Hi Lutzky,
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
might be thrown. Should I send them to this mailing list, or should I keep track myself? (Currently 3 people have talked to me, I suspect that several more will)
An installation party can and should be made. The demand is actually growing, and it's still needed as many questions about Linux are asked, and
not everybody knows where to get the answers from. Many people still need "a
human hand" to make Linux working, even though it is pretty easy to install, tutorials are available, "you just need to download", "come on, it's sooo easy", "try and come back later", and all the rest of the regular "excuses". Needless to say that in addition to that, we need to "grab" more curious people, and most of the curious people would like to see how things are done (installed for them). Right now they are "hiding", and we need to "find" them.
The only question is how to get those people with us, and the answer is that we need to make a big and strong publishing & advertisement team, who will be in charge of creating the advertisement, will publish them also outside of the Technion, the local and non-local newspapers, probably even in interactive news sites (ynet, nrg, walla, etc.), and around the city as well.
Last time, unfortunately, we had about 12-15 installees (if I remember correctly) only. The weakest point (in my opinion) is that we hadn't had a strong advertisement team, and most of the time we altered as people
couldn't/didn't want to help, and/or thought that advertising is not something necessary. Nobody really wanted to help seriously, especially in this part. Advertising (that does NOT mean being a missioner! I am strongly against that) is an important issue, and must hold a strong team which will focus on this (firefox is a good, virtual example), otherwise, all the good things that we wish to do, will fall (people will not arrive). In addition to that, we might consider to switch to a big hall (some people find it too difficult to arrive here, or are too lazy to come here and pass the local security (kabat) issues). I can already tell you that we have at least one sponsor who said that if we take the advertising and publishing issues seriously, he will us with this.
If you have some good ideas about the issue, maybe we can lift a good adv. & pub. team. It's a must, before we start doing anything.
All the best,
Adir.
PS. If anybody has something *personal* to say about what I said (you-know-who), either keep it to himself, or do it off-list. It won't serve neither himself, nor this list. Thanks in advance.
-- "If it wasn't for fog, the world would run at a really crappy framerate." "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive."
Ohad Lutzky
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