I'm a new list member of edlug (12 months), I'm a second-year Psychology/Philosophy student at Edinburgh Uni and I run the following:
Debian/PPC (dual-boot OSX) on Apple PowerBook G4 15" with Apple iSight working under coridander / gnomemeeting - 3D graphics and internal wireless all set up. CUPS printing, digital camera interface and audio also working. This is should be a good showcase for our OS which up until relatively recently has been lacking somewhat in multimedia capabilites, especially on the powerpc platform. This is *the* angle for marketing Linux to mainstream users now, seeing as the main drives from MS and Apple are always multimedia focussed. I'd be more than happy to demo - I'm an extremely enthusiastic Linux user (almost 7 years sans-Windows, not bad for a 22-year old) and relatively comfortable speaking in front of an audience having worked as a consultant with Accenture for some time before I entered University education, specialising in Unix/Linux datacentre technologies. I will endeavour to attend the next meet but just to register my offer of support - organisers, you now have my contact details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07720 8505321 Please call if you're interested - I can't be 100% on my availability at the moment but I can change plans now to fit this in if I know relatively soon. Take it easy - Erik On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 19:41 +0000, C. Dominik Bódi wrote: > [Call for volunteers for the P&P Society Event] > Hi folks, > > Antonia came along to our meeting last week, and we sorted out some of the > details: > > The event will take place on March 13th, 7:00pm in the ground floor > auditorium > of the Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, 1 Bristo Square. > > We will have 90-100 minutes to impress politically interested/active students > with the political/ethical and technical advantages of Free Software. My idea > was to split the event in three parts: > > 1.) Presentation about the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software, a la > Richard Stallman. (30-40 mins) > 2.) Technical demo running Linux on a desktop/laptop, displaying common use > cases like doing email, www, openoffice, im etc. (30 mins) > 3.) Questions and discussion (20-30 mins, depending on demand) > > I would suggest splitting up the duties, as well. Therefore, we will need TWO > volunteers, one for the presentation and one for the technical demo. > > For the presentation I would want someone who already has at least brief > experience advocating Free Software. I will contact the FSFE in order to get > some slides they might already have created... > > For the second presentation someone who already has done similar demos would > be perfect, but anyone who feels up to do such a demo would be welcome. > > Additionally, it might be a good idea if we could get some more edlug members > to attend the meeting, possibly taking their laptops and pdas along to show > off with and get the people into personal discussions.... > > About the target audience: For details about the P&P Society, see > http://pandp.eusa.ed.ac.uk/ > > Antonia provided helpful information about the society, as well. We cannot > expect every attendant to be a computer-geek, on the contrary. Many of them > will have experience using widespread non-free software on a (more or less) > daily basis, and that's it. However, these folks will be politically > interested and many of them will possibly have experience taking part in a > campaign or two. Arguing the politcal and ethical merits of Free Software > could have a big impact, indeed. > > Any volunteers, please mail to the list. The same goes for anyone having > suggestions etc. > > Cheers, > Dominik
