Due to Bob Kerr's excellent work on getting Open Source CDs into libraries and other Open Source advocacy projects I thought that some ScotLUG members might be interested in publicising the benefits of Open Source.
One possible channel would be Indymedia, who are an global collection of groups producing independent news. There is one such group in Scotland, and their site is at: http://scotland.indymedia.org.uk/ Posting news related to open source onto their newswire would get a fair amount of readership among non-ScotLUG people, and there is also the option for someone to write a feature, which would be put in the middle column on the site. This would be up for longer and get a much larger readership. The advantages of this for ScotLUG would be some more (good) publicity for Linux and introducing ScotLUG to new people, both in Scotland and further afield. Also the cooperation with Indymedia members who have complimentary skills to those of ScotLUG members might be useful for future joint work. There is some information about the Indymedia Scotland at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/static/about_us.html and the editorial policy at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/static/editorial.html For some previous technology features have a look at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/topics/technology/ If you have and comments or questions then please let me know. Thanks, Steven Murdoch. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
