guerilla linux marketing - a thought

[Lucas Vogel]

I REALLY like the gamer's paradise idea. Imagine having meetings where
people get together to collaborate/contribute to open-source projects there!


If Hawke is reading this, I'd love to know what kind of progress he's gotten
on this...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: der.hans [mailto:PLUGd@lufthans.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:42 PM
> To: plug1
> Subject: Re: guerilla linux marketing - a thought
> 
> 
> Am 31. Aug, 2000 schwäzte Lucas Vogel so:
> 
> > After reading the post about the windows ssh tool that fits 
> on a floppy,
> > plus following the thread on the fsb mailing list about 
> linux ( see "Why
> > Open Source Sucks for the Consumer" thread) , I have a thought. The
> > vncviewer program is really small, can run on Windows and 
> can fit on a
> > floppy. I think a cool idea would be if we had a community 
> server that we
> > could set up for people to try/view linux with, and hand 
> them out floppy
> > disks with the vncviewer on it with an 
> instruction/introduction/howto manual
> > on it so that they could explore and even use it for 
> practical purposes.
> > Now, vnc isn't necessarily bandwidth friendly, but it still 
> seems like a
> > neat idea.
> 
> Nice idea, but I think the bandwidth probs would be problematic. We're
> better off putting out kiosks or some such, I'd think :). 
> Maybe if we just
> pitch in and get Hawke's Linux-gamer's paradise together. Do that well
> with all Linux and we'd be getting people's attention :).
> 
> By the time he could implement it Star Office source should've been
> released and WordPerfect will have full xml support on Linux.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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