[Sussex] My thoughs on "SLUG at the BCF"

[Al Bennett]

Hi guys

Congratulations Steve, Karl, Nik et al on what sounds like a fine success.
Sorry I couldn't make it this this time, hopefully on the 7th.

I am a touch worried about the whole kid in a sweet shop effect, I may have
to go with a limited amount of cash...

Anyway, thanks to all involved for your work spreading the word, Linus would
be proud!

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
To: "Sussex Linux User Group" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:47 AM
Subject: [Sussex] My thoughs on "SLUG at the BCF"


> Hi all
>
> These are just my first after fair thoughts.
>
> First my thanks to Nik (his idea to go to the fair in the first place)
> and to Karl for their support.  A good time was had by all and our quick
> after show huddle declared it a success.
>
> Nik had some handouts printed which we gave out, and we took a
> CD burner and burnt and sold just under 20 Knoppix CDs. At £2 a time
> we are just about covering our costs, I think.  Nik, I'm sure, will
provide
> more details as he now appears to be SLUG's money man. :-)
>
> As Karl wanted a new computer he walked about and bought the bits for a
> new system (for under £500), but not just any system.  Karl is now
> the proud owner of a AMD64 3GHz processor (Nik can you post the price
> list please).
>
> We ran Knoppix on it all afternoon and that generated a nice bit of
> interested.  We got the normal comments of "That's not Window's is it?"
> and "Is that a Mac?".  Knoppix, or similar, is the absolutely the right
> thing to have on the stand to demonstrate Linux to the general public.
>
> We already have out first new member from the fair.  So lets all welcome
> Colin Tuckley to the group and make him feel welcome. He signed up about
> two hours after the fair closed; the first, I hope, of many.
>
> As he said Angelo turned up close to closing time.  Angelo you must try
> harder next time.  ;-)
>
> In fact everyone who didn't come must try harder next month as we have
> already book space.  The next fair in Sunday November 7th, so you can't
> say you weren't told well in advance.  Mark it in your diary now!  Get a
> pass from your significant other and come along.
>
> During the pack down we talked with a number of hardware vendors and
> they are keen to help us out.  At future events they might lend us kit
> to demo Knoppix on.  One even wanted us at at other shows so much that
> he offered us space on his stand when we pointed out that the Group had
> no source of income.
>
> Lastly, the BCF (which host the event) also seem to like us.  They would
> like us to start to run presentations on Linux.
>
> All in all I think you will all agree, a good day's work.
>
> Steve
>
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