[SLUG] Library summary v2.0

[Al Girling]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:06:43PM GMT, John Allsopp wrote:
> I got next to no responses to this last week which would suggest
> probably it was too big and complex, so here's a quick to do list:
> 
> > The SLUG library display
> > ========================
> >
> 
> Choose which of these you prefer:
> > Scarborough Linux User Group - Free/Open Source Software for
> > everyone	2  This gets my vote.

> > Scarborough Linux User Group - Free Software for everyone	2
> > Scarborough Linux User Group - Free your computer	1
> 
> 
> We need to decide which of these trifold leaflets we are actually
> going to produce, there's room for six, so please vote which ones to
> keep/drop:
> 

I've deleted those I think should go and changed one.

> > "Linux for the small business"
> > "Linux and multimedia"
> > "Saving money with Linux"
> > "Linux for games"
> > "Linux in education"
> > "Free as in freedom - the ethics of free software"
> 
> > A volunteer who used to watch Blue Peter is required to make up
> > pockets that will contain and display these and that will velcro to
> > the panel.
> 
> 
> > The right hand panel (and I'm expanding a little on Al's thought) will
> > have a series of screenshots of our Linux machines together with a
> > paragraph about each of us (and a photo if you want). The idea is to
> > show Linux looking good and to show how we are real people not just
> > screenburned geeks. How many people are willing/able to produce an A5
> > like this about themselves, we need five at least?
> > John Allsopp
> > Al Girling
> > Stephen O'Neill
> 
> Two more volunteers required
> 
> 
> Would someone volunteer to produce this:
> > We should have a bowl of business-card sized pieces of paper or
> > smaller along with a "please take one" sign (as if they were sweets)
> > which just contain the message that all this information is on our
> > website and giving our website address. Our website address across the
> > whole thing will be a variant on our normal address, eg.
> > http://www.scarborough.lug.org.uk/lib so we can see how many people
> > came to visit.
> 
> We need some opinions on this:
> > We might also provide some coverdiscs for people to take away. My
> > feeling is we'd be better to provide something like Knoppix or the
> > Open CD. Opinions? How do we get, say, 100 copies? Do we need some
> > text to go with it or does it say enough on the disc?

Personally, I'd go with the OpenCD.  It would look better if they were
properly printed too rather than having hand written labels.

> Cheers
> J

Toodle pip,

Al

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