[ubuntu-in] Request for ubuntu Goodies

["Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्ह]

Rohit Gupta wrote:
> but by goodies we also mean stikers, badges, cups, t-shirt or just
> anything with ubuntu flavour in it. These goodies will be given to
> participants in our event. We request you to help us with anything.
> These goodies are a source of inspiration for GNU/Linux.
>   

I can understand this, but we too have a LUG in our college and we had 
to finally publicize that we are here for people hunting for knowledge 
and not for people who come for materialistic gains. We even frowned 
upon the certificates distribution since it hardly carries any weight.
As I told in the above paragraph, we were also skeptical that people 
won't like the events without goodies. If you want to give them an 
inspiration, then better help them out personally. I mean going to them, 
discussing about their experiences, their problems, the future plans. 
That's counts more and gives a personal touch.
All the above lines I stated above is all from my personal experiences, 
you can try them out. Success/Failure depends on the type of public that 
attends the meet.

> I have personally used ubuntu (7.1,8.1) and am using ubuntu studio now
> and I would say ubuntu has done great job in spreading GNU/Linux to
> beginners.
>   

Its 7.10 and 8.10 , hope you know the y-mm naming convention :)
It is Ubuntu which did a bold job of converting Windows users to Linux. 
It gets all the credits.