Software Freedom Day and laptops.

[simon andrews (BI)]

I just wanted to add my thanks to Robert for organising this.

We were generally very well received once people realised we weren't
trying to sell stuff to them.  We even had one guy who took the CDs and
then came back 5mins later and tried to give us money for them!

More and more people seem to be aware of free software and linux and
hopefully the proliferation of netbooks will raise its profile even
more.

Suggestions for next year:

1) Helium balloons!

2) Some cards advertising the CLUG

3) A big sign saying what we're doing which people can read from a
distance so they're not afraid to come closer (we saw lots of people
crossing the road to get away from us).

Simon.

PS Robert - any chance you can email me a copy of the photo(s) you took?
They'd probably be a good addition to the new website which seems to be
emerging as well.


> From: Robert Schumann
> Sent: 20 September 2008 22:36
> To: clug at cambridge-lug.org
> Subject: Re: Software Freedom Day and laptops.
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Well, SFD 08 came and went in Cambridge, and altogether I 
> think it came and went very successfully. We were out in 
> Market Square from 09h00 to 13h00 on a lovely sunny day 
> (that's two in a row for SFD in Cambridge!).
> 
> We handed out 50 Open Discs, around 80 Ubuntu CDs, and a 
> sheaf of leaflets produced by Simon (in addition to luring 
> kids over to come get balloons and stickers from us). People 
> were very interested to see the webbooks, partly since they're 
> such compact devices that people are curious to see if they 
> really work...
> 
> Thanks to Simon, Hazel, Wawrzek and Tom for contributing time 
> and materials.
> 
> Robert.
>