On 06/10/10 10:37, Paul Whipp wrote: > To discuss this prior to the meeting: > > My suggestion is this: > > We prepare, advertise and give a 30minute presentation to 12-24 people > at a time. They can bring their own machines. For the remaining time > ?1.5 hours, we help them test and hopefully install Ubuntu. > > In short: > Starting in Brisbane (North or CBD because that is where I can get to > easily) but hopefully extending this further if it works well. > > The target audience is small business professional or home users who > use their computers every day but who are not geeks or technical people. > > I could prepare/source the 15m presentation which gives a user > overview of browsing/office/evolution - the 90% desktop functionality. > Then ?15m questions with prepared photo, movie watching, torrent +? > responses. I'd need some reviewers. > > We prepare an ad. We're aiming primarily to convert MS Windows users > so we need something catchy and simple for the ad. This will need some > brainstorming, It needs to appeal to our target audience. > > In the session we would probably need 3 of us present skilled in > Ubuntu Installation. > > This idea could possibly be merged with promoting Ubuntu to charitable > organisations - For them we offer them attendance for free. It would > make them more likely to show an interest because they could see that > they are getting something that others have to pay for. > > Any thoughts?
Hi Paul, This sounds very similar to the sort of thing i've been wanting to get off the ground. [1][2] I would really like to see it happening on a regular basis and bringing together some of the people who work with Ubuntu in the local area. Maybe we could work together on getting something like this going? Regards, Paul [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-May/006229.html [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/LocalMeetings
<<attachment: paul.vcf>>
-- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
