[olug] Advocacy Idea

[Jason Ferguson]

My choice for a distro for newbies, is, as always, Mandrake 8.0. I 
suppose we could modify/customize it (olug logo when you activate the 
framebuffer rather than the penguin), OLUG backgrounds for the default 
on window managers, etc. The investment required would be as follows:

- Blank CDs, 650 MB. (I bought 100 of them for $15)
- Labels (This will be somewhat expensive, but people arent gonna pick 
up cheap looking crap)
- Evelopes (so as not to scratch the CDs)
- "Quick Start Instructions"

I think that a $100 investment would work pretty well, and that $100 
doesnt have to be all up front or from one person.

I also recommend doing this for a one-week period. We could declare the 
last week of July to be "Omaha Linux Week" and concentrate on doing it then.

Wish I was gonna be here to see it.

Jason

Brian Roberson wrote:

>This is an excellent idea, now we just need someone to run with the
>idea, if we can somehow pool in cd media, and have that distributed for
>burning to people ( I am sure most of us have a cd-r ) I/we can start
>work on an olug ISO, with that said.. This question always comes up...
>What distro? ;-) I suggest we do a live-cd like slackware used to do and
>setup some olug things, like X backdrop being our olug picture! This
>sounds like fun, I am totally on board for something like that. However,
>just a plain disto cd would be cool too, and If we use a rpm based
>distro, I will whip up a olug.rpm that customizes some stuff like
>netscape/konquer/gnome web browser home page to point to our site...
>Etc.. Cd media is getting very cheap as well, this may be good timing.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jason Ferguson [mailto:jferguson3 at home.com] 
>>Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 8:47 AM
>>To: olug at bstc.net
>>Subject: [olug] Advocacy Idea
>>
>>
>>Okay, I wish I'd had this idea early, back when I had real 
>>power. Oh well.
>>
>>What do people think of the idea of burning a BUNCH of distro CDs for 
>>free handout at local computer shops, just like those damn 
>>AOL CDs? This 
>>could be a weeklong project. We'd put a small peice of paper in there 
>>about basics of installation, disclaimer of responsibility 
>>for OLUG, etc.
>>
>>People could come in, buy what they came in for, and pick up 
>>a free CD, 
>>courtesy of OLUG. They may not install it immediately, but 
>>it'll be on 
>>their shelf, and eventually some of them may try it.
>>
>>What do you guys think?
>>
>>Jason
>>
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