[Gllug] Advertising the next GLLUG meeting in Universities andColleges

[Simon Morris]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:26 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:

> My pedantry is itching too, but I'll ignore it mostly, on the basis
> that
> the target audience don't give a shit, so ignoring that:

I guess there is a wider discussion about how to talk to people that:

  (a) Have no clue what GNU/Linux is or why it might be good for them.

  (b) Know what a high level definition of what "Linux" is and might be
tempted given more information

  (c) Might be tempted to incur some costs (either the cost of buying a
magazine, or the cost of spending a few hours at a GLLUG meeting) if
something takes their interest.

I don't like fuzzy definitions or passing ambiguous information to
people but I do want to be able to pass a message.

Is it acceptable to use terms like "Linux is a computer operating
system" or "Linux doesn't cost you anything" (when we all know it is
going to bring costs of the amount of time you spend learning stuff,
buying books, getting help etc with the state of the Linux desktop at
the moment)

Does anyone have examples of literature or information targeted at the
general public that is strictly accurate and also effective in getting
peoples attention?

Thanks

~sm


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