I will talk to the UT college radio station and see if they can arrange
some coverage, though it tends to be more oriented toward alternative
music than alternative operating systems.
In fact, I should also tell them about Eric S. Raymond's upcoming visit to
Austin ...
Thanks for the idea!
timtohy
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>
> I believe Jim has/is/will be put/putting together a press release
> template that LUGs can modify to suit their needs and send out to
> their local media. Not just papers, but radio and TV. Also, if you
> have a college radio station, that would be a good place to hit, as
> they would probably also be happy to talk about this.
>
> - Deepak
>
> On Jun 14 1999, at 08:12, Eugene C. was caught saying:
> > Hello Timothy and everybody,
> >
> > You have a strong point. Student papers seem to be
> > really happy to have something un-usual to say.
> >
> > I am working with a teacher newspaper to have a post
> > in it. I still have to convince them and to post it at
> > the right time. But it should be ok.
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> >
> > --- Timothy Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I worked during college at The Daily Texan, the
> > > UT-Austin student paper.
> > > If there will be (and there ought to be!) some LDD
> > > activities at your
> > > local university or college, take advantage if they
> > > have a student paper.
> > >
> > > Often, these papers are looking -- begging -- for
> > > feature stories that
> > > involve some sort of actual interesting content. If
> > > you know (or are) a
> > > reporter for a collegiate or even high school paper,
> > > suggest the diea,
> > > start getting background information down, because
> > > the sooner reporters
> > > know what the diff. is between an OS and a computer,
> > > or between an OS and
> > > applications (etc etc) the more sensible a resultant
> > > story can be.
> > >
> > > I will get to work on telling reporters at The Daily
> > > Texan, see if we can
> > > get a big spread on it. That's a 30,000+ circulation
> > > paper, bigger than
> > > most local dailies, and read by folks in the right
> > > age bracket to say
> > > "Hey! I want reliable internet access, too -- you
> > > mean I don't have to use
> > > Windows?"
> > >
> > > In the context of this project, college campuses are
> > > great also because
> > > campuses typically have not only a student
> > > publication but computer user
> > > groups, often Linux user groups.
> > >
> > > timothy
> >
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