I'd like to ask, because the wiki entry doesn't mention it: what sort of level of expertise is expected/required of those who are helping? I don't consider myself a "power user" in Linux in the way that I think many of you are: I can't write my own code, and my ability to fix problems is limited, often, by how well I can use google. However, I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while, and Linux in general for some time before that, and feel relatively comfortable with it. I would be very happy to help out IF my level of expertise is considered high enough; I'm just not sure it will be :) I'll be bringing along a friend who is interested in switching to Linux, and I'm happy to mentor him, but I'm not sure how the general structure of these events works so that may be a superfluous offer. Can someone fill me in? Craig Box wrote:
no KDE,
I guess this is personal preference, but as has already been mentioned, Kubuntu for people that ask for it will probably be provided
Please note people will need to ask for it -beforehand-.
Canonical have just contacted me and will be express shipping me Hoary CDs. They don't appear to do Kubuntu, so we will have to prepare those ourselves.
We have no objection to people turning up and being the Slackware/Mandrake/whatever gurus. I'm just saying that most of us aren't in that position, so we have picked a default that suits us. If there is a need identified for lots of Slackware help, we'll definitely be asking for people to come and help in that specific role.
and WVdial is hopeless.
I have heard stories about dialup in warty being very hard to configure, in most cases it was easier to manually set up ppp from a terminal. However, one would hope that that it has received some attention in hoary and is just as easy to use as the rest of the system
Check out http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/images/gnomeppp-screenshot.png - I hope this meets all of Denise's requirements of easy to use.
Craig
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