[Cialug] software freedom day

[Brian Quick]

The Wise Guys on WHO radio might be a good radio show to contact.  
They're on Saturday's from noon to 2.  
http://www.whoradio.com/pages/wiseguys.html  They don't promote linux 
much but they do talk about firefox, opera, open office, and other 
freebies quite a bit.

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> promotion will be key, we only had one guy show up last year, and I 
> think only 2-3 the year before.  I will be kind of curious now that 
> it's not on UI-ISU day, we might get 4 people :)
>
> I think if we do more education it will help too.  a lot of people 
> probably have no idea what we're even talking about or why they'd want 
> to attend.
>
> I kind of think the openCD route is the way to go (as josh said), get 
> them hooked on firefox and OoO, then show them that they don't need 
> windows either.  SFD sent a mail promoting Document Freedom Day 
> (http://documentfreedom.org) which seems like it's going the same 
> direction
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> David Champion wrote:
>> You're 100% right... and we have done those things in the past - but 
>> it's been a long time. Some of the ones we did at the Computer 
>> Learning Center in the early days had good attendance, presentations 
>> on installing and using linux for everyday tasks, and one-on-one 
>> installs and demos. The one we did at the Ankeny Community Center a 
>> few years ago was pretty good too.
>>
>> IMHO the biggest thing we need to do is promotion to get butts in the 
>> seats, otherwise doing a presentation isn't very worthwhile.
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> Josh More wrote:
>>> I think it's time for a paradigm change.  Software Freedom Day is about
>>> more than just installing Linux.  I think it would be nice to have a 
>>> day
>>> where we give out other free software (OpenOffice, Gimp and Inkscape
>>> come to mind) and show people how to use them regardless of their OS.
>>>
>>> This could be done as one-on-one tutoring (like the installfests),
>>> presentation, small group discussion, etc.  Ideally, we would involve
>>> the other user groups in the area and turn it into a mega information
>>> sharing day.
>>>
>>> Of course, I am also swamped with existing projects, so I can't run it
>>> this year.  Maybe someone out there feels inspired?  ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>>>  515-245-7701
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>>>> David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> 07/21/08 10:55 AM 
>>>>>> >>>         
>>> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>>>  
>>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>
>>>>     
>>> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>     
>>>>> so now that the picnic is history, time to think about software
>>>>>       
>>> freedom day.
>>>  
>>>>>  we're already registered for September 20, 2008, which is not
>>>>>       
>>> Iowa-Iowa
>>>  
>>>>> State this year, woo!
>>>>>
>>>>> anybody have thoughts for location?  Urbandale and West Des Moines
>>>>>       
>>> libraries
>>>  
>>>>> are always an option, but somewhere new might be nice
>>>>>           
>>>> So out of curiosity, what is the goal? Meaning at the end of the
>>>>     
>>> day,
>>>  
>>>> if we've achieved X we'll consider it a tremendous success (but
>>>>     
>>> we'll
>>>  
>>>> settle for Y and still be glad we did it).
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>
>>> Historically... we've done Linux Installfests and / or SFD for a 
>>> long time (10 years?). Some of the early ones we had around 25 
>>> people bring
>>>
>>> PC's in. Lately it's been a lot less - like we were lucky if we got 
>>> 5 people there with PC's to get installed. I think it's mostly 
>>> because of
>>>
>>> installing Linux is so much easier now than it was 10 years ago, and we
>>>
>>> really haven't done much or any promotion.
>>>
>>> I'd say it would be great if we could get participation back up into
>>> the 20's again, but that might be too optimistic.
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
>>>
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