BslBryan
May 22nd, 2009, 06:08 PM
Hello, everyone. :-)
Does everyone here remember seeing about a thousand homemade Ron Paul signs a year and a half ago? Well, I never made anything, but some really nice people sent me a very nice-sized box of Paul campaign materials. Getting something for free seemed to help my opinion of his whole run for President. I think that the supporters of Paul got it right!
I started thinking that maybe we could apply something like this to Ubuntu. We could all pitch in (or get sponsors, more than likely) to rent a small park, or something, and set up a Linux fair. We can advertise it in newspapers, or what have you.
Basically, the point of this fair would be to have multiple activities for the curious proprietary user, the fed up proprietary user, the 1337 Linux user, and more specifically, anyone at all who'd like to come.
Perhaps one of us, or many of us, could speak, and give presentations, and also have machines set up to test-drive the Ubuntu experience.
After this, we could hand out Ubuntu goody bags of sorts, with CDs, stickers, etc.
This would be a LoCo event like no other, but I can see it happening, with the proper commitment.
I would be honored to help organize it if everyone likes the idea, but before I get ahead of myself, what's everyone's opinion? :-)
Does everyone here remember seeing about a thousand homemade Ron Paul signs a year and a half ago? Well, I never made anything, but some really nice people sent me a very nice-sized box of Paul campaign materials. Getting something for free seemed to help my opinion of his whole run for President. I think that the supporters of Paul got it right!
I started thinking that maybe we could apply something like this to Ubuntu. We could all pitch in (or get sponsors, more than likely) to rent a small park, or something, and set up a Linux fair. We can advertise it in newspapers, or what have you.
Basically, the point of this fair would be to have multiple activities for the curious proprietary user, the fed up proprietary user, the 1337 Linux user, and more specifically, anyone at all who'd like to come.
Perhaps one of us, or many of us, could speak, and give presentations, and also have machines set up to test-drive the Ubuntu experience.
After this, we could hand out Ubuntu goody bags of sorts, with CDs, stickers, etc.
This would be a LoCo event like no other, but I can see it happening, with the proper commitment.
I would be honored to help organize it if everyone likes the idea, but before I get ahead of myself, what's everyone's opinion? :-)