[Cialug] Installfest thought

Kevin C. Smith kevin at linuxsmith.com
Fri Jun 3 19:47:08 CDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 17:39 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> >>I would want to avoid being "preachy" about Free Software.
> >>Also the term "Open Source" may have better recognition and understanding
> >>by the general public now-a-days. But, yes we need to include "Free
> >>Software" in the presentation. That said I tend to be more on the
> >>"Free Software" term rather then the "Open Source" team myself. I'm just
> >>thinking we need a balanced approach for an introductory presentation.
> >>
> >>A. Introduction
> >>B. Unix
> >>C. Free Software Movement
> >>D. Linux
> >>E. Open Source
> >>F. ?
> >>G. Conclusion
> >>
> >>We could even how the Revolution OS DVD afterward.
> >>
> >>P.S. VI/VIM, Gnome, and Debian/Ubuntu rule also ;)
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kevin C. Smith
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I set up a Wiki page for this project. Lets put some ideas together.
> > http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=OpenSourcePresentation
> > 
> 
> Capital idea. Can you contact the Science Center and see if they're 
> interested.
> 
> I'm willing to help with presentations.
> 
> To do a showing of "Revolution OS", we'd either need to get the 
> director's permission, or have the SC charge admission. I recall seeing 
> info when the movie first came out where he essentially gave LUG's 
> permission to show it at their meetings, but not for large showings to 
> the general public.
> 
> I found the official web site, I'll contact them about showing it.
> 
> http://www.revolution-os.com
> 
> -dc
> 
I'll give a call next week, maybe we can hook onto some computer theme
they may be having in the next year or so. 

-- 
Kevin C. Smith



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