[ubuntu-us-mn] Upcoming campaigns

[Brian Dunnette]

Another thought: don't know if the Freedom
Toaster<http://www.freedomtoaster.org/>effort is still active, but
this might be an interesting, visible way to
promote Ubuntu and free software (particularly at a high-traffic place like
the UMN CS dept., which already hosts an Ubuntu mirror...)

-Brian Dunnette

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:

> With our upcoming event (Reminder: It won't happen unless you step up and
> organize and advertise it!!), this would be a good time to start looking at
> some of the things we can do to promote Ubuntu to people who aren't already
> using it.  One that I've started pursuing already is talking to government
> officials about using open-source software and open document formats in
> government and public schools.  Other ideas are things like getting
> Ubuntu-preinstalled machines sold in retail outlets, getting Ubuntu
> workstations set up in public libraries, having local media run
> open-source-related news stories, and introducing non-technical people to
> Ubuntu who haven't heard of it before.
>
> To see a larger list of some ways you could go with this, I'd recommend
> reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoActivism, all of the pages linked from
> it, and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Campaigns/UbuntuInStores.
> Also note that we have started pages on our wiki section for some of these
> things, specifically https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/LocalStores,
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Education, and
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Political.
>
> Think about what interests you most personally, and use the release party
> to find some like-minded folks to collaborate with so we can get some things
> off the ground!
>
> I haven't been getting responses of volunteers for the release party To-Do
> list I posted - please consider helping out so we can put a good face
> forward!
>
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