[Sussex] [ Report ] Meet up at the Worthing Computer Fair

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Nik et al,

Would you mind if I forwarded this to Bristol LUG?  I'm a member of
this one too, and we're thinking of doing a similar thing to help
"evangelise"...

I've been handing out version of Knoppix on campus and they've met with
a guarded but generally positive result, so I think I might be winning
here! :)

Cheers,

Matt

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:13:38 +0100
Nicholas Butler <nik at butlershouse.co.uk> enlightened us with:

> Well we went , we saw, we asked.....
> 
> the fair was , not as previously reported exclusively Inkjet refills
> and cdr sellers. There was a pirated copy of Shrek 2 on display
> though. There were at least 20 vendors and the early morning crowds
> did not disappoint certainly the ability to access the stalls and talk
> to the vendors was limited by interested customers.
> 
> Of the collection of vendors we spoke to may were interested in seeing
> a Linux Stall available and were interested in providing equipement to
> 
> have "approved" though we will need to make sure that we forewarn them
> 
> before arriving.
> 
> A few vendors voiced either a lack of interest, or in the case of one 
> vendor a complete revulsion of linux , though I suspect that was just
> a case of Install Incompetence.
> 
> 
> 
> Many vendors have experimented with Linux available with their
> products but found the on going development and distros to be a
> distraction.
> 
> We did ont really take the opportunity to speak to visitors though 
> Dobbo, brave volumatic soul that he was did pounce on those showing 
> interest in the copies of BSD and Suse available on one stand.
> 
> Which leads to a interesting issue , since we will be giving away Open
> 
> Office and Debian and helping with installs we will certainly be
> putting the software vendors nose out of joint. So we need to approach
> them to help them to sell their software ontop of the work we do.
> 
> okay so thats my report,
> 
> in summary:
> Theres an opportunity, a need and a market for the club to place a
> stall at these fairs to increase awareness of the club, increase
> awareness of OSS and spread some penguin [ or Chukie ]  to the masses.
> 
> 
> Nik
> 
> 
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