[Cialug] software freedom day

[David Champion]

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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