On 15/11/2007, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Yes. Julia and Yuri are booked. It will be a good show as they are > both seasoned public speakers. Essentially an 'outreach' talk for > folks who are at the 'about to take the plunge' stage. We should > organise some advertising for this one.
Publicity will be good. Basically is will be along the line of "Is Linux right/ready for me?" using my own household as a case study. Julia is a non-techie (but otherwise intelligent) wife of a geek, forced[1] into using Linux because that is what happens to be installed on computers in our household. I will show what apps we use to Get Things Done[2], and Julia will share what it's like from a non-techie's POV. Yuri [1] "forced" may be the wrong word. Nothing stops her from installing Windows if she was prepared to maintain it herself. She actually doesn't care about the OS as long as it works. [2] Things that we need to Get Done are the normal home user stuff - wordprocessing, web, email, playing music & DVDs, uploading from cameras. I am open to suggestions of what to add to this list.
