How to promote Plug's value - was: Are Social Networks ...

[joe at actionline.com]

I heartily agree with Alan.

PLUG is a priceless resource, just the way it is.

We just needs a more focused effort to promote PLUG and also to
better promote Linux. And there are countless ways we could do this.

* Allocating a few minutes at each meeting to exchange promo ideas.

* A poster and brochure to promote PLUG meetings and installfest
dates on community college bulletin boards (and elsewhere).

* Years ago, I made a brochure (no doubt needs improvement and
updating):

- - http://www.upquick.com/linux/pdfs/brochure3.pdf - -

* Include (and highlight) a link to the PLUG website on each PLUG
email list mailing.

* Linux *still* needs a better -- more fool-proof -- LIVE CD with
PLUG contact info and web address printed on the CD.  I would
contribute to making that (in part so I could have one to give to
every computer user I know/meet.)

I am convinced that Chromebook is going to radically change the
world because it is basically a Linux system and there are already
dozens of articles published about installing Linux on Chromebooks. 
So how much longer with M$ be able to sustain such inflated premium
prices (the M$ tax) when many ways superior laptops are now
available at a fraction of their inflated anti-trust prices?



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Alan Daley last wrote (in part) on the former subject title:
> We seem to be asking "Who is taking our active users away?"
> or "Is Linux so easy and boring that fewer and fewer want
> to talk about it?"
>
> Would it not be more productive to ask "How do we attract
> and keep active users?" and "Now that Linux is easy to use
> ... what can we talk about that is even more interesting?"
>
> Perhaps one meeting should be dedicated to creating a
> Business Model Canvass for PLUG. ...
> http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas
> PLUG does have capabilities and resources to serve people.
> What do those people want? How can PLUG provide it?