[ubuntu-us-nm] IRC Meetings

[Kiernan Holland]

I added the Day to the page, I hope you don't mind..
Saturday, September 19th..

What time?

BTW is there someone in the group who is professionally involved in
providing third party support for
Ubuntu, I though that would be a way to get their foot in the door, provide
business cards and get them
to talk to people interested in Ubuntu but who would like to have someone to
call on. I'm not in the
position to offer such services, but I thought it would be good to have
those people there.

I'll bring my acer aspire, but I wont' make any noise, I guess I could bring
some headphones and a
small three octave keyboard. It should fit in a book bag, and I can set it
aside.  I could also show off
blender or gimp on that. Ubuntu Studio is just a little bit extra atop
Ubuntu, so I could put on a card
a tinyurl link to the video I have demonstrating Ubuntu Studio. I would only
require two power slots, a
2 Inch power supply and a plug for the Acer.. A point about the Acer is it
has 30watt PS, and the highend
ones come with 6 hours batteries, I just have a 3 hour one. I got the 80GB
one, and have it to dual boot
XP and Ubuntu Studio. I have a external CD drive as the acer doesn't have
one, but the CD drive I have is
too bulky. If this is out of the question, I can make a video of this setup
demonstrating it, which would
probably be more manageable. I probably should anyway, as I may forget about
the event. I have a lot
of space on my "www.chann3lz.com" website, I can put the video there once it
is done.

Another idea, if someone has a big screen LCD monitor or something, it could
be stood behind the booth
showing video.. You can rent things like this.. It may be too bright in
there. If you have something like a
parasol or some kind of cover to put over the booth it will shadow the
screen and make it easier to see
what is on the monitor. Bright lights in malls can make it hard to see
monitors.. You might try a test of a booth
and see what could be done (to avoid anything unwieldy), any ideas?

Also, do you have a banner for the booth, it helps to have something with
big letters identifying the
distro. Maybe a icon on the side.. It might be okay to put a web address on
the banner, that would
permit if someone has a camera to take pictures and get the information
down. I'd put contact
information down on the CD case or insert, maybe a card inserted inside the
sleeve. If you
lack DVD cases, I have about a hundred or so.. I got mine from the local
library, they were
practically throwing them away.

Also where are people going to sit, or are people coming to the booth
expected to stand.
Bean bag chairs? Fold out? Shaded Lawn Chairs with the can holder?

It might be good to have some eye catchers, like trinkets, mood lights, a
plasma
bulb, or something to draw attention to the booth. It's okay if there isn't
such a thing..
Even some modeling clay that someone's children can play around with, while
dad talks.. I figure if you can get Art Rage 2.5 running on a machine, I can
get a wacom
tablet to demonstrate drawing, that would be entertaining to children,
especially since
GIMP and Ubuntu 9.04 support pressure sensitive wacom tablets out of box
(note, the pen is
pressure sensitive, the tablet has a radio transmitter in it, the pad isn't
actually pressure
sensitive).

It doesn't have to be a big booth, but it can at least be comfortable, laid
back.


Anyhow.. Those are some ideas..






On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, David Thomas <dthomasdigital at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just to clarify a few things. The Ubuntu New Mexico LoCo has been involved
> with Software Freedom Day for the past 3 years. A look on our own wiki
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Software_Freedom_Day%3A_September_15%2C_2007
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Software_Freedom_Day%3A_September_20%2C_2008 and
> the our Software Freedom Day wiki
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/NM/Albuquerque/NewMexicoUbuntuLoco
> show that The New Mexico Ubuntu LoCo has had a little bit of experience
> putting these events together.
>
> However. this year will be new as it's a very high traffic area and while
> this has both advantages and disadvantages we should be able to take
> advantage of the situation as long as we remember most people will have no
> idea what we are doing or even care.
>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't have to put to much of a show
> together to get people interested in picking up something for free, people
> that want more information will ask, those that want to be showed something
> will also ask. Do to location we can't do to much in the way of detailed
> demonstrations and that's a good thing do to the nature of how malls
> operate. People will be passing by and the last thing we want to show them
> is a bunch of pushy loud over the top demos. A few PC running "Big buck
> Bunny" and  some people playing open source games is all you need to get the
> conversation going. Don't forget at all times we must be under the
> guidelines of the  Ubuntu code of Conduct (if you have not read or signed
> the Ubuntu code of Conduct I suggest you do before attending any Ubuntu New
> Mexico LoCo event it's a fantastic guideline and one the New Mexico LoCo
> follows http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct ).
>
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