On Monday 28 February 2005 07:58, Doug Jobs wrote:
> > When I explained that the only possible help in the Tampa Bay area was
> > the linux meeting they were NOT very favorable impressed. They were even
> > much less impressed when there was NO attendance at the meeting.
> >
> > Frank
>
> Frank,
>
> I have gotten PLENTY of help with Linux (from SLUG and elsewhere, forums,
> mailing lists, Google, Linux Documentation Project, books, etc) without
> attending meetings. Why you tell them the only place to get help is the
> meetings?
>
> Doug
>
So have I but that was not the point.
These are newbies they are MS oriented where they expect to get help by going
to a local computer store and paying for it the concept of open source and
help on the internet being a bit strange to them.
It would have been much better for them to have talked to a group instead of
one person.
Frank
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