I was talking to Nate at the football game on Saturday, and we thought it might be nice for TSLUG to do something that promotes free software for people not quite ready to take the Linux plunge.
We might consider reserving that long table in the downstairs of Violette hall and passing out "mini" CD-Rs with free software programs (for Win32) on them. I don't have a complete list of what a CD should contain, but some contenders would be: OpenOffice - alternative to MS office GIMP - alternative to Photoshop Mozilla - alternative to IE/Outlook/Frontpage WiZ - alternative to WinZip (there may be another better choice here) More obscure things that are small enough that they could easily go on are: putty - ssh/telnet client and utilities vnc - remote display gnupg - encryption Getting more obscure - TeX: miktex - at least the installer (the whole distro is probably more than a mini-CD) gsview - postscript viewer TeXnicCenter - graphical TeX environment Even more obscure: ntemacs - Emacs of course gvim - and Vi to be fair Any good Win32 free software games? Other free software that people use? We will likely need to pick and choose for space because of the small format. Presumably we could write an introduction and some help or directions (say in HTML). We can create an autorun that would pull it up in IE (which any Win32 computer would have) when they insert the disk. It's using non-free software to promote free software but would be friendly. Any ideas? Anything we should add to the list? I think we should aim to give away 50 mini CD-Rs. I have at least 10 I could donate and we can buy boxes of 10 at Walmart for less than $1/disk. If we think we would like to do even more than 50 disks it might be better to try and buy bulk. Perhaps this would make a good discussion item for the Wednesday meeting in addition to the planned "bring your box to school". -- Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------