Re: Software Freedom Day

[Christian Jacobsen <cjjacobs@xxxxxxx>]

MEH.

this is Tech... you have to consider the apathy factor.

with K-Day people are already out and about looking for interesting new
stuff, but by the 15th people will already be settled into their class
routines.

we at *least* need to have examples of the stuff you got for SFD at
K-Day.



On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:11 -0400, Matt wrote:
> But, software freedom day is meant to be a specific day. It was
> organized so that all of the groups will be out and about the same day.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 13:43 -0400, cjjacobs@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > it might be easier to just include that into K-Day.  would definitely get
> > more attention
> > 
> > > Alright, looks like the subscription worked. Anyway, like I said I
> > > signed up for Software Freedom Day (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org).
> > > They have sent me shirts, pamphlets, cds, stickers, everything. I have
> > > it all sitting at home and I have not yet seen everything. I believe
> > > there are some Ubuntu and open software cds.
> > >
> > > Software Freedom Day is Saturday Sept. 15th and I would hope to be able
> > > to get some people together to participate. I will be attending your
> > > meeting tomorrow so hopefully we can work some stuff out then. I kind of
> > > want to be able to have some demo pcs out showing ubuntu, beryl,
> > > open-office, maybe synaptic package manager. Just to show that linux
> > > isn't as hard as it seems.
> > >
> > > We may also be able to advertise for an upcomming install party, or even
> > > hold one that day? I could throw out ideas all day, but tomorrow we can
> > > get together and actually start a plan?
> > >
> >