[ignore this any other older messages...I rebooted my machine, and
it seems that there was a backlog of unsent messages that are
just now getting sent]
On May 31 1999, at 00:58, Deepak Saxena was caught saying:
>
> I've thrown together a generic form letter to send out to companies
> that we might be interested in helping us by providing brochures
> about their Linux products/services. In addition to product brochures
> from companies, I will contact OpenSource.org [did you already contact ESR
> Jim?] about getting some sort of document about OpenSource that might
> click with the average person. I _really_ want to stay away from
> the term "free" and stick to Open Source lest we have thousands of
> people thinking they can download a Linux distrot and than call the
> distributors for tech support.
>
> Does everyone agree with the idea of giving out brochures about
> commerical Linux products to people or would they rather stick to
> a handout we put together? If we do the whole company brochure thing,
> we will need money to get all the brochures sent to all the participating
> LUGs once they come to me, unless the companies themselves are willing to
> directly send them to the LUGs once we have a final list. I'm not sure
> if most companies would be willing to do that though. Thoughts?
>
> - Deepak
>
> Dear $name,
>
> My name is $sender, and I am involved with the Linux Demo Day project.
> The goal of the project is to organize a concurrent demonstration of
> the Linux operating system to the thousands of users that may only have
> heard of Linux but never seen it, and to the many users that are not
> even aware that an alternative to Windows exists. We are currently
> in the organizational phase of the project, and once we have some
> more details worked out (end of June), we plan a large advertising
> campain through banner ads, Linux magazine articles, and a press
> release in hopes of getting as many LUGs involved as possible. Our
> goal is to have LUGs doing demos of Linux at schools, businesses, malls,
> or where ever else computer users may be. You can read more about the
> project at http://www.linuxdemo.org
>
> You have been contacted because we are looking for corporate sponsors and
> we hope that $company can help us. We do not need money or equipment,
> but what we need is product brochures. We would like to send brochures to
> all the participating LUGs so that when people see by their demos, they
> can pick these up to learn more about the Linux products that are available.
> Think of it as a mini-expo, where all you have to do is provide participating
> LUGs with brochures in return for exposure of your product to thousands
> of possible new users.
>
> I hope to hear from you soon,
> $sender
>
>
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