Re: [Fsfe-uk] Free software support services in the UK

[Richard Smedley]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 9:06:10 Tom Chance wrote:
> dreams it would all be run off two servers with
> thin clients, sigh. I can't responsibly advocate such a switch
> because I can't find any companies who provide the kind of support we
> currently enjoy for free software. I summarised these frustrations
> late last year here: http://tom.acrewoods.net/node/497
> 
> Does anyone know of companies that I've missed, who fit the bill
> described in that blog entry?

Erm, us ;-)

> Anything from one-off support for migrations from MS Office to
> OpenOffice.org, to the full package, is of interest to me at the
> moment. I'm looking into this both for my job, and because I'm
> interested in writing it all up into an article if I get the time.

I don't want to use this list to post an advertisement, so I'll 
take the rest of this off-list, and just summarise here:

M6-IT Community Interest Company is a social enterprise
that offers IT support to voluntary and community organisations.
Low cost packages of hardware, Free Software, and support 
are under-pinned by training for end-users, ``accidental
techies'', and managers. 

We also run some community projects directly, but I've written 
enough here. ;)

Cheers,

 - Richard

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