[Infopoint] Hampshire LUG

[Tony Whitmore]

Jono Bacon wrote:

> It is good fun. It is always good to go prepared - take plenty of CDs 
> and preferably take some printouts with your LUG address and mailing 
> list details. 

This is something that I meant to ask before - how many? The fair lasts 
for 5 hours. Should we be aiming for 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000 CDs? 
Leaflets? Just trying to get an idea of scale. (I know that different 
fairs will have different turn-outs, but still...)

> People like to have a means to get help. Also, some live 
> demo machines are always good, but do install software the average user 
> is likely to use such as KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla etc. It is 
> not a good idea to woo people with really niche software and window 
> managers 

You wouldn't be talking about our volunteer to show off Window Maker and 
Geneweb, would you? ;) Definately pretty specialist... (No offence John, 
if you're subscribed to the list!)

- if they express an interest in that software's area, go
> ahead, but generally aim for a wide and general audience. These people 
> want office suites, some games, web browsing, email, paint programs etc.

Yes, I plan to keep it mainstream. I don't think that everyone has yet 
read as much of the InfoPoint documentation as I have. I'm thinking 
Ubuntu for the demo machines, maybe with Ubuntu Live CDs and the OpenCD.

Cheers,

Tony