ubuntu-us-nj Software Freedom Day, ie September's Event

[Christopher Ingram]

Its cool, but at the end of the day, useless. We don't have the resources to advertise differently to different markets. We need the broadest hit possible.

Sorry for the top posting, but its tough to do it right on a blackberry when your busy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Smith <dcsmith at gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:01:36 
To:Mailing list for the Ubuntu New Jersey LoCo Team<ubuntu-us-nj at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: ubuntu-us-nj Software Freedom Day, ie September's Event


Well,
I have to say, using compiz, with awn I feel like I'm using the new mac
os before it's released, so that's my bias.
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 15:58 +0000, Christopher Ingram wrote:
> There are two things that tend to work easier than most, which may or may not be appropriate for software freedom day:
> 
>  - show something really cool and tell people they are being left behind, then tell them its open source / Linux
>  - show them how much better or easier it wll make their lives
> 
> If you don't belive me, watch TV for 12 minutes.
> 
> What fits in to the above? Media servers and streaming, for one.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Christina Eater" <christina.eater at gmail.com>
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:03:29 
> To:"Mailing list for the Ubuntu New Jersey LoCo Team"<ubuntu-us-nj at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu-us-nj Software Freedom Day, ie September's Event
> 
> 
> Less-than-brilliant event ideas for probably not the 15th:
> 
> A knitting bee: get all our available grandmothers (and other
> needlework-inclined folks) in one place, and take advantage of the
> captive audience (social circle -> networking -> Internet -> Ubuntu!);
> 
> A beach party: everyone (almost) likes the shore. Rent a meeting room
> walking distance from a nice beach, and advertise it as a
> fun-in-the-sun and Ubuntu-in-the-shade-with-the-AC;
> 
> A pledge drive: come up with some ridiculous (read: embarrassing)
> challenge we'll compete in, and we each recruit at least one friend to
> watch--but they have to agree to take a Live CD and try out Ubuntu.
> 
> Hey, I never claimed to be brilliant. :D Maybe they'll inspire someone
> else, though.
> 
> -- 
> Christina
> 
> 
> On 8/26/07, Joe Terranova <joeterranova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey People,
> >
> > Last time we met, we had decided to have an event in September --
> > either on September 3rd, for the Cherry Hill Tri-State computer show,
> > or on September 15th, at one of the South Jersey Farmer's Markets.
> >
> > The manager for Tri-State has apparently died, as no one's answered my
> > emails, and their phone rings off the hook; in other words, I don't
> > think the Cherry Hill Fair is an option (i would have emailed earlier
> > if it was), though I will stop by to see how I /should/ contact them
> > in the future. Therefore, we're looking at an event on the 15th, which
> > is also Software Freedom Day. At this point, I'd like to offer 4
> > options:
> >
> > 1) Get a table at one of the Farmer's Markets on the 15th
> > 2) Go with the PA for their PACS event on the 15th, and do the
> > farmer's market later in the month.
> > 3) Skip the farmer's market, go to PA's PACS event.
> > 4) An amazingly brilliant idea that I hadn't thought of, because I'm
> > not all that amazingly brilliant most of the time.
> >
> > My order of preference is 4,2,1,3. Let me know your thoughts. If we
> > didn't do farmer's market on the 15th, I'd be looking at the next
> > Saturday, which would be the 22nd.
> >
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