On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:06 pm, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > (Crazy A$$ Idea) > > While watching Gentoo compile my brain was in an idle state watching GCC > do it's thing. > > I was then thinking of a way to introduce Linux to office workers. > Office workers need > to use eMail, Calendar, WordProcessing, SpreadSheets, and access data > from databases. > Yes, I know some use applications that are "special" like Autocad among > many. I thought > why not present Linux to them at lunch? > > It doesn't take long to "image" a M$ machine, why not create a "image" > of several Linux > distributions. Get some laptops, desktops, and even a server or 2 > temporally donated from > a vendor or 2, setup a traveling display at an area mall. "Lunch & > Linux", I have a very good > connection at City Center, my Wife is the retail property manager. We > could do some > weekend gigs at the other malls in the area. > > We would be able to show off Distro's, Open Office, Groopware, and other > software that > the average office worker would use on a daily basis. > > It might peak some interest. > > Sam. Interesting idea. Personally I like the LiveCD idea since it allows us to give away something.Between SuSE's LiveEval, Mandrake's LiveCD version, Knoppix and all its derivatives we could show a variety of stuff. My feeling is that if you showed SuSE, Mandrake and Knoppix(Debian) you'd cover a far bit of the Linux universe. Let me know if you set something up, I might be willing to pitch in some time to talk to folks. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list