[Infopoint] InfoPoint USA

[David Goodwin]

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Hector Pomales wrote:
> Hello, I was reading the Linux user and developer magazine and i ran into an
> article talking about infopoint, as I was reading I got more interested in
> helping out but when I went to the site infopointproject.org and did a
> little research to see if there is one near me I felt bad. I have only been
> on the open source community for only 5 years now and to this date I have
> not heard anything about Linux information on book stores or computer fairs,
> actually nowhere, i mean there is Linux magazines and books on the book
> stores near me but nothing like what you guys do. I'm interested on helping
> and delivering the information to the people on fairs near me, all I want to
> know is if it's possible for me to do it. I live in Methuen, Massachusetts,
> I have gone to some computer show in New Hapshire and Boston, but, I have
> heard of near places besides does two I mention that run fairs and computer
> shows.


Hi Hector,

It's great you saw Katherine's article - as far as I know it's a concept
that hasn't spread outside of the UK yet.

Anyone is free to 'join in' - it just requires time commitment
(burning/sourcing cds* and spending hours manning a 'stall' like thing).

We're not sure computer fairs are the best venue for the infopoint - at
least not in the form they tend to be in the UK; targetting public
libraries etc could be better as people may not think you're trying to
sell them something there.

thanks
David.

* - The Ubuntu CDs always seemed to go down very well due to their nice
packaging, and the fact Canonical would post large boxes to people for
free :)

- --
David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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