- Finish the switch commercials. Two are edited, and we have two more
that await editing. I can take care of those. However, it wouldn't hurt
for us to get together sometime in the next few weeks and do some more
filming. We need to agree on a time when more people can attend.
Is there a
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 11:13, Luke Hutchison wrote:
- Finish the switch commercials. Two are edited, and we have two more
that await editing. I can take care of those. However, it wouldn't hurt
for us to get together sometime in the next few weeks and do some more
filming. We need to
* Summary of the success we had at the booth and install fest:
1. We gave out about 180 SSS CD's. The CD's contained Mozilla, GIMP, and
OpenOffice for Windows, Linux, and MacOSX, about 480Mb. If you add up the
cost of the software that it clones (MS Office and Photoshop), you get
about
I was out of town for much of the event, but I heard afterward that
we gave out a lot of CD's to interested people. I imagine that we
would see the same kind of result, but on a larger scale, in Fall
semester when there are more students on campus.
I looked over some of the stuff on the SSS
How about plain 'ol MPEG-2 -- most people should be able to view that
format.
I'll work on getting this up. I have immediate access to the DV files,
and I am planning on attempting to convert them into DivX format. I
haven't been able to get to LAME's website over the last few days, and
so
Quoth Michael Halcrow (On Sat, 10 Aug 2002):
- Work on the presentation. Wednesday morning, all we had were a couple
of folks sitting behind laptops. Eventually, we put up some papers
explaining what we're doing. We should put together a banner, and
arrange for a TV and VCR to show the
When we ran out of CD's, I even took the mailing address of one lady in
Sandy and mailed her the CD.
More than anything else, community service like that will help people to
make the initial switch.
* Outlook
I would say that the trial SSS campaign was very successful. Just
imagine
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 12:53, Dave Smith wrote:
1. In presenting Mozilla, I showed people BannerBlind and tabbed browsing.
That was the major selling point for Mozilla. They love hiding ads (and
who can blame them), and they loved the clean look of having several
web-pages up without having
On Saturday 10 August 2002 11:58 am, Michael Halcrow wrote:
- Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised if the MS guys noticed us, and
started spreading FUD at their seminars and booths. We need to be
careful not to stoop to their level, but to present clear, hard facts
coupled with URL's that back
I've got TV-out, would be happy to volunteer my laptop.
--Dave
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Frank Sorenson wrote:
Quoth Michael Halcrow (On Sat, 10 Aug 2002):
- Work on the presentation. Wednesday morning, all we had were a couple
of folks sitting behind laptops. Eventually, we put up some
-
From: Roberto Mello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [fslc] Re: Software for Starving Students
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:19:18PM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote:
In addition, I have put together an page that advocates Linux to typical
The meeting is scheduled 30 minutes before the regular meeting in the
same room. I just added the event, so you can see it on the web site.
Perhaps, we can also start our The UUG has saved BYU students a total
of $$$ dollars. I'd love to add a table to our database whose only
purpose is to
Boy you get to work late one morning and you get over
70 messages in your box. Iguess that's the result of
being on so many lists ...
One thing I think that we need to discuss. We are now
at the preparation for the Software for Starving
Students campaign. (by the way, I love how this has
caught
Did we get the times set up dispite the fact that I was not good enough to
reserve them last week?
I agree, the *real* campaign should start this fall, however it is good we
are getting the both and install fest now. I take it this should be our
trial run to get all the bugs out (no pun
I'm not sure whether I will be able to make it or not this Thursday, but
I have some ideas and would like to contribute... Is anyone going to be
taking minutes and posting them to the mailing list?
Thanks,
Luke.
Also Thursday we will be discussing ideas, and
proofreading some of the flyers
I'd like to know. I was always under the impression that it was a
discount of the real version, not some different version.
--Dan R.
Jacob Albretsen wrote:
Did we get the times set up dispite the fact that I was not good enough to
reserve them last week?
I agree, the *real* campaign
Great idea... And can we ask students who have saved money to write
testimonials on the website too?
Luke.
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 09:04, Dave Smith wrote:
The meeting is scheduled 30 minutes before the regular meeting in the
same room. I just added the event, so you can see it on the web
A note for those who can't make it to the meeting: We will be doing a
live audio feed and have a chat room for our out-of-state or
stay-at-home members.
--Dave
Luke Hutchison wrote:
I'm not sure whether I will be able to make it or not this Thursday, but
I have some ideas and would like to
It is the *real* version sort of.
However in 2005 when Office 2005 comes and you are now out of school, you
can't buy the upgraded version. The upgrade will not work. So it's just and
order thing. Buy the full, upgradeable version at full price then buy the
upgrade later, or buy the
please email me any suggestions so we can bring them
up at the group meeting.
Art
--- Luke Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure whether I will be able to make it or
not this Thursday, but
I have some ideas and would like to contribute... Is
anyone going to be
taking minutes and
Not to mention the fact that, if M$ gets their way, all users will soon
be paying to rent their software from M$. So Office 2005 will stop
working in 2007 if you don't renew your subscription. Or did they
eventually bow to pressure from the public to change this proposed
licensing scheme?
On
I heard about this, and I heard that this was supposed to be XP. So I guess
they backed down.
H, with this conversation, it makes me start thinking again about making
sam.clubs.byu.edu (BYU Students Against... )
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 12:23 pm, Luke Hutchison wrote:
Not to mention the
I think this is a great idea! I'll get started on it
immediately. Who wants to volunteer and write the
content for these pages? Also Byron, maybe you want to
incorporate these into your flyers.
We're going to be discussing some of these things on
thursday, so we need people to come out. I don't
When is the next meeting which will discuss the Software for Starving
Students campaign? I have just joined the mailing list and would like
to help out.
Luke Hutchison.
To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing
Check out: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/
Looks like those who want to join the campain are meeting at 7, 1/2 before
the regular meeting.
And Welcome!
On Monday 22 July 2002 11:11 pm, Luke Hutchison wrote:
When is the next meeting which will discuss the Software for Starving
Students campaign?
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