Ironic, isnt it, that the linux community is helping Bills "one computer on every desk" thing, whilest hes trying to sue us at the same time.
On 10/30/07, Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every > Wednesday to offer free wireless Internet in an estate in Kingston, > London. > > A problem we had was that many people in this estate had very little > money and very little computing knowledge. > > Long story short, we had to supply the computers. We had another > charity organisation offer a around 80 old Dell Optiplex (I think the > model number is GX1). We pre-install these computers with Ubuntu 6.06 > and give everything away for a low low price of £0. > > If you want to know more about what we're doing, there's some > information on the website at http://www.e-voice.org.uk/comcon/. > > I probably wrote all of this and has no valid part of the current > discussion, so apologies if that's the case! > > On 30/10/2007, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 30/10/2007, Ciaran Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > There is an event that already does this kind of advocacy. Its called > > > Software Freedom Day. Every year around September time voluteers > > > organise an event all on the same day to promote free software. > > > Canonical sponsor the event and the official distro to hand out is > > > Ubuntu, though you can hand out any one you want. Also we distribute > > > The Open CD. > > > > > > I believe a combined effort from all free software advocates on > > > Software Freedom Day is probably better than small lone Ubuntu > > > specific events, sporadically happening through out the year. > > > > > > There are events held is quite a few major cities in the UK > > > > > > http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk > > > > > > I understand if Ubuntu-UK would like to organise their own event, > > > separate from SFD, but from my experience organising an event by > > > myself in Birmingham all the help I could get was very appreciated. > > > Having Ubuntu-UK behind the next SFD would help a lot. > > > > > > Ciarán > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/29/07, Matthew Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Agreed, this approach works very well. > > > > > > > > On 29/10/2007, Michael Holloway < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Guys > > > > > > > > > > We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote > > > > > Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? > > > > > > > > > > Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how > > many, > > > > > and what they would think of this, but: > > > > > > > > > > We gets tons of CD's in boxes, we get an Ubuntu jacket with big > > writing > > > > > saying something like: > > > > > > > > > > Ubuntu Linux > > > > > Free OS > > > > > Free Office > > > > > > > > > > ... and then some of us volunteer to stand in city centres on the > > > > > weekend (maybe two or three in a group so we can answer questions > etc) > > > > > and hand them out like flyers. We include a little slip that > explains > > > > > how they can try it (live) and install it etc. > > > > > > > > > > Probably some of them will get thrown away, and many will remain > > unused, > > > > > but surely the relatively low-cost of this type of promotion will > > prove > > > > > effective??? Even if its just the "oh yes i've heard of that" > type. > > > > > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > > > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --- > > > > > > > > Matthew Larsen > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > > The school idea sounds pretty good. I would possibly look into doing > that > > here, keep us posted on how you do with sponsorship. Information on this > > would be great to provide to the community so that people everywhere > could > > do the same. > > -- > > Andrew Alexander Barber > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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