Hi Nigel, Thanks for the reply ;)
On 19 July 2010 15:58, Nigel Verity <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect that there are vast numbers of people to whom the philosophical > and financial aspects of free/open source software would be very attractive. > Trouble is, they've probably never heard of it. Where do we go to talk about > FLOSS? OggCamp, LUGs and the like. Great and enjoyable as those events are, > they don't do much to "spread the word". > Absolutely! That's the main motivation to do something different. After posting this mail and the blog post one of the people who run the Massachusetts loco team said I basically described them! They do lots of advocacy at events where "tech" isn't the main attraction. So we're behind the curve on this :) > The suggestion to go and have stalls at village and school fetes, etc, is > brilliant. They usually cost next to nothing to exhibit at. The only > downside I can see is that it is sometimes difficult to get a mains supply > on a stall at such events. Mind you, there are always laptops, I suppose. > If you can park a car nearby then an inverter could be used to top-up a laptop battery here and there ;) > One thing I've learned after years of attending trade and techie exhibitions > is that knocking the opposition doesn't actually work. I completely agree. We've got some pages on the wiki which talk about 'best practice' for attending conferences/events:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAtConferences https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConferenceTopTips I've added them to the UK/NonTechEvents page:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NonTechEvents Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
