[Cialug] software freedom day

[David Champion]

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM, David Champion 
>> <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
>>> Might be nice to use the new Downtown Des Moines Library (or as my 
>>> nephew
>>> calls it, the "shiny library").
>>
>> The benefit of this space (or one like it) is that for example -
>>
>> Imagine a husband/father who is a technical enthusiast. Saturday is
>> family day but they're really interested in coming. If its at the
>> library he can bring the kids and/or wife with him and they won't be
>> standing around twiddling thumbs wondering when it'll be done.
>>
>> As an option, I wonder if there would be an opportunity to partner
>> with a business who could benefit from the attention. For example,
>> borders books probably makes a respectable amount of money from OSS
>> enthusiasts and maybe they'd be willing to cover incidental
>> promotional costs that featured their logo and address (assuming we
>> had the event at their location). Doing something like this could
>> extend the reach to beyond 20 people and could be a win-win situation.
>> Or maybe B&N in Jordan creek would have the opportunity to procure
>> floor space in the mall for such an event.
>>
>> Also, what other local user groups are there who would be willing to
>> coordinate efforts?
>>
>
> I think the only issue I saw with downtown was it was non-free for 
> non-non-profits, and potential gear-hauling, but if we're going to 
> focus more on information/education, that's less of an option
>
> we've got plenty of cash, we could certainly pay for it though
>
> -barry
Gear-hauling shouldn't be too bad if we use laptops, and a couple of 
small network switches etc, and maybe one projector. The library may 
even have one we could use.

-dc