[Cialug] software freedom day

[Barry Von Ahsen]

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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