<div>When I first started getting the PNW team up and running I sat down and wrote a bunch of notes as to why M$ is so appealing to users.  I think it would be intresting to collaborate on ways of abolishing the WIntel tax and distributing Ubuntu.  I'll dig up my notes and through them out to the rest of the team tonight. </div> <div> </div> <div>I also wanted to give everyone an update on our new team webpage (yes I'm still working on it).  Currently we have had a template for our team page created by Paul.  Mike created our new team logo. So I am currently working on getting a team forum up and running as well as filling in the rest of the content on the page. </div> <div> </div> <div>Sorry I haven't updated the information on the applicable project WIKI's but things have been busy in my world so I'm just juggling the work.</div> <div> </div> <div>The loco team admin loved our business card concept and asked that I send it out to the loco team list where it was warmly received.  One person did mention that the picture looked a little pixilated and that we might want to clean it up or save it in a higher resolution to ensure a crisp clean look when the business cards are printed.  Does anyone have a decent printer?  It would be nice to try printing a copy of the cards to see if this is a problem that needs to be addressed (before I have kinko's print a box).  </div> <div>On 8/16/06, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank"> ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Send Ubuntu-us-pnw mailing list submissions to        <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank"> ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com </a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit        <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pnw" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pnw</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to        <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank"> ubuntu-us-pnw-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at        <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw-owner@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank"> ubuntu-us-pnw-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-us-pnw digest..." Today's Topics:   1. whats with the resistance?? (mike)   2. Re: whats with the resistance?? (Paul Bartell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:16:06 -0700 From: mike <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mike@midcolumbia.net" target="_blank"> mike@midcolumbia.net</a>> Subject: whats with the resistance?? To: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Message-ID: <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:1155680166.19488.10.camel@localhost.localdomain" target="_blank"> 1155680166.19488.10.camel@localhost.localdomain</a>> Content-Type: text/plain Can any one tell me why every one is so standoffish when you mention an alternative to M$? I mean every person I mention this great thing to looks at me like I have leprosy or something. is it 'cuz most free stuff isn't worth beans? or do they really fear change that much. I did have a very positive experience with a guy. It was at a young professionals meeting he kept asking what the draw backs were. and here's the great part. I couldn't think of any REAL problems. so he said Send me a CD Id love to try it. he was pretty excited about it.. Why should you have to pay for stability and security????? there is an alternative UBUNTU</> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:38:28 -0700 From: "Paul Bartell" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:paul.bartell@gmail.com" target="_blank"> paul.bartell@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: whats with the resistance?? To: mike <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mike@midcolumbia.net" target="_blank">mike@midcolumbia.net </a>> Cc: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Message-ID:        <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:2b5bab0f0608151738p77d90d43x776b7f07cbcaa5f3@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank"> 2b5bab0f0608151738p77d90d43x776b7f07cbcaa5f3@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" yes very true. I usually call ubuntu an open source operating system instead of free. people have been very swayed about the word FREE immediatly associating it with no money instead of the freedom of use and distrubution. Also Ms started in Seattle and people are used to it and immediately discard linux as a terminal based operating system and that there is no gui at all. We need to tell people that it looks just like windows. People dont understand. i find that even people with technical understanding even think its all a terminal. On 8/15/06, mike <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mike@midcolumbia.net" target="_blank"> mike@midcolumbia.net</a>> wrote: > > Can any one tell me why every one is so standoffish when you mention an > alternative to M$? I mean every person I mention this great thing to > looks at me like I have leprosy or something. is it 'cuz most free stuff > isn't worth beans? or do they really fear change that much. I did have a > very positive experience with a guy. It was at a young professionals > meeting he kept asking what the draw backs were. and here's the great > part. I couldn't think of any REAL problems. so he said Send me a CD Id > love to try it. he was pretty excited about it.. > > Why should you have to pay for stability and security????? > > there is an alternative > > UBUNTU</> > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-pnw mailing list > <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank"> Ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pnw" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-pnw </a> > -- Im not a geek im just intellectually curious. look @ my website :<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.paulbartell.com/" target="_blank">www.paulbartell.com </a> ~The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~~ Aldous Huxley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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