[ubuntu-us-ma] Wednesday Evenings

[Michael Curran]

Not to overstate the obvious, but who would you feel if someone crash your Karmic launch party thrusting a Windows 7 laptop in your face?  Confrontation has its place in advocacy, but you aren't going to win converts by being a jerk.



----- Original Message ----
From: Bill Simonds <wtsimonds at gmail.com>
To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:09:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Wednesday Evenings

I had some ideas for evangelizing Ubuntu. Microsoft is setting up
Windows 7 parties, where people have meet-ups to evangelize Win 7. I
was thinking of taking a laptop and crashing the parties to show them
how they could get all this cool software for free. We could take
Ubuntu disks and give them away at the windows 7 parties.

We'll show people that they can run the disk w/out installing if they
wish, and when ready do a dual-boot install, keeping Win around for a
while longer...until they're ready to get rid of it for good.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>
> Now that the Systems Administration classes have finished and wrapped up
> and we are in an editing phase of that course material, I'd like to
> invite people to come on Wednesday evenings to the SETC between 6:00pm
> and 8:30pm to do advocacy.
>
> We'll be chatting and working on various things each week, everything
> from installing the latest beta/alpha release to sending emails and
> gathering details of local organisations who need to know about Ubuntu
> as an option.
>
> I brought this up at last Thursday's meeting and it got such a positive
> response and that our members believe that we need this kind of event to
> kick some things off, that I'm going to go ahead and ask Mel.
>
> If your interested in coming down, I'll be there every week. Hopefully
> we can use this time to really organise some interesting and effective
> community events.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
> DPic: Please socialise this message, sorry for the delay in getting it
> out.
>
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