[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 34 - Non Technical Events

[Nigel Verity]

Hi Guys

I suspect that there are vast numbers of people to whom the philosophical and financial aspects of free/open source software would be very attractive. Trouble is, they've probably never heard of it. Where do we go to talk about FLOSS? OggCamp, LUGs and the like. Great and enjoyable as those events are, they don't do much to "spread the word".

The suggestion to go and have stalls at village and school fetes, etc, is brilliant. They usually cost next to nothing to exhibit at. The only downside I can see is that it is sometimes difficult to get a mains supply on a stall at such events. Mind you, there are always laptops, I suppose.

One thing I've learned after years of attending trade and techie exhibitions is that knocking the opposition doesn't actually work. Slagging off Microsoft is liable to alienate many punters who currently use Windows, as it feels as if you're crticising their judgement. Far better just to point out all the attributes of your "product", in this case Ubuntu, and let them do the selling. Whenever I take the opportunity to demonstrate Ubuntu to people I meet in the course of my work, the biggest point of interest always seems to be the fast boot times and not needing to have Norton/McAfee/AVG running in the background, slowing everything down. 

Regards

Nige


 		 	   		  
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