TV cameras at an install fest, Hmmmm..... On the surface it sounds good, the preparation would have to be considerable. It would all need to look very professional. No wires going all directions, a server with all the distros and floppys for that stubborn old 386 I might be getting tonight :-) Sam. Todd Young wrote: > Just read an interesting article on News Forge entitled "How can free > software compete with commercial developers?" > > For those of you that don't already have it bookmarked: > http://www.newsforge.com/index.pl > > I didn't include the article URL, because it's pretty long. The main > point I liked was: > <quote>For one thing, have you noticed that almost every TV station > has a "news tip" phone number it runs on its news broadcast and > usually has on its Web site, too? These numbers are there so people > like you can call in and alert the station's news producers to > interesting stories -- like a group of people who invite you to bring > your computer to a meeting where they will install new software on it > for free that will make it impervious to all major viruses.</quote> > > Perhaps we should invite one of the Twin Cities news crews to our next > Install-Fest? It really wouldn't have to concentrate just on > installing Operating Systems, but could also have the option for > people to have other Open Source programs installed on their current > Windows machines, such as Mozilla and OpenOffice. > > This would be really great for the Linux image if we were to have it > somewhere nice. I know that I was VERY impressed with the room that > was generously made available to us at the Toro headquarters. If we > were to do this, we would have to make sure that all those attending > were on "good" behavior. Arguing/debating is always going to be > present, because of so many different opinions and personalities, but > strong/vulgar language would not be acceptable. > > Thoughts, flames, etc?????? > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list