[Linux] Software Freedom day
Adam Glass
linux@flux.org
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:06:47 -0400
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Aaron, your idea is a good one. So far we have just been talking about
where to hold the event, not what to do there ... sounds like you've given
us a good start on the latter.
There have been a few suggestions about locations but they were all outdoors
where it would be hard to do a presentation.
So we need to decide if we will do a talk or if it will be something else,
and find a suitable location for whatever we do.
Where do we go from here?
--Adam
On 7/31/07, Aaron Wolfe <Aaron@kdtsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> PCs are so cheap these days I have a hard time believing there are many
> people who can afford a PC but not one capable of running MS software..
> even a 5 year old PC can usually run XP just fine, and these are
> basically thrown away. As for people who like to tinker with
> computers... is it even possible there are any who don't know about
> linux? I mean, if you are into PCs at all, you at least know linux
> exists. If you are into messing around with them, you've probably
> already got a linux box at home. "It's a known thing" to quote one of
> my fav. TV shows.
>
> On the other hand, I think there are lots of people who know of linux
> and know its 'free', but do not understand what "free" means in the free
> software sense. An attempt to inform people about why software should
> be free and the benefits that free software can have for society would
> perhaps interest a much wider audience. There is also a lot of free
> software that runs on Windows (Firefox, ClamWin, OpenOffice, GIMPshop,
> PDFCreator, VLC, etc, etc...) If your presentation was about software
> freedom and you gave out disks with free software for windows, instead
> of linux, your audience would be pretty much everyone..
>
> Well that's my $0.02.
>
> -Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of
> Terry Richards
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:32 AM
> To: linux@flux.org
> Subject: Re: [Linux] Software Freedom day
>
> Adam Glass wrote:
>
> > Actually, that's not a bad question. FOSS doesn't need a whole lot of
>
> > advocacy these days. Most people already seem to know about it.
> >
> > One benefit I can think of is recruiting a few new people to FLUX.
> > But you do still raise a valid question.
> >
> > --Adam
> >
> >
> > On 7/30/07, *Aaron Wolfe* <Aaron@kdtsolutions.com
> > <mailto:Aaron@kdtsolutions.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Beyond where the "target audience" would be, I am wondering who
> > exactly is the target audience, and what is it that you're trying
> > to do to them?
> >
>
> i would think, ppl who only have "old" computers which won't take the
> newest and greatest M$ and ppl who want to actually want to "fiddle"
> with a computer.
>
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Aaron, your idea is a good one. So far we have just been talking about where to hold the event, not what to do there ... sounds like you've given us a good start on the latter.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>There have been a few suggestions about locations but they were all outdoors where it would be hard to do a presentation.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So we need to decide if we will do a talk or if it will be something else, and find a suitable location for whatever we do.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Where do we go from here?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--Adam</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron Wolfe</b> <<a href="mailto:Aaron@kdtsolutions.com">Aaron@kdtsolutions.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
PCs are so cheap these days I have a hard time believing there are many<br>people who can afford a PC but not one capable of running MS software..<br>even a 5 year old PC can usually run XP just fine, and these are<br>basically thrown away. As for people who like to tinker with
<br>computers... is it even possible there are any who don't know about<br>linux? I mean, if you are into PCs at all, you at least know linux<br>exists. If you are into messing around with them, you've probably<br>
already got a linux box at home. "It's a known thing" to quote one of<br>my fav. TV shows.<br><br>On the other hand, I think there are lots of people who know of linux<br>and know its 'free', but do not understand what "free" means in the free
<br>software sense. An attempt to inform people about why software should<br>be free and the benefits that free software can have for society would<br>perhaps interest a much wider audience. There is also a lot of free<br>
software that runs on Windows (Firefox, ClamWin, OpenOffice, GIMPshop,<br>PDFCreator, VLC, etc, etc...) If your presentation was about software<br>freedom and you gave out disks with free software for windows, instead<br>
of linux, your audience would be pretty much everyone..<br><br>Well that's my $0.02.<br><br>-Aaron<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:linux-admin@flux.org">linux-admin@flux.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:linux-admin@flux.org">
linux-admin@flux.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>Terry Richards<br>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:32 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:linux@flux.org">linux@flux.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Linux] Software Freedom day<br><br>Adam Glass wrote:
<br><br>> Actually, that's not a bad question. FOSS doesn't need a whole lot of<br><br>> advocacy these days. Most people already seem to know about it.<br>><br>> One benefit I can think of is recruiting a few new people to FLUX.
<br>> But you do still raise a valid question.<br>><br>> --Adam<br>><br>><br>> On 7/30/07, *Aaron Wolfe* <<a href="mailto:Aaron@kdtsolutions.com">Aaron@kdtsolutions.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Aaron@kdtsolutions.com">
Aaron@kdtsolutions.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Beyond where the "target audience" would be, I am wondering who<br>> exactly is the target audience, and what is it that you're trying<br>
> to do to them?<br>><br><br>i would think, ppl who only have "old" computers which won't take the<br>newest and greatest M$ and ppl who want to actually want to "fiddle"<br>with a computer.
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