Wow! Is it too early to nominate Lee Heavlin for the Steering Committee (specifically for the role of Publicity Minister). :-)
Those ideas (and organizational concepts) are all great! Just what TriLUG needs to help make it's next step forward in growth. Jon Carnes On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 12:32, Lee Heavlin wrote: > My experience with newspaper writers is that they are very receptive to a > background paper full of facts, but written like a newspaper article. Add > eye-catching, human interest photos. The editor often will accept it and > run with the item as a feature. If passed to a reporter with an invitation > to a meeting, you may get a revised story using your input, his new > thoughts, and his byline. > > Have used this method successfully with the Durham Herald. The editor took > the story and photos and gave us a 3/4 page article (covering a charity). > > The InstallFest could be TriLUG's story. Focus on the desktop user and > "Home Users Leap to Linux." Things that caught my attention at the last > InstallFest were: > > 1. A kid and his dad building a new box for gaming > 2. People traveling great distances to participate > 3. Helpfulness of the TriLUG group > 4. Friendly, festive event. > 5. Local business providing equipment (monitors) for event. > > Focus on the emerging desktop Linux. Cover the humble beginnings in Chapel > Hill five years ago. Compare that to standing room only meetings now. If > the Steering Committee prepared material covering the Summer InstallFest, > with pictures, it should get the material to the Durham Herald and N&O at > least two weeks before the event. Include News Channel 14 and WRAL. Both > thirst for material. > > Having a major Linux player providing support (product) would be helpful. > Since Red Hat is moving toward enterprise, they may not be an InstallFest > option. SuSE? IBM? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mark Fowle > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:45 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] article: N&O Home Users Leap to Linux > > > Considering I mentioned TriLug more than once during the interview - so > did my wife.... I was hoping that it would have made the side-bar as > well. > > Mark > > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:34, Scott Lundgren wrote: > > Home users leap to Linux > > Security problems, costs make Microsoft less appealing > > http://newsobserver.com/business/story/3034938p-2777326c.html > > > > Surprisingly, for having passed it's 5th b'day and being mentioned in the > > nationally published LinuxWorld mag, TriLUG is not explicitly listed in > the > > Resources side bar. The steering committe might want to mention these > points > > methinks, the writer's contact info is at the bottom of the article. > > > > - SL > -- > Mark Fowle > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
