Replies inline (sorry for the lateness, just catching up!) On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:23:08AM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Philip Newborough > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ciaran Mooney > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I don't think it would be too difficult to set up a temporary set of > > >> Ubuntu machines in a local library, and ask the public to do a series > > >> of tests for us.
A public library may not be a bad place to start. They'd certainly be able to supply power and what not for a few laptops. > > >> > > >> Usually helps if you offer a chocolate bar....... done quite a few > > >> product testings, always helps when they offer free chocolate. > > >> I had considered some freebies to give away. The obvious one was a LiveCD, maybe even a copy of the OpenDisc or something related and some of those fantastic stickers that Popey sent with the case badges (one of which currently adorns my laptop). > > > > > > With the assistance of a hefty group of people, it could be made into > > > a lot less of a task. > > > > > > You could focus on specific towns, that most people can make it to... This would certainly make life easier. Where would be convenient? London is where these things normally occur, but I wouldn't mind breaking the mould a bit. > > > > > > > Maybe this is something people could think about doing on Software Freedom > > Day? > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ > > An even better idea. It would certainly help raise SFD's profile and might even get a few more people wandering up and asking what it's all about. Who would need to be spoken to in order to push this forward as an ubuntu-uk initiative? It sounds like there are a few people interested in taking it forward. (Please please please if anyones good at project management feel free to take the reigns). Before all that though tasks would need to be developed and some experimental kit and so on. For the sake of standardisation would it be best to follow the gnome example with some extension tasks based on more ubuntu specific features? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
