[klug] Invitation to participate in discussion about a national Linux body

[Steve Withers]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:14, Ben wrote:
> hey,
>    I know there will be a few frowns but I can possibly
> gain support through church's nationwide.
> Dont knock the church's there are thousands and thousands of
> people just ready for the change over to linux.

Sounds fine to me. :-)  

> As far as I know alot of NZLUG meetings are in church halls etc etc,
> I'm all for it.
> I have thought of many ideas of how we can bring linux to the
> NZ public in a way that will have people never looking back.
> A Linux cafe would be a first in NZ and a franchise cafe
> that can be basically charity based would have linux take off
> like nothing short of an phonomona

Great idea..... 

> ya think?
> Any ideas?

I thought helping people install VNC on their Windows systems and
letting them control a Linux system over the Internet might be do-able. 
Or send them a live-CD like Knoppix to play with. I used to make those
up and give them away. Cheapo and cheerful and not requiring large
amounts of resource. 

Another idea is approaching groups like Rotary and offering to talk
about Open Source software - at home and at work and for voluntary
organisations. A sort of speaker's bureau. 

Steve Withers




 

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