[Watford] evangelism/education needed

Steven Acreman sacreman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 11:46:01 BST 2007


Looks to me like he was taking the piss. It says a few posts down that he
copied and pasted the text from a blog.

We probably do need to ramp up the advertising of the lug. I think sites
like facebook and myspace could be a good place to start. Some of these
already have linux related groups and we could geotarget members.


On 30/07/07, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have falled across this:
>
>        http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid=511783&cache=19
>
> In particular the post by RomperStomper (Location: The Rookery Vicarige
> Road Watford).
> He seems to be under the impression that in order to run Linux you first
> need to boot
> MS windows ....
>
> Should we invite people like this along to a meeting and educate them ?
>
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