[GNUz] Re: SUSE CDs Underway

[Rik Tindall]

Thanks Vik & SFDNZ, all inputs most welcome.

Hello Colin. I am a keen listener to both RNZ National, and your 
contributions to it. You set the scene well for us a few weeks ago, with 
  your talk on GNU/Linux. Thanks very much for that. You do a great job, 
on a key medium in our office-decentralised lives.

Here in Christchurch, we are gearing up rapidly for Software Freedom Day 
07. If you have The Press from Tuesday, 11 Sept, you can see our first 
advertisement on page A3. The next should appear on Saturday, p.A4. Half 
the cost of this SFD advertising was raised through the Canterbury Linux 
Users Group - clug.net.nz - and half from private sponsors. We are 
running an Installfest in conjunction with SFD - a liveCD demo day, in 
the main.

But rather than burden you with details now, I shall hasten this mail on 
by directing you to this page:

Real Time Bus Info - http://www.metroinfo.org.nz/realtime_map.html

- of http://www.metroinfo.org.nz/timetable_maps.html

'Does it work for you?' There have been three threads on CLUG already 
this year, about our FOSS-based inability to access the SVG info on that 
page. By central e-government directive, from 1 Jan 2008 ECan will have 
to fix this problem if amending the site. But that day cannot come soon 
enough for us!

I am soon to prepare a media release, for explaining SFD, along those 
lines. Is this a story hook you could use Colin? And if so, you could 
help us get it moving if you can please reply with a best approximate 
figure for the number (x%) of internet users that would be shut out of 
Metro's "Real Time Bus Info" as of today - national browser stats, I assume.

Anyhow, lots more info for you when you want it, viz:

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/nz/Christchurch

Good to meet you all.

Regards & cheers,

Rik

pp SFD Team Christchurch

Vik Olliver wrote:
> All those who requested a package of SUSE CDs should be receiving their
> allotment over the next couple of days. Mozilla
> armbands/stickers/tattoos will also be sent out, but the packer fell ill
> today and it hasn't been packaged - I'll be busy tomorrow. However this
> does give me the last chance to offer Ubuntu CDs of various types if
> anyone is particularly desperate for them. I'm really desperate for
> properly-labelled OpenCDs, so I can't hand out any of those!
> 
> If you have not yet contacted Colin Jackson <colin.jackson@it.gen.nz> to
> get an event mentioned on-air, please do so promptly.
> 
> Best of luck to all of you in your endeavours. I hope I have been of
> some use in helping your events along. Feel free to use this list to
> discuss their immediate aftermath. I'm sure everyone is going to learn
> something new that might help other teams next year.
> 
> Share and enjoy!
> Rik
> Vik :v) 

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