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Hello,

I also have a compaq mini 700 and I had problems with upgrading from ubuntu 8.1 to 9.04 (problems with the screen). So i am happy to hear, that it works on your machine. As soon as the torrent of netbook remix is complete i shall install it.
I know, it is not much time passed since thursday. But are you still satisfied with the system?

Greetings

erniejunior

Two options: Google Sites and Ning. Ning makes it easy to create something that looks fun and inviting.

“gnome-terminal –hide-menubar -x vim with fullscreen profile anyone?”

This would work great if you don’t mind having to turn your head to read a sentence. Vim is unable to have margins on both the left and the right, this doesn’t matter when writing code, but is quite frustrating when writing lengthy paragraphs. This is why I use PyRoom for general writing instead of Vi; although I use Vi for all other editing.

Google groups?

I hope you’re already using Doodle (http://doodle.com). Participation can be boosted simply by choosing the right times for meetings.

Fabian is right—someone is going to have to fulfill your (de facto) role as technologist. The capabilities of the people available might limit your options; but I think having a static configuration for e.g. a Mailman mailing list and teaching one person to control membership and moderate is not out of reach. You can always make yourself available for tech support.

To motivate the establishment of an IT role and infrastructure, you might present the following (also from Planet Ubuntu) to your group:

http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-paradigm-of-the-open-organization/

I have successfully used admiration for this set of principles to motivate the adoption of wikis, mailing lists and other software.

My, a wiki of course.

Use wordpress.com to host a blog there and add a wiki module. You’ll need at least one wiki advocate within the organization, however.

For virtual meetings, take a look at http://www.dimdim.com and http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

This has a small cost associated with it, but it’s pretty slick being on-line and web based.

http://www.sharedstatus.com

I agree about the paradigm. I remember how difficult was to convince my friends my thesis partner and my family to use Google Docs and finally I needed to give up and return to good-old OpenOffice.org. But, talking specifically about e-mail, I think the ‘forward all e-mails to this address’ feature solves all the problems anyone could have with having a new e-mail account.

I agree about not wanting to set up something that involves too much technical stuff for a group like that. Sure, you could set up a mailing list, but you wouldn’t want to maintain it if you ever left the group.

I set up a Google Groups account for my condo association. It has worked well enough for us.

The script made that decision (based on the number of processors available to my Linode), not me. Good catch though, and if I went with a small instance (which my napkin calculations were based on) my bill (right now) would be $19.46 instead of $77.20 - a heck of a difference.