What is it that you are gonna demo exactly?  Im just curious, as having a 
few people stand around a terminal and just bag on how horrible microsoft 
is, isnt very effective evangelism.

Not saying that is what would be done or what is proposed, but if there 
isnt something 'specific' that one has in mind to actually demonstrate or 
speak on, I can see it easily turning into that.  Not because our 
representatives would want that, but generally the public is pissed at 
microsoft and if you explain that its an alternative they will be quick to 
start listing the evils m$ has done to them, and lets face it, its hard 
to not sympathize with that. ;)

On that note, a rep from a Nashville LUG has invited some of our team 
(GNUe) to come speak for them.  In speaking more with their group they 
have a KILLER concept.  They are doing FREE CLASSES on GNU/Linux.  Where 
they make REAL course material and schedule a semester and require a book 
etc.  They are then turning the courses out as free for other LUGS to use 
and are making a system to schedule classes etc etc etc.  

I think something like this would be WONDERFUL.  Especially for 
'newbies'/'programmers'.  I was thinking of perhaps making course material 
for a 8 or 12 week course on GNOME 101 or PYTHON 101.  When I hear things 
like this Fry's marketing, it would make sense if we were offerring such 
courses to be able to offer them to 'learn more'.  An install fest for 
example is nice, but it puts GNU/Linux on their machine and then 'what do 
they do with it', if we had something like LINUX BASICS or something the 
first week or two would be install and get devices working and the the 
rest of the weeks would be getting up to speed on the desktop and 
environment etc...

Just some ideas.  Brian maybe sequioa could let us use some rooms for this 
kind of stuff?  We could even offer the courses to their students and 
their families if they so desired.

 --Derek

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jim wrote:

> The toughest thing to do is to get people to commit time for an uspecified 
> time.  If a time gets firmed up, you can almost always get bodies to help.
> 
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 14:47, you wrote:
> > "der.hans" wrote:
> > > I might be able to get us in Frys in Tempe as well. We've got to have
> > > volunteers who will commit to supporting the demos if we go into Frys.
> >
> > Maybe I could commit to 4 hours if the timing were right.
> >
> > Vic
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