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DFS3 at the Festival of Thrift
On September 26th & 27th 2015 members of the Durham Free Software Skill-Share project demostrated their work at a stall at Darlington’s Festival of Thrift. The event which is now in its second year celebrates sustainable living, re-use and recycling. … Continue reading
Learn to program the DIY way
Starting this week, some of Durham’s Free Software Skill-Sharers will be learning to program together. We’ve formed a small study group which will have face-to-face meet-ups for peer support, and we’ll be keeping in touch by email as well. At … Continue reading
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First Skill-Share Event A Success
Thanks to Mick and Robbie at Unite Community Branch for writing up this summary of our first big event on the Community Support Centre Blog. Here’s a photo of some of the participants outside the entrance. Had it not been … Continue reading
Programme for July 26th – final
The day will be structured to have two pre-planned teaching sessions which form an introduction to Linux aimed at absolute beginners. There is also some time available to work in small groups on specific tasks, e.g. for people who … Continue reading
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Free software for everyone: a DIY computer project in Durham
Have you ever wondered why you have to buy a new computer every few years, even if the new one doesn’t do much more than the old one? Perhaps you’ve put an old computer in a cupboard because it doesn’t … Continue reading
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Things you don’t have to pay for, and why
The internet has a lot of services that claim to be “free” in the sense that you don’t have to pay up-front to use them. These are mostly funded by advertising revenues from the websites and by selling information about … Continue reading
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Draft programme for skill-share day on July 26th 2014
UPDATE: This is a draft. The finalised programme is different. Read it here. Some people like to start the day with a blank flip-chart and take it from there. Others prefer everything to be set out beforehand. In an … Continue reading
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Getting a phone number
One of the objectives of this project is to put computers into the hands of people who don’t have them, and help people into electronic communication who don’t yet use it. So we need a way for people to contact … Continue reading
How did this start?
You can read about how this blog came into being on this post on the North East Linux User Group blog. Long story short, this skillshare project includes people, ideas, resources and goodwill from three other organisations, but we all … Continue reading
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