[TriLUG] Promotions for Installfests

[Sinner from the Prairy]

Avui, Dimecres 15 Maig 2002 11:54, no tenieu res mes que fer i me vareu enviar 
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> The recent thread has been quite interesting to this newbie :)

And for non-newbies as well *grin*

> I wanted to offer up an idea for a seminar/talk for people who have no clue
> about what Linux is or what it can do. To me there is a step of information
> gathering before someone decided to switch to Linux. I asked a lot of basic
> questions on the list about how to get started and everyone responded in a
> very friendly manner. However, most people either don't know about this
> list or don't feel comfortable asking questions. I could see a seminar
> given at each of the campuses around to just explore the basics (very
> basics) of Linux. Of course it doesn't have to be limited to campuses - it
> could be different places depending on who you are trying to reach. The
> location of talks and such will probably limit the types of people that you
> have come to them. <No offense to anyone> If you have a meeting in Roxboro
> you would get different type of people than if you have a meeting in the
> heart of Raleigh.

Interesting... right now I'm in some talks for a very similar thing.

> If you have speakers who demystify Linux and make people feel comfortable,
> then you hit them with signing up for an Installfest. It would be a great
> way to get rid of those basic questions that everyone has (like how many
> CDs do I need to bring? do I need to bring a monitor? etc) and let the
> people see a helpful, friendly TriLUG.

Exactly

> Possible topics:
> 	* what Linux is/is not/could be
> 	* what different distributions there are
> 	* differences between distributions - objective differences ;)
> 	* show some of the programs - Gnome, KDE, email clients,
> 	  web browsers common things that people as basic Windows
> 	  users can relate to
> 	* stay away from throwing out terms that may scare people off
> 	  like daemons, cron, apt-get, netstat, traceroute or other
> 	  UNIX type commands (can hit them later when they need help)
> 	* keep the talk simple and easy to understand - if you wanted
> 	  to target a Spanish-speaking community, have someone give
> 	  the talk in Spanish

Most of the topics, seem very, very close of what I am helping to do. More 
later, when things get agreed.

I can do the last part. I'm quite good in my SSL (Spanish as Second Language)

> I can help with some marketing ideas and promotional stuff for the group
> and for these Installfests. Being a newbie though I'll wait for input from
> the others that have been here longer :)

Being a newbie you can provide "the insider look" of what are newbie's 
interests around Trilug, what do they fear the most, what do they think Linux 
is...

> Lisa B.


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