[Sussex] Fair's idea's

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:49:47 +0000, Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> Andrew
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:45:52PM +0000, Andrew Guard wrote:
> > How we can make it better, well here pennies worth.  Please dont take this
> > the wrong way.
> 
> Any and all ideas are welcome, that doesn't mean that they will be taken
> up, but all will be given the consideration they merit.
> 

You might want to learn from others. We (HantsLUG) had one of these
this last Sunday. You can see what happened on our wiki.

http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints

especially 

http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints/5thDecember2004

and some photos..

http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/infopoint_12_2004
> 
> > Also look at the idea of making an CD which is filled with Open Source for
> > Windows.  To show people that open source isn't a bad thing also put an copy
> > of Sussex Linux web site, which would auto boot when CD installed. ;)
> >
> > App's which might go on there
> >
> > OpenOffice.org
> > Firefox
> > Thunderbird
> > GIMP
> 

This has already been done. It's called the OpenCD, and we burned some
for our infopoint.

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/


> The idea of an Open Source CD for Windows is a great idea.  It is another
> CD that we can easterly put together and would help increase our take at
> the show.  Next time we are putting the price of the CD up to £3 to help
> recoup the costs, having a second CD of free software ready for Windows.
> We could do them for £3 each or £5 the pair.  Can someone pick this
> up and develop the ISO image.  I have no way of doing this as I don't have
> a Windoz box here.  Any more suggestions for the CD.  I suggest:

We charged a quid each for ours. 1 pound just covered the cost (which was 84p).

We sold OpenCD and Knoppix.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Al.