[ubuntu-us-mn] Upcoming campaigns

[Brian Dolan-Goecke]

I love the Freedom Toaster idea.  And I have plenty of power tools, a 
garage, and can get wood-n-stuff (could even get some nice graphics 
printed).  But I can't come up with the hardware? would someone have 
some hardware to contribute ? I think we could get by with less hardware 
than what they have.

Maybe if you are interested you can email me.

I think maybe I can get one here at work, TIES.  Not exactly the highest 
traffic area, but it is a start.

Not to mention it might be the first one North America!

==>brian.

Brian Dunnette wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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!
> 
>     -- 
>     Tony Yarusso
>     http://tonyyarusso.com/
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