Well I figured I want to get things rolling as quick as I could after joining. This idea I had last night is going to take some extensive planning time (as well as fund raising). But every September in Memphis we have the Cooper Young Neighborhood Association Festival (Cooper Young Fest for short), so I was thinking if others in the Memphis area were interested maybe we could work together to get and get a booth this year. There are usually upwards of 1000 people who attend annually and a lot of them are from the mid-town region, and as you in Memphis know we tend to have an aversion to corporatons in this area, so it would be a prime location to get out the word that with Ubuntu Linux is no longer just for the hard core geeks.
So what I was thinking was, if anyone was interested we could get a booth for the festival, and set up a few different machines running Ubuntu (maybe one with Ubuntu, one with Kubuntu, and one with Xubuntu) and have ISO's burned for those who want to switch on their own PC's. Then also if we can raise the enough funds building a computer and putting Ubuntu on it have a raffle where at the end of the day we do a drawing and the person gets the PC.
I don't know what anyone else thinks but I feel it has a good shot at reaching an audience that is already primed to make the move to Open computing even if they don't quite realize it yet.
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