Vic wrote:
>> I have received an email from John Denhams office with a provisional
>> booking of Friday 18th of April at 2 o'clock.
> 
> That's less than 7 weeks away. Has anyone got anything together for it yet?
> 
> I'm keen that we put on a reasonable show...
Other things being equal, I trust we can keep in mind that the French 
Assembly (parliament) went to ubuntu last year, and the Gendarmerie 
are committed to moving 70,000 Pcs also. Looks like the German police 
had already done similar
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Parlez-Vous-Ubuntu-Says-The-French-National-Police-77605.shtml
Swedish armed forces - red hat
and US Army to linux asap:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/27/us_army_going_to_linux/
(2001)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2083993,00.htm
etc
and of course Dell:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506027.stm
I hope to be able to support the event. If you need to be mob handed 
please let me know?
-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391