[GNUz] Volunteering for SFD

[Rik Tindall]

Thanks Keith,

It's impossible to estimate demand for SFD, but every bit of prep always 
helps.

Keith McGavin wrote:
> 
> I have bought a 50 pack of cd's and can bring in my cd burner so
> copies of OpenOffice2,Ipcop,Ubuntu,Open Win32 can be burnt if 
> required.
> 
> If anyone has other distros they think the public will like can you 
> bring them along on Saturday. As Rik pointed out most new users will
> probably end up dumping the disks in a drawer somewhere so I'm not
> too keen on burning three disks sets like mandriva,fedora,suse etc.

I hope not. We only want to give them something that's going to be used. 
(You cite my thoughts on the 'mall giveaway' approach, to which our 
selective draw is counterposed.) The Ubuntu CD has OpenCD on it too, so 
at least they can get FOSS for Windows off that.

I'd like us to be careful about confusing newcomers with too much 
(distro) choice please. Given the complete lack of interest in SFD from 
CLUG, it seems we should be steering people towards Freenix workshop for 
support with Ubuntu in hand. This will make the Day & effort worthwhile, 
imho. Continuity is important.

> Also have a 19" widescreen monitor so a dvd such as revolution os
> can be on display in the install area.

We have the bigscreen / projector planned for that, but good demo gear 
is needed. There's room for several - so go for it mate.

> cheers,
> keith.
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Cheers, Rik