[Glastonbury] The openCD

[nick irwin]

I love that idea.

I have never heard of the "openCD" but I'm pretty sure I can have a guess as 
to it's contents.
A lot of people are not even aware that there is an open software community 
out there, I certainly wasn't until I met Martin.
So introducing people to free software so they don't feel they have to get a 
copy of MS Word just to write a letter, can do nothing but good.

As to your method of going about it, I applaud your efforts, I am doubtful 
that any Supermarkets will take up the offer as they are often impersonal and 
care only about profits, but if they do take up the offer, it would be a huge 
bonus.
A more likely option would be small businesses like newsagents or off-licenses 
who would probably love the idea of being able to give the customer a free CD 
of computer software, granted you wouldn't cover a big area as you would with 
a supermarket, but if it works we could get some of the other LUG's working 
on it in their areas.
The only trouble with that is covering the cost of production, so maybe you 
could look into getting some company to pay for production costs and in 
return you could slap their logo and e-mail address on the disk cover? (A 
sort of sponsorship if you will)

Well let me know how it goes.


On Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 12:13, peter.t.cole at lineone.net wrote:
> I have down loaded the openCD it seems a really good way of getting Windows
> users on to Open Source  software.
>
> I am open to comment on the next bit.
>
> I have been tying to think of ways of getting open source products out to
> the masses, first though was to take out an add in the Blackmore vale mag
>  and try and get an editorial on the subject, but that was as far as I got
> on that one.
>
> the next thought that i had was to burn 5 or 6 copies of the open CD and
> sent it too the MD's of the big supermarkets and suggest that they had a
> whole load of CD's and gave them away to customers or sold at a small fee
> to cover cost's and any money left over could be split between  charitys
> and Open Source projects.
>
> I think i may well be spitting into the wind on this but if even just one
> of the chains took this up it would get Open Source software out to a lot
> of people with out the shock of having to change OS ( we could add knoppix
> as well ) .
>
> Any thoughts would be appricatied
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
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