[hblug] Software Freedom Day: Ideas

[Michael Adams]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:44:07 +1200
Daniel Faulknor wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Software Freedom Day is Saturday 16 September
> 
> First Thing:
> First thing i need to know to make plans is who is available, and when
> you are available.
> We will be looking to cover: Napier, Taradale, Hastings (and maybe
> Havelock- not sure about that one)
> Maybe splitting the day into morning and afternoon would be a good
> approach. One area in the morning (ie Napier/Taradale & Hastings) and
> the other in the afternoon.
> This all depends on how many people are available, and when etc.

I'll do saturday morning anywhere
 
> Other Things:
> The plan is to hand out ubuntu leaflets with a "business card" in them
> with a way for people to contact someone about ubuntu. Are there any
> people who would be happy to volunteer to have their name and phone
> number printed on some of the cards (im going to be on some, but some
> other people would be good, to share the job a bit).

I'll hand out cards with my own name on them. I am no Ubuntu guru, hell,
i am no mandriva guru. ph 8447531

> Also it was suggested to me maybe we could buy a pack of baloons and
> put ubuntu stickers on them. If we encounter any families the children
> would get the baloons and the adults would get a leaflet. This would
> give us a way to draw attention to ourselves.

Give them balloons and stickers seperate, some kids collect em and half
the fun for a kid is deciding where to stick them. I'll up front $10 for
a balloons kitty.

> Do we want to give out just Ubuntu cds or do we want to look at
> Kubuntu and Edubuntu as well? - Edubuntu is aimed at
> teachers/edutational institutions. With Ubuntu/Kubuntu, would we
> really only want to give out kubuntu if the person we were giving it
> to knew what it was, or do we want to give them out randomly? (keep in
> mind at the moment we have very limited numbers of Kubuntu cds)

Focus on Free Software initially. The LEGAL give away is the clincher,
people won't care what it is. So i vote stick to one pruduct for
simplicity.

> Finally, does anyone else have any other suggestions for things we
> could do on the day?

Offer Daniel as a raffle prize to the highest bidding housewife.

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Michael
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