Software Freedom Day and laptops.

[Hazel L. H. Jenkins]

> Suggestions for next year:
> 
> 1) Helium balloons!
Not as keen on this; limited resource, at least until ITER and DEMO get their act together and we get commercial fusion power :-). I guess they're fun. Maybe something a little longer-lived? It would be nice to give something to the younger lot; we seemed to be giving software exclusively to adults. Market Square may not be the best place to find school-age people, though.

> 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).

How about a screen and a projector, hooked to one of the laptops? Power might be a problem, but the film fest people manage it. Maybe we could borrow something?