing down.
> >
> > I realise you personally are not responsible for all the apps. And I
> > don't really have a solution.
> > But just so you know, this is the score for the day :-
> >
> > Xawtv works with my webcam, an Ezonics EZ-306. But when I try to
> > record to an .avi file, it produces nothing at all. It does put
> > something into the .wav file but since I don't have a microphone
> > attached, I have no idea what it's really doing.
> >
> > Mplayer crashed - now I've used mplayer on other systems, so this
> > looks like a configuration problem to me. I'm not a mplayer expert by
> > any means, so I'm not sure what gives.
> >
> > Xine kinda worked, but then I got an error message "The amount of
> > dropped frames is too high, your system might be slow, not properly
> > optimized or just too loaded". I KNOW my system can run xine coz I've
> > used it under Slackware already. Not sure what's going on here.
> >
> > gTranscode may work but it doesn't give any info about what kind of
> > files it can process. Again, not your fault, but the look-and-feel is
> > so different to the rest of the general environment, that it's a shock
> > to look at. It seems so amateurish.
> >
> > Cinelerra looks really promising, but desperately needs a tutorial.
> >
> > Blender. What can I say about Blender? If ever there was a program
> > that needed a demo and a step-by-step tutorial, it's Blender. The hell
> > that one goes through to learn how to do ANYTHING, scares people
> > anyway. And the horror is, that this is what this artist lady does. So
> > I'm sure she's going to freak.
> >
> > On the plus side, Amarok just rocks. But your gift is about
> > production, not playback.
> >
> > The learning curve is the killer. I know you just do GPL and I support
> > that. But just bundling is not going to cut it.
> >
> > I'm thinking that it might be better to do simpler isos with just one
> > app and a BUNCH of demos and tutorials, neatly integrated. I know your
> > fans have been able to go from startup to full radio station, but
> > brother, I'm just one guy trying to push this distro done here. I'm
> > copying and distributing to anyone I even think has any interest in
> > production, but I feel it's too big of a jump for most people.
> >
> > Ok, I know I'm ranting here, but years ago, my daughters had this CD
> > put out by Crayola. Yeah, I know it's non-free, but the concept
> > introduced them to making little cartoon movies.
> >
> > One of the mothers in their school, put together a little Powerpoint
> > presentation with photos of the kids in the class and background music
> > from some hit song. Very effective stuff.
> >
> > You've got all the tools here, but no way some school mom is going to
> > figure out how to tie it altogether.
> >
> > Desperately searching for the light.
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Richard
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