[Cialug] software freedom day

[Josh More]

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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