[Wiltshire] Meeting tomorrow

[John Larkworthy]

Hi 

Dave Fletcher and I have already visited the Central Library and have got outline permission to hold some kind of event there. I am now trying to flesh out what and exactly when. 

I had hoped to have some time in mid April but my diary is filling fast with other things so we may have to delay until ...

After last nights meeting - the 3 regulars this month. I have suggested that I contact the library and propose a date for the event and then we can tackle what we want to present. 

I am anxious not to present ourselves as a bunch of 'rabid' linux supporters but try to offer a gentle introduction to 'Free, Libre, Open Source Software' by offering an image from the Open Disk project, which contains what that project believes is the best FLOSS software for Win32 machines.
As the blank CD's will not be free I would suggest who ever copies the image onto disk could charge for the disk. This would have the benefit of removing the 'if it's free it's not worth anything' effect - what do others think?

If they like, and use, such programs as Open Office and Firefox perhaps we can persuade them at a later date to switch to GNU/Linux or BSD.

What still seems to be missing from the event is something visual to present. Standing around handing out or selling CD's is one thing but demonstrating and hooking in the curious is another. Any suggestions for displays and AV presentations? The librarian I spoke to, thought they might be able to make a data projector available but if they can't does anyone have one we can use for the day?

Regards,

John.

--- On Tue, 10/3/09, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] Meeting tomorrow
> To: dave at thefletchers.net, wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Tuesday, 10 March, 2009, 9:12 AM
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:17 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Monday 09 March 2009 09:55:34 John Larkworthy
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dave and I want to organise an FLOSS event at
> Swindon Central Library  -
> > > suggestions about what software would be good to
> hook people into asking
> > > for more. Do people have any good FLOSS
> presentations we can adapt to a
> > > wider audience?
> > 
> > What concerns me is, the person we have met there
> appears to make all the 
> > right noises face to face, then gives every impression
> that she's doing 
> > nothing after we've walked away i.e. I sent
> another email some time ago 
> > and.... nothing.
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> I know Central would be ideal, but we had better response
> from North
> Swindon library (by Asda-Walmart) when looking for
> somewhere for a
> weekly knitting/crochet meet. They immediately said
> "That would be great
> - we don't have much for adults at the moment",
> and we've met there for
> several months now. It's in the same place as Swindon
> College north
> Swindon branch, has lots of free parking and plenty of
> buses, and has a
> space by the door which often seems to be used for seasonal
> displays and
> events. Quite a bit of passing foot traffic with the
> supermarket and
> other shops.
> 
> Dianne
> 
> 
> 
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