I was talking to Nate at the football game on Saturday, and we
thought it might be nice for TSLUG to do something that promotes
free software for people not quite ready to take the Linux
plunge.
We might consider reserving that long table in the downstairs of
Violette hall and passing out "mini" CD-Rs with free software
programs (for Win32) on them. I don't have a complete list of
what a CD should contain, but some contenders would be:
OpenOffice - alternative to MS office
GIMP - alternative to Photoshop
Mozilla - alternative to IE/Outlook/Frontpage
WiZ - alternative to WinZip (there may be
another better choice here)
More obscure things that are small enough that they could easily
go on are:
putty - ssh/telnet client and utilities
vnc - remote display
gnupg - encryption
Getting more obscure - TeX:
miktex - at least the installer (the whole distro
is probably more than a mini-CD)
gsview - postscript viewer
TeXnicCenter - graphical TeX environment
Even more obscure:
ntemacs - Emacs of course
gvim - and Vi to be fair
Any good Win32 free software games? Other free software that
people use? We will likely need to pick and choose for space
because of the small format.
Presumably we could write an introduction and some help or
directions (say in HTML). We can create an autorun that would
pull it up in IE (which any Win32 computer would have) when they
insert the disk. It's using non-free software to promote free
software but would be friendly.
Any ideas? Anything we should add to the list?
I think we should aim to give away 50 mini CD-Rs. I have at
least 10 I could donate and we can buy boxes of 10 at Walmart for
less than $1/disk. If we think we would like to do even more
than 50 disks it might be better to try and buy bulk.
Perhaps this would make a good discussion item for the Wednesday
meeting in addition to the planned "bring your box to school".
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Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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