<p>I am happy to help. Thank you Michael for helping produce discs that we can give out to those who need them.</p>
<p>There is no substite for face to face user groups but IRC is a great resource once one sets their expectations to match how IRC works. The Ubuntu community and Canonical staff use it heavily, allowing and encouraging interested folks to participate.</p>
<p>Our state wide team (Local Community, aka LoCo) primarily uses our mail list and <a href="http://irc.us.freenode.net">irc.us.freenode.net</a> in the channel #ubuntu-california with IRC meetings every other Sunday night at 7 PM. While I am not always looking at my screen I check activity roughly daily and will see if people decide to drop by and say hello. There are often people around to chat with, and if not there then certainly one of the hundreds of people online 24x7 in #ubuntu might have something relevant to say about particular problems you might have.</p>
<p>I would be happy to answer any questions. I will be at the buug meeting tomorrow.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Grant Bowman<br>
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam</a><br>
</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 30, 2010 7:10 AM, "Michael Paoli" <<a href="mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu">Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386<br>
I'll have a generous supply of the above CDs at the 2010-07-01 BUUG<br>
meeting (and probably also for BUUG meetings after that, at least while<br>
the CD is still current - sorry I ran out of those CDs at the 2010-06-17<br>
BUUG meeting - almost had enough to meet demand).<br>
<br>
Also at the 2010-07-01 BUUG meeting, I'll have a quite limited supply of<br>
these CDs (I may or may not have more of these at other future BUUG<br>
meeting(s)):<br>
Fedora-13-i686-Live<br>
ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64<br>
ubuntu-9.04-server-amd64<br>
<br>
Thanks again to Grant Bowman, the Ubuntu California Team and others for<br>
getting CDs to us (including the burning, etc., of many of these CDs).<br>
<br>
references/excerpts:<br>
<a href="http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2010-June/003626.html" target="_blank">http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2010-June/003626.html</a><br>
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