CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

[Arc Riley]

There's no electricity (that I've been told of, city electric never got back
to me).  It would be nice just to be able to burn CDs on demand if we run
out like last year, but we also have a lot more CDs than last year.

My experience of these sorts of events is that nobody wants to look at a
computer screen (you can barely see it against sunlight most of the time
anyway).  They're really just milling through and casually talking to us.

When talking to someone about Ubuntu, for example, showing them a screen
running Ubuntu, they're really not interested in seeing it - they really
just want to talk to you about it.  They can see screenshots and video demos
online at  home later if we peak their interest.


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com> wrote:

> On Friday 18 September 2009 00:04, Ben Scott wrote:
> >  What: Software Freedom Day
> >   Who: *YOU*
> > Where: Pulaski Park, Manchester, NH
> >  Date: Saturday, September 19th, 2009
> >  Time: Flexible, overall roughly 10 AM to 5 PM
> >
> >   We need volunteers for Software Freedom Day this Saturday!
>
>     Count me in.  I have been to several, and they are great fun - if
> just to meet the folks on the other end of an email address.  You will
> know when I arrive.  The car muffler blew two days ago and won't be
> fixed yet.  Hope there are no cops around.
>
>    Is there electricity?  If not, demos must be limited to laptop
> batteries, I guess.  Anybody have a generator?
>
>    Not being much of an expert on Linux, I will bring the Qcad 2-D
> drafting program to demo.  It is available open source for free
> (penultimate version) and costs $40 per CD (Windows, Mac, Linux
> included) compared with $800 for AutoCad.   Two extra monitors for the
> laptop, 3 chairs, card table, and sample copy of users' manual round it
> out.  It would help if I could get the monitors in the shade.
>
> Jim Kuzdrall
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