[ubuntu-us-ma] Wednesday Evenings

[Martin Owens]

Hey Bill,

It's good that your trying to think up new ways to advocate Ubuntu, we
do need more people to be thinking of great new ideas. But I'm not sure
this idea could be allowed under our Code of Conduct:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

This prevents us from being rude and disrespectful, and this includes
crashing parties. Although it may be useful to ask some of these people,
who we know as friends, why they are throwing parties in Microsoft's
honour.

Although I don't know anyone that is, not even to claim the gratis copy
of windows 7. But like I said, keep thinking about how we can share what
we have in the FLOSS community with everyone.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 19:09 -0400, Bill Simonds wrote:
> 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.